FRIEDGEN HIRES RB COACH, ENSURES PLAYCALLING DUTIES FOR HIMSELF. REJOICE.

Way to wreck my morning by dredging up that unpleasant memory. Thanks a heap, Orson.

Of course, it is worth noting that coaching has become more challenging for The Fridge since he left Georgia Tech for Maryland, where athletes actually are required to attain academic eligibility before being allowing to participate in intercollegiate athletics.

Godsey on his horse

Kyle, I trust you’ve read Leonard Pope’s infamous school assignment that was on the web for a while. I don’t think “academic eligibility” was the first thing that came to mind while attempting to read that.

Fridge lives like 5 minutes from my parents house in MD. My mother sees him at the Safeway, often.

Friedgen has no shame about his eating habits, and she has overheard him yelling down the length of the store to his wife, “Gloria!!!!! Dont forget the Italian sausages!”
His daughters attend high school with my brother, and form a rock solid left side of the varsity o-line.

Just for the record, “Taffe” is pronounced like “Taft” as opposed to “taffee” or however you spell the fucking candy. I went to High School with the guy’s son for 2 years and he was the biggest asshole we had. The kind of kid who goes right to starting varsity QB as a freshmen just because of his name but has no ability as a QB to speak of. He ended up transferring but got to redo Sophomore year at his new school on account of developing his football and baseball skills. Asshole.

Second what T Kyle King said, almost none of the skill position players at MD have any sense whatsoever. Dumbest bunch of kids (along with the basketball team) you’d ever see.

Nathan,
 I trust you mean other than “Please god don’t they look into his too closely”. I liked it better when those games had been wiped off the records.

Nathan, you’re a good guy and all, but come on . . . over the course of multiple seasons, Georgia Tech repeatedly certified that a myriad of athletes (including several star players) were academically eligible when they were not. As a result of this (at best) grossly negligent mismanagement, the Institute received sanctions from the N.C.A.A.

Despite these significant and long-running violations, the Yellow Jackets have only managed to go 3-12 against the ‘Dawgs since 1990 and two of those three victories required two of the most flagrantly blown officiating calls in college football history for the Ramblin’ Wreck to eke out victories.

In fact, one of those two wins required several blown calls, including two on the same play, as a loose ball was ruled simultaneously live (when Jasper Sanks “fumbled,” despite clearly being down) and dead (when the whistle was blown as the Tech player who picked up the loose ball was being tackled in the end zone for a safety).

Yes, the Golden Tornado won the 2000 game on the field, due to a combination of rules violations by Georgia Tech and poor game-day decisionmaking by a Georgia coaching staff that seemed to consider it probable that the Red and Black could score three consecutive two-point conversions . . . game-day decisionmaking that was so bad, in fact, that it got the Bulldogs’ head coach fired.

Nathan is a fine fellow and, despite our differences, a friend of mine. The Georgia Institute of Technology is a quality academic institution with a proud athletic history and excellent programs in basketball and baseball.

Bill Curry’s tired “bring the cheaters to their knees!” act is nothing a Tech man needs to be trotting out nowadays, though. Invoke Leonard Pope’s term paper or Ian Smith’s evening activities all you like, but the fact is clear: Georgia’s football program is better, is cleaner, and has more academic integrity than Georgia Tech’s, period.

Adam, I think you have it backwards – T. Kyle is using “athletes actually are required to attain academic eligibility before being allowing to participate in intercollegiate athletics” to refer to Ga. Tech, not Maryland. Specifically, the recent NCAA ruling that the Jackets used 11 ineligible football players:

NCAA Infractions Report

I have my reservations- but to hell with them. I’m going to play the devil’s advocate here.
Tech=Leghumper’s bitch
Leghumpers=Florida’s bitch (only for the last 15 years, I’ll concede that much)
I guess everyone has to establish themselves in the pecking order of the gridiron and blow their own horns… BTW, who’s G. Tech’s bitch? Anyone? Georgia State, perhaps?

I heard he was interviewing Coach Rob Turducken for LB coach. But it is going to be tough to hire him away from Fat Phil and UT.

GT’s bitch would have to be Tommy Tubberville.

Georgia Tech’s beat NC State something like 11 of the past 13 years. And we really should have beat them last year.

Some swimming players we’re also academically ineligible. It was a problem with a guy who had been in charge of certifying players’ schedules for 30 years and who nobody challenged and a problem with converting from quarters to semesters. The way Braine, in his infinite wisdom, responded to the NCAA investigation is the main reason we got as penalized as we did.

Still, I would like to see Pope even try to be academically ineligible at Tech.