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The ACC is college football's rough equivalent to a "Lake Woebegone" effect where everyone, except maybe Duke, is just about average or a "hair above". "Pitt, Wake, and UVA got worse at recruiting but should still be up towards the top of the conference." Funny, how good coaching affects...

Given his record...no one has to "make up anything" and I did not say he is trying to be friends and if he was, he did a damn poor job of it the last two games when the team got blown out 100-0.

The proof is in the pudding. Three successive years of winning three games with historic losses are pretty damning. He has this year to get it straightened out and refute the "weak, tired take..."

He probably was but Dodd had something like 21 All Americans of one kind or another so it is hard to say. Lothridge finished second in the Heisman balloting his senior year and there was the "young left hander" Kim King. Anyway, Vaught had plenty of reasons to hate Tech, not that it ever did...

I get what you are saying but this is not the "SOMETHING" you had in mind.

Nope. What really got under Coach Vaught's skin was losing one of the Morris' boys, can't remember which who was one of the very best high school players to come out of Mississippi in a long time back in the 1950s to Dodd. To be fair, he was not too crazy about the Bear or General Neyland at...

I have a friend who played high school football in the early 1970s in DeKalb County. His father was on the 1952 national championship team and managed to wrangle a sideline pass for his son. My friend spent most of the game watching Smylie Gebhardt and Rock Perdoni. He said that what struck...

Yep. You are correct it was the opposite of what I posted on who played when. Johnny Vaught wasn't happy either way.

Well, in fairness, it was rather highhanded of Coach Dodd. According to his biography, there was scheduled a college football doubleheader at Grant Field sometime during the 1950s. UGA was to play Ole Miss in the afternoon and Tech was to play Kentucky in the nightcap. There was a press...

That was not particularly addressed in either of the books I read but the impression I got was that the Bear had persuaded (in his own kind and gentle way) everyone but UGA and Auburn. If that is true, (no way of knowing now 50 years later) he must have done a hell of a sales job on the two...

It may have been a good thing he did not finish the game against Northern Illinois. Not one of his better moments. Yates, you will recall, came in and gave us a spark. Forgive me for not being as "positive" as you but successive 3 win seasons punctuated by historic losses has caused reality...

When we tried to go back in the late 70s and early 80s, Alabama sponsored us because of Bear Bryant's friendship for Dodd. According to Dodd's autobiography and a book I read on Bear Bryant, the Bear managed to get most of the SEC to back Tech but UGA and Auburn said no and that was that.

That is true but it seems like we were never the same team after that beatdown administered by Pitt.

I was at a Florida vs Auburn basketball game a few years ago with a Gator fan in Gainesville. You can imagine how the "Rowdy Reptiles" as they styled themselves then felt about Bruce. During a timeout, the band was quiet and the place was relatively calm but I could hear Coach Pearl screaming...

I agree Randy. I am not a Tech graduate but have been a fan for over a half century. It is time to give serious thought to getting rid of UGA and scaling expectations down to a more reasonable level. There is a good chance that we will have a losing record for the fourth year in a row on the...

Winning three games a year with a historically bad loss to Clemson as well as losses to the likes of The Citadel, Northern Illinois and being hammered 100-0 in the last two games will result in message board vitriol. Coach Collins would have already been shown the door at programs serious about...

The first four games may tell the tale...Clemson, Western Carolina, Ole Miss, UCF. Coach Collins really needs to bat .500 on those first four games. A daunting task but he can do it. An awful lot riding on Jeff Simms. He has to play better. Between him and Yates, there were 10...

During a televised game, George was incensed by a defensive back getting beat on a post pattern. As the player came off the field, he was directed to one of the field phones and presumably got an earful from a position coach in the booth. Coach O'Leary, being the humble, mild mannered, good...

Coach Johnson socializing with the likes of "Yella Wood"? Nope, can't see him lowering his standards for that.

An excellent summary of Auburn's football follies. I wanted to ask why they fired Gus if they are upset with this new guy already but you answered that question.