358 MILES

I’d like to see an updated version that removes Hawai’i miles from the equation (including stuff like ’Bama’s “Fuck probabtion, we’re giving ourselves a bowl” trips out there in the early 2000s).

They’re thousands of miles away even from conference opponents, so any travel they make is going to widely skew the totals.

Also, we’re following in LSU’s footsteps and heading out to ASU next season. The potential talent (not talking about the teams) will have Catholic fans of both teams in confession for 800 days.

The simple answer is this….why travel over 400 miles when the best competition in the land is within the SEC, and most SEC teams are within that distance……if any other OOC competitor want sum, they come to us, we aint got nothin to prove….if they want it they have to come and get it..Want some? Get some…Bad enough?…come take some……..

Most of us Georgia fans only heard just a few years ago that they’d actually started playing football west of Amarillo, Texas. “What? You mean there’s a New Mexico?”

Sometimes the answer is " That’s just the way it is".

Now if we could schedule some teams in Rio DeJaneiro, we have something to talk about

Hopefully when Georgia comes out to Tempe next season to play the Sun Devils, they’ll be confused and bewildered by the whole “airplane” and “time change” and “desert” business and won’t know what to do on the field.

Why leave Florida when there are so many schools to fill out the non-conference schedule? Hell, I’d love to see UF schedule USF, UCF, Miami, and FSU as its four. If it wouldn’t mean the team were even more bruised and battered by the end of the season. Four games I’d pay to see, though.

I thought “New Mexico” was slang for all these rag tag shanty towns of trailer parks on the outskirts of your city filled with illegal workers in trucks with Texas plates, coming to a town near you in 2008??

If you are gonna play ASU in Arizona, be sure to bring up the conversation starter of “yeh, but its a dry heat”

Sounds a lot like KU and Syracuse basketball.

I’ll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missourah.

Meh – this is utterly meaningless. The idea that you have to play anyone to actually be considered a good team went out the window this year with Ohio State…and pretty much any Oklahoma team from the first half of the decade.

Isn’t UGA going to ASU in 2008 and Colorado in 2009?

Mr. Pelican Pants @ 8: Don’t forget names spelled in giant gothic letters on the rear glass and cock (roster variety) and torro decals all over the conversion van.

1. Assuming “Techie” is referring to Georgia Tech, did you miss KU going to Atlanta a mere two days ago?

Arizona State! Yes!

Oklahoma State in 2009! Does that count?

Colorado! Sometime! If we don’t back out! And we better not!

Oregon! Louisville! Clemson! Clemson? Ok, maybe that’s a stretch. It is though in another state, though.

Yes, being stuck in that no-win scenario with North Avenue Trade School every year is really starting to blow. When we hit 10 in a row, we should just treat them like they treat Georgia Southern.

Hey… do you think Tech will finally allow Ga Southern to play them now??? Wonder what PJ thinks now that the shoe is on the other foot?

I’m with Eric.

See KU in Orange Bowl.

Schedule weakly, my friends!

KU in basketball? You mean the same KU team that this year has played road games @USC, @ Georgia Tech and will play @ Boston College?

Mr Pelican Pants, re #9: You should have seen the ASU/LSU message boards in the dog days of summer before they played in 2005. The number of threads regarding dry heat vs. humid heat and how it would affect both teams was enough to make you cry. LSUJoshua can probably corroborate this.

Yes, Georgia has not traveled far for non-conference opponents and many Georgia fans are very glad that the trend is ending. However, some rival fans of the Dawgs have often pointed to the lack of distance as if that in and of itself makes Georgia’s non-conference opponents weak. To use an example of a non conference foe UGA has faced often on the road I will point to Clemson. Just because in 2003 Tech opened up at BYU ( well over a thousand miles away) and UGA opened up at Clemson (about 65 miles away) doesn’t have a single thing to do with the actual difficulty of the opponents, in fact, in this case the closer opponent was much tougher (even though Tech did lose to BYU and UGA won 30-0). Are the opposing fans at a road game somehow not as loud since the visiting team is close?

Just so no one is confused, I am very glad that my Dawgs will start to play farther away if for no other reason than to garner more national attention. I just don’t buy the whole argument that UGA’s non conference is so much easier than most team’s just because Tech and Clemson are nearby.

It’s best that they not travel. Let’s not forget the issues U[sic]GA fans have with escalators…

I’d always thought the Trade School refused to play GA Southern because they were scared of losing, much like how they never played GA State when Lefty was coaching and they were good.

That 1999 Tech team vs. a PJ-coached, AP (the original Adrian Peterson) running GSU would’ve been a good game. AP would’ve shredded the Tech D, but Tech could score a ton on anyone that year too.
Tech would’ve won though, b/c they played ineligible players.

