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Which BCS coaches would want to leave their BCS school to coach here?
David Cutcliffe!
Which BCS coaches would want to leave their BCS school to coach here?
David Cutcliffe!
Won't be sarcasm when Duke beats us this year.
Not to the best of my knowledge. You can choose the MATH 1501-1502 sequence (engineering calculus) or the MATH 1711-1712 sequence (finite math and business calculus), depending on your major. The business calc (officially "Survey of Calculus") class is significantly watered down compared to engineering calculus, but it is still calculus and way more math than UNL students in majors equivalent to what the Ivan Allen College offers would be required to take.
Fire and hire whoever you want. It won't change ---- thing, guys.
They already dumbed down the curriculum to increase retention and GPA. Today's tech students don't have it half as bad as we had it a mere decade ago. Well I say ---- it, if they've already cheapened my degree, they might as well try to compete in football.The job of a university president isn't to dumb down admissions so that the football program can win more. You went to the wrong school if that's what you want.
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If you had a clue I would care but I don't. The president increased admission standards for football players in 2003. It needs to go back to what it was under homer rice in the 90s. Again what would you know you we're like ten back then
As the one poster on this board (that I know of) who's actually taught GT student-athletes, I know that lowering admissions standards will not help things for the reason you indicate. They have to remain eligible. Furthermore, they have to make progress toward their degree under the NCAA APR rules, so you can't just bring them in and bounce them around in the handful of classes they are qualified for academically until they exhaust their athletic eligibility. Tech gets very excited about how each class of new freshmen is the best ever in terms of SAT scores and GPAs. That raises the bar in the classroom and so your student-athletes have to do better as students than the ones 20 years before did.
I'll also take a moment to address the new major not requiring calculus idea that some have floated around here. Will. Not. Happen. New degree programs must originate at the school/college level. No school or college wants to be the home to a new major created as a place for athletes to remain eligible. The administration can't force a new degree program on the academic units, and the faculty by and large don't care about athletics. The day that an administrator tries to create an academic program to benefit the GTAA is the day that a large number of faculty begin actively looking for new jobs, and don't kid yourself into thinking that there aren't plenty of institutions that would want to snap up GT faculty. The departure of high-quality faculty will hurt GT far more than middling performance on the football field does. Oh, and let's throw in the fact that new degree programs require Board of Regents approval. They'll block it for two reasons: money and U[sic]GA.
your degree is more valuable than ever, except for the CE partThey already dumbed down the curriculum to increase retention and GPA. Today's tech students don't have it half as bad as we had it a mere decade ago. Well I say ---- it, if they've already cheapened my degree, they might as well try to compete in football.
So, quit.
They already dumbed down the curriculum to increase retention and GPA. Today's tech students don't have it half as bad as we had it a mere decade ago. Well I say ---- it, if they've already cheapened my degree, they might as well try to compete in football.
Why does it need to do that? The school is as healthy as it has ever been academically, if not the best it's ever been.
Losing to middle Tennessee state isn't a signal that we should put in a new, dumbed down major so that we can do better in football. Those types of academic changes don't happen in isolation.
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So are our friends down the road in Athens and they have more relaxed admission standards. If you want to just be an academic snob, then we will just have to accept being mediocre in football, maybe even just move down in classification and let Kennesaw State, Georgia State, and Georgia Southern move to division 1.
Georgia Tech should cancel its football program altogether and tear down the stadium.
The Institute does not take it seriously. Nobody will win a national championship here ever again.
A side note; how does Auburn do it. They get first class athletes with an engineering program.