Beamer claims UGA had help

[imported_mega]

By CARTER STRICKLAND
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 08/07/07
Eight months later, Frank Beamer has floated an excuse for Virginia Tech's 31-24 loss to Georgia in the Chick-Fil-A Bowl. The coach believes that maybe, just maybe, Georgia had an extra set of eyes and ears near the Hokies' practices leading up to the game.

"We practiced out at Georgia Tech and we let all kinds of people through there ... people we didn't really know," Beamer told The Roanoke Times. "And I thought it hurt us in the bowl game. I thought Georgia knew exactly what we were doing in several situations."




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Georgia coach Mark Richt understood Beamer's concerns, but he also was quick to douse any rumors of espionage.

"It is natural," Richt said. "I don't blame him for wanting to close [practice] or even feeling that way. To my knowledge we had absolutely no idea what was going on in their camp. I can assure coach Beamer we had no idea about anything going on."

The first half might have been an indication of that. Virginia Tech outplayed Georgia for 30 minutes. Georgia won the chess match in the second half and seemed to be in the right place at the right time every time.

"Sometimes you get the right call at the right time, and if that happens enough times coaches begin to wonder, 'My gosh they must have had us. Somehow had our signals or had something.'

"I can't tell you how many times that I have been signaling plays in, and if things aren't going well I will immediately grab the guy and whisper in his ear and run him in there because I am concerned they got my signal," Richt added.

[vikescoach]

Sounds like sour grapes to me.

[neutral88]

Sounds like a crying festival to me....

CAn this team never just loose???? With no excuses???

[BlueWahooChambordDevil]

heres sackneck



i think the answer is pretty simple......when he was sleeping richt installed a camera inside his neck pouch

[beamer_ball]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: neutral88</div><div class="ubbcode-body">CAn this team never just loose???? With no excuses??? </div></div>

I don't know, can they?....>>>>>"chokies" [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif[/img]

[neutral88]

There is always an excuse, first it was "well if Vick had of had 2 more minutes"

Now they are being spyed on, what's next??

[imported_trumpet1988]

Now I love the hokies but come on Beamer.

[BlueWahooChambordDevil]

the best part is that game was like 8 months ago

[gcdevil22]

here is the ACTUAL quote...surprise surprise a paper from Atlanta would print a pro-UGA article?? no way...

"We checked with all the other teams in the ACC and this is more in line with what everyone else does. I also learned a lesson down at the Chick-fil-A bowl. We let people thru there, we practiced at Georgia Tech, and I thought it hurt us in the ball game. Let me say first that I'm not blaming anyone or pointing fingers. What we do know is, when we get to team type stuff, we close practice down. I think that's in our best interest and we treat everyone the same way. Media, pro scouts, Hokie club members, we treat everyone the same. I want to give us the best chance to win come Saturday."


he also addressed the issue on his website saying that first the Roanoke Times took it out of context in order to fall in line with a story they were doing and then the AJC ran with that

there would be no need for espionage, UGa had a former VT coach on staff...and VT had Sean Glennon

[BlueWahooChambordDevil]

so the AJC made up quote about UGA knowing what was going to happen in certain situations??

we all know that the AJC is a very pro UGA and aside from GT very anti-acc.......but they arent known to make up things and print it as actual quotes

flubberneck is still a crybaby