Kinda like Bama scheduling WVU when they were a top 10 team with a Heisman frontrunner and coming off an Orange Bowl win.
It was a mutual thing when they left. Their stadium is being rebuilt now and I think the capacity is still only going to be 30K. IIRC, they were a charter member and it would have been very hard to remove them. Once again, IIRC, it was a mutual thing. They didn't belong with the big players, even to a greater degree than Vandy, and you could make an argument that Vandy doesn't belong. OTOH, I think they are also charter members. Now, GA Tech was strictly one-sided. They wanted out and the other members consented...
Yeah I looked that up and it seems like Bobby Dodd hated Alabama and CPB even more that the barn or Tennessee. I guess they are a better fit for the ACC though. I saw a picture if CPB wearing a football helmet into GA Tech's stadium.
Actually it was in 1975, eleven years after GT left the SEC in 1964. The Atlanta TV market was larger than the rest of the SEC combined so it was Coach Bryant, foreseeing the big TV money and expansion we have today, telling Dodd that he would sponsor GT's application for re-admittance to the conference. Dodd said thanks, but no thanks, because he knew the Mississippi schools would never allow him back in. Dodd would not take GT to Oxford nor Starkville. He had played Ole Miss twice. In Atlanta and New Orleans. He never scheduled Mississippi State.