#6, he thinks he put up about 500 yards of offense on the Dawgs with D1AA players.

I love how everyone assumes GA players haven’t seen airplanes. This is the SEC. The football team probably flies to SC which is only a 3 hour drive away.

Orson,
In a weird “3 degrees of Vern Lunquist” way, I just,like in the last 5 mins, met his nephew, James, who recently made a purchase at a store I work at….I, jokingly, said, “Ever heard of a guy named Vern Lundquist?” and he said…“The Soulja boy announcer??Yep, thats my dads brother…my dad says he’s been married too many times though..” I thought that was funny as hell, then he said “Uncle Vern has always been crazy, and watching him bounce around in the booth,we laughed so hard, we couldnt breathe”…
Well thats my brush with greatness for today…carry on…

In our defense, we’ve only had planes for three years.

I spent about 6 years being a fat white youth in Gwinnett County (Norcross and Duluth). Thank God our family escaped to Florida in time for me to be saved by the Gators.

At least my next door neighbor in Duluth was the co-founder of Waffle House. That is forever cool, much like Flav-O-Fry.

I was well aware of that game. It’s a return for us going out there in 2004.

Last year, the Jayhawks left Allen Fieldhouse TWICE until 1/13 @ Oklahoma St. And one of those games was against the mighty powerhouse South Carolina.

“The simple answer is this….why travel over 400 miles when the best competition in the land is within the SEC, and most SEC teams are within that distance……if any other OOC competitor want sum, they come to us, we aint got nothin to prove….if they want it they have to come and get it..Want some? Get some…Bad enough?…come take some……..”

I don’t know if this is TIC or serious as a bike horn, but this summarizes us Northern football fans stereotype of the southern school to a T! You guys make fun of the Big 10 for this, but in our case it’s because we’re weak footballers, like you guys would even bother to watch a Big 10 game(like watching women’s hoops to you) in the first place.

Anywho, I believe Orson has the gist of it, it’s all about the dough.

I know it’s the way of the college football world, but as a MAC fan who has seen his team slog through too many schedules with only four home games, I’d love to see Florida (or pick your non-travelin’ SEC team) forced to play one season with no non-conference home games, all roadies against BCS opponents, just so their fans get an appreciation of how the other half lives.

(And I’m sorry, but you haven’t left the state for a non-conference game in 16 years? Christ, guys, there’s being fat and happy off your gate receipts, and then there’s being flat-out isolationist…it’s like you’re looking to sever trade relations or something.)

Georgia, you say?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=esl2NNOtHQE

#26: Waffle House. I never understood its appeal.

353 miles? we covered that each trip going to arizona, az. state, and va tech, and that was in a 4 year span. its not quite the million miles hawai’i does but we don’t live on an island….yet.

Pelican,

Did Vern’s nephew order fries with his Whopper?

DAMNIT — I just can’t stop myself!

Didn’t UGA expect “10 in a row” sometime back in the mid-90s?

Didn’t y’all fire a coach for losing 3 to us?

Funny side note: My wife used to work with senior citiznes in Cobb County, and when those codgers had to go to the Marrietta Square, they would refer to that as “going downtown.” Actually going into downtown ATL was “driving to Atlanta,” as if they lived in another state.

1. - Waffle House is God’s gift to drunks at 3 a.m. — GOD’S GIFT I SAY! Even better than Krystal.

#33
You know as well as I do, we dont take checks at the Huddle House…..
#29
It was meant in jest, or TIC..TAC….TOE

It’s really the quality of the non-conference opponent (at least one or two of the four non-conference games, obviously every school has a few gimmees) that matters, not so much the miles traveled.

USC under Carroll has been great about scheduling tough opponents AND playing them on the road, including VT, Auburn, ND, Arkansas, Nebraska. Of course, this year ND and Nebraska ended up being crap games, but on paper at the time of scheduling, they were legit.

#34

Yes. But since the 7-win streak is underway via a new coaching staff, you can put away any proud moments against the Donnan regime. (Of course those weren’t the cleanest of wins for Tech.)

And you won’t likely see that happen again. That’s why it’s realistic for us to look ahead to 10 in a row.

I am well aware that the day Chan Gailey was fired, the mood was the same in Athens when Reggie Ball ran out of eligibility.

Georgia is going to drop teams like Ga. Tech and Clemson and pick up Kent State, Akron or, Youngstown State.

This will improve our mileage ratings and possibly give us a better chance of playing in the BCS MNC game.

“It should surprise no one to find that Georgians do not like to travel….”

Putting 827 Waffle Houses within a 40-mile radius of ATL is the most brilliant business plan. Ever.

Kate, your hate never disappoints.

When a man is tired of Gwinnett County, he is tired of life.

xenophobia? Fear of xenos?

Nope, don’t care fer em. Shifty, lazy no counts…send em back to Xenobia, tats wat I say.

