Big Weekend for Georgia Tech FootballBig Weekend for Georgia Tech Football

By Matt Winkeljohn
Sting Daily

This is a big weekend for Georgia Tech football, the likes of which doesn’t come along often and especially not so early in a season.

There was the unveiling Friday afternoon of a statue of Bobby Dodd on Bobby Dodd Way outside of Bobby Dodd Stadium. Today, the terrific Tech teams of 1951 and ‘52 - back-to-back SEC and bowl game winners - will be honored.

Also, there is the matter of this afternoon’s game against Virginia. This one is amplified by the fact that the Yellow Jackets have already lost an ACC game.

Size and Athleticism Benefits Gotsis

by Matt Winkeljohn
Sting Daily -

   On the subject of freshman defensive lineman Adam Gotsis – or “The Thunder from Down Under,” as some Georgia Tech coaches refer to the Australian newcomer – the first impression as he approaches is that he doesn’t look to be 6-feet-5 and 300 pounds.

   With most lads that size, you might expect him to have more of a flabby physique.

My Great Great-Granddad

By Jon Cooper
Sting Daily

Robert Cork, aka Bobby, never saw Bobby Dodd coach. In fact, he never saw his great-grandfather at all.

But in a way, he feels very familiar with him.

The 19-year-old Cork, who is currently enrolled as a sophomore at Georgia Tech — he’s majoring in biomedical engineering — has heard plenty of stories over the years about Dodd, however.

Best Laid Plans

By Matt Winkeljohn

Sting Daily

It wasn’t necessarily in Jeremy Greenwald’s plans to run cross country, but you wouldn’t know it from his first outing for Georgia Tech.

As a younger lad growing up in El Paso, Texas, Greenwald’s goal was to play another sport. When that didn’t work out, he started running. Fast forward several years and here he is at Tech running for the Yellow Jackets.

Then, after redshirting last year as a freshman, he competed for the first time as a collegian nearly two weeks ago and finished sixth out of 67 runners in the UGA invite. Not bad, huh?

No Surprise

By Jon Cooper
Sting Daily

For Becky Megesi, honors like being selected to the Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame, have always been for other people, not for her.

Megesi, a 2001 graduate and an assistant track and cross country coach since 2005, remembers always getting a kick out of trying to pry the nominees out of Georgia Tech Men’s Track and Field Head Coach Grover Hinsdale, who is on the selection committee.

“We talk about it sometimes at lunch. Who’s up for induction? Who’s going in every year? Grover is really good about keeping it a secret,” she said, with a laugh.

Spreading The Wealth

By Matt Winkeljohn
Sting Daily

Not long after Georgia Tech racked up 712 yards of offense in Saturday night’s 59-3 win over Presbyterian, head coach Paul Johnson said more good came of the game then one might think.

Chiefly, a whole lot of very young players got playing experience, much of that going to student-athletes who saw their first college action.

“A lot of freshmen played,” Johnson said. “It was good to get those guys out there so the next time they won’t be so wide-eyed and doing silly things.”

Let's Talk About Us

By Jon Cooper
Sting Daily

There wasn’t a lot of fanfare surrounding Georgia Tech’s 59-3 win over Presbyterian on Saturday night.

The game didn’t even make the crawl across the bottom of the screen on any of the networks televising college football games until well after it went final.

That the blowout didn’t draw much buzz outside of Atlanta wasn’t a big deal. That’s not what the game was about. Head CoachPaul Johnson said as much in anticipation of it on Wednesday in his weekly press conference, when he said, “Saturday night’s about Georgia Tech.”