For the longest time, I was convinced that the Georgia Tech football program was cursed when it came to beating Georgia by my enrollment in the school.  The Jackets last won the Georgia game in 2000, which just so happened to be the year before I made my way to Tech.  I was enrolled at Tech for 6 years (2001-2006), all of which yielded losses in the season-ender against U(sic)GA.  I thought for sure that, with my graduation at the end of 2006, last season would be the time that we beat Georgia since I was finally gone.  But that wasn’t to be and we had our 7th consecutive loss.

When it came down to analyzing the situation, I decided to blame ECE3055 for Georgia Tech losing that game last season.  As a little background information, I walked at graduation on December 16, 2006 only to find out a few days later that I didn’t actually graduate thanks to a minor technicality (read: I got a D in a class I needed a C in……by roughly 0.8%).  

Thanks to a relatively well-hidden policy at Tech however, since it was my last semester, I was allowed to take a new final for the course and, if I passed that test, would pass the class.  After two weeks of non-stop studying, I took the test, passed the class and was done with my undergrad career at Georgia Tech.  This did, however, mean that I technically wasn’t done at Tech until early in the 2007 calendar year.  So, for that, ECE3055 had to be the reason that Georgia Tech didn’t beat Georgia last season.  But I digress…

I’d be lying if I said that I hadn’t been waiting since before I even had my website up and running to write this post.  Every season, I’d always have my hopes up that we would beat Georgia and the rest of the season wouldn’t really matter.  But, unfortunately, Chan Gailey was our coach for most of that time, and it always just seemed that mediocrity and 7-5 seasons were okay with him.  That’s right, I was definitely on the “Can Chan” bandwagon.

That all changed today however when the Jackets managed a 45-42 victory in Athens to cap off a solid 9-3 season record.  Not a bad start for Coach Paul Johnson I must say.  As the game ended and television coverage of the game ended, I had a strange new feeling though.  I really had no clue what to do.  The entire time that I’ve been part of the Georgia Tech community, I was used to turning away in disgust at the end of the game against Georgia and harboring resentment and anger towards some aspect of the game for a couple of weeks.

So I did the only thing that seemed logical to me since I was sitting at home by myself and most everyone else was out of town.  I kept both of my TVs tuned to sports stations and watched a bunch of football and basketball games that I really didn’t care about, just so I could see something of this nature scroll across the bottom of the screen every 5 minutes or so.

Pretty fulfilling, isn’t it?  Well at least it is for me.  If you’re a Georgia fan, well, I’m sorry.  On so many levels.  Rest assured, Tech fans, that we should be better off now that I have graduated and that curse is broken.  I apologize for taking so long to get out of school.  Either way, I can finally sleep soundly at night after a game against U(sic)GA. What’s the good word?!