Tech football Rushmore

[TechRush]

Mr. Nesbitt would like a word with you.

There is no stone strong enough to hold Joshua ööööing Nesbitt's solemn gaze.

 

[justafan]

Rushmore is to remind the future of the greats of our time. As a Tech fan only since 2000, here are my 4.

1. O'Leary
2. Godsey
3. Johnson
4. Thomas

The best two coaches of this millennium and each of their best quarterbacks during that time. (Close call with Nesbitt.)

Godsey for his heroism versus Georgia and because the guy earned an electrical engineering degree. Peak GT.

Thomas for the many clutch wins he pulled off.

 

[zippyGT]

4 National Championships under 4 different coaches.

Heisman, Alexander, Dodd and Ross.

I don't believe there is a single school with more than 4 different coaches to win a National Championship. I know that was true in the late 90s but someone may have caught up with us since then.

How do we fit Key on there, or do we carve over someone else?

 

[RoanokeJacket]

Just amongst y'all you have mentioned more that 4 I would have trouble winnowing down.

 

[BackstreetBuzz]

Well, if you want the monument to stay standing, I would suggest Joe Guyon, Roy Simmons, Eddie McAshan and Paul Johnson’s mother.

 

[gnats67]

Dodd.

 

[yellowbritchies]

4 National Championships under 4 different coaches.

Heisman, Alexander, Dodd and Ross.

I don't believe there is a single school with more than 4 different coaches to win a National Championship. I know that was true in the late 90s but someone may have caught up with us since then.

Winner! If you get into best/great players , that's going down a rabbit hole!!

 

[BuzzLaw]

Chattanooga paper's columnist posed this musical question today:
Pick your college's football Rushmore.
Doesn't have to be a player. Could be a coach. Hell, could be the radio guy. Even the mascot.
Or even Jan Kemp.
I gave him Dodd, Calvin, Robert Lavette (just over Joe Hamilton) and ...
Jan Kemp.
The columnist is born and bred Smyrna and shot back with a what about the young left-hander (he knew the Kings) and Ciraldo? For a SEC guy, he knows his Tech lore better than most.
Instead of more hand wringing over realignment and the future - or suicide blondeing - of college football, something fun a couple of weeks before game start might not be a bad way to kill time.

I think most of us prefer the hand wringing

 

[BuzzLaw]

Mr. Nesbitt would like a word with you.

Mr Thomas would too.

 

[swampsting]

4 National Championships under 4 different coaches.

Heisman, Alexander, Dodd and Ross.

I don't believe there is a single school with more than 4 different coaches to win a National Championship. I know that was true in the late 90s but someone may have caught up with us since then.

Rockne
Leahy
Parseghian
Devine
Holtz

 

[The Champ]

Dodd sent the program on a downward trek when he pulled us out of the sec, a move that looks worse and worse in the current climate. Interesting that some still consider him the first name that comes to their mind as the most important figure in program history. Maybe most only factoring in his coaching.

That said, I can’t really think of 4 more influential names.

 

[IM79]

4 National Championships under 4 different coaches.

Heisman, Alexander, Dodd and Ross.

I don't believe there is a single school with more than 4 different coaches to win a National Championship. I know that was true in the late 90s but someone may have caught up with us since then.

I think Alabama has.

 

[BrentwoodJacket]

If we separate players and coaches

Coaches: Heisman, Alexander, Dodd, Ross

Players: Calvin, Joe, Lothridge, Shawn Jones

On the player list Clint Castleberry, Everett Strupper from the 1917 National Championship team and Peter Pund from the 1928 National Championship team should be included.

 

[RamblinWreck27]

Under the OP stated rules of any thing or person associated with the program:

The Ramblin Wreck, Heisman, JHamiltion, CJohnson

 

[thracer]

Waffle House, 404, Money Down, Turtlenecks

(just kidding)

 

[Flywheel]

Have 4 coaches who won natties. Why is this even a discussion?

 

[BainbridgeJacket]

I don't care who's on it, so long as it's carved into a culturally sensitive site that pisses off Native Americans.

 

[goldeagle]

Rushmore is to remind the future of the greats of our time. As a Tech fan only since 2000, here are my 4.

1. O'Leary
2. Godsey
3. Johnson
4. Thomas

The best two coaches of this millennium and each of their best quarterbacks during that time. (Close call with Nesbitt.)

Godsey for his heroism versus Georgia and because the guy earned an electrical engineering degree. Peak GT.

Thomas for the many clutch wins he pulled off.

Thought Godsey was an IE?

 

[DeepSnap]

I think Alabama has.

Wallace Wade, Frank Thomas, Bear Bryant, Gene Stallings, & Nick Saban say hello.

 

[justafan]

Thought Godsey was an IE?

You're right

I was thinking of George P Godsey