Geoff Collins ($$):
“I’ve been here when we were a top-10 team in the country. I have been here when ‘College GameDay’ has been here. I’ve been here when we were playing for ACC championships. I’ve been here when the conversation in college football centers on Georgia Tech. Not just Atlanta because of Mercedes-Benz and the SEC championship and the College Football Hall of Fame — the center of the college football universe is in Atlanta at Bobby Dodd Stadium,” he said with pointed determination.
“Right now, the Super Bowl is in town, and it is (1.9) miles away from Bobby Dodd Stadium,” Collins told The Cheap Seats radio show. “The college national championship was played here last year, (1.9) miles away from Bobby Dodd Stadium. The College Football Hall of Fame is right here in our backyard. The center of the college football universe is in Atlanta, and Georgia Tech is in the heart of it.”
“I think it helped having the Super Bowl in Atlanta all together because with us having the most players in the Super Bowl between the two teams at the University of Georgia. It’s in Atlanta, which is our home base, and all the different things that happened that week. It was certainly tremendous for us to be in some homes during that time.” [Emphasis added.]
Get The Picture 
Jeoff is going to find very quickly that Kirby isn’t going anywhere. Kirby is going to take the players he wants out of Atlanta and leave the rest for Bama, Auburn, Clemson, Tennessee, and South Carolina to fight over. Good luck with that branding, Jeoff.
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Tech has never been the center of the college football universe. Jeff should read a book about logical fallacies, and start with the chapter exploring “post hoc, ergo proper hoc.”
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Respectfully disagree, John. In the 1950s Tech was a SEC powerhouse, and “the biggest game in town” in the transportation hub of the southeast.
In fairness to your comment, college football interest was regional rather than national, back then. Folks in the upper Midwest followed the Big Ten, eastern media covered the Ivies and the Yankee Conference more than conferences from other regions, and as a kid in Atlanta I had to read the small type in the Journal to find out what was happening in what was then the Pacific Coast Conference. So the college football world, back then, was a group of regions each with own focus. Tech was at the center of our football world in the 1950s , and Ohio State, Oklahoma and Southern Cal weren’t because they were not in our area.
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Tech was a power in the 50s.But the center of the football universe? Maybe for Georgia. Jeff wasn’t at Tech then, and they’ve been an afterthought since (1990 is a joke, the late 90s they cheated and still never won beans). Since Bobby Dodd retired, they’ve been average to mediocre. I don’t begrudge your opinion, which you argue well. I just don’t see tech as ever being a national power, but certainly not since the Eisenhower administration. YMMV 😉
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… and they fumbled the ball.
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But THAT tech dies when their beloved hero stupidly decided to leave the SEC and go independent….and they were never the center of the CFB world, just one of many capable players. Plus, Collins was nowhere near there at the time.
Having a hard time deciding who is more delusional in their comments, Mullen or Collins? Mullen and his “blind squirrel/acorn” assessment of Georgia, or Collins laying claim to Tech being the center of the CFB universe; tough one. I am going with Collins here, there is a better chance FU may challenge UGA again at some point than there is teenagers will want to play at BDS in Atlanta on a regular basis.
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Damn EXCELLENT first paragraph Macallanlover!!
Perfect reason why fech and jeoff are, and will be, irrelevant and a laughing stock. The myth of fech was built on the quicksand of Boobie Dudd, a two-time quitter.
Dudd quit the SEC when opposing schools hired quality coaches and changed from one platoon to two-platoon squads.
Dudd then quit as head coach when he couldn’t beat Dooley in three tries, especially with his 1966 squad.
Georgia State and Kennesaw will be the preferred options for metro football players who can’t get recruited by UGA.
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Seriously, Tech does have a geographic advantage in being in a Power Five conference and being in Midtown Atlanta.
I have several theories as to why Tech has pissed away that advantage but they are too lengthy to post while I am drinking coffee getting ready for work, but most involve the arrogant, “we are smarter than everyone else “ mindset.
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“…but most involve the arrogant, ‘we are smarter than everyone else ‘ mindset.”
No need to dig further.
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That’s it. Everyone associated with tech is an a-hole, and no one, not even 19 year old kids, wants to be around that.
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Sounds like the old saying about Tech “men” was burned into Jeoff’s consciousness as well: often in error, seldom in doubt…
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Kirby should say something like, “Yeah, Tech is right there in the heart of it. We pass right by there when we’re on the way to play for championships in Mercedes-Benz Stadium. I’ll have to leave Coach Collins a ticket at will call next time we’re there.”
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“I’ve been here when the conversation in college football centers on Georgia Tech.”
There is no way Geoff is that old.
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Was he there for the Reggie Ball debacle? Yes the conversation in college football centered on GT after that, just not in a good way.
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They haven’t beat us in Atlanta since Bush 1 was president and Al Gore was inventing the internet. Please.
