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The reason is because Tech is still paying off Hewitt and the team is not generally getting blown out in games. Don't know why the team would be so lackluster at the beginning; maybe tired with a 12.00pm tipoff, which sometimes happens to home teams in early games. They did wake up and put up...

See your point (especially Colorado!!)... The Ross unis were actually very dark Navy blue, not quite black. (Curry-era unis were black). Like dark navy much better than total black, but still better than the light navy 3rd color they've got today. Ross-era navy would be my fave, apart from...

Classic white jerseys with gold pants (b/w/b stripe) worn from about the mid '70s to around the mid '80s. Think Tech went to a throwback look with these jerseys at the beginning of the season. New black jerseys started under Bill Curry in the early '80s. Highlight film from '84:

There's an alternate version of a Tech helmet out on instagram. It's awful looking. Tech already has great-looking helmets (the gold helmets): clean, simple, classic. Don't really like the new white ones, but OK if only worn every now and again. If you have something that looks good, don't...

I'm not for firing anyone if the alternatives are not much better. With Hewitt's buyout, it will be a big burden to get a top-flight basketball coach at the flats. Apart from the Cremins years, Tech never really has been a basketball school, always more of a football tradition here. If Tech...

That's mainly what I was thinking concerning the financials. I don't like the idea of keeping a coach around simply based on their being a 'nice guy'. But CBG does seem like a decent representative of the program, he's got a lot of enthusiasm, and he probably hates losing more than anyone else...

Maybe Mike Budenholzer can give him some tips... couldn't hurt. Too expensive to buy out the rest of BG's contract right now, and wouldn't want to hurt the football program by wasting money. Might as well give him a chance with the rest of his contract. :inpain:

Didn't see the game.. followed it on ESPN Gametracker. Don't follow or understand the intricacies of basketball very much... What did (didn't) CBG do to create a play for them to win? It looked like they had a good lead and just ran out of gas. Have read about a lot of these types of losses...

Interesting. Never really thought about that... In the early days we were always told to 'grab our jerseys' while blocking so we didn't get a flag. Wasn't big enough to play varsity, so don't know what their rules were, but we couldn't use our hands on the 8th-grade team in '80. Remember...

Steelers Super Bowl 10 pre-game intro (re: NFL player size):

Look at how big (small) the guys were in the NFL 40 years ago. They look almost emaciated on film. The Pittsburgh Steelers of that day look small even compared to a team like Alabama today. In those days you heard of 'knee injuries' ending the careers of certain players like Gayle Sayers, but...

If the artifact is genuine, then pretty valuable, not the least for sentimental reasons. That date was one of the biggest victories of the post-Dodd era (the famed "Fog Bowl" in which Gary Lee ran a kickoff back for a touchdown).

The Horseshoe was demolished after the conclusion of the '85 season, in early '86. Grant Field wasn't renamed "Bobby Dodd Stadium" until the '89 or '90 season. (n)

If you read it carefully, the writer is making it sound like it's about their current coach, but at the end, the reader finds out he's actually taking a hypothetical trip back to the Seventies and talking about Coach Dooley! Had me fooled for most of the article...!

Sat in the South Stands once with my dad back in the '70s (entered the stadium through that gate), otherwise sat in the West Stands or North bleachers. Remember the stadium & field really well from the '77 edition of Pepper Rodgers' football camp. The field was hard and like sandpaper, just...

Not related to today's game, but mentioned to Butler22 that I'd post some old pics of Grant Field as it existed in the '80s. This site used to have a place to put photo albums (?) I think, but I didn't see where it was... These were from my Freshman year in '87, sitting in the student section...

"Hutson Mason is the worst: Georgia lost the game because of him. His ineptitude in throwing the game ending interception should be reason to revoke his scholarship and make him pay Georgia back for five years of free tuition, room and board. Or so folks would have you believe. Never mind that...

Pretty dismissive of Tech's effort... The Jackets nearly went up 14-7 at the beginning of the 3rd and had the game all but wrapped up, about to score again (a FG at least) with under 3:00 to go -- points missed by the article. Tech came close to giving this game away every bit as much as...

I've got some neat pics of inside the stadium from '87... astroturf and all. The middle of the field had lots of 'crown' in those days. Will try to post some of those pics soon.

That was a period of Tech history I mostly missed. I lost interest in football for a couple years and was trying to get serious about school and graduate on a good note, eventually getting out in '94. In '91 I'd left Tech and was enrolled in the "Studienkolleg" (preparatory school) at a German...