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He became an evangelist in Florida because he could not "go home again".

My wife majored in history. The hardest class she had to take, she said, was one on contemporary Southern authors like Faulkner, Harper Lee, Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote among others. Erskine Caldwell was excruciating to read according to her but for some reason Paradise Lost was a...

You may have thought I was serious.

What I "dig" is winning ball games.

One caveat. I did not say recruiting has improved, although it has to be sure. My remark about the miraculous had more to do with the perception high school coaches have about Tech. Neither of which will matter if we do not start winning more games.

It takes longer for new coaches to adapt to the recruiting demands placed on them by Tech. Unfairly or not, it is the way things are. Coach Collins has wrought a minor miracle in changing the perceptions of high school coaches around the state towards Tech. Now, comes the easy part... win...

I resent that... I majored in history. OK, it wasn't at Tech so whose counting?

"...competitive..."? With whom? UGA, Clemson, Notre Dame, the other elite factories? Not a chance. Competitive with UNC, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake, NC State? Sure.

As for Tennessee and Nebraska, bad coaching hires and perhaps, not having a huge recruiting base has hurt them. My Florida friends were sure that Frost was going to pick the Gators until his old school called. Turns out the Gators may have dodged a bullet there but even Florida has seen (for...

And...when those coaches left or leave in the case of Clawson, then they go back to being punching bags. None of them have a chance in hell of being competitive with any of the factories. Vanderbilt stays in the SEC for the payday, that is it.

Yep. Tulane was actually an SEC powerhouse at one time but by the 1960s, Dodd could pretty much put that game in the win column. Duke was a team to be feared under Wallace Wade who coached Bear Bryant among others at Alabama before going to Duke. One time there was a reunion of old Alabama...

I am sorry to hear that. He was a good man and a fine player for Tech. Played high school ball at Newnan I believe.

Quite so. Yet another senior moment. Seems like the Tide used Ripley as a decoy lining him up in the slot away from the play and ran a back in motion in that direction as well. The only guy on the left side was the speedster who went right past the UGA corner who I guess was expecting help...

There you go Y with your usual monkey business.

My father thought Coach Dodd was a great coach and a great recruiter but was a terrible AD. Tech has not done well since 2000 because the game has evolved and we have been unable to attract near enough good players to compete with the factories. We do not have the money, nor the mindset to...

I agree with this but for some reason, UGA's 40 year drought cannot be explained as just coaching. I don't know what it is but when you are ahead with mere seconds to play against Alabama and have them 4th and a mile to go and manage to not just give up a first down but a touchdown, well, there...

In the past dozen years or so, the biggest powerhouses to fall from grace, so to speak, have done so for a variety of reasons but most of the time it is self inflicted. Just off the top of my head the steepest falls have been Nebraska, Tennessee, Auburn, and perhaps, Michigan. There are...

Interesting. I just watched the highlights of that Notre Dame win. Drew Hill went for 46 yards on that end around and was shoved out of bounds a good five yards out so much so that he landed hard against a bench. I bet he remembers that play.

I was at that game as well. Notre Dame was hampered by a quarterback that was just a little bit off that day. He had open receivers and just missed them. We just beat them. Drew Hill took a reverse right before the half and went about 50 yards or so down the sideline and was viciously hit...

I don't know about trading schedules, I do know that they would beat us now like a rented mule.