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Collins is trying to build and brand and give him credit for knowing that in today’s world, if you say something enough it becomes the truth. As funny as it sounds, that’s what he’s getting paid for. AJC would love nothing better than for Tech to get under DawgNation’s skin even if they don’t win anything.
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He’s the football version of AOC, in other words
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Yeah and it’s been all over Twitter. I don’t know why but, daily now, SI tweets about Collins and waffle House or Collins and rebranding. AJC and other places have jumped on it, too.
Now, all the tech people who claimed for decades that they didn’t care because they were curing cancer suddenly do care. So you’re absolutely right.
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Geoff Collins: Our facilities are near facilities of relevance to championships. See: SEC Championship, Super Bowl, CFP in the Benz
Kirby Smart: our facilities put you in facilities of relevance and championships. See: Andrews, Gurley, Michel, et al; in the SEC Championships; in the CFP Championship games
Nuances. They’re a bitch.
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“I’ve been here when the conversation in college football centers on Georgia Tech. Not just Atlanta because of Mercedes-Benz and the SEC championship and the College Football Hall of Fame — the center of the college football universe is in Atlanta at Bobby Dodd Stadium.”
No you haven’t, because you weren’t there in 1955. The center of the college football universe wasn’t even at Georgia Tech when they won their 1990 “national championship” in the Citrus Bowl (!!) … that center was somewhere between Atlanta and co-champion Colorado. This Collins guy is a salesman for sure. It’s going to be fun letting the air out of his tires.
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Georgia Tech should enjoy at least a 3 win contact high from being geographically adjacent to the Super Bowl and the CFB HOF.
This coach is selling, selling selling. If he dosen’t bring more wins than Johnson, people are going to stop buying very quickly. Ask Butch Jones.
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the best coaches don’t have to tell you how great they are. It’s like the most dangerous tough guys: they don’t tell you how tough they are, everyone can just see it. It’s like the Tech staff is trying to convince ITSELF they actually have a shot at being adequate. Jeff sounds a lot more like Butch Jones than he does Saban.
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Full disclosure: I don’t hate Tech as much as most UGA fans do. In fact, I typically root for them when they aren’t playing UGA. Their fan base does make that difficult at times, but I still try not to take their idiocy out on the team.
Also, I don’t begrudge any new coach the opportunity to advocate for his team and try to rally support for it.
Having said all of that… Wow, some of the comments coming out of the new staff at Tech are a bit on the loony side.
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I never pull for Fech. I hope they lose every game. They are, in Dan Magill’s words, the Enemy.
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I wouldn’t pull for Tech with 3 engines out on the team plane. I wouldn’t pull for Tech if Osama Bin Laden coached the other team.
One of my biggest regrets in life is when Tech played the Soviet national team in basketball in the Omni, I didn’t go down there in my Georgia gear and pull for the Soviets.
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I did.
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Me, too! Were you there with me????? LOL
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Would not have missed it for the world!
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by the way, it was an awesome experience. Wearing red, sitting in front of the precursor to THE SWARM, which was a bunch of spindly nerds trying to look tough in their urine colored body paint and sparkle wigs. One of our crew actually spoke a smattering of Russian. It was a treat to watch the real Big Red Machine score about 120 on the overmatched Bees. I couldn’t tell you the name of a single Soviet player on that squad, but for one magical evening, we were comrades. The enemy of my enemy…etc.
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OH, and the game was actually at the Nipple Dome on Tech’s campus.
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I understand that sentiment, but I came by my sports allegiances a bit differently than a lot of people. My father taught me to hunt and fish, but he didn’t give two craps about any sports played with a ball. So as a kid, I pretty much just decided to like local teams, and any team from Georgia was fair game. In fact, I almost attended Tech on scholarship. But I’m a country boy, and I just couldn’t make myself think that living in Atlanta was ever going to be a good idea.
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I don’t know, Tech was the featured opponent at the end of “Rudy”. That may be what ol’ Jeoff is referring to.
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After Geoff fails at Tech, he definitely has a future in politics.
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Tech finally parted ways with ol’ CPJ and somehow they’re even easier to make fun of than before. That’s hard to pull off.
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“Wait until you see this guy in our game day casual wear, Capri pants and a nice matching blouse.”
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This guy better be able to coach ‘em up as well as he hypes. And if he makes a real splash on the field by year two, he’ll be the next coach at FSU. His quote about Tech being his “destination job” is just more of the bullshit he’s been shoveling so far. It will always be Tech’s conundrum. Be awful (Bill Lewis) – get fired. Be better than average (Bobby Ross, O’Leary) – leave for a better job. Be average as grits (Johnson) – stay ten years.
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Isn’t Georgia State closer to Mercedes Benz Stadium than Tech is? Isn’t GA State be closer to the center of the football universe?
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For the life of my I can’t recall when Game Day has ever appeared on the GT campus for a GT game- aside from a pre-game on a Thursday night telecast. Any ideas?
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