Increased Tech Athletics Budget

DeepSnap said:
Dodd DID NOT want Carson - Dodd wanted Doug Dickey from UT, had offered him the job & was driving back to Atlanta from Knoxville after meeting with Dickey.

After Dodd talked to Harrison to tell him Dickey had accepted the offer, Harrison ordered Dodd to call Dickey & renege on the offer. Carson was Harrison's man, not Dodd's. BTW, neither Ray Graves nor Frank Broyles wanted to follow Dodd & Jim Carlen had burned his GT bridges the year before. Both Graves & Broyles were about to step into "legendary status" at UF & Arky & didn't need the aggravation in Atlanta.

Nationally, USC(Real), ND, Cal, Michigan State (HFC Duffy Daugherty & RB Eric "Flea" Allen, future NFL HoFer Joe DeLamellieure, All NFL LB Brad Van Pelt, and Cowboys legend TE Billy Joe Dupree), Pitt (with Johnny Majors as HFC & some guy named Dorsett) and a host of others hit the already difficult quasi-SEC-legacy schedule we played. And Clemson was starting to get some future NFL players in, too.... Charlie Waters & Bennie Cunningham to name two.

Every bad decision only led to another until Homer Rice broke the chain, & even Homer had his moments.

THWG!
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I probably knew all that at the time, but I didn't remember it. I thought Harrison was a better president than that. WOW
 
Curry also sent Spurrier packing after Pepper was let go...
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
It sort of made sense at the time, and if Dodd had actually scheduled, or been able to schedule, some real NATIONAL competition, it is at last possible that we could have become the "Notre Dame of the South", which he said he wanted. But the schedules we ended up with were TERRIBLE. Now was that his fault or just the lay of the land, so to speak? No idea. But on top of leaving the SEC and not having good schedules, we then hired Bud Carson. Dodd didn't want Carson to replace him, but I don't remember him having any better options, and nobody else stepped up. The whole series of events was a total disaster, which only got worse with time.
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The schedule is on the AD, who at the time was.... Dodd should have known what the schedule was going to look like before he burned the bridge. Overall it was a poorly planned and poorly thought out decision.
 
aeromech said:
Academically it made sense, athletically not so much.
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Being an independent gave us access to top programs and avoid the 'cheating' SEC teams that Dodd had issues with. But I wasn't around then, just going by what the (good?) word was when I volunteered at the AA.
 
DeepSnap said:
Dodd DID NOT want Carson - Dodd wanted Doug Dickey from UT, had offered him the job & was driving back to Atlanta from Knoxville after meeting with Dickey.

After Dodd talked to Harrison to tell him Dickey had accepted the offer, Harrison ordered Dodd to call Dickey & renege on the offer. Carson was Harrison's man, not Dodd's. BTW, neither Ray Graves nor Frank Broyles wanted to follow Dodd & Jim Carlen had burned his GT bridges the year before. Both Graves & Broyles were about to step into "legendary status" at UF & Arky & didn't need the aggravation in Atlanta.

Nationally, USC(Real), ND, Cal, Michigan State (HFC Duffy Daugherty & RB Eric "Flea" Allen, future NFL HoFer Joe DeLamellieure, All NFL LB Brad Van Pelt, and Cowboys legend TE Billy Joe Dupree), Pitt (with Johnny Majors as HFC & some guy named Dorsett) and a host of others hit the already difficult quasi-SEC-legacy schedule we played. And Clemson was starting to get some future NFL players in, too.... Charlie Waters & Bennie Cunningham to name two.

Every bad decision only led to another until Homer Rice broke the chain, & even Homer had his moments.

THWG!
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Doug Dickey was set to have his best year ever at UT in 1967, the same year we hired Carson as HC. I have my doubts he would have left UT at that point to take over the GT quagmire. After '67 Dickey's record became mostly mediocre, it is hard to say he would have done better at GT than Carson would have. Maybe he would have been a little better assuming he would have even came; but I doubt he would have been able to save the program from it's future.
 
BuzzCzar said:
Being an independent gave us access to top programs and avoid the 'cheating' SEC teams that Dodd had issues with. But I wasn't around then, just going by what the (good?) word was when I volunteered at the AA.
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We did neither of those things. We kept the SEC schedule and didn't pick up any new top program rivals. Rice made the comment that when he came onboard we had the toughest schedule in the SEC (UGA, UT, & AUB were three top 20 programs) and we weren't even in the conference. Dodd may have had issues with the SEC teams; but he kept scheduling them :facepalm:.
 
aeromech said:
Would we be as academically strong as we are today had we stayed in the SEC. :dunno: That's an aspect we really haven't discussed.
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Yes, I believe we would have been, but it would almost likely have hurt us just as much in athletics as it has by not remaining in the SEC. So, in other words, no difference at all
 
aeromech said:
We did neither of those things. We kept the SEC schedule and didn't pick up any new top program rivals. Rice made the comment that when he came onboard we had the toughest schedule in the SEC (UGA, UT, & AUB were three top 20 programs) and we weren't even in the conference. Dodd may have had issues with the SEC teams; but he kept scheduling them :facepalm:.
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But all that SEC competition ran out as the years passed by. I don't know whether it was Tech or the SEC schools that let it happen, but it did, in fact, happen.
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
But all that SEC competition ran out as the years passed by. I don't know whether it was Tech or the SEC schools that let it happen, but it did, in fact, happen.
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I am pretty sure that Rice got us out of those SEC series. I think UT and AUB liked coming to Atlanta for the nearly automatic win. It was rare for GT to pull off that rare underdog win like we did against Bama. The exception being the Mississippi schools who I think were more than glad to be able to give us the middle finger by ending the series.
 
ee8384 said:
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Seems consistent with what I posted... The chart there covers 4.5 years. If you look at just the past year on that chart, it only went up 2.395% versus what it was a year earlier. In other words, inflation was bad following COVID but has slowed.

So Tech's budget increased by 7.8% in the past fiscal year but inflation only like 3.5% in the past fiscal year.

If you looked at Tech's budget since 2020 it probably hasn't increased versus inflation. But in the past fiscal year it looks like it did.
 
aeromech said:
I am pretty sure that Rice got us out of those SEC series. I think UT and AUB liked coming to Atlanta for the nearly automatic win. It was rare for GT to pull off that rare underdog win like we did against Bama. The exception being the Mississippi schools who I think were more than glad to be able to give us the middle finger by ending the series.
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Rice had to since we joined the ACC, and sadly, there was no longer any room for our traditional rivals on the schedule. It's not like he summarily ended those series; there just wasn't room for them.
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
Rice had to since we joined the ACC, and sadly, there was no longer any room for our traditional rivals on the schedule. It's not like he summarily ended those series; there just wasn't room for them.
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Actually there was room for them. We could have replaced Furman and whoever else our out of conference games were had their been a desire to maintain the series with either AUB or UT. Truth may hurt; but we didn't want the series. We even tore down the south stands because they only served to make us lose home field advantage during those games. We actually shrank the stadium to keep them out, let that sink in. After we got the football program back on track we started adding some SEC foes to our schedule including AUB.
 
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