Coach Jack Rudolph should be in the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame, not Jim Brown. Rudolph excelled locally as a football player in high school and college, and then coached at Valdosta High for 31 years. Jim Brown was born in St. Simons and left when he was 8. Am I the only one seeing this as an embarrassment? 
    Who are these people voting and what are they thinking? This smells of a publicity stunt. And in the process, they continue to overlook people who invested in athletics here in Georgia.
    Coach Rudolph played end at Georgia Tech for the great Bobby Dodd. He got drafted by the Boston Patriots and played there 6 years. He finished his 7-year NFL career in Miami with the Dolphins. That's when Rudolph joined the legendary Head Coach Wright Bazemore at Valdosta High and he ran the defense for the next 31 years, as defensive coordinator. Valdosta has this winning tradition because of men like this. And right now, only Baze and Hyder have gotten in. Could it be an anti-Valdosta thing?
    His coaching resume' reads like a Hall of Famer. Eleven state titles in 31 seasons. His defenses allowed an average of 8.3 points a game. In fifteen of those 31 years, the 'Cats defense allowed 7 points or less. Count'm: 119 shutouts. I spent 4 seasons at Valdosta High playing on offense and remain grateful for all the defense I learned just listening to this man teach defense. How he remains a forgotten man to the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame I don't understand. Maybe it's because he's got no one in his corner.
    Let me put it this way...somebody on the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame has an agenda to get Jim Brown in. I'm backing Jack Rudolph. That's my agenda. This man could have coached at any level and unselfishly chose to stay at the high school level. I admire that about him.
    And why is it assistant coaches always get the short end of the stick when it comes to being recognized as great? Erk Russell is not in the College Football Hall of Fame. Rudolph and Russell have been cheated. That's a fact.
    Is it true that I didn't make the cut in this year's Georgia Sports Hall of Fame class process? Yes. Does that make me bitter? No. As long as great men like this continue to get overlooked it's not that big a deal.