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<blockquote data-quote="Essobee" data-source="post: 79362" data-attributes="member: 715"><p>Well Mack, perhaps my old age is to blame for what appears to be complacency. I have given the matter much thought over the years, especially because I selected GA Tech in 1955 based on (1) <u>the great football team</u> and (2) the kind of work (tinkering with electronics) that I enjoyed doing at the time. I also seriously considered Auburn (great football team) and Clemson (poor football team but, like Auburn, a technical school away from the big city...Atlanta was nearing 1 million population).</p><p></p><p>A lot has changed since then and my thoughts today are "What if Tech had stayed in the SEC and gone the way of Auburn and Clemson?" I'm the kind of person that values excellence and am satisfied that I would be saying to myself, "With all those great players we are getting, why don't we win our conference every year and the national championship at least every ten years? And Tech hasn't beaten anyone by triple digits since Heisman. Must be the coach once again. Fire the bastard, dig up Dodd, and move GA Tech to Alabama or South Carolina!"</p><p></p><p>So things wouldn't be all that different than today except we wouldn't have our scholastic pride on which to fall back. And we do have four national championships to go along with our academic excellence plus a recent ACC championship. And we haven't had a losing season for a long while. Throw in our other sports, which were dismal (except basketball) when I was a student, and things ain't so bad these days. Could be better, could be worse, but not bad at all IMHO.</p><p></p><p>Coulda, shoulda, woulda beaten UGA the last time we played them, btw. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite132" alt=":writer:" title="Writer :writer:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":writer:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Essobee, post: 79362, member: 715"] Well Mack, perhaps my old age is to blame for what appears to be complacency. I have given the matter much thought over the years, especially because I selected GA Tech in 1955 based on (1) [U]the great football team[/U] and (2) the kind of work (tinkering with electronics) that I enjoyed doing at the time. I also seriously considered Auburn (great football team) and Clemson (poor football team but, like Auburn, a technical school away from the big city...Atlanta was nearing 1 million population). A lot has changed since then and my thoughts today are "What if Tech had stayed in the SEC and gone the way of Auburn and Clemson?" I'm the kind of person that values excellence and am satisfied that I would be saying to myself, "With all those great players we are getting, why don't we win our conference every year and the national championship at least every ten years? And Tech hasn't beaten anyone by triple digits since Heisman. Must be the coach once again. Fire the bastard, dig up Dodd, and move GA Tech to Alabama or South Carolina!" So things wouldn't be all that different than today except we wouldn't have our scholastic pride on which to fall back. And we do have four national championships to go along with our academic excellence plus a recent ACC championship. And we haven't had a losing season for a long while. Throw in our other sports, which were dismal (except basketball) when I was a student, and things ain't so bad these days. Could be better, could be worse, but not bad at all IMHO. Coulda, shoulda, woulda beaten UGA the last time we played them, btw. :writer: [/QUOTE]
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