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<blockquote data-quote="Northeast Stinger" data-source="post: 79458" data-attributes="member: 1640"><p>I can't let this go because it is so intriguing to me. The person who played on the team that you quoted certainly describes what it looked like. I remember one pass into the end zone in which a Tech defender had the ball in his hands and practically handed it to the Ole Miss receiver for a touchdown. Tech looked horrible in the first half and then looked unbeatable in the second half but by then they were too far behind to catch up.</p><p></p><p>As for coaches, Heisman, who is considered Tech's first real football coach, was a yankee through and through and no one seemed to care. The later demand by Tech insiders that all coaches be "Tech men" was revisionist thinking that I could never understand. As for Pepper Rodgers, the rap was that Dodd did not like him. Which kind of makes sense since they were definitely cut from different cloth. Pepper was flamboyant and crazy compared to Dodd's more buttoned down approach. Fulcher perhaps was too young at the time but would have been a good coach were it not for his wife who utterly destroyed his career. </p><p></p><p>As for the players not liking Carson I have wondered if it was the curse of following Dodd. Dodd did things that would never been done today in college sports in terms of making practice fun and giving players a fair amount of freedom. Carson was more like coaches are today. He probably seemed like a dictator compared to the easy going Dodd. But the hardest part of all was that Dodd was such an appealing, likeable person that made anyone feel good. Carson would have seemed like a cold, introverted fish by comparison. Anyone following Dodd might have had this problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northeast Stinger, post: 79458, member: 1640"] I can't let this go because it is so intriguing to me. The person who played on the team that you quoted certainly describes what it looked like. I remember one pass into the end zone in which a Tech defender had the ball in his hands and practically handed it to the Ole Miss receiver for a touchdown. Tech looked horrible in the first half and then looked unbeatable in the second half but by then they were too far behind to catch up. As for coaches, Heisman, who is considered Tech's first real football coach, was a yankee through and through and no one seemed to care. The later demand by Tech insiders that all coaches be "Tech men" was revisionist thinking that I could never understand. As for Pepper Rodgers, the rap was that Dodd did not like him. Which kind of makes sense since they were definitely cut from different cloth. Pepper was flamboyant and crazy compared to Dodd's more buttoned down approach. Fulcher perhaps was too young at the time but would have been a good coach were it not for his wife who utterly destroyed his career. As for the players not liking Carson I have wondered if it was the curse of following Dodd. Dodd did things that would never been done today in college sports in terms of making practice fun and giving players a fair amount of freedom. Carson was more like coaches are today. He probably seemed like a dictator compared to the easy going Dodd. But the hardest part of all was that Dodd was such an appealing, likeable person that made anyone feel good. Carson would have seemed like a cold, introverted fish by comparison. Anyone following Dodd might have had this problem. [/QUOTE]
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