Nate Stimson doesn’t remember how late he and his teammates returned to the team hotel. He and his buddies had been out sampling South Florida nightlife, enjoying their first night of Georgia Tech’s trip to the Carquest Bowl in Dec. 1997.
At the next day’s practice, coach George O’Leary had his own welcome prepared for the Yellow Jackets.
“Of course, coach O’Leary wasn’t dumb, and he knew that a lot of us had been out drinking the night before,” Stimson said this week.