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<blockquote data-quote="Northeast Stinger" data-source="post: 853664" data-attributes="member: 1640"><p>October 1, 2053</p><p></p><p>ATLANTA, Ga (AP wire) Something amazing has been happening over at the Georgia Institute of Technology. No, we don’t mean the breakthrough that was accomplished there a few years ago in cold fusion energy production. It’s football. A new coach has Tech winning for the first time in decades and Saturday’s win over Arkansas has old timers around the ATL retelling tales of glory years they heard from their grandparents while growing up. Some readers may not realize that Tech actually plays football, let alone that they were once good, but this recent success has people blowing the dust off of old archives to understand more about Tech football history.</p><p> It seems that Tech’s fall into football obscurity began with the hiring of one Geoffrey Collins, a name that sounds British but is in fact the name he grew up with in Conyers, Georgia. “Jeff,” as he liked to be called, had the misfortune of arriving at Tech as college football was escalating its capital demands and transitioning to a new style of semi-pro league play. Perhaps it was timing, perhaps he never had the temperament to be a head coach, or perhaps it was just dumb luck, coach Collins was the beginning of a long period of falling revenue, fan disinterest, dismal on field results and difficulty in recruiting both competent coaches or high caliber semi-pro athletes. The straw that broke the camels back and began the precipitous decline in Tech football coaching was in the fall of…..</p><p></p><p><em>This is my recurring nightmare. Feel free to talk me off the ledge. But be gentle, I’m about ready to jump.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northeast Stinger, post: 853664, member: 1640"] October 1, 2053 ATLANTA, Ga (AP wire) Something amazing has been happening over at the Georgia Institute of Technology. No, we don’t mean the breakthrough that was accomplished there a few years ago in cold fusion energy production. It’s football. A new coach has Tech winning for the first time in decades and Saturday’s win over Arkansas has old timers around the ATL retelling tales of glory years they heard from their grandparents while growing up. Some readers may not realize that Tech actually plays football, let alone that they were once good, but this recent success has people blowing the dust off of old archives to understand more about Tech football history. It seems that Tech’s fall into football obscurity began with the hiring of one Geoffrey Collins, a name that sounds British but is in fact the name he grew up with in Conyers, Georgia. “Jeff,” as he liked to be called, had the misfortune of arriving at Tech as college football was escalating its capital demands and transitioning to a new style of semi-pro league play. Perhaps it was timing, perhaps he never had the temperament to be a head coach, or perhaps it was just dumb luck, coach Collins was the beginning of a long period of falling revenue, fan disinterest, dismal on field results and difficulty in recruiting both competent coaches or high caliber semi-pro athletes. The straw that broke the camels back and began the precipitous decline in Tech football coaching was in the fall of….. [I]This is my recurring nightmare. Feel free to talk me off the ledge. But be gentle, I’m about ready to jump.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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