As A GT Fan For Close To 60 Years, I Am Still Miffed …

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GoldenIsle

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That the GT supporters of the 1960’s did not rise up and stop the administration’s sabotage of the football program. Coming out of the 50’s we had the best stadium in the South and a top notch football program. Then the administration did not do a darn thing to help Dodd keep up with the changing times and he finally said the heck with it in 66. Oh, we’ve had little flashes of success over the years but too many times we find ourselves struggling. When you get my age it really gets old going through these bad or mediocre years so frequently.
 
GoldenIsle said:
That the GT supporters of the 1960’s did not rise up and stop the administration’s sabotage of the football program. Coming out of the 50’s we had the best stadium in the South and a top notch football program. Then the administration did not do a darn thing to help Dodd keep up with the changing times and he finally said the heck with it in 66. Oh, we’ve had little flashes of success over the years but too many times we find ourselves struggling. When you get my age it really gets old going through these bad or mediocre years so frequently.
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Believe me it gets old as a younger fan too.
 
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If you are indeed as old as you say you are why have you not come to your senses? If something brings no joy to your life and in fact does the opposite and just frustrates you then cut that öööö out of your life or at least put it on the back burner where it garners less of your attention.
 
TechRush said:
If you are indeed as old as you say you are why have you not come to your senses? If something brings no joy to your life and in fact does the opposite and just frustrates you then cut that öööö out of your life or at least put it on the back burner where it garners less of your attention.
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Evidently a lot of GT supporters took your advice.
 
TechRush said:
If you are indeed as old as you say you are why have you not come to your senses? If something brings no joy to your life and in fact does the opposite and just frustrates you then cut that öööö out of your life or at least put it on the back burner where it garners less of your attention.
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How good was 1990? Do any of Alabama’s national championships come anywhere close the elation and glory? I’d say not.
 
TechRush said:
If you are indeed as old as you say you are why have you not come to your senses? If something brings no joy to your life and in fact does the opposite and just frustrates you then cut that öööö out of your life or at least put it on the back burner where it garners less of your attention.
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Maybe you’re too young to understand?
 
TechRush said:
If you are indeed as old as you say you are why have you not come to your senses? If something brings no joy to your life and in fact does the opposite and just frustrates you then cut that öööö out of your life or at least put it on the back burner where it garners less of your attention.
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Liberty said:
Maybe you’re too young to understand?
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No it’s not that at all. I dont know how to discuss it but it’s almost spiritual. I didn’t go to Tech, but had a lot of family that did. My family has been fans of Georgia Tech for going on 80 plus years. If I didn’t cheer for Tech I wouldn’t care about college football.

Edit: actually my season would consist of cheering for Georgia to lose.
 
GoldenIsle said:
That the GT supporters of the 1960’s did not rise up and stop the administration’s sabotage of the football program. Coming out of the 50’s we had the best stadium in the South and a top notch football program. Then the administration did not do a darn thing to help Dodd keep up with the changing times and he finally said the heck with it in 66. Oh, we’ve had little flashes of success over the years but too many times we find ourselves struggling. When you get my age it really gets old going through these bad or mediocre years so frequently.
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I don’t think most Tech fans understand how good Dodd was given what he had to fight against. When you coach at a higher academic school with an administration and a State Board of Regents holding you back, it is amazing what he accomplished. People can argue he shouldn’t have left the SEC, and that is one of those “hindsight is 20/20” things.
Tech certainly faces some headwinds these days. Hopefully the dominos will eventually fall into place
 
donsue said:
I don’t think most Tech fans understand how good Dodd was given what he had to fight against. When you coach at a higher academic school with an administration and a State Board of Regents holding you back, it is amazing what he accomplished. People can argue he shouldn’t have left the SEC, and that is one of those “hindsight is 20/20” things.
Tech certainly faces some headwinds these days. Hopefully the dominos will eventually fall into place
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I’m not sure, but I’m curious to what evidence you have that Tech was limited by those factors in that era. I agree about now don’t get me wrong but I have not heard of the bias present against Tech at the time.
 
BigDanT said:
I’m not sure, but I’m curious to what evidence you have that Tech was limited by those factors in that era. I agree about now don’t get me wrong but I have not heard of the bias present against Tech at the time.
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Dodd referred to it a lot, and several times went to the State Board of Regents to lobby for the chance to expand Tech’s curriculum, to no avail. With some exceptions along the way, the Tech Administration has never made things easier for athletics.
 
GoldenIsle said:
That the GT supporters of the 1960’s did not rise up and stop the administration’s sabotage of the football program. Coming out of the 50’s we had the best stadium in the South and a top notch football program. Then the administration did not do a darn thing to help Dodd keep up with the changing times and he finally said the heck with it in 66. Oh, we’ve had little flashes of success over the years but too many times we find ourselves struggling. When you get my age it really gets old going through these bad or mediocre years so frequently.
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I appreciate what you said and I feel the same way.

I'm 71, and it really means something different to me at my age to hear people say we need to give two more years to any coaching staff that hasn't come close to a winning season in its first three seasons and then clean house and start over. I'm hopeful we'll win today and then surprise ND and have our best game against Georgia. But if we end the year with two one sided losses, I sure don't want to hear about how this staff deserves more time to learn how to coach. At first the argument was that we had a great staff handicapped by a shortage of talent. Now, we have pretty good talent handicapped by a shortage of coaching.
 
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