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Friday, August 15, 2008
Season Tickets Arrive!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
There are few things quite as exciting as those UPS packages that arrive in mid August, containing season tickets and media guides. Mine arrived today and I was able to quickly verify my seating assignment. (I moved slightly this season since my buddies and I have consolidated a few seats from our old block arrangement…)
The first thing that jumped out at me was how slick and nice the media guides are this year. Whoever put them together deserves a pat on the back. They are very well done and are a wealth of information packed into 208 pages of pure unadulterated Yellow Jacket history and tradition.
The tickets themselves look nice. Instead of player photos or images, they all feature pictures of past and present Georgia Tech coaches. The seven coaches that were chosen are Heisman, Alexander, Dodd, Rodgers, Curry, Ross, and Johnson.
At first I did a double take and thought to myself, “Man, they just backhanded Chan Gailey by leaving him out like that.” But then I realized that I didn’t see a George O’Leary ticket either.
Some people may argue that there were motives to leaving those two coaches off the tickets. I would argue that there simply wasn’t enough room for them when you look at the coaches that were chosen.
Heisman, Alexander, and Dodd were giants at Georgia Tech and heroic figures to Jacket fans.
Pepper Rodgers (Class of ‘55) and Bill Curry (Class of ‘65) both played football at Georgia Tech before coaching here. They are legacies regardless of their records.
Bobby Ross won the National Title at Tech in 1990 and is a no brainer to grace a ticket.
That leaves one ticket…for the new head coach…Paul Johnson.
In just under two weeks we get our first peek at what could be another legacy in the making. Is it too premature to hope that one day we’ll mention Paul Johnson in the same sentence with Heisman, Alexander, and Dodd? Maybe it is…but its still fun to dream!
Go Jackets!
THWG!
