Bedford center of attention at Georgia Tech

<p>Like all of the players starting for schools currently ranked in the BCS top 10 and dreaming of Pasadena, Georgia Tech’s starting center had plenty of offers when he was preparing to make a college choice.</p><p>The usual football powers.</p><p>Harvard. Georgetown. Carnegie Mellon. (Remember the Tartans!)</p><p>All fine schools. But Sean Bedford wanted more. He knew it was time to leave Gainesville. He knew he wanted to get into a top-flight engineering program. And he knew he wanted to keep playing football.</p><p>“I wasn’t ready to hang up my cleats just yet,” said the Sun’s 2006 Scholar-Athlete of the Year.</p><p>On an interview as a semifinalist for the President’s Scholarship he met a former walk-on at Georgia Tech. A call was made and the door was opened for Bedford to be a preferred walk-on.</p><p>Three years later, he’s the starting center on a team ranked seventh in the BCS.</p><p>Dreams do come true.</p><p>Sort of.</p><p>“I really wanted to go to Notre Dame,” he said. “But they wouldn’t return my calls.”</p><p>Sounds a little like the movie Rudy, which is the name family friend Billy Donovan uses when he sees Bedford.</p><p>Except that to call him a modern-day Rudy would be an insult to Bedford. After all, Rudy Ruettiger played only a handful of snaps at Notre</p>