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"The Glan" was brought in from Western Kentucky in June 1968 to coach the Freshmen team and install Carson's 4-4-3 "Tech Defense" from the ground up. The Tech defense was a modified "Wide Tackle Six" with both ILBs and both DTs switching gaps.... The weakside OLB was the "Wrecker," the...

Not soon enough....... he lost the locker room during the practices during Finals Week before the 1970 Sun Bowl. 9PM - yes, 9PM - practices in full pads during Finals Week drove everyone off a cliff. The next year with his bunker approach was worse. After the team voted to NOT go play a very...

Yes, Larry came back for the Ugag game in Athens against Bill Stanfill & Jack Scott & played on one leg. OC Bill Crutchfield designed the "Cherry Picker Formation" to spread everybody out & try to confuse the dwags. Gaggers - 47 Good's Guys - 8 The "Cherry Picker Formation" was banned by the...

Yep... the Navy FB Dan Pike spent the afternoon running wild on GF.

2015 was the worst injury riddled season since 1968 when we had to call the 7th string QB out of the stands at halftime of the Navy game, appropriately enough played in a driving rain storm, to finish the game. Our leading tackler, the late Eric Wilcox, played the second half of the season on...

Should've happened a long time ago..... Big Al always knew every player by name when he saw them in uni's or civvies, whether you were a walk-on or an All-American. whenever and wherever he ran into you. When you think of some the ones from the CCCI 70 miles to the NE who were already in, it's a...

Not a GT player or coach meeting, but just to show you how athletes respond to the truly great ones you happen to meet or bump into..... In 1970, Archie Manning was in town to receive some sort of award from the Atlanta Touchdown Club or maybe the Capital City Club & had stopped by GT to pay...

Been that way for quite a while..... if you want to edit, Adobe wants you to subscribe or buy their "Pro" (or whatever it's called) version. LINK

Chanced to meet big Freddie Burden at a Letterwinners Tailgate a few years back. Also met Don Toner at a similar get together a few years prior. Yes, we TechExes have our accidental moments, too.

https://www.fraziersonfuneralhome.com/obituary/james-culpepper He was one of the life presevers in August 1968 for us incoming GT Freshmen football players as Jerry Glanville introduced us to the speed & conditioning levels required to play at that level. He was never hesitant to take on...

Got my early renewal window email heads-up tonight.... said window closes Feb 13, the same day I'll have flown 18 hours, 9000 miles. Hope I can stay awake to renew.

"Here's your sign" Dept: Happened to be in Memphis the day Pastner was announced as our new HMBBC.... I asked a cabbie what he thought of Pastner & the cabbie said Memphis fans were ecstatic he was leaving.

Didn't watch it that closely..... was in a hotel close to St Pius Hi before a '67 playoff game..... I do remember Kenny Bounds (#49) dropping a long, wide open (like Joe Auer vs LSU in '62) potential game tieing pass. 21-14 sounds right.

Not to discredit Roof's effort vs UT in '85, but the GT record for tackles in a game belongs to the late Eric Wilcox vs UGag in 1967 with 28. Ref: 2022 GT FB Press Guide p. 112

Pastner Post-Game Comment (At least what he should have said) Quoting the late Casey Stengel as he watched his inaugural 1962 NY Mets team go 40-120-1, "Can't anybody here play this game?"

"Oh Charlie!" Rogers vs UVA in 41-38 game at Grant Field

IIRC Believe Bell's departure was a "Hill" disciplinary issue.... possibly something with the GT Bookstore, or maybe selling his "free books and supplies." He played in the '91 Spring Game, then was gone in the fall. Hope I'm wrong and apologies if I am, but he wasn't a "3 years and to the...

Have a about 10 YO desktop Dell Inspiron XP5 with i5.... 1TB internal failed about 4 years ago - "Here's you sign..." got stuck in a do loop booting up, then crashed....." - took it to a local repair shop in Huntsville & now have a 250MB SSD internal for basic Win10, M/S Office, and Photoshop...

Last at UNC-Charlotte where he worked for GT double legacy Will (yes, he played at Richmond) Healy...... lots of unfortunate reasons Will was let go mid-season, but Brian wasn't one of them. Good to see this just ahead of the AFCA Convention this weekend in Charlotte.

FYI..... The American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Annual Convention starts on Sunday in Charlotte (LINK). There's always a lot of movement in the college coaching ranks as the lookers and the lookees get together. Just sayin'.......