re: Has there ever been a costlier decision in college sports than GT leaving the SEC?

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They didn't have the DNA of a true blueblood football program. Bobby Dodd struggled with the idea of so many players on scholarship at the time. They weren't thinking like a powerhouse football program. Considering the SEC was transitioning to African American players and GT thinking small, it's unlikely they were going to maintain their status as a Southern power regardless of where they resided.

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GT’s very identity and philosophy is the very reason they have slowly sunk from a national power to an afterthought.

They were evolutionarily doomed.