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Tech fans on hand to celebrate top 20 class
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/07/07 10:52 AM
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Fans packed a meeting room at Georgia Tech’s Edge Center this morning to watch the Yellow Jackets put together their highly anticipated signing class.
“It was huge today. The room was full. It’s always been half-full before,” said Steve Griggs of Fayetteville, a football manager from the class of 1973.
Tech pepped up its presentation this year by showing fans film of the players it signed. “There’s no super, super, super star like a Calvin [Johnson],” Griggs said, “but there’s a lot more just under that.”
Griggs was accompanied by his wife, Debra, who got Carla and Jimmy James of Winston to join them. “I didn’t want to be the only girl,” said Debra, who wore a Buzz pin. Carla James brought her Buzz purse