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<blockquote data-quote="Techster" data-source="post: 30716" data-attributes="member: 360"><p>GT declining if it stays in the SEC is pure speculation. You can't prove you're right anymore than I can prove you're wrong.</p><p> </p><p>What's NOT speculation is GT's place on the national sports scene, as well as its pull for athletes in the South at that time. Just look at Steve Spurrier who's mom wanted him to come here (and father wanted him to go to Tenn...but he settled for UF). GT lost it's advantage against all the SEC schools when it left. People can speculate GT's eventual demise in the SEC, but as AJC shows, GT was a very good SEC team on he field at the time against the heavy weights in the conference. People today claim that Vandy gets the SEC benefit in recruiting, but GT always had that benefit to a higher degree because GT was a premier program in the NATION at the time. Dodd forfeited that by leaving the SEC. As the article details, it took decades before GT could recover. The reason GT is in the shape we're in, including almost dropping down a level, is because Dodd's decision put GT in athletics no man's land. That is irrefutable. Instead of making money as the SEC became more popular over the years, we lost money because attendance took a precipitous decline over a 2 decade stretch over the 70's and 80's.</p><p> </p><p>Idealism is for happy endings in movies and books. In the real world, idealism loses a business (which GT athletics is) money, and market share. Something GT fans who had to live through the 70's and 80's can attest to. By leaving the SEC, Dodd's fear of not being able to compete became a self fulfilling prophecy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Techster, post: 30716, member: 360"] GT declining if it stays in the SEC is pure speculation. You can't prove you're right anymore than I can prove you're wrong. What's NOT speculation is GT's place on the national sports scene, as well as its pull for athletes in the South at that time. Just look at Steve Spurrier who's mom wanted him to come here (and father wanted him to go to Tenn...but he settled for UF). GT lost it's advantage against all the SEC schools when it left. People can speculate GT's eventual demise in the SEC, but as AJC shows, GT was a very good SEC team on he field at the time against the heavy weights in the conference. People today claim that Vandy gets the SEC benefit in recruiting, but GT always had that benefit to a higher degree because GT was a premier program in the NATION at the time. Dodd forfeited that by leaving the SEC. As the article details, it took decades before GT could recover. The reason GT is in the shape we're in, including almost dropping down a level, is because Dodd's decision put GT in athletics no man's land. That is irrefutable. Instead of making money as the SEC became more popular over the years, we lost money because attendance took a precipitous decline over a 2 decade stretch over the 70's and 80's. Idealism is for happy endings in movies and books. In the real world, idealism loses a business (which GT athletics is) money, and market share. Something GT fans who had to live through the 70's and 80's can attest to. By leaving the SEC, Dodd's fear of not being able to compete became a self fulfilling prophecy. [/QUOTE]
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