Wreck Ramblin

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Wreck Ramblin provides links to articles and blog posts on major GT and ACC sports, with brief excerpts (in black) and limited comment by a 5-decade GT fan (in green).

NOTE: Updates will be limited to SOME nights and most weekends. Posting will be very light during the spring.

You can easily find articles on your own:

Ramblin Wreck provides GTAA's official news releases.

Hometeamblogs aggregates posts by multiple GT sports blogs.
See also FanBlogs.

These GT sports blogs provide news, analysis, and commentary:

GT Sports Blog, Ramblin Racket, AOL GT Fanhouse

Newspaper coverage:

Frequent: Atlanta and Macon
Sometimes: Savannah, Columbus, Augusta
GT school paper: Technique (rarely updated)

Sites covering college sports: theACC, ESPN, SI, SN, Fox, CBS, CSTV, CFN

GT Recruiting/Message boards:  Scout, Rivals, Stingtalk

Season stats: NCAA

To really be thorough, google for "Georgia Tech" news.

University Update has GT sports news mixed with other GT news.

To find posts on a particular subject, from over 6300 posts in Wreck Ramblin and from other GT sports blogs, enter a descriptive word or two in the search block in the right column.

Links in the sidebars may help you find useful GT information.

Thanks to all who have routinely visit Wreck Ramblin, and GO JACKETS!

Feel free to coment to this post on any GT sports subject.

Goldtimer [goldtimer@mail.com]

How much must GT pay Chan?

A 1/20/2007 Ramblin Wreck post noted Chan had signed the 5-year-contract extension he'd agreed to in November, and a later WR post that day noted ESPN had made Chan Gailey's contract available for downloading in pdf format.

You may recall around that time many GT fans were mad at him for interviewing for pro jobs.

Back on 10/28/07, the GT Sports Blog dug into the contract [which now ends on December 31, 2011], ran the numbers, and comes up with a grand total of $4,423,402 that the GTAA would owe him if they let him go after the season, or $92,154.20 a month (at least). GTAA can pay by the month.

So, Chan will be [for the next four years] making more each month than many reading this have ever made in a year.

A coach's compensation (and payout) should be more of a function of results. There is some of that, but not nearly enough, in Chan's contract:

A win against UGA pays a bonus of only $5,000.

Chan gets a $25,000 bonus for participating in a post season game - any post season game and $25,000 for winning it.

He gets an additional $25,000 if it's a BCS bowl and $25,000 for an ACC championship.

Too much red!

The papers and blogs are doing a more than adequate job of explaining how GT could not capitalize on the ball being loose in the UGA endzone three times.

This blogger will not bother adding one more opinion. He'll just say there was way too much red in the GT sections (as there always is). GT fans should literally eat their tickets and fore-go the opportunity to make some quick bucks before they let them get in the hands of UGA fans.

Some do invite relatives (and even spouses) loyal to the rival. That's OK if they invite you to sit with them when the game is played in Athens.  That breaks even. But, we don't see that much gold mixed in with the red when we play in Athens.