Happiness at Tech

85jacket

85jacket

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The number of transfers has me very concerned. I am curious what others make of this. Trey Klock said it boiled down to being unhappy. I suppose that the others may say the same. When I was at TECH I was stressed but relatively happy. Each quarter was tough but in the end it was well worth it. I come from an austere beginning and was used to hard work. TECH is a school all about work and time vested. I wonder as time has passed are kids used to hard work and an austere environment like TECH. Thoughts
 
Kids that arent getting the PT that they want will always consider transferring.

Kids that cant, or dont want to put in the effort required to keep up in a very hard school might also consider transferring.

A combination of the 2 is likely what ultimately has driven most of these guys away.

Nothing new.

Klock graduated. He earned his chance to try out somewhere else. Good for him.
 
85jacket said:
The number of transfers has me very concerned. I am curious what others make of this. Trey Klock said it boiled down to being unhappy. I suppose that the others may say the same. When I was at TECH I was stressed but relatively happy. Each quarter was tough but in the end it was well worth it. I come from an austere beginning and was used to hard work. TECH is a school all about work and time vested. I wonder as time has passed are kids used to hard work and an austere environment like TECH. Thoughts
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I share your concern, we will have little room to cover injuries
 
The Summer between Tech and grad school was the best time of my life. Getting out was one of the most relieving feelings I have ever felt.
 
When did Klock say that it was because he was miserable? He transferred to another MBA program, possibly because he didn't get into our MBA program. I know that was the case with an OL in 2009 who went to Georgia State's MBA program. To put it another way, I'm not sure how MBA + Football at GT would be much more difficult compared to MBA + football at another school.
 
BTW, I was commenting on Klock's case specifically. Any athlete at Tech could have an easier path at a large state school. The other schools can be much easier for the Fall semester in particular. One football player said STTE of "other football schools can load up on easy classes in the Fall semester while Tech doesn't really have that option."

Tech offers football players the same thing it offers regular students: a better degree for life after school.
 
floridajacket said:
When did Klock say that it was because he was miserable? He transferred to another MBA program, possibly because he didn't get into our MBA program. I know that was the case with an OL in 2009 who went to Georgia State's MBA program. To put it another way, I'm not sure how MBA + Football at GT would be much more difficult compared to MBA + football at another school.
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He told Ken Seguira that he was unhappy and that it was partially because he missed his family in PA.
 
clapper said:
He told Ken Seguira that he was unhappy and that it was partially because he missed his family in PA.
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A friend of mine and her husband were from the Pittsburgh area. She talked for years about moving back because she missed family and Pennsylvania. They moved back to Pennsylvania, outside Pittsburgh. Came back to the Atlanta area about two years later essentially said your memories of a place are often better than what the place really is. They got homesick for Atlanta. Found jobs and moved back down here.
 
It's never as good or as bad as it seems.

Some parts of Tech are stressful but you have to keep it in the proper perspective and remember it's just school. I tended to deal with it by drinking and screwing. It seems to me there are a lot more support systems in place now, the retention rate is a lot higher than it was years ago.
 
Explain the grad transfer thing to me...meaning if they do graduate, why wouldn't they just stay at the same school & go to grad school, instead of going through the massive upheaval of changing schools AND football programs.

Seems like your creating a huge headache for yourself. You put in all this blood, sweat & tears for many years at 1 school, and then year #5.....let's do it somewhere else? Makes no sense to me.
 
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