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We had a good experience there (other than the heavy downpour we had to endure) a couple years ago. I think there were only 20 Tech fans in the entire stadium that night, so we stuck out wherever we went. We got our tickets from a Clemson season-ticket holder who couldn't make it to the game...

I think one of the reasons I got into hockey as much as I did was because a friend's dad owned the ice rink near our home. It was out on Roswell Road in Sandy Springs. From that point on I sort of took ownership of the sport. This same friend was largely responsible for me becoming a Tech fan...

As a TV sport I like college football the most, especially ACC games and some of the more important SEC games. I used to watch the NFL when I was younger and was once a fan of the league as a whole, but the teams have become almost interchangeable over the years, lacking the distinct...

Nate Kelsey from '85-'88. He wore the #1 right before Ken Swilling arrived. Nate missed the success of '89 and '90, but had he been at Tech then, he would have just added to our already prolific offensive production. He scored his first career touchdown during the Fog Bowl against UGA. A...

The reason I brought Coach Collins up is because it's always natural to expect better of the next coach, even one following a 'legend'. That's always the hope, anyway. Having seen the ups and downs of the program over the years (and not being around for Coach Dodd), I recognize that CPJ is...

Not casting doubt on the new staff at all. It seems like a better staff than we could have hoped for under the circumstances. A pretty good group. I'm (*cautiously*) excited. However, there are certain realities about college football these days. It seems programs are selling out to get...

A few games could legitimately be called "signature games" for Paul Johnson as coach. I'm not thinking here of a signature game for Paul Johnson the coach, but rather, a signature game for "Paul Johnson" the era, the signature game of his tenure. I keep going back in my mind to the '15 game...

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Dabo is a legend right where he is. Not that he necessarily cares about that, but there's no need to go elsewhere and try to live in someone's shadow when you've built something big right where you are. And going back to your alma mater isn't necessarily the best thing in light of that. In...

I think it's been over 30 years since we've had one of these against Georgia: Drew Hill kickoff return against UGA (1978): Gary Lee kickoff return against UGA (1985): Juanyea Thomas return against UGA (2018):

I didn't know much about the Chiefs as a kid, except one of their players (Nick Papadakis) lived down in the neighborhood adjacent to us. He started the soccer store "Soccer Kick" in Sandy Springs with his brother, Alec, who lived a few houses down on our street. I cut both their lawns as a...

The hockey teams left. (Flames, then the Thrashers) I don't know if this is it or not, but life was always pretty good in Atlanta -- at least it used to be. Back in the early '80s it was voted "the most livable" city in America. Such a place can breed a lot of fair-weather fans compared with...

After all these years, I still have trouble calling it BDS... It's still Grant Field to me! :) Then again, the "Indianapolis" Colts also still sounds strange to my ears...

Maybe this could be a new thread... Pepper Rodgers - For me he was the face of Tech football in my formative years, at a time when I was just learning about the game and starting to play Pop Warner football... and ultimately dreaming of going to Tech and hopefully playing there one day. It was...

I liked the CPJ hire initially but grew to like him considerably, especially after the UGA game in 2008. Tech is a different kind of place in terms of its campus culture (an MIT or Carnegie Mellon with a football tradition, if you will), and I liked the different kind of approach CPJ brought...

Or hockey...

ID94. Started in Fall '87 after a stint in the Army. I finally got out in the Spring of '94 after a hiatus in the middle. Spring 1994 was the last quarter Dr. Crecine was president, so looking back I wish I'd actually gone to graduation. At that point, I was so ready to get out I didn't even...

The Tech experience has to be lived to be understood. I'm a lifelong Tech fan going back to the Eddie Lee Ivery years... It was a major dream of mine to attend Tech and maybe play ball there one day (the 2nd didn't happen). Tech was indeed painful. When I finally got there, it was actually...

On the plus side of 50, became a Tech fan in the fall of '76. Graduated in '94 (ID94), about 5 years older than most of my classmates at the time. I lived through the dismissal of Coach Rodgers and saw how far Tech plummeted in Coach Curry's first years. Apparently, there was some serious...

Ditto on the X's and O's part. Prior to CPJ coming to Tech, I could identify maybe a play-action pass or a draw play, a dive or a screen pass. But over the years I've become much more schooled in how an offense works, listening to announcers analyze his playcalling, not to mention reading some...