A little history...

The article hit it on the button. I heard Dodd give a speech in the mid 80's. The bear was the double crosser and lied that he would vote in our favor (by not showing up for the vote).

UGAy said they would leave the conference if we were allowed back in (in 1978).

It would be interesting in the SEC expanded to 14 or 16 team if we would lobby or would be asked...
 
I like having all of my teeth, reading, sportsmanship, academic integrity, and value discipline. I do not like windsuits, jorts, redneck hypocrits, trailer parks, or airbrushed t-shirts from Panama City. Based on these facts I think we're good where we are, instead of the SEC.
 
GTatUSC said:
I like having all of my teeth, reading, sportsmanship, academic integrity, and value discipline. I do not like windsuits, jorts, redneck hypocrits, trailer parks, or airbrushed t-shirts from Panama City. Based on these facts I think we're good where we are, instead of the SEC.
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True, but GT is a part of Southern football history. I miss the SEC. I would grow a mullett to bring the old rivalries back. Maaaaaaaaybe do it w/ one of my cousin's, but would rather just grow the mullett.
 
GTatUSC said:
I like having all of my teeth, reading, sportsmanship, academic integrity, and value discipline. I do not like windsuits, jorts, redneck hypocrits, trailer parks, or airbrushed t-shirts from Panama City. Based on these facts I think we're good where we are, instead of the SEC.
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How do you feel about having a mullet?
 
No doubt I'd rather be in the SEC, or really an SEC that included us and not Arkansas, the way it should be.

To me, we're just too far away from most of the ACC schools for the rivalries to develop, familiarity breeds contempt and sports hate rarely crosses 2 states over.

Glad we have what we have, its much better than not being BCS and/or being in the Big "Have we looked at adding Hawaii to spread us out a little further" East.
 
GTatUSC said:
I like having all of my teeth, reading, sportsmanship, academic integrity
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Hopefully the GT Honor Advisory Council did their job while you were on campus. blah, blah, blah. I'm going to stop my potential rant before it starts.:rant:
 
In 2006, Georgia Tech's payout from ACC was $12.2 million, $2.5 million more than the average payout in the SEC that year.
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That's surprising to me. I'd like to see what we got this year, but maybe from a financial standpoint, we're better off in the ACC. Besides, we don't cheat.
 
Allen Koholic said:
That's surprising to me. I'd like to see what we got this year, but maybe from a financial standpoint, we're better off in the ACC. Besides, we don't cheat.
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IIRC, from a financial standpoint, the ACC is usually the top conference in the country.

In some ways I wish we were still in the SEC, but in some ways I'm glad we left. We don't fit the character of most of the SEC schools nowadays (win at all costs), but almost all of our historical rivals (Clemson excluded) are part of the SEC.
 
fattyjackson said:
We don't fit the character of most of the SEC schools nowadays (win at all costs)...
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This says it all. We're where we ought to be...in a conference that features academic powerhouses such as Virginia, Duke, Wake Forest, North Carolina and, of course, Tech. Others such as Miami and Boston College appear to be moving on up.

Take away Vanderbilt and perhaps Florida and the SEC features little else besides semi-pro sports. You don't have to travel too far from the state of Georgia to see which Institutes/Universities are respected outside of the state, i.e., GT/Emory, and which is ridiculed, i.e., UGA.
 
Essobee said:
This says it all. We're where we ought to be...in a conference that features academic powerhouses such as Virginia, Duke, Wake Forest, North Carolina and, of course, Tech. Others such as Miami and Boston College appear to be moving on up.

Take away Vanderbilt and perhaps Florida and the SEC features little else besides semi-pro sports. You don't have to travel too far from the state of Georgia to see which Institutes/Universities are respected outside of the state, i.e., GT/Emory, and which is ridiculed, i.e., UGA.
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It's just Vandy. The only reason UF gets decent marks on that stuff is that they are tough on out-of-state kids, and in-state they just send the dumb ones to one of three 40000+ schools (FSU, UCF, USF).

I would like to see us play Auburn/Alabama every year though. Especially Alabama now - both programs are on the way up.
 
fattyjackson said:
It's just Vandy. The only reason UF gets decent marks on that stuff is that they are tough on out-of-state kids, and in-state they just send the dumb ones to one of three 40000+ schools (FSU, UCF, USF).

