What a month January should be!

[DeputyDawg]

then don't say that this is why we are never invited to the better conferences.

And I agree that the decision makers pay no attention to the fans and their message boards.

I appreciate that. You are correct they never say why not. I think it is mostly a quantity issue (small school and fanbase), but I also wish our quality was better to make us more attractive. I will say this we may not have many fans but what we have are passionate. And, you are also correct that decision makers do not read message boards. I guess we agree on that and should probably just leave it there. I am new here and didn't know you guys rated people so harshly who have different opinions. I am a passionate person also and I think we are probably going to the Sun Belt. I think it will be very beneficial to us, my hope is we make the alliance, I just do not think it will happen. If you are correct and I am wrong I will be thrilled and will most absolutely tell you that you were correct. Please remind me.

[DeputyDawg]

Read this and try agian DeputyDawg...

pI have to admit that's Pretty funny. Yes ma'am you sure got me.

[DellDawg]

pI have to admit that's Pretty funny. Yes ma'am you sure got me.

Ha ha funny guy.

[johnnylightnin]

Too be honest I can just speak to football and basketball and it has been nine years since we beat a non-wac D-1A football team. Maybe in baseball, golf and water polo we kick butt.

Everyone is missing the big point here. I am a Tech alum and fan. I hope we make it in the alliance. Just the facts don't add up. The Sun Belt sucks almost as much as the WAC. But atleast we can have some rivalries again. Get some people interested in our programs.

Hey I am the first to admit it we have had a tough few months.

1. An 8th straight year of no big out of conference wins. 8 YEARS!

2. An sad attendance for our big bowl game. ULL had twice as many at their bowl game and they won!

3. No conference invite.

4. Horrible football recruiting class.

5. Karl getting b**** slapped by the Jazz. He really needs to keep his pie hole closed, even die-hard Tech fans need to admit that.

6. The AD wasting too much money from an already small budget!

Thank goodness Willie Roaf got into the hall!

Johnnylightnin with over 20000 posts please check my 3:03 post. That's when I stated no out of conference wins in 8 years against teams with winning records. Do you know of any? With 20000 posts I assume you have lots of free time on your hands.

Troll with 20+ posts per day, when you've been a member as long as I have (since 2003), your post total, at your current rate, would be over 80K. I say would because it's clear that you're a troll and not a fan. You'll be gone shortly, but I guess you're as good an off-season diversion as anything else today.

I've underlined above the posts that I was responding to. There were no qualifiers in those posts, they are just wrong. If you'd like me to respond to what you mean and not what you type, I suggest you start typing what you mean.

Have a nice day.

[TN Dawg 13]

Don't argue with idiots. They drag you down to there level and beat you with experience.

DepDawg looks like most on here have you pegged as a troll. Did you recently get banned from the cusa board? You have stated numerous times that you are new to this board but also stated that you are familiar with several other forum formats. Everyone knows this is the board for Tech athletics. Which boards are you familiar with and what has taken you so long to grace us with your presence or at least re-register under a new name.

If you went to Tech why not give some details as to grad year, degree pursued, teacher name, and who pissed in your wheaties.as to cut down on your doubters.

[tylerdawg]

Please re-read my post, I said we didn't compare favorably to the CUSA schools that you just mentioned. I can tell by your lack of reading comprehension that you are also a Tech grad. As a matter of fact I think we had some classes together. Did you ever get that mole removed from your face and I hope you didn't marry that ugly girl from our chemistry class.

Go back and read your own post.

[DeputyDawg]

Troll douche with 20+ posts per day, when you've been a member as long as I have (since 2003), your post total, at your current rate, would be over 80K. I say would because it's clear that you're a troll and not a fan. You'll be gone shortly, but I guess you're as good an off-season diversion as anything else today.

I've underlined above the posts that I was responding to. There were no qualifiers in those posts, they are just wrong. If you'd like me to respond to what you mean and not what you type, I suggest you start typing what you mean.

