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<blockquote data-quote="redmule" data-source="post: 197006" data-attributes="member: 1338"><p>Same old, same old. This discussion has been going on on Tech boards since the Hive started in the mid 90's. It was going on in the media before the internet in the 60's, 70's and 80's. I remember when Pepper was here that one year it was said out of the AJC's top 25 high school players, only one could have gotten into Tech, and that was when Tech was letting in people like me. We've changed coaches, offenses, defenses, facilities, administrations (both athletic and academic), quarters to semesters, conferences, uniforms, sponsors, seating, parking, hosted an Olympics (which was either a great help to recruiting or a distraction from recruiting depending on whom you asked), just about everything but the Wreck and the Whistle.</p><p></p><p>The thing that seems the most constant to me is that every three to four years, we somehow get a special group of players (and not from just one recruiting class) that has 'IT'. When we have them, it is one of the most wonderful things. Usually that means we can beat, sometimes badly, any team in the country that dares to set foot on Grant Field. However, sometime during that run, we will have a brain fart and lose a game that should be an automatic win. Then there is the negative image of that period where we could not win if we were allowed 13 players. Of course we will also beat (or almost beat) at least one top 10 team totally unexpectedly. The last 20 years, O'Leary, Gailey, and Johnson managed to will us thru a couple of those periods and keep 6 win seasons from becoming 3 win seasons, but that may have been more about weak schedules than anything they did. This year, schedule and injuries meant Johnson couldn't keep us out of the ditch. Many, with myself as chief protagonist, thought that what we had returning this year meant things had changed. They had not. We are still Georgia Tech, and I like that.</p><p></p><p>The is one more ugly constant. Close heartbreaking losses to the dwags. Maybe we can't break that streak. It might be up to uga to break it for us, and hopefully Smart is the guy to do it. Had we won the uga games in '95, '97, '06, '09, and '13 (all games that we gave away or had stolen by refs) we would be talking about how the last 20 years was a Golden Age for Tech football.</p><p></p><p>I think for those with eyes to see and a historical perspective, this year's team was the embryo for the next magical time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="redmule, post: 197006, member: 1338"] Same old, same old. This discussion has been going on on Tech boards since the Hive started in the mid 90's. It was going on in the media before the internet in the 60's, 70's and 80's. I remember when Pepper was here that one year it was said out of the AJC's top 25 high school players, only one could have gotten into Tech, and that was when Tech was letting in people like me. We've changed coaches, offenses, defenses, facilities, administrations (both athletic and academic), quarters to semesters, conferences, uniforms, sponsors, seating, parking, hosted an Olympics (which was either a great help to recruiting or a distraction from recruiting depending on whom you asked), just about everything but the Wreck and the Whistle. The thing that seems the most constant to me is that every three to four years, we somehow get a special group of players (and not from just one recruiting class) that has 'IT'. When we have them, it is one of the most wonderful things. Usually that means we can beat, sometimes badly, any team in the country that dares to set foot on Grant Field. However, sometime during that run, we will have a brain fart and lose a game that should be an automatic win. Then there is the negative image of that period where we could not win if we were allowed 13 players. Of course we will also beat (or almost beat) at least one top 10 team totally unexpectedly. The last 20 years, O'Leary, Gailey, and Johnson managed to will us thru a couple of those periods and keep 6 win seasons from becoming 3 win seasons, but that may have been more about weak schedules than anything they did. This year, schedule and injuries meant Johnson couldn't keep us out of the ditch. Many, with myself as chief protagonist, thought that what we had returning this year meant things had changed. They had not. We are still Georgia Tech, and I like that. The is one more ugly constant. Close heartbreaking losses to the dwags. Maybe we can't break that streak. It might be up to uga to break it for us, and hopefully Smart is the guy to do it. Had we won the uga games in '95, '97, '06, '09, and '13 (all games that we gave away or had stolen by refs) we would be talking about how the last 20 years was a Golden Age for Tech football. I think for those with eyes to see and a historical perspective, this year's team was the embryo for the next magical time. [/QUOTE]
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