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So much happens on a game day that the amount of preparation outside of football practice and coaching can get lost in the spirit of football. But for Jay Shoop, the Director of Sports Medicine and Head Trainer for Georgia Tech, preparation for game day is a full time job.
The men’s basketball team traveled to Anaheim, Califronia over Thanksgiving break to compete in the DirecTV Classic. Tech finished third in the eight-team tournament.
Tech’s roster is filled with experience, but the men’s basketball team’s fortunes will go the way of the talented freshmen sprinkled throughout the roster.
The long, painful practices; the stiff knees and calloused hands; all are a product of a training regimen designed to help peak an athlete on race day. The end goal is the May regatta, the event that takes nine months of preparation and sweat.
Coming off of a 2-1 homestand, the Tech women’s basketball team went on the road on Friday, Nov. 23, to participate in the San Juan shootout and then to face the Purdue Boilermakers on Wednesday, Nov. 28, in the ACC/Big Ten challenge.
With the addition of the Cardinals, the ACC will have four new members shortly including Syracuse and Pittsburgh in 2013 and Louisville and Notre Dame in 2014.
After two tumultuous years that saw Tech finish below .500, hire a new coach, Brian Gregory, and play an entire season away from home, the Jackets enter the 2012-13 campaign hoping to bounce back and make a run in a weakened ACC.
With the possibility looming that the Tech football team breaks its 15-year streak of bowl appearances this season, the outlook on Tech athletics has been glum this fall.
On Tech’s second possession of the game, and facing a fourth-and-three from the Maryland 35-yard line, senior A-back Orwin Smith took a pitch from redshirt senior quarterback Tevin Washington and marched 17 yards to the Maryland 18.
But what most people don’t notice are the many moving parts that make up a college football game, including the many student football managers that are vital to the health of the program.