averagedawg, we moved to south Atlanta, Forest Park, in 1952. At that time GT was in the SEC and they were a force. First game that I watched on TV was a GT game. However, my roots were solidly in the UGA stable. My uncle, Dr. William Brown had been with the University of Georgia since the early forties. Many of my days as a youngster in the forties were spent in Athens and Gainesville with relatives. There I go again. . . .
Coach Dodd had a serious problem with the University of Alabama, the cheap shot, and I mean a CHEAP SHOT that eventually ended with GT leaving the SEC. The following information comes from Wikipedia and does it not sound a lot like our Coach Richt and the awarding of scholarships.
He (Coach Dodd) was involved in encouraging Georgia Tech to leave the SEC, which it did in the early 1960s. Two of the important factors in this decision were that Dodd thought that Tech could become a successful independent like Notre Dame, and the SEC began limiting scholarships (before the NCAA imposed its own scholarship restrictions). The problem with the SEC scholarship limitations is that Dodd did not believe in exploiting student-athletes; he thought that if a player is promised a scholarship but ends up not being able to take the field due to injury, using up NCAA eligibility, or simply not making the squad that the player should still receive the scholarship.
