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I knew Tony well as another member of the Class of ‘77. He was a great guy. I did not know he was born in Taiwan. Our class had some good football players - Tony, David Sims, Elliot Price, Pat Moriarity, Mike Johnson, Jay Garrett, Leo Tierney, Tony Head, Danny Rhino, John Steele, Don Breece and Gil Kyle come to mind. They were an undefeated freshman team. I tutored some and some were classmates and all of them I got to know were bright, kind and all around good guys.
 
77GTFan said:
I knew Tony well as another member of the Class of ‘77. He was a great guy. I did not know he was born in Taiwan. Our class had some good football players - Tony, David Sims, Elliot Price, Pat Moriarity, Mike Johnson, Jay Garrett, Leo Tierney, Tony Head, Danny Rhino, John Steele, Don Breece and Gil Kyle come to mind. They were an undefeated freshman team. I tutored some and some were classmates and all of them I got to know were bright, kind and all around good guys.
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He carried a 3.6 GPA (or GPR as Tech called it back then) in Electrical Engineering. His senior year, he changed to IE and his GPA dropped to 3.3. He blamed me.
 
77GTFan said:
I knew Tony well as another member of the Class of ‘77. He was a great guy. I did not know he was born in Taiwan. Our class had some good football players - Tony, David Sims, Elliot Price, Pat Moriarity, Mike Johnson, Jay Garrett, Leo Tierney, Tony Head, Danny Rhino, John Steele, Don Breece and Gil Kyle come to mind. They were an undefeated freshman team. I tutored some and some were classmates and all of them I got to know were bright, kind and all around good guys.
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Good list but Elliot and Leo came to Tech in the Fall of '72 and redshirted.
 
golftango18yankeejuliet said:
He carried a 3.6 GPA (or GPR as Tech called it back then) in Electrical Engineering. His senior year, he changed to IE and his GPA dropped to 3.3. He blamed me.
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NFW....It is not humanly possible to have that high of a GPA in EE. nope...no way....Unless he was not human?
 
golftango18yankeejuliet said:
He carried a 3.6 GPA (or GPR as Tech called it back then) in Electrical Engineering. His senior year, he changed to IE and his GPA dropped to 3.3. He blamed me.
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As an IE, It seems counterintuitive to me that an EE's GPA would DROP three-tenths of a point after transitioning over to IE :dunno: .
Let's not forget NJ's Bob "Big Mutha" Curley, the nickname given to him by legendary Labor Relations prof Mac Moore as part of that Class of 1977.
Given all that talent 77GTFan referenced, I never understood how a team with so much firepower wound up finishing 4-6-1 in 1972 :dunno:.
 
Ramblin' Dan said:
As an IE, It seems counterintuitive to me that an EE's GPA would DROP three-tenths of a point after transitioning over to IE :dunno: .
Let's not forget NJ's Bob "Big Mutha" Curley, the nickname given to him by legendary Labor Relations prof Mac Moore as part of that Class of 1977.
Given all that talent 77GTFan referenced, I never understood how a team with so much firepower wound up finishing 4-6-1 in 1972 :dunno:.
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Lack of defense. The 1976 team gave up over 30 points 4 times. That was the hallmark of Pepper’s teams…all O and spotty D
 
donsue said:
Lack of defense. The 1976 team gave up over 30 points 4 times. That was the hallmark of Pepper’s teams…all O and spotty D
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It was strange but there were a couple of things that effected the record that year. The injury bug (although not as bad as 1975) continued into '76 but the main thing was that we opened the season with a new offense and a true freshman quarterback. I know that most people are thinking it was Gary Lanier but it wasn't. Gary's playing time in the first few games came as the "pooch punter" (Pepper's name for it). The main qb at the beginning of the season was Mike Jolly and we ran the veer with a little wishbone thrown in. Gary's playing time as qb came a few games into the season and increased until he became the starter. The week of the notre dame game (after a horrible offensive showing at Duke) Gary was named the starter and Pepper put the wishbone back in as the only offense we ran.Yes, it was accomplished in one week and everyone knows what happened.

As far as the defense, 5 of the 11 starters played in the NFL (6 on the offense) and that doesn't include the best athlete on the defense, Mackel Harris. We held an nd team with Joe Montana and Vagas Ferguson to 14 points. Also, #4 ugag (averaging 31 points a game) had to force a fumble and kick a field goal on the last play of the game to beat us 13-10. We definitely played better in the second half of the season when we got some starters back and settled on Gary starting and running the wishbone.
 
Ramblin' Dan said:
As an IE, It seems counterintuitive to me that an EE's GPA would DROP three-tenths of a point after transitioning over to IE :dunno: .
Let's not forget NJ's Bob "Big Mutha" Curley, the nickname given to him by legendary Labor Relations prof Mac Moore as part of that Class of 1977.
Given all that talent 77GTFan referenced, I never understood how a team with so much firepower wound up finishing 4-6-1 in 1972 :dunno:.
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First, as far as his GPA, during preseason practice, Tony found a four bedroom apartment at Plymouth Colony off of Shallowford Rd and he, his younger brother, my younger brother, and I moved in. I wasn't quite as dedicated to attending classes and studying as Tony was. I ended up getting out after a 7 year, Bluto-like academic experience. Several of the team's post game parties occurred in that apartment and I think Tony had a good time. Obviously too good but it didn't effect him later in life. No harm - no foul. Also, I'm sure it was a typo, but, in 1972, we were 7-4-1 with a victory in the Liberty Bowl.
 
Inconsistency killed the ‘76 team that went 4-6-1. We win at Auburn. We beat Notre Dame. We lose to Duke and Navy on either side of the Notre Dame win. We are driving to beat or tie Cotton Bowl bound Georgia at the end of the game when Adrian Rucker fumbles in Georgia territory. I think two opening losses to a good South Carolina team and great Pitt (eventual national champs) killed momentum. After tying Clemson and losing to Tennessee they knew there would be no bowl. The last half of the season they got up for the big boys and mailed it in against the rest. Replacing Myers at QB was not easy that year, either.
 
77GTFan said:
Inconsistency killed the ‘76 team that went 4-6-1. We win at Auburn. We beat Notre Dame. We lose to Duke and Navy on either side of the Notre Dame win. We are driving to beat or tie Cotton Bowl bound Georgia at the end of the game when Adrian Rucker fumbles in Georgia territory. I think two opening losses to a good South Carolina team and great Pitt (eventual national champs) killed momentum. After tying Clemson and losing to Tennessee they knew there would be no bowl. The last half of the season they got up for the big boys and mailed it in against the rest. Replacing Myers at QB was not easy that year, either.
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ND was Homecoming. I recall GT had an NCAA leading string of HC wins leading into the ND game.
 
golftango18yankeejuliet said:
First, as far as his GPA, during preseason practice, Tony found a four bedroom apartment at Plymouth Colony off of Shallowford Rd and he, his younger brother, my younger brother, and I moved in. I wasn't quite as dedicated to attending classes and studying as Tony was. I ended up getting out after a 7 year, Bluto-like academic experience. Several of the team's post game parties occurred in that apartment and I think Tony had a good time. Obviously too good but it didn't effect him later in life. No harm - no foul. Also, I'm sure it was a typo, but, in 1972, we were 7-4-1 with a victory in the Liberty Bowl.
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Yeah, I meant to type 1976 with the 4-6-1 record. I wasn't on campus yet in 1972. Getting old blows :facepalm:.
 
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