How bad would it be if.....

[AuburnPawnTiger]

You were a Georgia Tech fan? I have nothing against the team personally I, ironically, kind of like the program even though they embarassed my tigers in 03,05 , however It must be the absolute pits to be a TECH fan right now. I know Paul Johnson is a good coach with volumes of character, but how can anyone get excited about running the Wing-T , a high school system. I know Navy had marginal success with this system but I absolutely cannot see this working in a week in week out basis in the ACC. Sorry, not buying in. The spring game was a joke that was filled with turnovers. If a QB is going to run an option in this day and age they need to be in the shotgun so it makes it easier to get to the edge and avoid trouble. I can't tell you how many times I saw a Navy QB get smacked as a result of defensive penetration. Navy threw the ball so few times last year that I don't know much about their passing game but that involves alot of triple option passes which take forever to develop and are vulnerable to edge rushers and linebackers that can play fundamental gap football. If I were a TECH fan I would be very very anxious right now, for all the wrong reasons

[sheluvsbama]

If I were a Georgia Tech fan, I would be trying to start a campaign to get into the SEC. :D

[AuburnPawnTiger]

They were an SEC member at one time but saw the ACC as greener pastures. No other conference brigs in more money or shares more money among member institutions than the SEC. Bad move TECH

[JerryBeeds]

Paul Johnson used to be the OC at Hawaii. He knows how to work in the pass. He didn't have the personnel to do it at Navy but after a few recruiting classes I think you'll be surprised at the balance in his attack.

[dcbama]

Paul Johnson used to be the OC at Hawaii. He knows how to work in the pass. He didn't have the personnel to do it at Navy but after a few recruiting classes I think you'll be surprised at the balance in his attack.

Completely agree. People are way too quick to write Johnson off. It'll undoubtedly take him a few years to get all the right people in place, but he'll end up doing well at Tech and will show that he's no one trick pony.

[AUTiger94]

I could have no respect for a program that actually removed seats from their stadium and sells more season ticket packages to the opposing team's fans. That being said I think they do a good job getting decent talent for a high Academic institution.

[dcbama]

I could have no respect for a program that actually removed seats from their stadium and sells more season ticket packages to the opposing team's fans. That being said I think they do a good job getting decent talent for a high Academic institution.


Ah, you're just mad because they beat you the last two times you played them and they've been gone from the SEC for 40-50 years and you only have one more conference championship than they do.:ohmy:

[AUTiger94]

Ah, you're just mad because they beat you the last two times you played them and they've been gone from the SEC for 40-50 years and you only have one more conference championship than they do.:ohmy:

Wow you have me pegged there Dr Phil.:rolleyes:

[AUTiger94]

They were an SEC member at one time but saw the ACC as greener pastures. No other conference brigs in more money or shares more money among member institutions than the SEC. Bad move TECH

Actually they were Independent for 14 years before finding the "Greener pasture"

Dodd walks
Bill Curry was a Georgia Tech lineman when the Yellow Jackets left the SEC in June 1964. He said head coach Bobby Dodd pulled the school out of the conference because he was unhappy with scholarship allocations.
Dodd believed Tech was at a competitive disadvantage because he would sign 28 to 30 players a year and keep them all while other SEC schools would sign 60 a year and run off players who weren't good enough, Curry said.

Dodd devised a proposal to address the issue. "According to legend," Curry said, "he went to the SEC meetings and somebody promised him a vote, reneged and changed their vote. When that failed, he walked out of the room and out of the SEC. He felt like he got double-crossed."

Three years before Tech left the SEC, Dodd and Alabama coach Paul "Bear" Bryant began a long feud after Georgia Tech's Chick Graning sustained a broken jaw from a hit by Alabama's Darwin Holt. The coaches stopped talking for years and the series was discontinued after 1964.

Curry said Bryant agreed in 1975 to resume his friendship with Dodd and sought to personally sponsor Tech's re-entry to the SEC. But Dodd knew some other SEC schools wouldn't let Tech back in, according to Curry.

All these years later, Curry regrets Georgia Tech left the SEC and says Dodd did, too. "Two years after we became independent, here comes the Braves and the Falcons and then the Hawks and the Flames," Curry said. "We went from the only show in town in the Atlanta sports section to Page 8D."

Today, Georgia Tech plays in 55,000-seat Bobby Dodd Stadium in a city where the SEC Championship Game is held and the University of Georgia resides as the top dog.

[iBama]

I had reservations when his name was being tossed around for the Bama job. All I heard was how PJ passed the ball around while at Hawaii and would adapt to the players, etc. Guess what?....he isn't. The first thing he started telling recruits and players when he got to GT was about his offense at Navy and Georgia Southern. Costing GT's best QB and WR commits to sign elsewhere. Jackson signed with us and their starting TE transferred here as well.

[ColonelKurtz]

I was surprised that Johnson would take the career risk and go to the nats as he had it made in the shade up there at Annapolis. Due to its limited fields of study, GT begins everyday with one hand tied behind its back in recruiting, a fact that he learned immediately.

The yellabugs will hit the Flats at the end of the month with only 74 players on scholarship. Yikes.

[GTTiger]

It's actually pretty nice being a GT fan. We never have too high expectations and always manage to upset a team or two that we shouldn't each season. We do however lose a game or two we shouldn't. Also, I got tickets to the GT vs. UGA game last season for $10/person. What other big name school could you do that for?

[DAWGS1]

yeah must be nice being outnumbered in your own stadium!!:D:D