This Simply Has to Stop!
by T Kyle King on May 22, 2007 8:04 AM EDT
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PrintYou may not give a rip about women's tennis, but, if you don't, now is the time to start.
For the first time in their program's history, Georgia Tech has advanced to the final round of the N.C.A.A. women's tennis tournament. The Yellow Jackets got there by beating the team that got there by beating Georgia.
It's time to hunker down and pull for U.C.L.A. to beat the Georgia Tech women's tennis team. (By the way, is it just me, or is the phrase "Georgia Tech women" either oxymoronic or redundant?)
Now that we finally appear to be on the verge of eliminating the Gator menace, we can't have our in-state rival winning a national title on our campus. Fortunately, U.C.L.A. should have a de facto home court advantage, since I know there are more people in Athens willing to root for U.C.L.A. than there are people in Athens willing to root for Georgia Tech.
Go 'Dawgs! . . . and, for today, at least, go Bruins!
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Dude, watch your language!
Seriously, I completely understand . . . "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," and all that.
My bad
Uh . . .
That being said, how could the phrase be redundant? Wouldn't that imply that Tech has too many women? Something that despite the fact that I married a two time Tech grad I know not to be true.
re: redundant phrasing
If I understand Kyle correctly, he's saying that the phrase "Georgia Tech women" is either oxymoronic (i.e.,there are no women at Tech) or redundant (i.e.,everyone at Tech is a woman).
As an aside, I think seeing "too many women" at Tech would be analagous to going to a wine tasting where there's "too much Boone's Farm". Some experiences in life are defined more by quality than quantity.
And as much as I enjoy ribbing the Techies, I do think they deserve some respect this time. They've beaten some really good competition to get this far. The whole college should be proud of them.
As usual . . .
I was pleading alternately and inconsistently while playing simultaneously to two popular stereotypes . . . mocking the infamous lack of a female presence on the Georgia Tech campus and taking the conventional cheap shots at the masculinity of the men at a campus where students take their laptops to football games and have guys in the flag corps.
Yeah, it was juvenile, but rivalries will do that to you. I congratulate the Yellow Jacket ladies on their achievement . . . but I sure don't want to have to deal with Georgia Tech fans celebrating a big win in Athens.
After what happened to the field in Sanford Stadium early in the morning on the Friday before the '99 Georgia-L.S.U. game, in the wee hours of the very night on which Georgia Tech (coincidentally?) won a Thursday night football game in Atlanta, I'm not anxious to have the Yellow Jacket faithful partying like it's 1999.
Like I said . . .
Just to give you a glass is half-full moment, remember that my biggest point of pride this year for GT will involve women's athletics.
more specifically...
I don't normally root for GT...
by michiganboy2412 on May 23, 2007 11:09 PM EDT reply actions
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