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<blockquote data-quote="GTNavyNuke" data-source="post: 51788" data-attributes="member: 322"><p>What you say may be true but we will never know for sure since we don't know what a person thinks, only what he does and says. I don't think it was simply the recruiting situation, but that was part of it.</p><p></p><p>This is the background given in "Dodd's Luck" (page 239 )which Dodd provided the info for is this:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px">"In addition to Dodd's growing dissatisfaction with Tech academic policies that inhibited his recruiting - he admitted Georgia Tech had suffered poor recruiting years in both 1964 and '65 - Dodd had health problems. A kidney and prostate condition had plagued him as far back as the previous season."</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">"There were other health consideration, as well. Besides the headaches, chronic upset stomach, and fever - sometimes as high as 104 degrees - which often accompanied his kidney-prostate condition, Dodd's personality and sleeping habits had changed. In recent months, Dodd had seldom slept a full night, usually waking two or three times during the night. That, Dodd said, was as psychological as it was physical. That, he said, was the pressure the football coach feels. Any football coach. Even Bobby Dodd."</p><p></p><p>I think he just got worn out by the pressures and getting older. Dodd left on his own terms and didn't "work" after that except in an emeritus type position for GT. I would think the pressures (as well as compensation of course) are much greater for a HC today than they were then.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GTNavyNuke, post: 51788, member: 322"] What you say may be true but we will never know for sure since we don't know what a person thinks, only what he does and says. I don't think it was simply the recruiting situation, but that was part of it. This is the background given in "Dodd's Luck" (page 239 )which Dodd provided the info for is this: [INDENT]"In addition to Dodd's growing dissatisfaction with Tech academic policies that inhibited his recruiting - he admitted Georgia Tech had suffered poor recruiting years in both 1964 and '65 - Dodd had health problems. A kidney and prostate condition had plagued him as far back as the previous season." "There were other health consideration, as well. Besides the headaches, chronic upset stomach, and fever - sometimes as high as 104 degrees - which often accompanied his kidney-prostate condition, Dodd's personality and sleeping habits had changed. In recent months, Dodd had seldom slept a full night, usually waking two or three times during the night. That, Dodd said, was as psychological as it was physical. That, he said, was the pressure the football coach feels. Any football coach. Even Bobby Dodd."[/INDENT] I think he just got worn out by the pressures and getting older. Dodd left on his own terms and didn't "work" after that except in an emeritus type position for GT. I would think the pressures (as well as compensation of course) are much greater for a HC today than they were then. [/QUOTE]
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