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50 Years Ago Coach Dodd Retired - 22 years and 165 wins
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<blockquote data-quote="awbuzz" data-source="post: 294299" data-attributes="member: 443"><p>Does this look/sound familiar today?</p><p></p><p>“Standards are higher, and it is more difficult to enroll the outstanding athlete. We haven’t had a strong freshman team for three years. At Georgia Tech, the problem was compounded because we don’t have the variety of courses available at other tech schools. I saw that we could hold our own against many schools, such as Army, Navy, Tulane, Duke and Notre Dame. But we couldn’t enroll all the talent available to state universities. What we must do now is recruit farther away from home. We can’t qualify all our area boys, and we have to compensate. Let’s say that I certainly didn’t relish the pressure of trying to recruit a championship team under conditions that do not favor a school with high academic standards.”</p><p></p><p>"AJC writer Jack Wilkinson, cited “Dodd’s growing dissatisfaction with Tech academic policies that inhibited his recruiting” as a factor in his decision to retire, along with health issues. (He was 58 at the time of his retirement.)"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="awbuzz, post: 294299, member: 443"] Does this look/sound familiar today? “Standards are higher, and it is more difficult to enroll the outstanding athlete. We haven’t had a strong freshman team for three years. At Georgia Tech, the problem was compounded because we don’t have the variety of courses available at other tech schools. I saw that we could hold our own against many schools, such as Army, Navy, Tulane, Duke and Notre Dame. But we couldn’t enroll all the talent available to state universities. What we must do now is recruit farther away from home. We can’t qualify all our area boys, and we have to compensate. Let’s say that I certainly didn’t relish the pressure of trying to recruit a championship team under conditions that do not favor a school with high academic standards.” "AJC writer Jack Wilkinson, cited “Dodd’s growing dissatisfaction with Tech academic policies that inhibited his recruiting” as a factor in his decision to retire, along with health issues. (He was 58 at the time of his retirement.)" [/QUOTE]
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