re: Bottom line.....Georgia Tech Should be in the SEC

Yeah, who gives a shite? They have won 2 games against Georgia in 14 years. We play every year anyway. I don't know why everyone thinks UGA would care if Tech was in the SEC. The rest of the SEC schools should get prepared for their D-lineman to be knocked out for the season with knee injuries if you let Tech in.

Downtown Atlanta is amazing? Lol lol lol

Righttttttt



GT isn't that recognizable outside of the SE footprint. It's a regional school that draws 30k per game. How is that attractive?


Virginia Tech, North Carolina, Virginia are much bigger brands than freaking Georgia tech.

Dodd was an arrogant arsehole. You guys think Bryant was bad at telling the SEC who and where he wanted to play? Dodd refused to play the Mississippi schools. Dodd was pissed that they had to "share" their TV revenue with the rest of the league.

Hell, this is from the Georgia Tech alumni magazine

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Tech was losing a lot of revenue generated from TV and bowl rights because of conference sharing rules. As an independent, Tech would be able to keep all the money it earned.

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The Atlanta Journal also fueled the fire: “The 140 Rule has not been the only reason Tech has made eyes at independent status. Dodd has long been intrigued by the possibilities of a largely intersectional schedule.”

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Of the other 11 SEC schools, Tech was currently only scheduling home and away games with five of them. This was by Dodd’s design. Many competitors viewed Georgia Tech and Dodd as elitists. The Birmingham News’ Alf Van Hoose wrote, “Since Georgia Tech hasn’t been the chummiest sort recently in the fraternity, spiteful human nature reared its ugly head.”

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A Technique editorial on Jan. 31 also was supportive. “President Harrison’s decision to withdraw Tech from the Southeastern Conference is nothing short of great, so far as the school is concerned. Tech’s athletic program, at present, is operating far above the conference average, and our continued alliance with the conference serves only to restrict our program and pull down its quality,” the student newspaper said.

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“The important thing is that we will be free to run our programs the way we want, and not the way Georgia or the University of Alabama want us to run things. The fairness and reputable treatment of athletes at Georgia Tech is known around the nation as well as the conference. Once free of conference hindrances, our athletic programs can only improve,” the Technique said.

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My grandfather, who is about 75-80, hates Georgia Tech more than anybody else in college football.

However, Bobby Dodd is from my hometown and went to my high school (Dobyns-Bennett), so he at least has that going for him.

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Bobby Dodd was actually a better coach than Bryant.

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LOL. Dodd had a great run from 1951-1956. Outside of that here were his records

4-6
9-2
10-1
7-3
7-3
5-6
9-2-1
8-3
9-1-1
10-1
4-4-2
5-4-1
6-5
5-5
7-4
7-3-1
7-3
7-3
7-3-1
9-2

Georgia Tech finished ranked 9 of his 22 seasons. They lost 3+ games (in a 10 game schedule) 14 of his 22 seasons.

GTFOH

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Some of you Bama yahoos are simply not deep enough to understand where I'm coming from.

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Some of us know the entire history of Dodd and his elitist, holier than thou approach to everything, how he treated schools and people he deemed lower than him and Tech and the way he went about using the media (specifically Furman Bisher) to destroy his enemies. And, how his ultimate decision to make Tech the Notre Dame of the South ultimately failed. They made their bed and they get to lie in it.

Kids then knew, just as they do now, that when they signed with Alabama or Mississippi along with the other 7 best QBs in that state that there was a chance they would not play and get moved to another position. Kids in Alabama did not care, they would rather be the 6th QB at Alabama and play for Bryant than be the starter at South Carolina. The whole argument was crafted around the idea that those kids were being abused. Find me numerous articles and quotes from kids that felt abused by that system.

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Georgia Tech Should be in the SEC

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Atlanta is already a hotly contested recruiting area. Adding GT to the SEC would only make it worse.

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Georgia is the second most populous state in SEC country

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Wut?

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Georgia Tech Should be in the SEC

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we already have one ole miss, we don't need another.

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Not to mention they got them after Georgia State decided they wanted and built better dorms

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Georgia State only wanted new dorms because the current ones were almost 2 miles from campus. In downtown Atlanta, that's a long way, especially when you can't drive between the 2 due to limited parking. Had nothing to do with the actual building or dorms.