Georgia Tech defeats Texas Tech in 1970 Sun Bowl

Remember that game. Rock, what a name.

What’s funny about my memory of that game is that I never had any doubt that Tech would win. Reading the box score makes the game sound much closer than it felt like while watching it.

Two of Tech’s biggest stars that year were both considered undersized for their positions, Rock Perdoni and Brent Cunningham.

Rock Perdoni was barely 5’ 11’’ but packed in over 245 pounds of pure muscle on his frame. He was a body builder and opposing players back then did not having the strength and conditioning training advantages that all players have today. As a result Rock could cave in any offensive lineman he faced. Against Notre Dame he ran straight through two linemen, clobbered the ball carrier and recovered the fumble.

Brent Cunningham was maybe 5’ 7" as I recall and perhaps 170 pounds on a good day, though I think the program always tried to list him a little heavier. But he was fast, shifty and had a way of squeezing through small holes in the line. He was fun to watch. His nickname was the “Little Scooter from Eatonton, Georgia.”

The other thing the article did not clarify is that Eddie McAshan (pronounced Mac-shan) was not only the first African American at Tech, he was the first in the entire South to play at a predominately white institution. Bud Carson was seriously criticized by some for this and I vividly recall a bunch of Georgia fans that were sitting around me at THE GAME saying how they were going to organize to get him fired. They wrote awful letters pretending to be Tech alumni. To this day I can’t stand to see the trolls on the Atlanta Journal and Constitution blogs who pose as Tech fans and blast Paul Johnson. Sorry to get started on that. It is a very sore memory for me.

…Independence. Not splitting revenues, playing all our rivals with a mixed schedule. Sounds good to me. Why did football independence not work for Tech? What drove us to join a conference again?

their hoops $$ tripled.

ACC>Metro Conference

Also, when you aren’t winning, it’s nice to get a taste of everybody else’s Bowl Receipts (if any).

Touchdown Jesus can do it cause they’ve got NBC and 1 billion Catholics.

We couldn’t do it, but we did have some great schedules: BC, Navy Touchdown Jesus, USCw, TN, Bama, Auburn, etc.

My earliest real memory of watching a GT game was the 1978 UGA game which we lost by a point. I was pulling for GT even though I wasn’t a fan at the time, but I’ve NEVER liked UGA for some reason. Probably the first GT game I recall watching (at least part of) was in the early 70s while we were visiting some friends in the ATL but I don’t recall any specifics. It may have been one of the bowl games that AOT discussed recently but I was too young to remember much. Little did I know that one day I would become a GT alumnus!