Roll Bama Roll - Tech and Bama postpone series indefinitely...
Sad day for Tech and Bama fans hoping to reignite old rivalries. Some say it's Tech positioning itself for a move to the SEC. Some say it's schedule wussification. Some say it's Bama backing out to generate more revenue with an additional home game... Time will tell.
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Bummer
Hope it’s not because of “Tech positioning itself for a move to the SEC.” That would be unfortunate.
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yeah
I don’t know. The same old people that hate the SEC are the same old people that want us back in the SEC. Money talks but sometimes it’s better to just be your own man. Stick up for what Dodd did back in the day and that other honorable stuff.
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You guys wouldn’t have many friends on the academic front. You could chill with Vanderbilt and … well, that’s pretty much it.
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Want enough money to fire Hewitt?
Join the SEC. Done.
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I don't think it's Tech chickening out,
because that’s a sellout at home, and money trumps any of that stuff.
It could be that Alabama, like Ole Miss, wanted to schedule someone else.
I hope, though, that it’s for rejoining the SEC.
What Dodd stuck up for (scholarship limits, integration) were non-issues before the end of that decade.
I grew up watching SEC football, and Tech was playing practically a full SEC schedule while I was on the Flats.
Until 1987 Auburn was the team that Tech had played the most. Auburn was the first team Tech played in football. Our series with Auburn is pretty darned close. Auburn students used to have a parade every year before our game. Auburn is, historically, Tech’s #2 rival. #1 is also an SEC team.
It’s not just about money, although that wouldn’t hurt. It’s about playing our historic traditional rivals.
Heck, Tech is mentioned in Alabama’s fight song.
I’m sure it’s different for all you youngsters who grew up with Tech in the ACC, but I am not one of you.
well, tech and auburn both benefited from the services of a particular coach back in the day.
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the tuscaloosa news has just posted a new story on this
and, according to Alabama’s athletic director Mal Moore, the postponement of the series was requested by georgia tech AD Dan Radakovich and then agreed to by Alabama. no details on why the request was made (or granted) have been forthcoming yet.
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disappointing either way.
Was looking forward to that series hugely both in Atlanta and Tuscaloosa. I wanted to check out those Bama girls in Bear hats personally.
by Winfield Featherston on May 1, 2010 5:11 PM EDT up reply actions
Unless I missed something
going back through the records, I don’t think Tech has ever played in Tuscaloosa. All the Bama away games were in Birmingham.
yeah
but they surely would have been played in Tusaloosa this time around right?
by Winfield Featherston on May 1, 2010 5:31 PM EDT up reply actions
not quite
georgia tech traveled to tuscaloosa on Oct. 22, 1910 and the john heisman-led yellowjackets served up a 36-0 beatdown on the crimson tide on the UA quad. at the time alabama was led by first-year coach guy lowman whose 4-4 record earned him an invitation not to return in 1911.
according to my scrutiny of the alabama media guide every other game in the series played at “home” has been in birmingham.
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I missed that one
Interestingly enough, that was Tech’s only road game that year. It was seventeen years before Legion Field was built, so there probably wasn’t an alternative.
Once Legion Field was built Tech played all road games against Alabama there until, well, the last one in the ’80s, and all road games against Auburn there until 1970.
that doesn't seem to be the case, actually
there were a number of locales in birmingham to play prior to the construction of legion field and tech visited several of them.
the first game in the series was on thanksgiving day, 1902 and it was in birmingham. i assume it was at west end park where several of the other games were played that season, including the auburn contest.
the next time the game was played in alabama it was the 1910 contest in tuscaloosa.
it wasn’t until 1914 that georgia tech returned to the yellow hammer state to play the crimson tide at rickwood field in birmingham. the highly favored yellowjackets were upset in that contest, 16-0 by an alabama team that would be the foundation for the first true era of greatness in crimson tide lore.
the next time georgia tech played the tide in alabama was in 1935 which marked the first the first time the two teams met at legion field which would be the venue for all the contests in birmingham from then on.
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Sure
Bryant-Denny is now bigger than Legion Field (since 1999), and reports are that Legion Field is not in very good shape.
the upper deck at legion field was removed several years ago
which has reduced the capacity to 71,500. the expansion to byrant-denny stadium – slated for completion by the start of next season – will put its capacity at 101,000.
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dude,
are you just on some mission to be a dick on as many sb nation blogs as possible or what?
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Paul Johnson isn't afraid of anyone...
…in the regular season.
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Ha!
And D-Rad for sure didn’t give up that sellout without a good reason.
When Alabama came to town a lot of old retired fans would roll into town early in the week and set up their RVs in the parking lot of the Tit. I was working at WREK, which was in Coliseum Annex at the time (which is how I knew where the car lived), and I talked to several of them. There were wonderful, friendly people, quick to invite us to join them for dinner.
And, seriously, any animosity I may have felt for Alabama
disappeared when they hired Bill Curry. What a happy day that was.
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