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That is one way of putting it. A friend of mine's father played on that 1952 national championship team with Pepper who was not the quarterback. Anyway, this man married a girl he met at Tech and it turned out was from Brown High School where Pepper was the quarterback. He was constantly...

Upon further review. Mike was a rare four year starter it would seem from 1978 thru 1981. Hard times for the Jackets. The cumulative record was 13-31-2. Mike had his moments though. A huge upset of number 2 Alabama in 1981 was inexplicably followed by 10 straight losses. In 1980, they...

His offensive line was not "serviceable" and his receivers were mediocre at best. I don't think he was all that good but we can agree to disagree He did his best for the Jackets and that is all a fan can ask. God knows he took his share of shots from defensive linemen and linebackers pouring...

Sure we can...just not lately, well, they did score more than 28 once this season. I just don't see how this team could beat Louisville and lose to Syracuse. Crazy. But then the Cardinals have the same awful record we do 2-5 with one win against Western Kentucky and the other against FSU.

I agree with this. I was watching the Louisville game again for the third time and it dawned on me that it seemed very different than the other games and it was because the other team was committing the turnovers instead of us. Seems like a simple thing but turnovers are critical these days...

Coach Collins is being given a mulligan this year, to go with the obligatory honeymoon last year but he needs to start winning next year or it will begin to affect recruiting 404 culture notwithstanding. A couple more wins this year starting this week with Pitt would not hurt either.

He was just...different. OK, maybe a little bit crazy but Frank was happy with him.

That is true but overrated or not, they are the ones getting paid under the table. No one is shelling out cash for three stars and probably not for all four stars either. The coaches of the factories want the five stars for bragging rights if nothing else. Since the advent of the star system...

Upon further review in Pepper's last year 1979 the Jackets played three top 20 teams in Alabama, Notre Dame, and Auburn. Alabama and Notre Dame were ranked number 2 and number 5 respectively. Naturally, we lost all three of those games as well as two of Florida, UGA, and Tennessee who were...

If I were a defensive coordinator playing Tech I would do exactly that and challenge Sims and the receivers to beat my guys deep. Bet you can't do it. Do that against say Kenny Pickett and he would have a field day even though HIS offensive line is nothing to write home about either.

True he did have a hard schedule. I will have to check but one year, as conversations simmered about Tech possibly rejoining the SEC, Tech had a schedule that included Alabama, Florida, Auburn, UGA, and Tennessee. Mike Kelley's problem was being a pro style quarterback behind a smallish and...

Mine is the "Pepper version" He was not adverse to spicing things up as the tale goes. But he was cocksure. He was an assistant coach at Florida with Ray Graves when the Gators upset Tech at Florida Field in 1960 or so. Bobby Dodd Jr. was the Gator quarterback. Many Florida fans consider...

Let me tell you. I was watching Florida's kicker against UGA Saturday and there will not be any blocking that boy's kicks. It is almost as though the thing goes straight up and then out towards the goal posts. He kicked one from over 50 yards that would have been good from 60 and it was...

After watching Pitt against NC State earlier when they were 3-0 and the Wolfpack upset them, they went spiraling down and lost three in a row until beating FSU. This is a team that is all about Kenny Pickett. He has a gun, he is experienced and pretty athletic. He does not have the big, fast...

I ask my buddies from Florida why UGA is getting all these 4 and 5 star guys out of Florida right under the noses of the Gators, the Criminoles, and Miami. They say that Kirby just points out a guy and says to the bag men: "We really need that guy" and its taken care of. I don't know what...

When Pepper Rogers played quarterback and kicker for one of Dodd's great teams in the 1950s the Jackets went to the Orange Bowl and Pepper, being Pepper, was screwing up badly in practice. Coach Dodd was a player's coach by 1950s standards but he was a stickler for special teams play especially...

Whattaya mean "...there isn't anything left to do"? There are always bag men to recruit and players to pay. "If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying" according to the ethical standards of the SEC.

Thanks, as a liberal arts major in college my grasp of math is limited to a lot or a little. What you presented in true precise Tech man manner is to my way of thinking "a lot". But then FSU is "a little" so there is that. Recall when Chan's Jackets went blitz crazy one night on number 5...

I think we have a chance. I saw an interesting stat that was about the percentage of plays that went for no gain or a loss. I can't remember who was number one, seemed like it was one of those bottom feeding "Bottom 25 ranked teams" but number two before this past week was none other than...

I knew that did not sound right. On the other hand, did you happen to see how many sacks there were? It was a bunch. No telling how many TFL there were.