Our Tuesday night dinner courtesy of the Iowa Hawkeyes....
We are amazed by the drivel on many of the Tech message boards. You'd think we just finished a 5-7 campaign according to many Tech "fans". Hey people, we just lost in our first BCS bowl. Ever. Our first Orange Bowl since 1967. Does it suck? Yes it does. Does it leave a bad taste in our mouth? See the above turd sandwich reference. We spent plenty of cheddar on our trip to Miami, froze our manly onions off, & watched us get whipped in front of the entire nation. That sucks, but it's not the end of the world. This team & coaching staff owes us nothing after a great year. Did we have a great season? Hell yes! Other than 1990 we can't remember a better year. So relax & gain some perspective. We knew all year we were overachieving. We simply don't have enough talent on either the offensive or defensive line to be an elite team. That will come & we will continue to improve. We met lots of interesting people on our trip to Miami including these four fellows:
Messieurs Clayborn, Klug, Ballard, & Binns were guests in our backfield all night on Tuesday, riding through our offensive line like a hot knife through butter....
For now, stop trying to assign blame for Tueday's loss on someone. Dave Wommack did not lose us that game, we assure you. Most Tech fans seem incapable of admitting we were beaten. By a physically superior football team. They were simply bigger, stronger & faster. As CPJ said, "physical superiority cancels out all theory". Ummm, yeah. And Tuesday wasn't so much a cancellation as an annihilation. Football is still, in the end, a game of physical superiority. That's what happened in the Orange Bowl. It's not a mystery. We got our ass whipped. It happens. Grow a pair & deal with it. And if you think the image of Adrian Clayborn singlehandedly prison raping our offensive line is vivid in your memory, think about how Josh Nesbitt feels....
Some Kryptonite would have been nice on Saturday for #94....
We're going to go watch the game again now & offer up a more detailed analysis of our loss later today or tomorrow. We just had to get that off our chest....
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After conversing with many a Tech fan in the months leading up to this game I had come to expect something like this. "The better team won, so pass along respect or cry in your beer---your choice". You did battle with a team that was one QB injury away from a possible title shot as late as week 10, and you countered when we had you on the ropes. Great blog, though. Tells it like it is and calls out possible bandwagoneers. I just wish you and the other GT faithful can pass this class concept onto the likes of Wisconsin and scUM.
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ReplyDeleteIn no way can I let stand the idea that Iowa "anhihilated" Tech. If those two teams played ten times, each would have one five games.
Iowa played a great game. There defensive line was dominant, but so was Georgia Tech's.
Iowa had three sacks, Tech had two
Iowa had two additional tackles for loss, Tech had five
Iowa forced one turnover, Tech forced two.
With 6:45 remaining Tech had the ball on their own ten down by three, they had just marched down the field twice on Iowa, once for a touchdown and the other ending in a missed field goal. Iowa's coaching staff was so scared of Tech's offense they even passed on a short field goal attempt which would have put them up by six and ran a fake.
This was not a blow out, it was not butt whooping. Tech made too many mistakes. I'm not taking anything away from Iowa. They played great. Iowa deserved to win, They played well enough to reduce Tech's margin of error to zero, and more importanttly they made fewer erros than tech, but you'd think it should have been them playing Alabama instead of Texas they way they and some Tech fans are carring on.
Earth to Iowa, even with your starting QB you weren't running the table. No way, No how!
As I said they played Great, deserved to win, but lets not get things twisted. That was one of the sloppiest games Tech played all year. The Jackets committed nine penalties. All year they averaged six penalties. Sure the Iowa D-Line cerated some of them, but one of them was a false start on Tech's first offensive play from scrimage, a play that was clearly going for a touchdown and an early Tech lead.
Yes Iowa deserved to win, but don't tell me they were the better team. Those are two evenly matched teams, as such it came down to who made fewer mistakes. Congradulations Iowa, you made fewer mistakes.
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Annihilated may be too strong a word but the play of the two defensive lines was vastly different. We held up, they dominated. Iowa won the physical battle & thus the game. My point is twofold: 1) sometimes you don't lose you get beaten, & 2) it's not always coaching or schematic deficiencies that cause losses. You have to make plays & Iowa made more than we did. They were the better team on that night & deserve some credit.
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Why do people insist that the first Georgia Tech play would've been a TD? GT false started thus gaining an unfair advantage in blocking. Iowa moved with the ball, which didn't move-hence they didn't move. This is a ridiculous argument to make. And NO WAY GT wins 5/10 versus Iowa. 1 or 2 at most. Do you realize how close GT was to getting blown out? I would say Iowa actually made more big mistakes with having a pick 6, a midfield fumble, and a stupid fake FG. Iowa should've won by 20-28.
ReplyDeletestrictly speaking as an Iowa fan, this sounds like us back in 2003 after U$C kicked the crap out of us. Making excuses for our poor play made us "feel better" but it didn't make it any less true that maybe we didn't prepare properly for the game. I guarantee you that Paul Johnson will learn from this and will win/be competitive in the rest of his bowl games from here on out. If you look at Iowa's bowl record since that game, they have not gotten beat badly, even by superior teams.
