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One of my favorite college football games was the 1982 Sugar Bowl between #2 UGA and Pitt. Pitt was still a pretty good program, having won the NC themselves in '76 or '77. After a back-and-forth game that had UGA up late in the 4th quarter, Pitt was putting together a desperation drive at the...

#1. 1980 Olympic Hockey Victory... Watched the games against Sweden, Czechoslovakia, West Germany and the Soviet Union. Don't remember watching the gold medal game because time seemed to freeze in place after we beat the Soviets. The game was simply insane, gut-wrenching... no other words to...

Loosening restrictions would be the key. We had a president in Patrick Crecine who was totally onboard with Tech athletics and (along with Homer Rice) created a favorable climate for winning, at least for a while. Back when Coach Ross was at the helm, Tech ran a nice balance of pro-style...

It was a waste of talent having him sandwiched there in those years while Tech was making the transition from a foundering independent to a fledgling ACC program. Mike Kelley was the first QB at Tech I really remember well... Rudy Allen, Danny Myers and Gary Lanier were all playing when I...

I enjoyed reading both your posts... Your generation is interesting and often misunderstood, and the economic & societal challenges you face these days are nothing short of monumental. I'm very thankful I didn't have to grow up in your era. As far as not being able to get into Tech, you're...

Ideally, a kid coming out of high school is looking to get an education... The way college tuitions are these days, plus the difficulties in paying off school debts, it's an excellent opportunity afforded to hundreds of kids every year which they wouldn't otherwise have. The reality is, there...

Coach Johnson is pretty good at tailoring his game plan to the talent he has on hand. Each year seems like something different. Even though it's a spread option offense, CPJ coached in the run-and-shoot system under June Jones, so he understands the passing game pretty well and will insert...

Who's coming in to kick FGs at the Flats next year? That's one thing Tech has always seemed to have... decent FG kickers. There was a time around 1986-87 where we had a guy that looked like he was kicking bricks when the ball left his foot, but overall, our placement kickers have been...

Will know within the next 2-3 days if we're going. Coming down from Charleston, and would probably stay in a hotel in Brunswick or some place north of the FLA line.

Well, Condoleezza Rice is actually a member of the committee, so there's already some politics mixed in there...

When watching the live footage and then the replays, it looked like his throwing elbow/forearm got brushed by our pass rusher as he was letting go of the ball. Wasn't able to follow through with the throw and released it too soon. Eason can heave the ball practically 60 yards, if you saw that...

Don't know if that ever got solved... A Wikipedia article about the game doesn't give any additional info, other than to say it was "vandals". The security guard who noticed the fire didn't appear to see any suspects. It's hard to imagine anyone from either Tech or UVA wanting to do that...

Liked OSU a lot during the '70s, though that cooled a bit after seeing Woody Hayes punch that guy from Clemson. Went to college with a guy from the Columbus area. It took him two full years at Tech before he would finally root for the Yellow Jackets over his beloved Buckeyes in a hypothetical...

Don't know, but it might be a bit of a disadvantage for the home team to play at noon, when guys are still waking up and getting the cobwebs out of their eyes. The travelling team might be more "awake". But it looks like UGA's argument is that they're too good of a program to be relegated to...

Look what they did to Louisville... Won't necessarily be an easy game. Maybe the matchups work to our favor on offense. But they put up a lot of points last week against Louisville.

If you read any of the Dawg Nation articles in the AJC, there's little mention at all about the loss to Tech. The articles talk about the necessity of beating Florida, and how they should never lose to Vanderbilt or Kentucky in any given year, but not too much about Tech. It's kind of like the...

It's hard to fathom that in 1990, it was still a big deal to see your game televised nationally. You probably remember Saturday football in the '70s and '80s, where you had only a few choice games on ABC, NBC or CBS... Prior to ESPN and the widespread appearance of cable TV in people's homes...

That happened twice during the game... But to make it fair, the officials made UVA give up their electronic communications until Tech's technical difficulties could be sorted out.

Virginia was an excellent team that year, every bit deserving of their #1 ranking at that time. Had they won the game and not been plagued by injuries, they may have finished out the regular season undefeated. I think the injuries and the emotional letdown of having lost the Tech game and...

Lambert was a serviceable to good QB with a lot of game experience... Would have made more sense to play him his senior year and let Eason develop more with the practice squad. They may have started Eason to keep him from transferring, or perhaps they felt he would be an instant star. Eason...