Bill Curry Espn spot

wgjacket said:
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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Bill Curry is a Tech Man for sure.
 
texstinger said:
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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I did everything I could to get GT players and coaches involved in this project and tell stories for the series hoping to get some good (and free) air time for the school. Coach Curry told a half dozen stories that day and this is the one ESPN chose to air. Over the year and a half I worked on this series we shot 15 or so Tech tie-ins, Roddy Jones, Wes Durham, Coach Johnson, and a bunch more (Calvin canceled on us twice but we did get Gailey talking about him). Days like this remind me we have some of the worst fans in the world. It's right up there with my first time back sitting in the stands since I was being recruited, and some jerk off GT students had security called on me for booing Matt Ryan. Coach Curry was an incredible ambassador for the school and talked glowingly about his time playing and coaching, and what a degree from GT means that day. But sure, why not crap on him and overlook the fact he is on national TV putting the program front and center.
 
GT65_UGA89 said:
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.
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Absolutely correct. The 1990 team was a young team dominated by Ross recruits.
 
mortaqui said:
I did everything I could to get GT players and coaches involved in this project and tell stories for the series hoping to get some good (and free) air time for the school. Coach Curry told a half dozen stories that day and this is the one ESPN chose to air. Over the year and a half I worked on this series we shot 15 or so Tech tie-ins, Roddy Jones, Wes Durham, Coach Johnson, and a bunch more (Calvin canceled on us twice but we did get Gailey talking about him). Days like this remind me we have some of the worst fans in the world. It's right up there with my first time back sitting in the stands since I was being recruited, and some jerk off GT students had security called on me for booing Matt Ryan. Coach Curry was an incredible ambassador for the school and talked glowingly about his time playing and coaching, and what a degree from GT means that day. But sure, why not crap on him and overlook the fact he is on national TV putting the program front and center.
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It really does amaze me some of the stuff I see posted on here. I look at other team’s sites and I don’t see anything like the stuff I see here that bashed people who helped put the program on the map.
 
coit said:
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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You have to respect Bill Curry, but he does have a certain amount of pompous asshole about him.
 
Yeah. Bill has a high opinion of himself and of his opinion. Needs to keep his opinions to himself. It's like anything else, most people don't care about your opinion and of those who do, half will agree with you and half will not. So you end of alienating half of the people that originally were neutral in their opinion of you. I appreciate the good he has done for GT and wish he would limit his remaining time on the planet to doing just that and spare us his other opinions on life.

Go Jackets!
 
Bill Curry would recruit really well when he first arrived at a school, then his recruiting would fade when he never could quite get his kids over the top, happened at GT and 'bama.
 
Curry might be a Tech man, but GT was certainly better because he left. If you believe the 1990 NC was won with his recruits, just look it up. Curry whole time lacked discipline and control. Coach Ross could believe how lax it was and it took him three (3) years to correct the mess. Also, he fired Steve Spurrier and that is what Spurrier ran the score up every time he played a Curry team.
 
The reason fonts are butthurt is because Curry's departure felt like a major betrayal. He was a 'true blue' Tech man, a Dodd protege, and he brought us back from the absolute dead, and he did it with panache and style. The 1985 season was a fantastic year, finishing with only 2 losses, our best since Dodd's last year in 1966. The All-American bowl was our first in seven years, and our first bowl win in 12 years. It felt like we won the Rose Bowl. To beat UGA in '84 and '85, after they'd just torn up the world with Herschel from '80 to '82, was a triumph. It felt like Curry had really resurrected the program. Then he left for greener pastures...

But it is funny how life turns out. In 1989 he gets Alabama to #2 before losing to Auburn and Miami in the Sugar Bowl. A week later he resigns from Alabama to take the UK job (obviously under pressure). Within a year, the girl back home that he spurned wins the MNC that he thought couldn't be done. It had to be both a pleasure to see GT win, and bitter as heck to realize what he'd done. He turned his back on a place that he loved, and that loved him, reaching for the ring, and then we got it and he didn’t. Not the first to make that mistake, but as far as I can tell he has tried to make it up in whatever ways he can ever since. My sense (and I don’t know him personally) is that he regrets the decision to leave Tech.

