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<blockquote data-quote="Essobee" data-source="post: 30692" data-attributes="member: 715"><p>Plus all the newspaper, TV, and radio attention given to Tech. Bobby Dodd had a one hour show on Channel 2 with a sports news panel program built around it on Sundays. The AJC was filled with Georgia Tech articles on the sports pages. UGA was small potatoes. Yes, it was indeed a <strong>fun time</strong> to be a YJ.</p><p></p><p>But as Techster points out, it became a two-edged sword. Being "king of the hill" did not work out favorably in the long run since we had farther to fall or more to lose than most programs and perhaps an emboldened Bobby Dodd threw his "weight" around in the conference a little too much by trying to set terms of participation. After we "picked up our ball and went home", Karma came to call with a plethora of competing sports coming to Atlanta. Coincident with our demise was the rise of UGA...not too surprising as we lost our recruiting moxie and UGA benefited by getting local athletes who would have instead come to Tech. Thus the rise and fall of the Heisman-Alexander-Dodd Georgia Tech football dynasty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Essobee, post: 30692, member: 715"] Plus all the newspaper, TV, and radio attention given to Tech. Bobby Dodd had a one hour show on Channel 2 with a sports news panel program built around it on Sundays. The AJC was filled with Georgia Tech articles on the sports pages. UGA was small potatoes. Yes, it was indeed a [B]fun time[/B] to be a YJ. But as Techster points out, it became a two-edged sword. Being "king of the hill" did not work out favorably in the long run since we had farther to fall or more to lose than most programs and perhaps an emboldened Bobby Dodd threw his "weight" around in the conference a little too much by trying to set terms of participation. After we "picked up our ball and went home", Karma came to call with a plethora of competing sports coming to Atlanta. Coincident with our demise was the rise of UGA...not too surprising as we lost our recruiting moxie and UGA benefited by getting local athletes who would have instead come to Tech. Thus the rise and fall of the Heisman-Alexander-Dodd Georgia Tech football dynasty. [/QUOTE]
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