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<blockquote data-quote="forensicbuzz" data-source="post: 752887" data-attributes="member: 198"><p>To understand Pettit, you had to know Pettit. My F-I-L was pretty close with Pettit. He told me that Pettit did like athletics and wanted them to success. But, he was a staunch academic and wanted to make Georgia Tech a world-class research university. He felt to do that, GT could not set aside the academic integrity of the whole university to compete against Alabama, uga, and other schools that were willing to sacrifice academics for athletic success. He thought the GT he envisioned better fit the Ivy League model than the Div. 1A model and that was part of the downturn. He was wrong. Period. It almost killed Tech Football, but it didn't. Like a phoenix, we rose from the ashes, and under the leadership of Homer Rice and Bobby Ross, with the support of Pat Crecine, we won a national championship in 1990.</p><p></p><p>Nothing after 1990 can be attributed to Dr. Pettit. I've got to say, Homer's biggest mistake was made in 1992. That and the hiring of Clough's Clown were the worst two football-related decisions made in the past 30 years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="forensicbuzz, post: 752887, member: 198"] To understand Pettit, you had to know Pettit. My F-I-L was pretty close with Pettit. He told me that Pettit did like athletics and wanted them to success. But, he was a staunch academic and wanted to make Georgia Tech a world-class research university. He felt to do that, GT could not set aside the academic integrity of the whole university to compete against Alabama, uga, and other schools that were willing to sacrifice academics for athletic success. He thought the GT he envisioned better fit the Ivy League model than the Div. 1A model and that was part of the downturn. He was wrong. Period. It almost killed Tech Football, but it didn't. Like a phoenix, we rose from the ashes, and under the leadership of Homer Rice and Bobby Ross, with the support of Pat Crecine, we won a national championship in 1990. Nothing after 1990 can be attributed to Dr. Pettit. I've got to say, Homer's biggest mistake was made in 1992. That and the hiring of Clough's Clown were the worst two football-related decisions made in the past 30 years. [/QUOTE]
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