Dooley dead

BigDanT said:
Wait, Tech fans cheered for what?
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Back then, things were different. A lot of people felt like Southern teams were not given fair consideration in polls compared to northern teams. If a Southern team beat a northern team, many fans of rival Southern teams would be happy about it. It may seem impossible to believe, but that's how many Southern football fans felt back then.
 
Dooley was told when he was hired he had to beat Tech. Tech had beaten UGA 11 times out of the previous 15 years. I believe it was Dan Magill who told Dooley that UGA had to take away Dodd’s recruiting hold on Atlanta. About this same time the Tech administration decided that just being a solid student wasn’t good enough and wanted to be an Ivy League school and down play the football program. Also Tech had just left the SEC. These events were the beginning of the end of Tech as a football power in the South. I believe with a supportive administration Dodd would have coached another 3-5 years and if we had kept up with the changing times in college football we would still be a player in big time college football. Leaving the SEC didn’t help either. Anyway, RIP Vince Dooley, you definitely won the battle with Tech.
 
Vince Dooley provided a great memory to me......Gary Lee running right past his ass... The look on his face was priceless.
GoldenIsle said:
Dooley was told when he was hired he had to beat Tech. Tech had beaten UGA 11 times out of the previous 15 years. I believe it was Dan Magill who told Dooley that UGA had to take away Dodd’s recruiting hold on Atlanta. About this same time the Tech administration decided that just being a solid student wasn’t good enough and wanted to be an Ivy League school and down play the football program. Also Tech had just left the SEC. These events were the beginning of the end of Tech as a football power in the South. I believe with a supportive administration Dodd would have coached another 3-5 years and if we had kept up with the changing times in college football we would still be a player in big time college football. Leaving the SEC didn’t help either. Anyway, RIP Vince Dooley, you definitely won the battle with Tech.
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Well, what you are saying is that Dooley benefited from the dumbing down of Tech football, not the building up of the cesspool. I hardly think Dooley should be hoisted for that. Recruiting with community college standards and having fake classes by Jan Kemp or whatever the fraud's name was and beating Tech is nothing of a legacy.
 
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GoldenIsle said:
Dooley was told when he was hired he had to beat Tech. Tech had beaten UGA 11 times out of the previous 15 years. I believe it was Dan Magill who told Dooley that UGA had to take away Dodd’s recruiting hold on Atlanta. About this same time the Tech administration decided that just being a solid student wasn’t good enough and wanted to be an Ivy League school and down play the football program. Also Tech had just left the SEC. These events were the beginning of the end of Tech as a football power in the South. I believe with a supportive administration Dodd would have coached another 3-5 years and if we had kept up with the changing times in college football we would still be a player in big time college football. Leaving the SEC didn’t help either. Anyway, RIP Vince Dooley, you definitely won the battle with Tech.
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A lot of good points in your post. In actuality, Dooley really didn’t so much win any battle with Tech, Tech lost to itself​
 
The Wasp said:
Vince Dooley provided a great memory to me......Gary Lee running right past his ass... The look on his face was priceless.

Well, what you are saying is that Dooley benefited from the dumbing down of Tech football, not the building up of the cesspool. I hardly think Dooley should be hoisted for that. Recruiting with community college standards and having fake classes by Jan Kemp or whatever the fraud's name was and beating Tech is nothing of a legacy.
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At the time beating Tech was pretty important to UGA … Tech was dominating that series.
 
Did you guys know that death is forever? It is, there is no coming back. This guy may as well have never even existed. Pathetic.
 
donsue said:
In actuality, Dooley really didn’t so much win any battle with Tech, Tech lost to itself
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That’s our #1 shortcoming. We see the path to victory, then erect 20 roadblocks in the way to make it so ööööing hard you want to slit your throat.
 
RIP to a legend of the sport in our region. We can hate Ugag vigorously without celebrating the death of a coach. My aunt knew him well as she was very close to Michael Adams and even more so Jere Morehead now. Met him a dozen or so times in person. He was a very nice man and person. He also had a healthy appreciation/respect for Tech as a program and institution, something most folks don't really know existed.
 
YellowJacket4Life said:
RIP to a legend of the sport in our region. We can hate Ugag vigorously without celebrating the death of a coach. My aunt knew him well as she was very close to Michael Adams and even more so Jere Morehead now. Met him a dozen or so times in person. He was a very nice man and person. He also had a healthy appreciation/respect for Tech as a program and institution, something most folks don't really know existed.
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Vince always said that Dodd was one of his role models concerning coaching philosophy ie… strong running game, good defense, and good kicking game.
 
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CiraldoForever said:
Vince Dooley was a great coach. I've pulled against Georgia every time they did anything, but, in my opinion, they have had some really good coaches. I was at the "flea flicker" game where they scored on a trick play, went for two, won and beat Bear Bryant's Bama team. It was also early in his tenure that they went to Ann Arbor and upset Michigan. I was at the Tech game that day and, when they announced Georgia had beaten Michigan, it was the biggest cheer in Grant Field all afternoon, even though Tech won, against Clemson, I think. He was a good man. He loved history. His wife was nice, too. He was always a gentleman. A credit to the school I pull against almost every week.
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Yes he was. In 1977 during my office visit with him, he, himself, brought up that his and my birthdates (not birth years) are a day apart. He had done his homework on LFD. Impressive!
 
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