Alabama v Georgia Tech Series Postponed
by kleph on May 1, 2010 7:30 AM CDT
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The 1960 meeting between Alabama and Georgia Tech was the setting for Coach Bryant's famous "We have them just where we want them" halftime speech.
The venerable Atlanta Journal Constitution is reporting that the Alabama and Georgia Tech series slated for 2013 and 2014 has been pushed back but no make-up dates have been announced.
The news comes as something of a disappointment since, at one time, the matchup between the Crimson Tide and the Yellowjackets was a fall football classic. The two teams have met on the gridiron a total of 52 times with Alabama coming away victorious in 28 of those matchups.
The contests were annual events until 1963 when Georgia Tech coach Bobby Dodd withdrew the Yellowjackets from the SEC. Dodd was motivated in part by a long running feud with Alabama's legendary coach Paul Bryant but he also objected to the SEC's recruiting practices and the resistance to integration among the conference's institutions.
Tech remained independent until 1978 when it joined the ACC. Since leaving the SEC, Bama and the Bees have met on just six occasions, most recently in 1984 when the Crimson Tide traveled to Grant Field and were stunned 6-16 by a Bill Curry-led Georgia Tech squad.
Alabama's scheduled out-of-conference matchups include a meeting Penn State this year and next in a home-and-home series. The Tide also have an agreement with Michigan State to host the Spartans in 2016 and travel to East Lansing in 2017.
UPDATE: According to the Tuscaloosa News, Ga. Tech requested the postponement, though no reason is given.
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Oh, I am sure they said something like scheduling conflict…yada, yada, yada. They just don’t want none o’ Saban led BAMA.
Auburn and Tennessee fans are a lot like Slinkys...neither are worth much but you do get a sense of satisfaction from pushing them down a flight of stairs
actually, i'm waiting to hear what ots has to say about this...
with all the scuttlebutt about conference changes, it’s reasonable to think putting this series on hold is in some way connected to what is going on behind-the-scenes on that score.
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From an academic standpoint
Georgia Tech really makes sense for the SEC. Bring them in along with a pure football school (a FSU, or Miami, or Texas/Texas A&M) and it balances out.
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Heh
That was my somewhat conspiracy theory idea on the matter as well.
by Bobby Briggs on May 1, 2010 12:23 PM CDT up reply actions
Heh, I was mostly being...
…facetious. There was a small grain of truth in there but mostly sarcasm.
Auburn and Tennessee fans are a lot like Slinkys...neither are worth much but you do get a sense of satisfaction from pushing them down a flight of stairs
That may be the case
but I think the big payday from a home-and-home with Alabama is not something someone would ditch for an easier schedule. Maybe Alabama finally realized these games were with Georgia Tech instead of Georgia State.
And don’t forget the 1981 game! Alabama was the only team Tech beat that year.
Oh, and thank you very much for hiring Curry. I am very sincere about that.
I would think Tech would be a prime candidate to join an expanded SEC.
They already have a long, bitter rivalry with Georgia. If it had conference implications, it would become even more heated.
that's what i was thinking...
and having a home-and-home matchup scheduled would be redundant. both teams would then be left scrambling to find out-of-conference opponents at the last minute.
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and i noticed something about the audio on that clip...
it has a snippet of one of coach bryant’s halftime speeches which is also available on another youtube video. but it can’t be from the 1960 georgia tech game since he specifically mentions “stabler at quarterback.”
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I agree with the above:
This smells a whole lot like hesitation because we don’t know what the conference is going to look like in 3 years.
I'm wrong all the time.
Adding to the current OOC games we have lined up...
Don’t we still have a possibility of a neutral game at the Dallas Cowboys stadium in 2011?
Couple things to add.....
from the Tech side of things. First, there is a good chance we will meet in the Dome in 2011 to kick off the season in the Chik-Fil-A Classic. There have been & continue to be discussions about that. Secondly, Tech has been contacted by Slive & the SEC concerning expansion IF the Big 10 goes to 16. We will jump to the SEC if given the opportunity. I have heard Clemson, FSU, & Miami have also been contacted but I don’t know for sure. They have postponed things due to the fact we may already play a conference game & both teams wouldn’t mind playing in the Dome in 2011.
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Could just be a scheduling thing really...
….from Chase Goodbread:
“2 possibilities on the UA-GT postponement. Either 2018-2019 after the Mich.St. series, or 2014-2015 to open up a home&home for 2012-13.”
While the uncertainty of the conference landscape could just as easily be behind this, there might also be the possibility that Alabama has lined up a home and home with another big time program for those years and is looking to move Tech back to make it happen.
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I remember that 84
lost to Tech. I was there and that loss did three things. One it made me sick to my stomach, Two it helped send us to our first losing season since 57 and Three it helped pave the way for Bama to actually get Bill Curry a few years later. I’m convinced if we had killed them that day Curry would have never come up in the coaching discussions. Who knows maybe we would have even gotten Bowden, although he was apparently ahead of Curry anyway and we just handled the thing wrong.
I look forard to playing Tech, the sooner the better.
I hate the NCAA more than UT & AU combined. At least with UT & AU you got a fighting chance.
I don't think we would ever have gotten Bowden
After we blew it with him
I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.
them and pretty boy floyd can say what they want
everyone knows they are just duckin’ the true champs!
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Good thing you guys left us in your fight song all those years.
I think we’re soon to be conference mates again.
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according to the tuscaloosa news...
georgia tech made the request to push back the series and alabama agreed. cecil hurt also runs down all the different scheduling options alabama is looking at going forward.
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Initial thought is disappointment.
I was looking forward to this matchup. Let’s hope something happens (expansion, kickoff classic, etc) that gets us on the field to play
by Winfield Featherston on May 1, 2010 4:25 PM CDT reply actions
I was sooooooo...
…looking forward to this one:
a) First and foremost because it would’ve been a great series and
b) I have a friend at GT that was going to have some awesome seats for me at Bobby Dodd Stadium
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for those interested...
i’ve been discussing a bit of the history of the series with the guys over at From the Rumble Seat, SB Nations’ Georgia Tech blog.
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damn kleph
you have been a busy interwebber…
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