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Is he no longer a good Techman if he does?

yes. To the end.

What did I miss? In a linked piece to opening games it says the Tech fan base is "restless"?

Some of the posts regarding Bill Curry are instructive. I have been a fan for many years though the closest I've ever been to campus is to football games and a lifelong friend who attended the joint. In truth he does not seem to have been injured by the experience. They run in direct opposition...

Dodd and Johnson and football aside -- seriously -- Bill Curry just gave the most heartfelt, eloquent and ringing defense of diversity and the country's very soul that I can imagine, and at the most opportune time in the history of the country. I wish he would go nationwide with it.

Are you sure, given their public persona? Juries are strange.

Wouldn't that mean he would be a 108 years old, the Amos Alonzo Stagg of southern football.

We desperately need spring practice. Now. For the board's sanity if for nothing else.

Fist fights in the coach's office.

Okay I suppose. On the other hand what if nobody had left when Johnson came, and nobody left early after he came -- think Dwyer and Thomas just for starters -- and Nesbitt did not break his arm that year and Lee actually could have run the option for a FCS team and we hadn't had all those...

I hope so.

I read an interesting piece somewhere -- realclearsports.com I think -- that dissected the coaching decisions pretty thoroughly I thought. One of them really struck me because similar views have come up on the board. At one point, third and one, they put Ryan seven yards deep to pass. They...

Certainly in public education for sure. The so-called "charter" schools have been very profitable and very useless.

Well. Didn't we once lose a game with a 21-point halftime lead? Momentum in sports simply can't be defined. When I once messed around with golf it was referred to as "when the wheels came off" and a good score just collapses while there is nothing you can do to stop it. Bad coaching might have...

I know at some point in the thread Mason was criticized for his play early. I don't know since my only reference is a six minute highlight reel on YouTube -- the only way to watch pro football for me, and I was looking specifically for Mason -- but New England scored two TDs running directly...

If it comes down to that then we in the South remain at the mercy of the populist legislatures that are increasingly conservative and increasingly anti-education. I live in NC and what has happened to us here in just six years is mortifying. In short, improving public education down here is not...

I have not but now i will. Thanks.

By all means read "Hillbilly Elegy" by J.D. Vance. He is talking about Kentucky and southern Ohio. But it seems a distinction without a difference. Remarkable similarities all linked I suppose to Scots-Irish and Appalachian migration.

I don't argue that core curriculum is the biggest obstacle to recruiting; it has always seemed obvious. But if a tree falls and nobody hears it etc., well, I gave that up. Those who hold the view, one I consider elitist, that it is "academic requirements" will not let go, despite all evidence...