re: For the old-timers...when did Cholly Mac first get on the hot seat?

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Bradshaw couldn't get in LSU, by his own admission. We got Bert Jones instead of Ferguson, so we were hardly hurting for QB's.

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You're right. I'd forgotten about Bradshaw's academic record being so abysmal. Tech must have twisted themselves into knots justifying enrolling him there.

As to Ferguson, as you probably remember he was a much more prolific passing QB coming out of Woodlawn's pro-style than Bert Jones was running Hoss Garrett's wing-T but in truth Cholly Mack would have probably wasted his talents as he mostly did Jones' had Joe ended up in Baton Rouge..

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Bradshaw couldn't get in LSU, by his own admission.

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LSU was open admissions back then. Bradshaw could have gottn in, but he wouldn't have stayed in. He would have flunked out quickly.

Evidently Tech gave him an easier ride.