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re: Has there ever been a costlier decision in college sports than GT leaving the SEC?
Posted on 6/30/23 at 9:10 am to TeddyWestside
Posted on 6/30/23 at 9:10 am to TeddyWestside
Some Gamecock fans will say that Carolina leaving the ACC was a terrible decision. If the ends justify the means it surely wasnt. Even still, getting out of the ACC was best
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Posted on 6/30/23 at 9:47 am to TeddyWestside
Georgia Teck people have always had a haughty attitude about most everything. They also saw themselves as too big and too superior to rub elbows with the rubes in the SEC any longer. Dodd would not travel to the Mississippi schools at all. I know Clemson had to play in Atlanta most of the time when they played Georgia Teck. I believe Auburn played them in Atlanta a lot more than they played them in Auburn.
In the early sixties they held a rather exalted status in Atlanta, and nationally, and would have to leave the SEC to further seek their destiny as a football power.
Another bad decision was Bowden electing to not join the SEC when he had the chance. At that time no one could have seen the effect TV deals would have on the sport.
In the early sixties they held a rather exalted status in Atlanta, and nationally, and would have to leave the SEC to further seek their destiny as a football power.
Another bad decision was Bowden electing to not join the SEC when he had the chance. At that time no one could have seen the effect TV deals would have on the sport.
Posted on 6/30/23 at 10:30 am to TeddyWestside
SMU not reeling in their boosters.
That program ate cyanide.
That program ate cyanide.
Posted on 6/30/23 at 10:52 am to TeddyWestside
As good of a Coach as Bobby Dodd was and he did more with less than just about anybody at the time and won a lot of games he had no business winning he was an awful Athletic Director. He almost completely killed GT’s whole athletic program.
Homer Rice performed a miracle resurrecting that mess.
Homer Rice performed a miracle resurrecting that mess.
Posted on 6/30/23 at 3:54 pm to TeddyWestside
Read all the posts up to this point and Tennessee fan, Harvey Wallbanger, got it right through posting the link to the AJC article about Tech's departure.
At the crux of Tech’s exit was the so-called 140 Rule. SEC schools — there were 12, Tulane included — were allowed 140 scholarships for football and men’s basketball; football programs were allowed to sign as many 45 recruits per season. Tech coach Bobby Dodd believed that other teams were overrecruiting, pushing aside underperforming players to clear scholarship space for newer ones.
Said Taz Anderson, the Atlanta entrepreneur who was a captain under Dodd when the Yellow Jackets were based in the SEC: “Coach Dodd would not run you off if you met the part he required. If you went to class and did the work, he’d get you a degree.”
Basically, Georgia Tech left the SEC in 1964 due to controversy over the conference's lax regulation of recruiting and scholarships. Georgia Tech athletic director and head football coach Bobby Dodd had lobbied the league to establish rules prohibiting several practices, particularly the oversigning of players by Alabama coach Bear Bryant.
Both Tech and Tulane wanted the schollie's limit reduced to 140 (football & basketball combined), but the SEC refused.
At the crux of Tech’s exit was the so-called 140 Rule. SEC schools — there were 12, Tulane included — were allowed 140 scholarships for football and men’s basketball; football programs were allowed to sign as many 45 recruits per season. Tech coach Bobby Dodd believed that other teams were overrecruiting, pushing aside underperforming players to clear scholarship space for newer ones.
Said Taz Anderson, the Atlanta entrepreneur who was a captain under Dodd when the Yellow Jackets were based in the SEC: “Coach Dodd would not run you off if you met the part he required. If you went to class and did the work, he’d get you a degree.”
Basically, Georgia Tech left the SEC in 1964 due to controversy over the conference's lax regulation of recruiting and scholarships. Georgia Tech athletic director and head football coach Bobby Dodd had lobbied the league to establish rules prohibiting several practices, particularly the oversigning of players by Alabama coach Bear Bryant.
Both Tech and Tulane wanted the schollie's limit reduced to 140 (football & basketball combined), but the SEC refused.
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