Bill Curry Espn spot

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Bill said his greatest memory of his coaching career was during the All American bowl. He told the story when he suspended John Dewberry and three others for missing curfew. He said that the team ask for a meeting and told him that they had his back and understood the reason for the suspensions. He stated that he was never so proud of a team. He was so proud of the team he left for Alabama 11 months later.
 

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And not before getting embarrassed by Furman (again), and getting embarrassed by allowing a true piece of trash to be on the GT sideline as well.
 

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Guys, time to get over Curry.

We win an MNC after he left.

But I'm curious who the piece of trash was.
 

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Guys, time to get over Curry.

We win an MNC after he left.

But I'm curious who the piece of trash was.
I wonder who will ultimately be a more polarizing figure for GT football: Curry or Johnson?
 

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Guys, time to get over Curry.

We win an MNC after he left.

But I'm curious who the piece of trash was.
Initials. L.Y. I will let you research for yourself. Thankfully a " Volunteer" not an employee of GTAA. And kicked out once law got involved.
 

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Wasn't Curry urged or advised by Dodd to take the Alabama job? If so, why are we so butthurt over it?
Because it, regardless, is still bama..

And because when it happened Curry acted like, to me and many others who stood by him after his major achievement was the A-A bowl in bham and 2 embarrassments to Furman, he was too good for GT. POMPOSITY PERSONIFIED. And it continued on display at uva while sipping wine with vinnie & babs dooley while Coach Bobby Ross was on the field leading GT to a national title.

Dodd also said we should get out of the SEC, so i dont give a damn what he told curry to do. I am thankful he left so we could get a much better coach in Ross.

Curry could have just taken the job like anybody else accepting that job. But he had to pontificate about all the crap he usually does and the unintended consequences were negative towards GT.

But it is done and i wish he would stfu about GT and let us overcome decades of idiotic hiring of "GT men" like him. And we could have and should have hired Spurrier instead.
 

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Dodd told Curry if he wanted to win a NC he wouldn’t do it at Tech.
But Ross did, and if he did Spurrier could have - but i will give Dodd credit. He was correct in understanding what curry could NOT do as a coach. Hell he couldn't do it at bama.!
 

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Because it, regardless, is still bama..

And because when it happened Curry acted like, to me and many others who stood by him after his major achievement was the A-A bowl in bham and 2 embarrassments to Furman, he was too good for GT. POMPOSITY PERSONIFIED. And it continued on display at uva while sipping wine with vinnie & babs dooley while Coach Bobby Ross was on the field leading GT to a national title.

Dodd also said we should get out of the SEC, so i dont give a damn what he told curry to do. I am thankful he left so we could get a much better coach in Ross.

Curry could have just taken the job like anybody else accepting that job. But he had to pontificate about all the crap he usually does and the unintended consequences were negative towards GT.

But it is done and i wish he would stfu about GT and let us overcome decades of idiotic hiring of "GT men" like him. And we could have and should have hired Spurrier instead.
Wow. What a pile of butthurt.
 

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I remember Curry saying Ross the NC with his recruits
I don’t remember this at all. CBC left after the ‘86 season, so by ‘90 the only Curry players on that team would have been redshirted their freshman season in ‘86. So this doesn’t even make sense.

I’ve always liked CBC -yeah, after seeking advice from Dodd he left for Bama, some are butthurt over it -I’m not. Bill Curry has been a fine representative of GT and is a good Tech man.
 
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I don’t remember this at all. CBC left after the ‘86 season, so by ‘90 the only Curry players on that team would have been redshirted their freshman season in ‘86. So this doesn’t even make sense.

I’ve always liked CBC -yeah, after seeking advice from Dodd he left for Bama, some are butthurt over it -I’m not. Bill Curry has been a fine representative of GT and is a good Tech man.
I think Curry is a good guy who made a bad decision guided by bad advice in leaving Tech. Curry is also pompous as hell and one only need look at his Twitter to see that. One can be both pompous and a good person.
 

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Because it, regardless, is still bama..

And because when it happened Curry acted like, to me and many others who stood by him after his major achievement was the A-A bowl in bham and 2 embarrassments to Furman, he was too good for GT. POMPOSITY PERSONIFIED. And it continued on display at uva while sipping wine with vinnie & babs dooley while Coach Bobby Ross was on the field leading GT to a national title.

Dodd also said we should get out of the SEC, so i dont give a damn what he told curry to do. I am thankful he left so we could get a much better coach in Ross.

Curry could have just taken the job like anybody else accepting that job. But he had to pontificate about all the crap he usually does and the unintended consequences were negative towards GT.

But it is done and i wish he would stfu about GT and let us overcome decades of idiotic hiring of "GT men" like him. And we could have and should have hired Spurrier instead.
You do know your history. But seriously, give the Dodd bashing a rest.
 

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Wow. What a pile of butthurt.
Not quite as big a pile as the denial one.

Doesn't matter.

I only want to concern myself with our coaches now.

CBD - r.i.p.
CBC - you left, irrelevant now with any influence so dont care for your look at me stuff. Just donate $.
CPJ - You had some great + here and some bad -. You retired, thanks for laying low, enjoy retirement.
 

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"Seriously" huh. Oh dear.
You seem like a smart person and a long time Tech fan. I just don’t get why you seem to have this animosity toward Dodd. We can debate all day long about leaving the SEC, and whether it was a good decision. But I can’t imagine anyone else who would have done any more than he did given the headwinds he faced.
 

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I don’t remember this at all. CBC left after the ‘86 season, so by ‘90 the only Curry players on that team would have been redshirted their freshman season in ‘86. So this doesn’t even make sense.

I’ve always liked CBC -yeah, after seeking advice from Dodd he left for Bama, some are butthurt over it -I’m not. Bill Curry has been a fine representative of GT and is a good Tech man.
It’s funny though. We win a natty a few years after Curry leaves, and then Bama wins a natty a few years after Curry leaves. Kentucky wasn’t so lucky.
 
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