Texas is very proud of their GPA

gtfan088 said:
Texas having a low team GPA is whatever. Publicizing it as some sort of accomplishment isn't very smart, though.
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So would it be smart to publicize a much better team GPA?

Or would a vast majority of College Football Fans say that is not what they pay thousands of $ to see / hear about on Saturdays?
 
texstinger said:
So would it be smart to publicize a much better team GPA?

Or would a vast majority of College Football Fans say that is not what they pay thousands of $ to see / hear about on Saturdays?
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It's dumb to draw attention to something that doesn't make your program look good. Boasting about a 2.89 team GPA is not a good look. It's pretty hard to argue otherwise. That's entirely separate from your second question, as there is no mandate that they tweet out stupid things. The reason Texas is getting ridiculed for the tweet, including by many of their own fans, has nothing to do with team performance on the field.

If we beat UGA and then someone tweeted from the Tech football account "We beat UGA and only had to lower the team GPA by 0.16 points!" it would be a dumb tweet.
 
GPA is so misleading. If you told me you had a 2.89 in nuclear physics, you'd have my respect. If you told me you had a 2.89 taking athlete friendly classes, I'd say ah, you showed up for your classes. There are majors out there for athletes that the minimum grade for them is a C as long as they show up. Hell, I remember the online "essay" that went viral from the UGA TE Leonard Pope about a decade+ ago where the diction was no-exaggeration on a third grade level. In fact, my actual third grader this year wrote much better than that famous essay. It was so bad there was no way he could pass any class that gave a grade for anything above just simply showing up for class. I dont expect scholarship athletes to be real students, for the most part, so we know which classes a majority of them earned this 2.89 in.
 
gtfan088 said:
It's dumb to draw attention to something that doesn't make your program look good. Boasting about a 2.89 team GPA is not a good look. It's pretty hard to argue
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gtfan088 said:
It's dumb to draw attention to something that doesn't make your program look good. Boasting about a 2.89 team GPA is not a good look. It's pretty hard to argue otherwise. That's entirely separate from your second question, as there is no mandate that they tweet out stupid things. The reason Texas is getting ridiculed for the tweet, including by many of their own fans, has nothing to do with team performance on the field.

If we beat UGA and then someone tweeted from the Tech football account "We beat UGA and only had to lower the team GPA by 0.16 points!" it would be a dumb tweet.
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As compared to tweeting out how great it is to make a bowl game in Detroit.
 
GT boasts a Greek GPA of 3.44 and an all undergraduate GPA of 3.35 FWIW, for those of us who are old school those numbers are eye popping. It is typical of what I see in resumes from GT these days. If I saw a resume with a 2.89 you would not have my respect based on that alone unless there were other known factors regardless of what your major is. If it was a 2.89 from GT in the 1980's or earlier I wouldn't have much of a problem with it.

http://greek.gatech.edu/ (it is in one of the banners that pops up)
 
aeromech said:
GT boasts a Greek GPA of 3.44 and an all undergraduate GPA of 3.35 FWIW, for those of us who are old school those numbers are eye popping. It is typical of what I see in resumes from GT these days. If I saw a resume with a 2.89 you would not have my respect based on that alone unless there were other known factors regardless of what your major is. If it was a 2.89 from GT in the 1980's or earlier I wouldn't have much of a problem with it.

http://greek.gatech.edu/ (it is in one of the banners that pops up)
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Any data out there on historical GT trend? I got out in the early 90s and those numbers sound way higher than I recall.
 
aeromech said:
GT boasts a Greek GPA of 3.44 and an all undergraduate GPA of 3.35 FWIW, for those of us who are old school those numbers are eye popping. It is typical of what I see in resumes from GT these days. If I saw a resume with a 2.89 you would not have my respect based on that alone unless there were other known factors regardless of what your major is. If it was a 2.89 from GT in the 1980's or earlier I wouldn't have much of a problem with it.

http://greek.gatech.edu/ (it is in one of the banners that pops up)
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Although I'm sure its gone up some due to grade inflation, I would guess having a larger percentage of women and larger percentage of students in easier majors are significant factors as well.
 
OmnipoTech said:
Although I'm sure its gone up some due to grade inflation, I would guess having a larger percentage of women and larger percentage of students in easier majors are significant factors as well.
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The biggest factor is the mindset of the Georgia Tech and other schools has changed. Georgia Tech used to have a survival of the fittest mindset and took pride in being extremely hard to get through. Sometime after 1995 or so the school discovered that the washout rate was negatively impacting the academic ranking with US News and other ranking sites and drastically changed course.

With 97.0% of students staying on for a second year, Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus is one of the best in the country when it comes to freshman retention.
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Remember "Look at the person on your left and on your right, one of you won't be here next year"; well that era is long gone.

At Georgia Tech, there were 3,045 bachelors degree candidates in the class of 2013. By 2015, six years after beginning their degree, 82.3% of these students had graduated. After an additional two years, 84.4% of this class eventually completed their degree.
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I would bet the percentage of students who actually flunk out of Georgia Tech is in the single digits now, if not less than 1%. People leave for a variety of reasons (costs, personal situations, etc..); but I seriously doubt a major reason is grades.

https://www.collegefactual.com/coll...ampus/academic-life/graduation-and-retention/
 
aeromech said:
The biggest factor is the mindset of the Georgia Tech and other schools has changed. Georgia Tech used to have a survival of the fittest mindset and took pride in being extremely hard to get through. Sometime after 1995 or so the school discovered that the washout rate was negatively impacting the academic ranking with US News and other ranking sites and drastically changed course.



Remember "Look at the person on your left and on your right, one of you won't be here next year"; well that era is long gone.



I would bet the percentage of students who actually flunk out of Georgia Tech is in the single digits now, if not less than 1%. People leave for a variety of reasons (costs, personal situations, etc..); but I seriously doubt a major reason is grades.

https://www.collegefactual.com/coll...ampus/academic-life/graduation-and-retention/
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Difference is I'd probably never even get in now being a white male from a Georgia high school
 
Don't much care.....they were my second favorite team for one day and did me proud. Would route for them again in the same situation....even if the GPA was much lower.
 
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