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I'm thinking... they are discussing individual plays from a game played 45 years ago with no real implications other than it was just Bama football. Now I love my university and I am a big fan, but... jeez. Some people need to just get a life.

The Bama old guard despises Georgia Tech. They are still butthurt over the Bear Bryant-Bobby Dodd beef and that was like 50 years ago. It's mainly the reason why Bill Curry's tenure at Bama was so short. He never was really accepted by Bama's big cigars because he was a Ga. tech guy. Of course, not beating Auburn sealed his fate.

Dodd behaved like a little bitch and Tech's arse quit the SEC and they specifically blamed and whined about Bryant and Bama on the way out the door. Dodd was pissed about the Darwin Holt hit on in the 1961 game on Chick Granning that ended Granning's career and the fact that Bryant didn't discipline Holt to his satisfaction. But what pissed Dodd off was he didn't get his way on how scolly's were managed and what he viewed as over-signing by Bama and other SEC teams....although what Bama was doing was entirely within the rules. Dodd also refused to play certain SEC schools namely the ones from Mississippi. Dodd stated he would never travel to Mississippi to play a game.

Tech left thinking they were going to be the Notre Dame of the South and were independent from 65-77. That didn't work out and there record was middling at best. In 1975, Bryant made up with Dodd and personally assured him that he would sponsor their return to the SEC but Tech went another direction as he felt the rest of the SEC, specifically Ole Miss and MSU, wouldn't support it.

This post was edited on 11/13/15 at 10:04 am