First they said Johnson's offense wouldn't work in a BCS conference.  Then they said it would stop working once people had seen it.  Now they are saying Johnson won't be able to recruit; that the current success is with Gailey's players.

Here are some highlights of redshirt B-Back Daniel Drummond's senior season at Flowery Branch.  I'm afraid some of these runs were at the expense of my Grangers in the state playoffs.

I'm going to be in Atlanta Saturday, but spending $150 or more for a ticket just isn't in the cards right now, and those people are selling pairs.  I could watch with my family, but my brother and father went to Georgia.  We can watch it together and remain civil, but I am not in the mood to remain civil.

Last year I watched the game at Rocky Mountain Pizza, which was a lot of fun, especially when the staff did shots after every Tech score.  The campus bar I spend the most time in,  K G Grumpy's, is now a Hampton Inn, so that's out.

Where's the best place in town to watch the game?

The pups will come into Atlanta needing a little motivation next Saturday, and we all know what that means to Mark Richt: dancing in the end zone or adding black to the uniform (either shirts or pants).  Even though the latter hasn't worked out the last couple of times they've done it, I hope they try again.

I'd like to see black helmets, red jerseys, black pants, red socks, and black shoes.  They may have to go out and buy the socks, but they've worn all the other pieces this year.  What do you think?

Twenty-five years ago I wrote alternative lyrics to the Auburn fight song.  Unfortunately, Homer Rice and Bill Curry killed our annual rivalry, and we've only played them twice in the past twenty years (but we won both).

We can't get much use out of this (at least for the next few years), but you can.  I have discovered that it is close enough to their lyrics that you can sing along with them in a crowd and they won't notice.  Much.

War Eagle, crawl off the field
Never to conquer, ever to yield
War Eagle, you'll lose, it's true
Beat 'til you're all black and blue
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Drop the football
Moan, bitch, and cry
Go to hell! Go to hell!
Eat shit and die!
War Eagle, lose for Auburn
Asshole of Dixie Land

I guess like most of us I am biased toward uniforms similar to what I remember from my youth.  In my mind, Tech will always wear the uniforms they wore in the late '70s: gold pants and helmets with white jerseys, whether home or away.

I did not like the black jerseys that the team wore occasionally during the Bill Curry years.  I did not like the gold jerseys and white pants Tech was wearing when it won its last national championship.

I like that the current uniforms feature white jerseys at home.  I'm not thrilled with the color (it looks like vegas gold, not old gold), but at least it's not a metallic gold.

A big improvement this year is that the weird pointed stripes from 2008 are gone.  I hope, but I am not optimistic, that the white road pants are gone.

I wouldn't mind seeing a navy jersey for specially occasions, maybe once a year, but I'll settle for white jerseys home and away.

As long as Tech gets the uniforms as part of a marketing deal we'll be stuck with whatever they give us, and I can live with that (as long as they don't go Oregon on us).