Homer Rice was the Yellow Jackets’ athletics director from 1980-97. Under his leadership, Georgia Tech revitalized its athletics program, highlighted by winning its fourth football national championship in 1990. Tech also made its first men’s basketball Final Four appearance (1990) and advanced to the baseball College World Series for the first time (1994) with Rice at the helm.
However, perhaps Rice’s biggest legacy is the Total Person Program, which he developed and implemented at Tech and went on to be the model for the NCAA Life Skills Program that is now practiced across college athletics.
The Rice statue is a 7-foot tall bronze sculpture designed by internationally renowned sculptors Don Haugen and Teena Stern Haugen.