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Thursday, December 4, 2008
Replacing Ole Miss
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Tech’s football schedules in 2010 and 2011 have an opening.
Ole Miss recently asked to delay the scheduled home-and-home series. Ole Miss was supposed to come to Bobby Dodd in 2010, with the Jackets going to Oxford in 2011. Now the series won’t happen until late in the decade.
Tech AD Dan Radakovich said he’ll replace Ole Miss with another bigtime opponent, probably from the SEC or Big East. He said this situation is nothing like the quandary he faced when Army pulled out of its game set for Oct. 11 of this year.
That was a single game, no return trip, and Radakovich could only find a I-AA opponent willing to do that on short notice. Gardner-Webb didn’t turn out to be a pushover, but that’s another story.
Radakovich said there’s plenty of time to find a BCS conference opponent for the home-and-home series. He said he might have it scheduled by February or March.
It’s a shame the series has been delayed: Ole Miss-Tech is an intriguing matchup. Both programs had terrific seasons under first-year coaches, coaches who are offensive innovators.
But who would you like to see on the schedule instead?
