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I stand corrected. In fact, I think Georgia went to the Tangerine Bowl one year and lost. A common event for the Dogs back then.

If you went to a bowl in those days, you just about had to be ranked. My fuzzy recollection is that they only ranked 10 teams during the 1950s , later increased to 20 during the 1960s and 70s. You had the four major bowls: Cotton, Sugar, Orange, and Rose plus the second tier of Gator...

Don't know if Dedrick is the best or not. I do know that he is a safety or corner back worst nightmare. I am glad that Cook, Hood, Evans, Gallman and the rest of that crowd are out of our hair. Those are some good ball players that I would just as soon not ever see again

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion. Young guns are much more likely to take the view that the ACC and titles are more important. Old guys AND people who live in Georgia would by and large trade an ACC title for beating Georgia. Beating UGA covers a multitude of sins. Dodd beat Georgia...

Perhaps, a little hyperbole on my part but in the book Dodd's Luck he complained about the noise and playing at night which gave those "wild Cajuns" time to get liquored up and you can imagine the atmosphere. In the early 1950s, Tech won a game there and had a double digit lead late in the...

In his day, Mississippi was a hot bed of football talent. Dodd once said that he tried to get one or two players out of that state every year and not once did he ever get a bad player from Mississippi. Mississippi did play a cream puff non conference schedule of Southern Mississippi, Memphis...

To be sure, we have a tough schedule: UGA, Tennessee, Miami, Clemson, Virginia Tech, and UNC would be a handful for any program. As fans, we argue constantly about who we want to beat the most all the time. To me, it is often determined by how old you are. Old School guys, like me, want...

I wish I had "never heard of them".

It is a fool's errand to play "what if...?" But those are interesting scenarios with the first two being of particular importance. I shudder to think of those teams without Nesbitt and Thomas. The leadership, grit, and determination displayed by those two were crucial in the early years of...

Well, just my uninformed opinion but if you are talking about open field tackling, then Jemea Thomas is your man. For over all ability the Mario Edwards/ Morgan Burnett duo was probably the best just because Burnett was so good at pass coverage and anticipation. No offense, Mario you were...

They may or may not be overrated but as always talent is never an issue at UGA. You can be sure that they have plenty of talent but then so did the famed class of 2012 "The Dream Team" Their class of 2013 which Coach Smart was complaining about as being the root of all their problems this...

If you are a player or a coach, the most important game is the one you are about to play whether it is Mercer or Tennessee. What fans think is the most important is irrelevant.

This is true. Ricky was, according to his bio on Ramblin Wreck, a three time all state player in New Jersey. I wonder why Rutgers or Penn State did not recruit him. Maybe they did. In any case, I am glad we got him. Fine player and seems to want to be here.

I find it hard to believe that AJ was not a 4 star. Mills probably should have been one also. But that is just me. I remember watching AJ in the state championship game and he just had that look about him. The kind of player that the other teams point to and talk about. Literally, the...

As always, to be a champion in the Coastal you have to beat Miami and Virginia Tech. This division should have been named "Chaos" instead of Coastal because that is what it usually ends up being. What we will do depends upon quarterback and the defense. If we get good play from those two we...

I understand your point, which is a good observation but if you were a fan in those days it really was not so amazing. Dodd could sell sand to an Arab and got good players from across the South on a pretty much continuous basis. Players in those days from the rural South wanted badly to come...

All of that but we will never know in most cases. Which is what it should be. This is between the players and coaches. I think we as fans, including myself here,sometimes forget that this is all about them not us.

Bruce Jordan-Swilling and Simmons will be my picks for break out seasons. Can't pick Mills because he already had a break out season. If you want to talk linemen, the freshman center Cooper or the freshman tackle whose name escapes me would be good bets. Edit: J. Lee is the tackle

In their defense, (difficult to do this but bear with me here) some positions are notoriously hard to project to the next level. In this case from high school to college. With great running backs or wide receivers, pretty much what you see is what you get. Linemen, particularly tackles...

Quite so, for those of us "long in the tooth" Duke is a much more traditional rival than UNC. I put those "cheaters" in because whatever their other problems may be, a lack of talent is never the problem at UNC. FWIW I agree with you that to me, Duke is a bigger game to most Tech fans because...