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Vince Lombardi said a team that could run the option against us “would embarrass us.” Pros experimented with it in practice, and in preseason, back in the early 70s. The decision not to run it has to do with roster management. QBs were the biggest part of the team’s budget and you could not...

Good question. Hope some football geeks will answer this. I hate to admit it but it’s been a lot of years since I’ve paid close attention to Xs and Os. Just not interested enough to spend that much time on it. The premise is this. For pros to take advantage of defensive schemes they often...

This practice can be very therapeutic.

UNC comes to mind when I think of other ways Tech could have handled this and “roll over and take it” was not in UNC’s playbook.

Yeah, but you don’t get it. T-shirts are the gateway drug to hookers, cocaine and illegal sports betting. Tech should be thankful that the NCAA nipped this in the bud.

Weird to me that this is a discussion about style of play in different decades. I thought basketball was about athletic ability. That being the case, give me a Kareem Abdul Jabbar any day. We might not win a championship, depending on the quality of other players, but we are instantly better...

You remember this so differently than I. I never saw anywhere that CPJ was involved in a cover up that included prepping witnesses.

Except that in such interviews the subject of investigation is allowed to continue their normal work routine so as not to tip them off. You don’t tell their boss to fire them, don’t give them a reason for the firing, and prohibit the boss from explaining anything to the production team that...

This seems like a pretty one sided view of things to me. I don’t think the minor violation was the issue, was it? It seemed to me it was the NCAA putting Tech in what psychologists call a double bind. Tech decided not to be schizophrenic, which is what a double bind can do, and decided...

Thank you. I said after the game that the final four demonstrated how important having a good big man is.

I still recall from childhood attending a game that claimed 61,000 in attendance this was when Tech was at its largest capacity and included standing fans. Perhaps a false memory but wonder why I’ve had this memory for so many decades.

Not basing this on anything but…. Grad programs tend to see themselves as separate from the college milieu. Service clubs, fraternities, athletics are not integral. Academics are the primary focus. If an athlete qualifies for grad school admission, and happens to still have athletic...

That has not been the case in the past. Don’t ask me to name names. In my old age I block out unpleasant memories.

Somebody tell me if I am wrong but CDS seems to really know how to make substitutions and rotate players depending on game situations, matchups, and who’s hot. I like giving him all these pieces to work with. Caveat is how long it will take for the team to get comfortable with interchangeable...

Y’all remember Magic Johnson? At one point with the Lakers he had literally started at all 5 positions.

I have an in-law who worked for a major car company and was forced to take early retirement while losing all their pension. After years of loyal service. Stories like this are legion and we excuse them because “capitalism,” but I frankly admire younger workers who play the same kind of...

Eventually this will all just be a giant video game.

I think you have it backwards. We were falling further and further behind in recruiting from the late 60s on. Other than a few outlier years the gap between us and other schools was growing wider and wider each year. Hiring CPJ was an attempt to do more with less. Unfortunately the powers...

I know a guy who knows a guy who agrees with you.

Generations coming up have nothing to compare it to, so….. Interesting thought. I don’t know. Information used to be curated to some extent. Professionals did in depth research and separated wheat from chaff. In this age of “do your own research” the amount of garbage to sort through seems...