60 years ago do you think.....
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No. But I also think they wouldn't have imagined that I typed this response on a phone and it went over the entire world in seconds.
Other differences in 1964:
- Tulane was still in the SEC.
- Georgia Tech was on its way out.
- South Carolina was in the ACC.
Do you think they would have imagined getting paid $51 million a year to be a member?
Could they imagine this generation of leaders (boomers) ruining college sports the way they have?
Georgia Tech, thought the SEC was holding them back at the time.
Little did they know.
And They were on a roll of sorts.
Little did they know.
And They were on a roll of sorts.
Hey Goat, I think your mama's calling you for supper. It took more than just boomers to screw up the college sports world this bad. It's all about the money. "Show me the money" is more than just a catch phrase is today's mantra.
They thought they were going to be the Notre Dame of the South. Didn't quite work out that way. Turns out there's a lot more Catholics in the USA than engineers in Georgia.
Rudy was offsides.
One factor was OM’s influence on the state at that time. It wasn’t quite as lopsided as UGA/GA Tech or TN/Vandy is today but it was close. Hard to imagine but between the years of 1955-1970 they essentially had the same level of hype they are currently getting for ‘24, every single year. 90% of the sidewalk fans within the state claimed OM. Similar to Bama fans in Meridian or LSU fans on the coast. Thankfully we don’t face that today, we almost certainly outnumber them within a large portion of the state. We’ve come a long way in that regard.
I know I sound like a broken record on this but Bob Tyler understood this and knew how to fight it....and did. Had we not hired him when we did our future was very uncertain IMO. He changed the attitude of everyone associated with State.....from top to bottom
I don't care for all this realignment and massive expansions. I miss the regional conferences where the teams were in the same section of the country.
Bobby Dodd.
He took an odd moral stance about scholarship limits & when the conference unanimously voted against him, he took his ball and went home. Terrible decision.
He also refused to play us or Ole Miss and bashed the state, saying” Whatever is there a reason to go to Mississippi for…we like to take our fans to exciting places and Mississippi isn’t one.”
17 him. GT got what they deserved for following Dodd.
Georgia Tech is 5-0 against Mississippi State. The closest game was 2009 Tech 42-31.
The first loss was 23-0. The last one was 49-34.
The first loss was 23-0. The last one was 49-34.
I can back this up in spades. Molly Halbert. Wesley Reed.
These were the names you knew.
There were MANY names behind the scenes you don’t know that saved us from oblivion. My dad was one of many.
Now days they don’t even cross anybody’s radar.
I remember as a 3-4 year child my father flying me on a private plane from the delta to Starkville in 1974. Watching the first prescription athletic turf being installed anywhere outside the NFL.
My cousin played for Tyler and the only time I got to see him play was the highlight show with Jack Crystil on Sunday nights.
The local channels aired both State and Ole Miss highlight shows starting around 10 or 11 night.
That and listen to Jack’s radio broadcasts were my only connections as my parents were not interested in sports, they were born in the 1920s
Tyler was the guy that brought State onto the scene. Then Emory B. beat Bama 6-3. I was at work in the grocery store and Jack’s call was broadcasting over the speakers. We all cheered!
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