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<blockquote data-quote="Heisman's Ghost" data-source="post: 661276" data-attributes="member: 4015"><p>Yep. He learned that from General Neyland who was his college coach. Dodd believed in putting his 11 best athletes on defense and keeping the game close with superior kicking and field position. The Jackets never beat themselves and were supremely confident in themselves and their coach. One player was quoted in a book about Dodd "We always thought we were going to win and were shocked if we lost". Someone posted that Tech during his time sometimes had inferior talent. That was true in the late 1950s when recruiting fell off but the rest of the time he could get good players out of every state in the South. He got good players from Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Tennessee. He also would occasionally get a good player from South and North Carolina. One of his best guards was Dave Simmons a native of El Paso Texas. The hardest thing for Dodd was the rise of Bear Bryant because suddenly the pipeline of good players from Alabama and Mississippi was cut off. UGA started to dominate in state recruiting in the mid 1960s but that was not as big a factor as it became later because Georgia did not produce nearly the quantity or quality of players it would in years to come.</p><p></p><p>In answer to the original poster's question, Dodd developed an option play series called the "belly series" that was productive in the split T era of the early and mid 1950s. It was great for Tech because it did not require a great running quarterback and magnified Tech's advantage in small, speedy backs on the outside. Most of all, Tech was fast everywhere. They had speed in the line and the skill positions and sooner or later Dodd would figure out a match up that he wanted and it was over. He abhorred unnecessary penalties as illustrated in this story. All American linebacker George Morris was running down Florida running back great Buford Long and was determined to throw him into the chicken wire fence where the athletes from other sports sat. In doing so he incurred a 15 yard penalty. Dodd called him into his office Monday morning and told him "You are a great player but you are not good enough to make up for 15 yards in lost field position" Morris took his punishment in stride and the next week he lowered the boom on an opposing player to prevent a first down. Coach Dodd congratulated him saying "That is the way I want to see you play" Morris later said that Dodd understood the controlled violence of the game and appreciated a good lick as much as any coach but mental mistakes were anathema to him</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Heisman's Ghost, post: 661276, member: 4015"] Yep. He learned that from General Neyland who was his college coach. Dodd believed in putting his 11 best athletes on defense and keeping the game close with superior kicking and field position. The Jackets never beat themselves and were supremely confident in themselves and their coach. One player was quoted in a book about Dodd "We always thought we were going to win and were shocked if we lost". Someone posted that Tech during his time sometimes had inferior talent. That was true in the late 1950s when recruiting fell off but the rest of the time he could get good players out of every state in the South. He got good players from Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Tennessee. He also would occasionally get a good player from South and North Carolina. One of his best guards was Dave Simmons a native of El Paso Texas. The hardest thing for Dodd was the rise of Bear Bryant because suddenly the pipeline of good players from Alabama and Mississippi was cut off. UGA started to dominate in state recruiting in the mid 1960s but that was not as big a factor as it became later because Georgia did not produce nearly the quantity or quality of players it would in years to come. In answer to the original poster's question, Dodd developed an option play series called the "belly series" that was productive in the split T era of the early and mid 1950s. It was great for Tech because it did not require a great running quarterback and magnified Tech's advantage in small, speedy backs on the outside. Most of all, Tech was fast everywhere. They had speed in the line and the skill positions and sooner or later Dodd would figure out a match up that he wanted and it was over. He abhorred unnecessary penalties as illustrated in this story. All American linebacker George Morris was running down Florida running back great Buford Long and was determined to throw him into the chicken wire fence where the athletes from other sports sat. In doing so he incurred a 15 yard penalty. Dodd called him into his office Monday morning and told him "You are a great player but you are not good enough to make up for 15 yards in lost field position" Morris took his punishment in stride and the next week he lowered the boom on an opposing player to prevent a first down. Coach Dodd congratulated him saying "That is the way I want to see you play" Morris later said that Dodd understood the controlled violence of the game and appreciated a good lick as much as any coach but mental mistakes were anathema to him [/QUOTE]
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