A friend inside the AA asked me to help support Curry’s application for AD back when Radakovich left, bc my friend did not want Bobinski hired. I tried, though obviously I was ineffectual. Though I realize many don't like him, he would've been a lot better for GT FB than Bobinski, certainly. It's interesting to wonder how CPJ's tenure would've ended differently with an old-school football guy supporting him upstairs.

I disagree that Curry is a significantly worse coach than Bobby Ross, BTW. They're both good coaches.
 
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18in32 said:
...He was a 'true blue' Tech man, a Dodd protege, and he brought us back from the absolute dead, and he did it with panache and style. The 1985 season was a fantastic year, finishing with only 2 losses, our best since Dodd's last year in 1966. The All-American bowl was our first in seven years, and our first bowl win in 12 years. It felt like we won the Rose Bowl. To beat UGA in '84 and '85, after they'd just torn up the world with Herschel from '80 to '82, was a triumph. It felt like Curry had really resurrected the program...
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This back when 6-5, 7-4 didn’t necessarily mean a bowl bid. @18in32 has already covered it pretty well.

I’ll just add a few things for history’s sake; there was an early home loss to UVA, and, back-to-back, a 17-14 loss at home to #8 Auburn, a game GT led into the 4th Q, until Bo Jackson broke a tackle on 3rd and 6 and ran for a 76 yard TD, putting Auburn up 17-14. Next week GT went to Knoxville and led #14 Tennessee 6-0 before 2 4th Q 50+ yard FG’s by UT tied the game 6-6, which is how it ended. Ted Roof had 25 tackles in that game. Then GT beat UGA 20-16 on Gary Lee’s kickoff return.

At 8-2-1, going to the All-American bowl was a big deal, winning it with Todd Rampley starting for suspended John Dewberry was sweet, as was finishing 9-2-1.

1985 was a big year for GT athletics; the baseball team made its first of many consecutive Regionals, the basketball team won the ACC and made the Elite 8, and the football team as mentioned. 1985 was a precursor to 1990 -with a MNC and Final Four.

However, a year later GT would open the football season with a tie at home vs Furman, and the basketball team would make a SE Regional Final, at the Omni, and lose to #11 seed LSU, who went on to the Final Four that year. I remember being at that game, which included Kentucky and Alabama in the other game -sucked having 3 SEC teams fans there. 1986 was just so typical for Tech, couldn’t stand prosperity.

Anyway, this ends today’s GT moments in history.
 
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Curry was/is a good man and leader of men. But he was not a great tactical game day coach. You could count on him to run it up the middle whenever there was a short yardage situation. He was a decent recruiter but not as good as Ross.
 
ricejacket said:
I remember Curry saying Ross the NC with his recruits
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GT65_UGA89 said:
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.
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I agree that it doesn't make any sense, but it happened.

As Kentucky had a bye, CBC was at the Virginia game to see his son play. CBC had an interview during the game where he said STTE that those were "his recruits" on the field. At the time, my dislike for CBC was renewed because of that.
 
goldeagle said:
Problem at Bama was he couldn't beat Auburn.
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I don’t think Curry ever beat Auburn. I think he was 0-12 against Auburn at GT, Bama, and Kentucky. How is that even possible? Curry despite being a good Tech Man is a pompous jerk sometimes. I felt bad for him on that Saturday’s in the south documentary he actually admitted he wasn’t a good enough coach for Alabama. I will always be appreciative of Curry for his two wins over the mutts.
 
ronricks said:
I don’t think Curry ever beat Auburn. I think he was 0-12 against Auburn at GT, Bama, and Kentucky. How is that even possible? Curry despite being a good Tech Man is a pompous jerk sometimes. I felt bad for him on that Saturday’s in the south documentary he actually admitted he wasn’t a good enough coach for Alabama. I will always be appreciative of Curry for his two wins over the mutts.
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He beat Bama though. My first game as a student was in 1984 and a 20-16 win over Bama at Tech. The frat parties were outrageous that night!
 
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