http://www.georgiatechyellowjacketstickets.com Just another GreatSeats Blogs weblog Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:48:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Bud L. Ellis For a Georgia Tech team that’s struggled mightily all season, Thursday’s opening game in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament is a shot at saving their season … and maybe their coach’s job, too. The Yellow Jackets face Virginia Tech in the first round of the tourney ... /2011/03/10/tech-tries-to-save-season-and-maybe-coachs-job-as-accs-begin/ By Bud L. Ellis There have not been a lot of highlights for Georgia Tech during its disappointing 2010-11 basketball season. But there has been nothing disappointing about the play of Iman Shumpert. The junior guard earned selection to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference second team, getting the nod from the ... /2011/03/08/tech-guard-shumpert-earns-all-acc-honors/ By Bud L. Ellis After going 6-7 one season after reaching the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game, Georgia Tech hopes for better times in 2011. Seven home games, including a Thursday night contest against Virginia Tech, highlight the Yellow Jackets’ football schedule. The Yellow Jackets open Sept. 1 at home ... /2011/02/28/tech-hopes-for-better-times-in-navigating-2011-schedule/ Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets forward Brian Oliver will undergo surgery to repair a broken left thumb. The sophomore suffered the injury during the team's loss at Clemson. He is averaging almost 11 points and more than four rebounds per game. Oliver is the team's third leading scorer and is expected to miss ... /2011/02/09/oliver-to-have-thumb-surgery/ By Bud L. Ellis Last year at this time, Georgia Tech was celebrating winning the Atlantic Coast Conference championship. This year hasn’t been anywhere as successful for the Yellow Jackets. But the nation’s No. 1-rushing team will get to take on No. 2 in that category this bowl season. Georgia ... /2010/12/06/tech-puts-no-1-rushing-offense-on-line-in-independence-bowl/ By Bud L. Ellis Nobody outside of Kansas saw this coming, and certainly not Georgia Tech. The No. 15-ranked Yellow Jackets traveled to Kansas to face a Jayhawks’ team that lost to FCS school North Dakota State in week one. They left with a stunning 28-25 defeat that raised several questions about ... /2010/09/14/tech-stumbles-in-upset-at-kansas/ By Bud L. Ellis Joshua Nesbitt picked up where he left off last season, and that’s a very good thing for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. The defending Atlantic Coast Conference champions had little trouble in a 41-10 rout of South Carolina State in the season opener Saturday at Bobby ... /2010/09/07/nesbitt-continues-rushing-ways-as-tech-starts-with-rout/ By Bud L. Ellis Game week finally is here for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, and we’re about to find out if this year’s version of the black and gold is good enough to successfully defend the Atlantic Coast Conference championship. It begins Saturday with a non-conference matchup against South ... /2010/08/31/season-opener-finds-tech-ready-to-kick-off-title-defense/ By Bud L. Ellis As far as The Associated Press and its preseason rankings go, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets will start 2010 in almost the same spot as they began 2009. The Jackets certainly would not mind a repeat of last season. The defending Atlantic Coast Conference champions appear ... /2010/08/23/jackets-start-at-no-16-in-ap-rankings/ By Bud L. Ellis The first intrasquad scrimmage of the preseason for the defending Atlantic Coast Conference champions featured some of the trends that lead to a successful 2009. Joshua Nesbitt rushed for a 2-yard touchdown and hit Stephen Hill on a 6-yard scoring strike, and took the brunt of ... /2010/08/17/nesbitt-rushes-passes-for-tds-in-tech-intrasquad-scrimmage/