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Often a player with great natural ability is not sufficiently "coached up" in high school and many Ugags, thus keeping him from being all that he can be. I'm glad to see Coach Cook working on details.

Positive people are positive.

Oh, crap. I forgot. So I guess that nice big bridge doesn't really belong to me, then. :sour:

:wideyed: That hurt. Adios, Kevin.

I should have looked before I leaped. I changed my post to nm because I quickly found out it was indeed true...Mercer conquered the great Duke of our beloved ACC. :bag:

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I never knew that 'till now. If I had known, I would have been there, done that. Live and learn. o_O

Like you, I used the library for study...only I don't remember study cubes with doors. I do remember those clocks in the walls and the clunk they would make each minute. So every minute I would look up from my book and then down to resume reading for one more minute. It was almost worse...

The old Techwood theater next to Juniors? A.k.a. The Armpit? Where no one could take a date more than once, and then only if you were a silver-tongued liar? Yeah, those were the good old days. My room at home when I was a child had interior walls of wire mesh and cement plaster...and no...

Not surprising. That story went viral even before the internet. BTW, I have a brick from Techwood; also one from the Knowles Building. Wonder what they would fetch in a Tech Traditions market? :smuggrin:

Our periodic "Tower Heist" reminds me of some of the great Cal Tech stories from back in the day...tricks played by the underclassmen on Seniors when the Seniors were away from campus for a few days. One especially ingenious Cal Tech prank involved closing up the door area to a Senior's dorm...

Those two quick TDs when Namath came in are burned deep into my memory forever along with my back and hernia operations. IIRC, Steve Sloan was subbing for Bama while Namath rode the pine with his knees wrapped. We were playing well and it looked like we were beating them...that is until the...

Even during the '50s...Tech's glory years...the facilities weren't anything to write home about. The locker room was crammed underneath the old east stands, the field drained very poorly in the rain, the upper east stands had yet to be built and the upper west stands didn't exist either; nor did...

Probably the best outcome for me personally. My heart might not have survived if we had won both this game and the Syracuse BB game on the same day. :dead:

Two words: Holy Cow!! :) A helluva win, guys.

I don't like to think about those days except in the context you stated, Mack. I'm proud to have been one of the Tech fans who refused to take it, and fought the only way I could at the time...with my wallet. I joined what was called the "Diamond T" group of contributors (I still have my Diamond...

Exactly. And that puts pressure on sports recruiting so that you get SAs who are capable of keeping up with the other students in class and on exams. The bar is set high.

"Weeding out" has declined as the average SAT of entering freshmen has increased. As bright as the entering freshman are these days, it doesn't make a lot of sense to weed out two-thirds of them...or even one-third for that matter.

Not nearly as heavily skewed as one might expect. Looks like there's still a lot of mental and physical maturity to account for in recruiting judgment.