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FYI Coach Rice's memorial service will be live streamed from his memorial service on Friday June 21 at 11 am for about an hour. His wife Karen asked me to post this for the Swarm to view. Bill Curry will lead a host of speakers. https://vimeo.com/event/4395984

Snakes alive! No, it was not dead. We would catch them and put them in a lard can or in a feed sack. Had to be pretty quick to not get bit. Assistant coach Dwane Morrison thought that may be why I had such quick hands. We would sell the snakes to the Ross Allen Reptile Institute in Silver...

Jarrett did it the right way in Dec 2014

You got it right. There is nothing like southwest Georgia, including the rattlesnakes of Whigham and syrupmakers of Cairo. My dad was an avid rattlesnake and wild game hunter, Tech alumnus of 1930. Both Whigham and Cairo are in Grady County. A number of great athletes came fro Grady County...

Thank you. I would have been that shortest guy who looked like a running back and reaked havoc when I entered the game. Al couild call me the Whigham Flash, and a scrappy guard. And Rich was definitely memorable . You did hear Tech play St. Bonaventure in the NIT Semifinals, beating them...

LT, I do not object to your posting the Salute to Service at all. Thank you. When Josh came onboard in 2016, I noticed that his first game was on Veterans day night in 2016. I called him and presented the idea of honoring Tech 's basketball letterwinner veterans. Josh was very supportive of...

Thanks Large Frosty Orange, looking forward to that picture. Living across the expressway from the Varsity in Towers dorm as a freshman, I could even smell the frosty orange. The founder of the Varsity was a classmate of my dad in 1925 at Tech.

It takes a great player on a great team to be eligible for for a retired number. That is why there are only seven numbers retired in 105 years. the requirements are at https://ramblinwreck.com/jersey-retirement/. I wish there was a way for GT men's basketball to better publicize the history of...

Your memory is pretty good, Northeast. There were two Tomasovich brothers from Wierton, West Virginia who played at Tech. Mike played from 1960 to 1963. Ted played from1966-1969. Also there were two Thorne brothers who played at Tech. Each played against UCLA. Pete (1965-68) played center...

Tech beats Clemson at the opening of Littlejohn Coliseum to the GT Freshman team. but Clemson beat the varsity by 4

Wow. I am honored that you may have seen me play, maybe in a 100-point game. WE had 2 in 1970, Southern Illinois and North Carolina. I was that shortest guy on the team at 5'11" and was in 1969-70 was 1st sub at guard because Coach Hyder played the seniors as us youngsters developed. As a...

Thank you Mr. Relict. I am a relict myself, myself, according to Mr. Webster, a thing which has survived from an earlier period or in a primitive form. My earlier period on the court for the primitive form Georgia Tech basketball was over a half century ago, 1968-1972. Things were much...

Ignorant as well. The Clemson cow college has not done well against the 10th avenue trade school over the years. For the all -time football series, Georgia Tech leads, 50–36–2. They are 14 years away from breaking even. They are probably still mad because Tech hired John Heisman away from...

From the GT MBB press guide on uniform numbers.

I listened to it and it is truthful. I could not tell who her audience was. If to college student athletes, coaches should avoid recruiting those, and it is easy to notice that. during real recruiting, maybe not depending on recruiting services. If it was to a kids camp whose parents have...

As I recall at the McCamish grand opening, most all the legends of Georgia Tech basketball were recognized by name and uniform number, at least for those played after the SEC withdrawal.. I think they were painted over during the last refresh of the Zelnak gym. I don't think today there is...

There is a better chance if they have an undergraduate degree from Tech, according to the school and GTAA policy.

Agree totally with all you say. His Georgia Tech and lifetime legacy should live on by retaining and highlighting the name "The Homer Rice Center for Sports Performance" as a significant part of the replacement for the Edge building. Over 5,000 Georgia Tech athletes have benefited from the...

I learned from one of my UConn coaching friends today that practices have changed since 2013, but Oct 15 is still significant as the date the entire team can practice team basketball (5 on 5 scrimmage). Until then, less than full team practice and conditioning can occur, but limited by a total...

Before 2012, official team practice starts Oct 15. That midnight is often referred to as midnight madness, supposedly started by Lefty Dresell at Maryland at 12:03 a.m. on October 15, 1971, on the track where he had 3,000 fans watch the team run one and a half miles. That may have motivated...