Good God Almighty!! If you have watched GT for the last four or five decades and don't believe in magic, then you are clearly blind or willfully obtuse. Going from 3-8 to MNC to 1-10 in essentially one recruiting cycle??? Explain that. We had a 16 game ACC losing streak, were 5-22 in the two plus years before the magic kicked in, and then won a NC in the next 15 months. In 1980/81 we went 2-19-1. Against #1 or #2 ranked teams in those years, we were 1-1-1. Against the rest of the schedule we were 1-18-0. Somebody please explain how this is possible within the laws of cause and effect? We have essentially played mighty Clemson with all their advantages to a draw since we joined the ACC. That's over a 30+ year sample size. You think what they have going now is permanent? You have no historical perspective. Since division play started in the ACC, we are essentially even with Clemson and VT, a couple of heartbreakers away from even with Miami, and pretty much manhandled the rest of the ACC. How?? With the exception of Clemson, who in the ACC would you trade places with right now? Give me a logical reason why we should not be UVA or UNC or WF or NC State or BC? Facilities, fan base, alumni support, academic ineptitude? Somebody explain to me in non-magical terms just exactly how a relatively small university with high academic requirements, a generally apathetic alumni base, small budget, trying to play and recruit in the middle of SEC country, with often one of the toughest schedules in the nation accomplishes what Tech does. This is God's trick on us. Take the fan base that worships logic and smack them between the eyes with a magic 2X4. Their pride won't let them accept the obvious, so we wallow in the misery of conflicting and irreconcilable analysis. "Change this or change that" we yell when really we should just sit back and salivate at the magic to come as it always inevitably does.
