In his introductory news conference Monday morning, new Georgia Tech coach Brent Key laid down the gauntlet. The Yellow Jackets are coming after archrival Georgia.
Key addressed a number of topics in meeting with media, but perhaps none will catch the attention of Tech fans as much as his stated intentions to not merely defeat the Bulldogs – but dominate them. Georgia won the SEC championship Saturday to improve to 13-0 and are the top seed in the College Football Playoff, which they won last year.
“We have an opponent in this state that we will work 365 days a year to defeat,” Key said, his voice full of intensity. “We will work 365 days a year to dominate. When we all wake up in the morning, our goal is to dominate our opponent. The feeling of dominating your opponent is like no other, and whatever team is on our schedule, that is our goal, what we will work towards every single day.”
Tech has some work to do to catch Georgia, let alone be its clear superior. The Jackets have lost five games in a row to UGA and coach Kirby Smart, including a 37-14 defeat to the Bulldogs Nov. 26 in Athens. The 23-point margin was the smallest of the five.
In this year’s game, Tech was given credit for taking an early 7-0 lead, becoming the first team this season to score a first-quarter touchdown on the Bulldogs and just the third to actually take a lead on them.
Tech’s performance in a losing effort to the No. 1 team in the country while playing without its first- and second-string quarterbacks was seized upon by Key supporters as a reason to make him the full-time coach.
That evidently will not suffice for Key, who spoke of his hatred for losing in his address and his plan to build a championship football team at his alma mater.
“Three-hundred sixty-five days, we will work to dominate that opponent,” he concluded. “Understand that.”
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