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Georgia Tech University
Beat him!
Beat him!
If your lineman errs then cleat him!
Have 'em gang up
Have 'em stampede
Coach doesn't care it's a fel-on-y
Just Beat Him!
Congrats to Head Coach George O'Leary. While overcoming some stiff competition from the Duke University coaching staff and actually finishing below them in the poll, given the extent and cost of Duke's scandal, O'Leary can still boast that he walked away with individual honors for the most asinine actions by a supposed moral and spiritual leader of a football team (yes I'm getting excited for the Academy Awards).
To err is human. However, if you're a Georgia Tech lineman, it appears that erring also means that you might as well get beaten like a rented mule. Seems that 315-pound Dustin Vaitekunas missed a blocking assignment during a routine practice. Coach George O' Leary then decided to teach Vaitekunas a heavy lesson. Claiming he wanted Vaitekunas to "get an idea of how a quarterback feels when his blockers miss their assignments," Coach O' Leary had four blockers roughly the size of Vaitekunas rush him as he stood in place.
You do the math: 4 times 315 = around 1250 pounds or two Yugos. Vaitekunas got leveled. In fact, two Yugos would probably do less damage. The lineman was left on the ground dazed and gasping for air.
Notes to Coach O'Leary:
1) The days of being able to beat the stuffing out of your own players are long past. Now only the players are allowed to beat up anyone they choose.
2) You wanted to give Vaitekunas an idea of how the QB feels? George…come on! The QB can at least run for his life, or the sideline-whichever is more convenient. You know as well as I do that usually a four-lineman sack is pretty rare.
All of this seems particularly heinous, when you consider the fact that Georgia Tech doesn't tackle its own quarterbacks in practice! Anyway, Vaitekunas has since left the team, and, to date, the university has declined to discipline O'Leary.
As a result the Yellow Jackets have made their way into the list of Tarnished Teams for 2000. The Tarnished Twenty reminds collegiate football programs everywhere that out of control athletes, drug binges, and firearms aren't the only ways to gain notoriety with the ever-vigilant watchdogs at FindLaw…yes out-of-control coaches can garner just as much Tarnish! So congrats to Georgia Tech, and here's hoping that if they find a way into a post-season bowl, Coach O'Leary is kinder to the opposition than he is to his own players in practice!
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