Bradley’s universally negative without the humor to mitigate the bitterness. We like Furman Bisher, but only because he’s nine thousand years old and still breathing. Besides Barnhard, the AJC’s asleep at the wheel.

Agreed on all counts about the AJC. Schultz’s picks columns can be decent, but when he should stick to them. I sometimes think Terrance Moore is actually actually a cabal. One of them cranks out the occasional reasonable column – usually 4-5 a year tops – and the rest just mash the keyboard, spellcheck, and submit.

Bradley was more fun when he was an unabashed UK fan. I’m not crazy about Bischer, but agreed you gotta give him props for being alive. Barnhart is good, but his star only gets to shine in the fall.

Of course, it could be worse. Try reading the Macon Telegraph. Mike Lough is decent (and a good guy), and I can’t remember anyone else’s name because they’re all that forgettable. Occasionaly cranking out ridiculous columns about things like how Slugging Percentage is a newfangled baseball stat.

I really only like it for highschool sports coverage (having friends that coach, or recently coached, various sports and I follow my Alma Mater in most things) – but they are hit and miss with that.

Believe me, the AJC looks outstanding by comparison.

But I have this one problem: NC State can’t beat Chan Gailey’s Yellow Jackets. We could be 9-0, Reggie Ball could throw three interceptions…it doesn’t matter. It’s disturbing just to think about.

Sorry-the hippie-sounding name cracks us up. It’s almost as silly sounding as Orson Swindle, which is someone’s real name.

Tech got caught in bad spot and tried to make the best of it: O’Leary leaves, they get nothing in the coaching market, and they grasp at a bad straw and hope it works. This is the season they give up on Gailey and get in early on the November hiring rush, doing what a school the size of Tech with their academic standards has to do, which is hire a clever coach with a scheme that can take advantage of smart players who fall just under the big powers’ recruiting radar. Maybe they get on the spread option kick, or maybe they take back Ted Roof, the former DC under O’Leary who’s given Duke a pulse. (Roof also humiliated Gailey, which couldn’t have made Dave Braine happy to watch.)

Actually, sitting here in the middle of Atlanta, we really don’t see the Dawgs being under any kind of microscope. They’re overshadowed by UT and SC’s arrestafest, and Mark Richt’s manner and gentle handling of the media’s gone a long way toward smoothing out the legal problems they’ve had.

Roof would be a good hire I think. There’s enough talent in Georgia for UGA to be where it is and Tech to do better, I think. What I want to see is what happens if Gailey passes the mystical 7-win barrier and maybe wins a bowl game. Because they could do this and still not be good. An upset of UGA could give him another year – and that’s something that could prove bad for tech fans. Delicious.

There have been some unpleasant articles about UGA over the past few months in the AJC (that bastion of journalism). Also nationally, but not as many. The whole “what does it take to get suspended at Georgia” thing that sometiems came up randomly in people’s stuff was kind of lame as well. We’ve got a pretty good track record for that.