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In that instance it did not turn out so well as i recall. That was in the days when the good guys won.

I've never heard that story before and in a twisted kind of way I can kind of admire its duplicity. I knew physics and calculus were used against Tech in recruiting, but the textbook is really sinister. One would have to be a confident student indeed not to recoil at the sight, particularly in...

"Good"? Hiring Dodd to coach your football team would be like getting Michelangelo to paint your ceiling.

I wouldn't argue with the degree brand, and whether Tech can recruit in the suburbs is out of my pay grade. I have no clue. And no, and though I think Tech could do better recruiting -- a notion I quickly admit I can't defend, just a belief -- it won't be a factory, even a good factory. I do...

Anybody wanting to recruit nationally, on a serious level -- not the outlier one or two because they grew up in California but one of the parents was a Tech grad -- then you will require a very serious brand recognition. Just being that really tough engineering school won't get it. I have...

Oh, I don't know. Pick the right player(s) and the right four games and a semester's scholarship would be more than paid for. That is, putting the whole deal on a strictly cash and carry basis, probably not a bad idea. What we know without dispute is that this is a rule made for violating, and...

Well, okay, then. As long as you are properly deferential. I will pass on your apology as to the first but you still might be on the hook for that last one.

Are you implying the NCAA is a bunch of Humpty Dumptys? “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

Goodness. The further removed we get from the legend the less we trust the legend. Such an objective opinion would have been entirely within his history and character. I gather from what I have read, for instance, that he told both Graves and Broyles that he intended to soldier on awhile as head...

Well, you can bet your house, and keep it, that one freshman that will be part of the 4-game set is a quarterback.

yes.

Look, you cannot on the one hand run a huge thread on what it means to be a Tech man, and on another grouch that Dodd put his long time player and coach and his family first, and I dare somebody to say he gave him bad advice. I believe he gave Curry similar advice about Alabama, but I just heard...

If this is the case, are there still rules about how many dressed, or traveling? We may look at it as four games, but coaches will look at it and see a third of a season of real-time game experience, and then four years of eligibility remaining. In short no pretense at getting players graduated...

I'm a'hoping.

In my fondest dreams, we knock both Clemson and Georgia out of the NC contention. It is unlikely and improbable but hardly impossible. Maybe the slogan should be "We got them out". If I have to pick one, Clemson is easily the best representative from the ground up. They have calculated the teams...

Nah, I just like picking at Tech guys. My best friend since the second grade is a Tech grad and military retiree. I tolerate the second -- wrong military branch in my view -- and don't hold the first against him. But even you has to admit this thread is kinda long in the tooth now.

I am not sure that "forcing him to keep the ball" is an accurate description of his option skills. Let's face it. In 2017 we were a lousy option football team running an option offense adapted to "QB keeps the ball and runs real fast, one way or the other." We were a much better option team in...

I do hope so. Not because he can't run the football. But QB left, QB right is just a boring game, and I don't care how successful Navy or Army are with it. It wrecks the artistry of the option.

If the world had more GT men, who would create the GDU while GT men swapped stories of Glory Days on message boards? (With apologies to Bruce Springsteen.)

You can find a Bear quote for all occasions, even on a GT board: “If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.” But I'm with Gold1: move the thread. I feel like I did with that other one. You know, the Brad Stewart marathon that exceeded 26 miles.