Wearing a gold tie that he’s kept for many, many years, perhaps in hopes of one day wearing at Georgia Tech, and a ring commemorating the Yellow Jackets’ football national championship in 1990, Todd Stansbury sat in what will become his office as athletic director, looking so comfortable it was as if he didn’t leave Tech in 1995 to circumnavigate the globe with his wife Karen. In between 1995 and Thursday when he was introduced as the institute’s ninth athletic director, Stansbury first toured the Earth and then took what he learned as a linebacker under coach Bill Curry and student at Tech and then as an athletic administrator under Homer Rice and applied it to jobs at Houston, East Tennessee State, Oregon State, Central Florida and then again in Corvallis, where he spent the past 1 ½ years as athletic director. All the while, returning to Tech as athletic director was his dream job, which is one of the reasons that Karen said he kept a few gold-colored ties … just in case. -Doug Roberson, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution– Read More
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