As participants in the 2008 Chick-fil-A Bowl, each Georgia Tech player receives $500 in gifts from the bowl. The AJC is reporting that as part of their gift, the players will receive a ring designed by the team’s seniors. The seniors have decided to include the score of their recent 45-42 victory over the Georgia Bulldogs on the ring.
To me, this is an odd decision by the Tech players. Sure they beat Georgia in Athens and snapped a 7-game losing streak. But it was a regular season game, they didn’t play for nor win the ACC title and they are playing in a lower seeded bowl than the Bulldogs.
I guess as a Tech player, it’s a milestone victory. They hadn’t won since 2000, and since 1991 Georgia owns a 14-4 record against them. Georgia Tech can celebrate all they want, but history shows that the Bulldogs have dominated and will likely continue to dominate the Yellow Jackets.
To each his own.
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I can't believe they are doing this again. They also did it after their last win in 2000.
It's a ring for tying for the Coastal Division. The seniors decided to add on the score since that is a major part of the season (for both schools), but would not be signified with a ring for the ACC. This story was case of bad journalism.
Bad journalism or not, this is still the most pathetic thing I have ever heard. By that logic, UGA should have had rings made last year to celebrate 'tying' with UT for the SEC East. How lame. I guess they will need these rings to remember the good times after another decade of getting owned.
Georgia Tech will probably start beating the Bulldogs more in the next ten years. UGA relies to much on the passing game. Georgia Tech sells the run and to open up your passing attack you must have a successful running game. UGA will not have a running back like Moreno in a long time and they will pass way to much for pass happy Mark Richt. Now Georgia Tech finally has a much better coaching staff than UGA it wont be easy for UGA to compete with GT anymore. So there will probably be many more rings for Georgia Tech to have in the future for this rivalry. Good luck Dawgs, you are going to need it.
Next year I can see GT having at least 3 interceptions in Atlanta against UGA. We will probably put the score and turnovers from UGA on the ring starting next year.
Since they only beat us like once every one hundred years their putting the ring on the score that way they can remember the last time they beat us.
It's amazing how one win makes the Jacket fans think their coaching staff is better all of a sudden. There weren't too many people on board with the Paul Johnson hire until midway through the season.
We'll see how he does in the long run. But I don't see him coming close to Mark Richt's record of 82-21 in 8 seasons.
I see Paul Johnson blowing away Mark Richts record or 82 -21 in 8 seasons. You can already see it happening. One thing is for sure, I never see Georgia Tech ever playing anybody and getting blown out like Floriday did to Georgia. UGA is my second favorite team and they were embarrassing against Florida.
"I never see Georgia Tech ever playing anybody and getting blown out like Floriday did to Georgia."
You mean like, oh say, 38-3, like LSU just did?
After LSU slaughtered them in the bowl game I don't think I'd brag to loud if I were them!! After all they only won by 3 against us and LSU put a 38/3 on them. What a good game!!!!!