Have a nice day.

I admit I was misleading in my reply to those posts. Please look at my 3:03 post. Have you found the game we won against a non conference team with a winning record in the last 8 years? I wonder how many other teams can make such a claim?

[T_Won]

Too be honest I can just speak to football and basketball and it has been nine years since we beat a non-wac D-1A football team. Maybe in baseball, golf and water polo we kick butt.

I'm really only talking about the WAC though, since those are the teams that will be in the Alliance. Tech is 19-26 over the past 11 years against former WAC teams and CUSA teams that will be in the Alliance (Fresno, Nevada, Hawaii, Tulsa, Rice, UTEP, and Southern Miss), and has won 2 conference championships in that time. I don't know the basketball numbers, but we do OK against them in mens and very well in womens.

Tech is 29-6 in football against the Sun Belt teams and other WAC teams not in the Alliance.

That's why I say we are a notch above the others being considered.

[johnnylightnin]

I admit I was misleading in my reply to those posts. Please look at my 3:03 post. Have you found the game we won against a non conference team with a winning record in the last 8 years? I wonder how many other teams can make such a claim?

Three more posts and your pace will have you a 100K posts in 8 years...with all that spare time, I'll let you do the research chief.

[T_Won]

I admit I was misleading in my reply to those posts. Please look at my 3:03 post. Have you found the game we won against a non conference team with a winning record in the last 8 years? I wonder how many other teams can make such a claim?

I did a little research:

In the past 8 years, Tech is 10-4 against non-BCS, non-ranked teams. Tech is 2-18 against BCS and ranked teams.

The 4 bad losses were to Army (14-7), Navy (twice), and Southern Miss (13-12). The 2 big wins were over Miss State and Ole Miss. The 18 losses were to Miami, Tennessee, Auburn (twice), Florida, Texas A&M (twice), Kansas (twice), Nebraska, Clemson, Cal, Ole Miss, LSU (twice), Mississippi State, #16 Southern Miss, and #18 Houston.

[johnnylightnin]

I did a little research:

In the past 8 years, Tech is 10-4 against non-BCS, non-ranked teams. Tech is 2-17 against BCS and ranked teams.

The 4 bad losses were to Army (14-7), Navy (twice), and Southern Miss (13-12). The 2 big wins were over Miss State and Ole Miss.

Yeah, but we haven't beat a non-conference team with a .500 or over record and a biped mascot on a Thursday with a new moon in our entire history...We should just quit...maybe the sunbelt will take us.

[T_Won]

Yeah, but we haven't beat a non-conference team with a .500 or over record and a biped mascot on a Thursday with a new moon in our entire history...We should just quit...maybe the sunbelt will take us.

I edited to put who we have failed to beat out of conference. It's a freaking who's who of college football!

[TN Dawg 13]

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[DeputyDawg]

Three more posts and your pace will have you a 100K posts in 8 years...with all that spare time, I'll let you do the research chief.

Actually I have to go back to the office in the morning. Three day weekend. I have millions (you are likely included in that number) depending on my taxes every year, cannot play ever day. As for your record, you are safe; I will never approach 20K.

[DeputyDawg]

I did a little research:

In the past 8 years, Tech is 10-4 against non-BCS, non-ranked teams. Tech is 2-18 against BCS and ranked teams.

The 4 bad losses were to Army (14-7), Navy (twice), and Southern Miss (13-12). The 2 big wins were over Miss State and Ole Miss. The 18 losses were to Miami, Tennessee, Auburn (twice), Florida, Texas A&M (twice), Kansas (twice), Nebraska, Clemson, Cal, Ole Miss, LSU (twice), Mississippi State, #16 Southern Miss, and #18 Houston.

No wins against out of conference teams with a winning record. And, if you consider beating a 2-10 Ole Miss team after their coach was fired then okay that's a big win.