New Offensive Coordinator - Buster Faulkner - (UGa)

Akinji07 said:
The coolest thing I learned about Coors this year is that it wasn’t sold east of Mississippi back in the 70s so people thought it was a premium beer in the South.
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There was a lot more than just Coors that you couldn't get in Atlanta back then. The major distributors had it locked down. We used to have a party at the beginning of each quarter where everyone would bring their local beer when they returned from home - Coors, Iron City, Yeungling, National Boh, Jax and Dixie, Lone Star. It seems strange that we used to have to do it.
 
Akinji07 said:
The coolest thing I learned about Coors this year is that it wasn’t sold east of Mississippi back in the 70s so people thought it was a premium beer in the South.
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Burt Reynolds made a documentary about this very fact in the late 70. Filmed some of it around the south side of Atlanta, as a matter of fact.

JRjr
 
byteback said:
Does anyone know if he's related to the Faulkner family that gave us Gary Faulkner who played for GT back in the early 70s.

He was coach at Tattnall Square Academy in the late 1970s and laid the groundwork for that school to become a powerhouse in the private schools league.

GO JACKETS!!
byteback
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Perhaps a distant cousin or nephew of some sort...... Gary was originally from Gray & Jones County High School just northeast of Macon.... about a 30 year age difference, too.

Buster had some pretty good teammates at Parkview.... one of the A-A OL Stinchcombs and GT's Jeremy Muyres.
 
clapper said:
There was a lot more than just Coors that you couldn't get in Atlanta back then. The major distributors had it locked down. We used to have a party at the beginning of each quarter where everyone would bring their local beer when they returned from home - Coors, Iron City, Yeungling, National Boh, Jax and Dixie, Lone Star. It seems strange that we used to have to do it.
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I made it to Yuengling being a rare beer you couldn’t find in Atlanta back in 2002. One of my best friends freshman year was from Pottsville, PA and he brought a case of Yuengling when he came back to campus from winter break.
 
ronricks said:
Played youth sports with Buster growing up.
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byteback said:
Does anyone know if he's related to the Faulkner family that gave us Gary Faulkner who played for GT back in the early 70s.

He was coach at Tattnall Square Academy in the late 1970s and laid the groundwork for that school to become a powerhouse in the private schools league.

GO JACKETS!!
byteback
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I wondered that myself.

Gary was from Gray, GA and unfortunately passed away about five years ago in his mid-sixties.
 
ScionOfSouthland said:
I have a white lace up pair in a memory box somewhere in the basement. My mother sewed bells onto the heels so she could keep track of me. I developed a habit early of using the doorknob and with several older siblings it was rarely locked.
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Your mother sewed my earlobes to her heels so she could keep track of me.
 
Akinji07 said:
The coolest thing I learned about Coors this year is that it wasn’t sold east of Mississippi back in the 70s so people thought it was a premium beer in the South.
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On our high school senior trip to PCB in ‘83 Coors had recently become available in Florida, so, with our ridiculously awful fake ID’s, we bought two cases and a keg. I recall a lot of Hunch Punch on that trip as well.
 
Faulkner played for Chris Hatcher, another Air Raid disciple (and a pretty good guy).
He was OC at VSU under David Dean, who played at Tech.
Dean was OC under Hatch. Kirby was on the staff at the same time for a couple of years. So Kirby was coaching at VSU when Faulkner was playing there, if I have my timeline right.
 
Back in 1975 I was a merchandiser for Munford ( Majik Markets remember those) & we were redoing an independent Majik Market in Charleston,SC & they were selling six packs of Coors for $6 , the only place I ever saw it in the East back then & I worked Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, & Florida panhandle area back then. On trips out West the last few years I have purchased Rainier beer ( Longmire's brand).
 
swampsting said:
Faulkner played for Chris Hatcher, another Air Raid disciple (and a pretty good guy).
He was OC at VSU under David Dean, who played at Tech.
Dean was OC under Hatch. Kirby was on the staff at the same time for a couple of years. So Kirby was coaching at VSU when Faulkner was playing there, if I have my timeline right.
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Ah yes... The Hatch Attack! I remember lobbying DRAD for him to come to Tech, when we hired CPJ. I had no idea who CPJ was, at the time, but I'm glad that we got him... I still love the option! :)
 
M39Buzz said:
Ah yes... The Hatch Attack! I remember lobbying DRAD for him to come to Tech, when we hired CPJ. I had no idea who CPJ was, at the time, but I'm glad that we got him... I still love the option! :)
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I met Hatcher when he was coaching at Southern and I got along great with him. It was clear he had to get the locker room to trust him after the reign of error and terror foisted upon them by Van Gorder . (Van Gorder didn't think Jayson Foster could play. He was Walter Payton Award winner under Hatcher. Which only goes to show just how stupid Van Gorder really was).
He got Samford into the FCS playoffs this year.
I wonder how much of that kind of offense Faulkner will bring with him.
 
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