I would like to see us play Auburn/Alabama every year though. Especially Alabama now - both programs are on the way up.
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It amazes me how many people spout off out of their backsides about what they know absolutely nothing about.

"The acceptance rate at the University of Florida has trended downward as the applicant pool has become larger and more competitive. The university has a freshmen retention rate of 93%.[25] For the first-year students that enrolled at UF in 2007, the median SAT score is 1210 - 1400, and the Median ACT is 26 - 31.[26] UF's yield rate was at 57% for the last freshmen incoming class.
In the words of Herald Tribune reporter Anna Scott, "Three years after university officials capped the size of the freshman class at about 6,600, competition at UF is at an all-time high, forcing admissions workers to choose among the brightest and leaving behind an unprecedented number of disappointed families."[27] Of those who applied to be part of this fall's incoming freshman class, an estimated 42 percent were accepted -- the lowest acceptance rate in the history of the state's public schools. Selectivity at the state's top university is expected to heighten as UF continues to work toward becoming one of the nation's Top 10 public universities.[27] In 2008, acceptance reached a new low when out of 28,000 applicants, only 10,000 were accepted (An acceptance rate of around 37 percent).[6]
More than 2,000 freshmen and sophomores participate in the honors program, which offers 90 to 100 honors courses per semester. UF has the highest admissions standards in the state, with a majority of admitted students scoring more than 1400 on the SAT.[28]"
 
In terms of revenue per athlete we are in the top ten.



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Article:
http://blog.al.com/bn/2008/02/how_the_sec_got_rich.html
 
Being a product of the great Florida's public school system, I distinctly remember that UF, and to a lesser extent UM were considered good schools. UCF and USF weren't bad, but they were very major specific. FSU is the only school that was considered a pure party school. None of this scientific, simply the prevailing sentiment that most people in state felt. That said, none of those schools could touch Tech, but I'm slightly biased.
 
GT's academic integrity will stand on its own. Are people saying when we were in the SEC, under Dodd, that we did not have a great University, or that we were cheats? (oh, Allen, we ARE on NCAA probation)

The best hope for GTAA is to be in the SEC. They have great football, just as good basketball, just as good baseball, just as good golf, and womens sports.

The conference we are in is not going to impact the value of your degrees. This is more bs because we are not beating the team we need to.

We have a ton more in common with Auburn than VT, etc.

We, by being in the SEC, could fix our finances in at least half the time IMO.

Yet people will continue to whine if we don't get the same coverage when we play ncsu as when ugag plays UT.

But, as DRad said, it is not a short term initiative. They aren't, it would appear, looking to expand, and we, it would appear, aren't looking to leave.

If the opportunity did arise, it would be so said to see the "Tech Man" pride (and possibly arrogance) this time hurt GT as much by not accepting as when we idiotically dropped out.
 
texstinger said:
GT's academic integrity will stand on its own. Are people saying when we were in the SEC, under Dodd, that we did not have a great University, or that we were cheats? (oh, Allen, we ARE on NCAA probation)
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No, we didn't have a great university, we had a great Institute.
 
Essobee said:
This says it all. We're where we ought to be...in a conference that features academic powerhouses such as Virginia, Duke, Wake Forest, North Carolina and, of course, Tech. Others such as Miami and Boston College appear to be moving on up.

Take away Vanderbilt and perhaps Florida and the SEC features little else besides semi-pro sports. You don't have to travel too far from the state of Georgia to see which Institutes/Universities are respected outside of the state, i.e., GT/Emory, and which is ridiculed, i.e., UGA.
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That's the attitude that I don't understand. I any sport on the playing field no one is thinking about academics. They are just trying to compete and win. So from the SA's standpoint they caould care less about conference affiliation.

To put it another way: When our baseball team lines up to play GA So today, do you think they are thinking about how GT's academics are superior to those of GA So? Obviously not.
 
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GTatUSC said:
I like having all of my teeth, reading, sportsmanship, academic integrity, and value discipline. I do not like windsuits, jorts, redneck hypocrits, trailer parks, or airbrushed t-shirts from Panama City. Based on these facts I think we're good where we are, instead of the SEC.
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Based on the picture included, you have put your all of your teeth to good use.
 
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