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What we need is a poll. Who is the biggest loss from last year's team that will be hardest to replace? I would pick Charlie but others might choose Keion or even Sims or perhaps someone else.

Excellent post with one caveat. I think (not always a given at my age) that the NIU coach in question was a running back for the Huskies back in the day. He just looked like an offensive lineman on the sidelines that night.

My take is my own. 6 wins is my ceiling for this team with an expectation and hope of winning five. IF and its a big one, IF we can beat Louisville and Wake then all bets are off and Tech should be able to win 7 with a nice bowl.

I was impressed by that Notre Dame quarterback who took a really vicious hit and managed to shake it off.

Joe, K Mike, Phillip Wheeler, and the rest of that bunch were a lot of fun to watch...not so much for opposing quarterbacks. Back then, Athlon had just started their opposing coaches quoting and one of them said: "The bastards come from everywhere" So, they did.

I see likely wins against UVA, Boston College, Bowling Green and South Carolina State. Likely losses in all the others but also an upset is possible against Louisville and/or Syracuse. Call it 5 wins...maybe.

We won that game with Maryland and that jump started the program in 1989. Its funny how sometimes a program can change on just winning one game to get confidence.

I was eight years old and was at that game with my parents. We sat in the north stands so my cousin could sit with us who had just got out of the marines. An Alabama fan behind us was drunk and kept spilling his beer on my clothes. My cousin who in the best of times was tough, mean and...

Why would he have had a 5th year of eligibility? Most players then played on the freshman team then played three years. Whatever, he was another in a long line of great Georgia Tech centers. I wonder if he played on defense as well? Substitution rules in that era were constantly changing...

Yep. You are correct. Once again, liberal arts math on display. I think.

True. They were like that back in Bear Bryant's day. Some things never change.

It was not the first time Alabama played fast and loose with the facts and it was not to be last time either.

Nope. Just another day at the office for the both of them. Yet, somehow, Bryant remained close friends with Dodd. Strange times.

Interesting but Curry was likely a true freshman during the 1961 season as he graduated as an All American center in 1964. Colleges were still not allowing freshmen to play at that time. Tech played at Birmingham in 1961 with Alabama ranked number 2 in the country. Alabama won 10-0. That...

That Kiffin was something else. He could call ball plays with the best of them but damn did he ever get on Saban's bad side. I saw a photo once of Kiffin talking to the Alabama quarterback with Saban a few feet away. What was startling, at least to me at the time, was the look of utter...

Yep. Few there were that survived that ordeal.

Poor Ray Perkins. He was the sacrificial lamb chosen to follow Bear Bryant. Even though he was an All American end for Bryant, a former NFL player and coach, an intense man who gave it everything he had, he ran into the follow the legend trap. What do Ray Perkins, Doug Barfield, Ron Zook, and...

On that list were two coaches that coached Alabama back to back. Wallace Wade and Frank Thomas during the 1930s and 1940s both of whom finished with exact same winning percentage .812. Wallace Wade was Bear Bryant's coach when he played end on Alabama's Rose Bowl championship team. Many...

You are speaking of Gene Stallings who was one of Bryant's boys. He was one of the infamous "Junction Boys" that were part of Bear Bryant's first team at Texas A&M

All of them well deserved.