G-Tech Players are Trash

Ive never been to a Tech game in Athens but this is just trashy. I recall hearing about over the years but never in this much detail. Have any of you ever witnessed this?

Georgia Athletic Director Greg McGarity said Monday he has had conversations with Todd Stansbury, the Yellow Jackets’ athletic director, and they’ve agreed that no more property will be destroyed on either team’s field in the event that the visitors win.

It has long been a Tech tradition for its players to rip up Georgia’s hallowed hedge and parade around with pieces clenched in their teeth when it wins at Sanford Stadium.

This news might come as a disappointment to Tech’s Brad Stewart. The senior wide receiver said just this week, “It was a good feeling tearing those hedges at the end (in ’16), so I want to do that again.”

Said senior wideout Terry Godwin: “Me, personally, I don’t need to be reminded. It’s stuck there in my mind vividly, like it was just yesterday, seeing them guys do that. That’s something you don’t want on your own field, so we’re going to try to take care of business.”

Georgia’s hedges had to be replaced or repaired the last two times the Yellow Jackets visited. Huge sections were ripped out after Tech’s 30-24 overtime win in 2014 and its 28-27 victory in 2016, Smart’s first season.

It’s a Tech tradition that goes back to 1984. That’s when quarterback John Dewberry — who transferred to Tech from Georgia — first broke off a limb and posed with it clenched in his teeth for television and still cameras.



Taking pieces of the turf is one thing which the Dawgs have done but for Tech to rip a part hedges that have been in the stadium for 90+ years (in the way described above) is just trashy as hell.

frick Tech!