“Snellville: Where everybody is somebody”

That is adorable!

How can you mock Gwinnett County when it holds such towns?

Ah, the home town…

a Xeno tried to shoot me with an arrow once…never did hit me though. He must be a lousy shot.

Techie, let’s look at this another way. From 1990-Present Day Tech has beaten UGA 4 times. 3 years they used players determined ineligible by the NCAA (and for a while even had those wins stricken from the record books). The other win was the co-MNC team over one of Goff’s worst squads. So without using ineligible players, it took the combination of the worst UGA coach in 50 years against the best Tech team in 50 years to get a clean win.

Paul Johnson should be, eventually, an improvement over Chan, but Mark Richt has never tasted defeat at Tech’s hands (no losses while at FSU either) and he’s not about to start now.

I used to work with a smokin’ hot UGA grad* from Snellville. Aside from beach vacations, she only left those city limits to go three places: Work, Athens, and Jacksonville

• Purely in the most technical sense, as I think she would have difficulty with the brain teasers on the back of an Apple Jack’s box — and she was blonde. She was the poster child for H.O.P.E induced grade inflation.

Way to go Will!!!!!

Thats the way to chop, chunk, scatter and smother Techie.

@46
I’d defend the honor of UGA ladies, but sadly I think your former co-worker is still the majority. If hot SMART girls were plentiful, I would’ve dated more when I was in Athens. Instead it’s far too many girls who, when they list anything under their “Favorite Books” section on Facebook put “US Weekly.”

‘Course that’s true outside of Athens too…

BEWARE OF DRAGONS!

DRAGONS I TELL YOU!

That’s what happens when you said off the end of the earth.

BTW — All of the Gator miles appear to be in one trip.

Orson.
  In the future if you refer to UGA, please refrain from the Iron Maiden music. If you are trying to musically emphasize a point in reference to Georgians we prefer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZYrWcgX3-g

Waffle House – the food’s pretty bleh, but the entertainment is first-rate.

#41

What do you expect? Waffle House, Inc is run by Tech Men.

Cripes, how many of you people live in ATL? Brings to mind a Lewis Grizzard quote…

I’ll be damned to let a Dawg of all people moan about “clean wins”

4 probations in the last 28 years?

Does the name “Jan Kemp” ring any bells?

Can a UGA recruiter go into Palm Beach County yet?

i think the travel number game gets overplayed. some teams can’t help that they travel a lot and some can’t help that they don’t. the closest 1-a school to boise state is 315 miles away so they’re gonna get frequent flyer miles (not to mention hawaii).

when you can schedule good games close to home, why not?

Reggie Ball… [places greasy ball cap with “G” on front reverently over heart]. [whispers] Reggie…

Georgians travel; hell, I went all the way to Griffin once. And Lovejoy! We travel!

Plus, if Goff is a handicap for y’all, then can we put asterisks against the wins over B*** L****’s teams? Worst coach in Tech history.

29 – easy there, son. We feel your pain, but if we’re going to pay for our fancy weight rooms, hookers, etc., we need seven home games. Plus, our big-hat-wearin’ skybox renters are good for another 100k or so with that extra game. That stuff adds up, you know.

And I know a lot of us who watched Illinois-tOSU this year. Much more fun than watching women’s hoops, it was.

Yeah, b/c Tech has never had academic scandals…recently…involving liberal use of “collaboration”…

Does “Jan Kemp” explain why from the 1960s to now Tech has never managed more than 3 wins per decade against UGA?

“Hawaii, however, has spent more time in the air than . . . Venus Williams’ buttocks.”

Still laughing over here.

#60
So what happens when we can claim part of the Moon as the 53rd State? (I count Puerto Rico 52)
who is gonna travel into space to play the Predators of Lunar Tech and their awesome Zero Gravity Spread offense….good news is they launch from Houston or Florida, now thats traveling……not just from the mainland…..from the Earth……outta space baby

IOK, its official. Atlanta has taken over EDSBS. The Falcons are an embarrassment so why not?

45: Did I catch a Zeno’s paradox reference there. Where are your priorities? This ain’t philosophy class…this is football.

It’s privative physics actually. Sort of.

And I wouldn’t be in Atlanta if there were salaried jobs (non-professor) in Athens…

xenophobia? Fear of The Warrior Princess?

re: ga. tech frequent flier miles…

 the NATS[north avenue trade school]have been to boise so often they have a new cheer….

male fans yell…who’s-da-ho
famales respond… I-DA-HO.

hell yea i’m a dawg..
way up north to me is chattanooga…

GATA

“Fat white guys” ? Man, what is the world coming to when someone who worships a school that has more middle easterners, than a Saturday at Mecca, make fun of us poor white people. I feel so bad now, Habib.