Former Tech players recall bowl streak

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.

+Georgia Tech coach George O’Leary, getting doused at the end of the 1997 Carquest Bowl, made sure his players toed the“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. “He ran us that day until a bunch of us were puking. I guess that was his way of letting us know that we…