All Time Tech Starting Lineup

Geez, I hope some of you are joking.

No mention of an All-American tight end Billy Martin

An All-American group of LBs - Baughn, L Morris, G Morris.

The greatest freshman running back ever - Clint Castleberry

Greatest triple threat QB - Lothridge

Many time freaking All Pro - Billy Shaw

All American center - Peter Pund

Crazy talk.
 
QB: Hamilton
RB: Ivory
RB: Dwyer
WR: Calvin Johnson
WR: Kelly Campbell
WR: Drew Hill
OT John Davis
OT Chris Brown
OG:???
OG???
Center: Paige/Cheever/any other Tech all american Center which was a lot.

DE: Marco Coleman
DT: Battle
DT: Coleman Rudolph
DE: Derrick Morgan
LB: Lucious Sanford
LB: Patrick Swilling
LB: Keith Brooking
SS: ???
FS: Ken Swilling
CB: Willie Clay
CB: Jeff Ford
 
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I knew some geezer would come in here saying mostly dudes from the 50s/60s if not older
 
MTrain said:
I knew some geezer would come in here saying mostly dudes from the 50s/60s if not older
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I knew some punker too lazy to study GT football would totally ignore some deserving GT players from an earlier era.
 
texstinger said:
Geez, I hope some of you are joking.

No mention of an All-American tight end Billy Martin

An All-American group of LBs - Baughn, L Morris, G Morris.

The greatest freshman running back ever - Clint Castleberry

Greatest triple threat QB - Lothridge

Many time freaking All Pro - Billy Shaw

All American center - Peter Pund

Crazy talk.
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This! Plus Bill Curry??
 
Hate to tell you but many of you know little of Techs illustrious history. Anyone who would put little Joe over Billy Lothridge proves they no little Tech history. Go back look at some of the teams Dodd put on the field and you just might learn something. Little Joe over Lothridge gota be joking RIGHT? To put others above Billy gota be a joke. Those guys were good but they would have been second teamers behind some of the guys that played for Dodd.
 
oldfoggy said:
Hate to tell you but many of you know little of Techs illustrious history. Anyone who would put little Joe over Billy Lothridge proves they no little Tech history. Go back look at some of the teams Dodd put on the field and you just might learn something. Little Joe over Lothridge gota be joking RIGHT? To put others above Billy gota be a joke. Those guys were good but they would have been second teamers behind some of the guys that played for Dodd.
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This shows our age my friend.Most guys here never saw a Lothridge,Baugh,Auer,McNames,Eddie Lee etc so we are trying to compare different eras.Lothridge was the best I saw and Little Joe was second but both were different and both played in different eras.We leave people off like All Pros Billy Shaw,Larry Stalling ,Billy Teas and of course,Leon Hardeman.What about Billy Martin,Don Toner,Wade Mitchell.Cant rate apples to oranges nor eras.I will pass on this but hope young guys get into the books and look up the guys I called out here since they were great.
 
WTF? No list of greats is complete without the dynamic Taylor Bennett to Greg Smith connection of 2007. You little bastards have no sense of GT history. Read a book you little ****s.
 
JacketFan(ajc) said:
BOR, I'm glad to see someone include Pat Swilling. I don't know why he's always left out of things like this. Ken wasn't too shabby either.

Speaking of Ken, here's an old article from SI.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1140742/1/index.htm
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I had high hopes for Ken as a senior but he seemed to be hurt all year long.I know he played hurt but to my knowledge he never did much as a Pro.No doubt he was massive sight in d backfield and when healthy a great one.I always thought Pat played much better as a college player.Both were good though Ken seemed to flame out at the end of his career.'Ankle injury really hurt him.
 
mack said:
This shows our age my friend.Most guys here never saw a Lothridge,Baugh,Auer,McNames,Eddie Lee etc so we are trying to compare different eras.Lothridge was the best I saw and Little Joe was second but both were different and both played in different eras.We leave people off like All Pros Billy Shaw,Larry Stalling ,Billy Teas and of course,Leon Hardeman.What about Billy Martin,Don Toner,Wade Mitchell.Cant rate apples to oranges nor eras.I will pass on this but hope young guys get into the books and look up the guys I called out here since they were great.
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Don't forget George and Larry Morris, Pete Brown, Rock Perdoni to name a few. All those guys y'all mentioned made what GT is today.
 
mack said:
This shows our age my friend.Most guys here never saw a Lothridge,Baugh,Auer,McNames,Eddie Lee etc so we are trying to compare different eras.Lothridge was the best I saw and Little Joe was second but both were different and both played in different eras.We leave people off like All Pros Billy Shaw,Larry Stalling ,Billy Teas and of course,Leon Hardeman.What about Billy Martin,Don Toner,Wade Mitchell.Cant rate apples to oranges nor eras.I will pass on this but hope young guys get into the books and look up the guys I called out here since they were great.
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I don't think anyone would disagree that Tech has some legendary players from decades past that should be on these types of lists. However since the game changes through the years, players are difficult to compare and no amount of reading about these legends will have the same impact on a fan as watching Lil' Joe lead their Jackets to a win over UGA in Athens and have a Heisman caliber season while they are cheering in the stands.
 
mack said:
This shows our age my friend.Most guys here never saw a Lothridge,Baugh,Auer,McNames,Eddie Lee etc so we are trying to compare different eras.Lothridge was the best I saw and Little Joe was second but both were different and both played in different eras.We leave people off like All Pros Billy Shaw,Larry Stalling ,Billy Teas and of course,Leon Hardeman.What about Billy Martin,Don Toner,Wade Mitchell.Cant rate apples to oranges nor eras.I will pass on this but hope young guys get into the books and look up the guys I called out here since they were great.
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Maybe some of us are doing the apples to oranges comparison in our heads making these lists. I had Eddie Lee on my list.

Just looking at some of these guys though, they just aren't built for the game today. Billy Shaw was 6'2, 258 as a PRO guard. He may be my favorite statistic of all GT sports though (aside from Cumberland) as being the only player in the pro football HOF without ever playing in the NFL (AFL only).

Larry Stallings probably had the size to keep up with todays game. Maybe not the speed.

I can't even find measurements on billy teas. Hardemon ran hard but you can't compare his speed with the burners of today.

Just look at the progression of 100m times to demonstrate the difference. In the 40s and 50s the world record was 10.1 - 10.2 seconds. In 1964 the world record was still over 10 seconds. Now it's down to nearly 9.5.

In terms of size, average NFL QB is over 6'3. It was an inch shorter and 16 pounds less in 1970.

The average running back is actually shorter today, but is 8 pounds heavier on average and much faster. Fullbacks are an average of over 20 pounds higher. Wide receivers weigh about 10 pounds more, while TEs are a whopping 25 pounds more.

Biggest changes by far are on the lines though. The averages have gone up 50+ pounds across the board. The exception is defensive ends, who have only gained 13 pounds but are infinitely faster now than they were 40 years ago.

Relatively speaking, the guys you mentioned were meaner and tougher than anyone around back then. But our nutrition and weightroom technology is so much better than it was 40-50 years ago its hard to compare. Players like Calvin Johnson, Dwyer, Bey Bey, Nesbitt simply didn't exist back then.
 
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