Northeast Stinger
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Reg did pretty well as Tech's QB. His problem was that he got hurt when he was a junior (ankle, if I remember correctly) and never got his wheels back completely. Before that he was an active threat to run and made Ds a lot more careful. It was Reg's play that kept us competitive during most of Chan's games with Ugag and the rest of our schedule.
I get pretty tired of people running him down. Here he is at his best:
Say what you will, but Reg could throw the football. Wish we had someone like him back there today.
It has become an article of faith with too many Tech fans that Ball was a bad quarterback. I never felt that way about him and it’s sad to me how much he is vilified. Some people do the same with Kevin Washington which also makes no sense to me.
My main memory of Ball is unfortunately not a good one but it’s not his fault. Every year he played Georgia the dawgs made at least one illegal or dirty play against him. I think his last year Georgia took at least 3 cheap shots at him with two of them being when he was five yards out of bounds. In all the years Reggie played I don’t think Georgia ever got a penalty for even one dangerous or cheap shot at him. *sigh*