ReplyDeleteanyway, at least your team won't have Jim Rome bringing up the U$C loss on his crappy show 7 years later like he does EVERY opportunity like he does with Iowa.
One thing we can all agree on is that Jim Rome is an insufferable prick. Finding a bigger moron on our planet would be a tough task. The term ASSHAT comes to mind....
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coulda, shoulds, woulda. The game is over. Iowa left a lot of points on the field. Better watch the game again. 5 out of 10. Sorry, your medication must be late.
ReplyDeleteIowa/USC in 2003 is a great example of a butt kicking. Iowa lost by 21. They were down by 14 going into the fourth quarter. Tech on the other hand was down by ten going into the fourth and closed the gap to three early in the fourth.
ReplyDeleteThis isn't an argument over who should have won. Clearly Iowa deserved to win. Instead, this is a discussion about what the game says about Tech's team. With Tech playing one of the sloppiest games they played all year, and Iowa's defensive playing up to their typical high level, Tech was only down by three with plenty of time on the clock and possesion of the ball. At that moment the game was hanging in the balance.
To play sloppy against a very good team that played very well and still be in the game late speaks well of Georgia Tech.
Everyone talks about "making plays". What isn't spoken of enough is avoiding errors. So often fans say "you got lucky, if we hadn't screwed up we would have won". While that may be true, it doesn't give enough credit to the team that didn't screw up. Iowa didn't screw up, which is a commendable skill.
I stand by the statement, play that game ten times and Iowa would win five and Tech would win five, but you know what, they aren't playing it ten more times. Iowa played well and deserved to win, but Tech was certainly a worthy opponent, unlike Iowa vs. USC in 2003.
The point of all of this? While Tech may not have won, they certainly showed they were worthy of playing in a BCS game, which is a big step over what we saw in last years Peach Bowl.
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Finally, a GT fan/writer admitting that Iowa actually won the game, instead of saying GT didn't show up, etc... Thanks for the post.
ReplyDeleteFLW - you need to sit back and just realize that, yes, Iowa WAS the better team. It's true. Diving at knees and chop-blocking won't work on big, yet agile D linemen - they'll just shed it every time. If Stanzi doesn't throw that Pick6, the game could have gotten ugly quick. How many 3 and outs did GT have to start the game? Ya think Iowa's D had something to do with it?
ReplyDeleteI don't want to get into it all, just came over here to thank the original author for showing Iowa fans that are there are GT fans would can admit that they got beat because Iowa was the better team. Thanks again to you, Hash.
Annihilated probably WAS too strong a word, but perhaps worse was the 14-7 lead Iowa had at halftime, despite a 200+ yardage disparity & holding Tech to one first down. Tech was thanking their lucky stars to only be down 7 after such an 'annihilation'...
ReplyDeleteSecond half was fairly even after Tech decided to quit beating their head into the wall by not running at #94 anymore...
Georgia Tech was outgained by almost 300 yards. Either way you slice it Georgia Tech would not run all over Iowa. If Georgia Tech can't run they are in trouble as you can see with the "0" passing yards they accumulated against Iowa.
ReplyDeleteTech also was the beneficiary of a pick 6. I'd say the over/under on Georgia Tech vs. Iowa is 2.5
Are you kidding with the "GT would win 5 of 10 against Iowa?"
ReplyDeleteHonestly, that score was much closer than the game being played. Iowa dominated in EVERY, I mean EVERY, category of the game. Both physically and statiscally. All the talking heads wanted to say before the game was "how good GT's running offense is". After the game, nobody really talked. Iowa's play did all of the talking.
Period.
alot of talk about what tech could have done...
ReplyDeleteIowa lost two plays to the dreaded "turf monster" We lose a big 1st down and a top reciever when DJK hurts himself in open space.
We have a back in the endzone alone and when Stanzi sends him the ball he does the nose dive tackled by his own shoe laces (the look on Stanzi's face was priceless!). Point is both teams can play what if til hell freezes over. If you know anything about Iowa this year it's that they NEVER make it easy on themselves but they NEVER believe they are going to loose.
... also I want to comment on the GT fan base - I have done a fair amount of surfing and looking at couple of your sites I think the fans are more of a class act then we often see - gotta tell ya the Florida fans were a bunch a dicks when we played them "gator bait" blah blah.. I think both teams were very respectful of each other and that was great to see in an age when trash talking seems to be the norm - my 2 cents
ReplyDeleteI'd like to return the complement to the last anonymous poster stating that the teams were respectful of each other. I'd actually venture as far to say that our co-mingled tailgating was actually fun. Those were some fine folks from up there in Iowa and it seems like their parents did an equally good job of providing them with some home-training as our parents did. Tailgating like that would never succeed with the likes of UGAy or Climpsun fans and would have added misery to the lousy weather. Thanks Iowa faithful!
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