Why Did Georgia Tech Football Leave the SEC?

[augustabuzz]

I was mistaken in thinking that we had black players before McAshan. He and Greg Horne were apparently the first two at Tech, in 1971

I think Eddie was a freshman in 1969.

 

[YellowJacketFan2018]

I think Eddie was a freshman in 1969.

Yeah Eddie arrived at Georgia Tech in 1969 and played from 1970-1972.

 

[Supersizethatorder-mutt]

I think Eddie was a freshman in 1969.

My bad. Thanks.

 

[Skeptic]

Some Good Reads:

Fifty years ago, Georgia Tech left the SEC
https://www.ajc.com/sports/fifty-years-ago-georgia-tech-left-the-sec/07w1mrefY4QgzlmzzSXr9O/

Looking back at Tech, Tulane’s decision to leave SEC
https://www.ajc.com/sports/college/...ne-decision-leave-sec/lr37CxxIUKSY4G38mEO9zJ/

Georgia Tech erred when it left the SEC
https://www.macon.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/bobby-pope/article30145833.html

Why Georgia Tech left the SEC
https://orangeandbluevictorious.wee...ng-sec-football/why-georgia-tech-left-the-sec

Georgia Tech Leaves the SEC
http://cecilbuffington.com/catalog_40.html

LORAN SMITH: Georgia Tech not the same since leaving SEC
https://www.onlineathens.com/sports/20191126/loran-smith-georgia-tech-not-same-since-leaving-sec

Thank you for a remarkable compilation of links regarding Tech and the SEC. After reading all of them, and when the dust all settles, regardless of what one may think of the decision, and what history shows, and his subsequent career as the athletic director -- mixed results, but overall not anything outstanding -- Dodd's character was unassailable, and his coaching career almost unequaled. Regardless of one's opinion on today's coaching, or that of the recent past, stacked up against Dodd it is a daunting position for any coach. Thanks for compiling all this. Particularly in times like this, we need reminders that once we had heroic and principled men. It brings hope.

 

[TheSilasSonRising]

New degrees is more board of regents issue.

Not without the individual school asking for it first. That is the protocol.

 

[YellowJacketFan2018]

Well, we DID at least try to go back and change it, when we applied for re-entry, in whatever year that was, and it was denied by the SEC teams, including Georgia and Bama, who both claimed they supported us initially, but turned on us in the end.

Here's a small part of the Bear Bryant Show that followed the 1961 Georgia Tech-Alabama game

 

[Supersizethatorder-mutt]

Here's a small part of the Bear Bryant Show that followed the 1961 Georgia Tech-Alabama game

I noticed two things there: first, there was no mention of the Darwin Holt hit on Chick Granning, and two, Bama sure ran the option a lot.

 

[YellowJacketFan2018]

I noticed two things there: first, there was no mention of the Darwin Holt hit on Chick Granning, and two, Bama sure ran the option a lot.

I think the Bear tried to avoid that whole controversy since at about the same time there was another situation with UGAG AD Wallace Butts and Look Magazine where Look Magazine said that Wallace Butts told Bear Bryant all of UGAG's plays going into the 1961 Alabama-UGAG game which Alabama won 32-6.

 

[Supersizethatorder-mutt]

I think the Bear tried to avoid that whole controversy since at about the same time there was another situation with UGAG AD Wallace Butts and Look Magazine where Look Magazine said that Wallace Butts told Bear Bryant all of UGAG's plays going into the 1961 Alabama-UGAG game which Alabama won 32-6.

Actually Bear's comments after the game were eseentially, no big deal.

 

[YellowJacketFan2018]

Actually Bear's comments after the game were eseentially, no big deal.

Bear Bryant thought it was just another play and that the Atlanta press was trying to destroy Darwin Holt who he thought was a good kid

 

[Skeptic]

Bear Bryant thought it was just another play and that the Atlanta press was trying to destroy Darwin Holt who he thought was a good kid

In the scheme of things Holt probably was a good kid. I have no idea what happened in his later life, but in this instance he was just playing the way he was taught to play. Bryant's reputation was not unearned.