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MacDaddy

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Love it or hate it, WE HAVE TO BROADEN THE ACADEMIC OPTIONS AT TECH OR GET COMFORTABLE WITH FOOTBALL THAT SUCKS.

For those engineering majors, don't get on your academic high horse and try to tell me that liberal arts majors cheapen your engineering degree. Bull Shit!
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Someone out there show me one engineering school that has a successful football program. There isn't one, not one damn one. I am waiting for the Stanford argument to rear its ugly head but they have won what? ZIPPO

I curse Bobby Dodd for the day he let his greed overload his brain and pulled us from the SEC. Welcome to our destiny, mediocre football. I enrolled at Tech in 1983 and what have we done what since then? I would guess .500 at best!

I have a new slogan for us

GT Football: Mired in Mediocrity

Chan, Dave and President Wayne all must go or we will continued to be subject to losses to Clemson, FSU, UGA. Perhaps we can find ways to make U Conn and Vandy a permanent part of our schedule so when we couple them with Duke (Of which I predict will snap their streak against GT next year) we can count on 3 or so wins per year.
 
Yeah, I am sure the UGA controlled Board of Regents is all for us duplicating Georgia State's curriculum so we can improve our football program. I think you need to sober up.
 
fire the President of the school because the football team isn't winning? Geez, you're beginning to sound like a dawg...
 
It has to start with clough. He would not let DB hire who he wanted, and now will only let CG recruit 18% of the SA's in the state.
 
Well, wrecked what exactly happens after he sobers up!? He's right dammit. We get off of our high horsed academic pedastal or go D-2...period. THWG
 
Hey Wrecked I do not drink but you better if you think you are going to get through the seasons to come. I don't know about the rest of you but I am sick and tired of this program being average.
 
Ga Tech is more than a football program. It is a beacon of academic excellence in the dismal darkness of the South. It is a way of life, not just a surrogate for a professional sporting team.

Don't be absurd, Tech's whole reason for being is academic excellence... deal with it or go away.

Most of those in the stands in red today never set foot in Athens except to see a football game.
 
Ramblinwise, you are now officially a snob. There are MANY MANY true loyal Tech fans who have never set foot on campus except fot athletics. If it wasn't for those people we would be playing in something like Connecticut plays in. So you are now a snob.
 
So are you saying that having a liberal arts major lowers academic excellence? Hey Ramblinwise please pass the Grey Poupon ............
 
Originally posted by MacDaddy:
Hey Wrecked I do not drink but you better if you think you are going to get through the seasons to come. I don't know about the rest of you but I am sick and tired of this program being average.
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<font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif">Look man, I understand your and everybody else's argument about our curriculum, but it ain't changing. How did we win in 1990? Our curriculum was more rigid then. How about our basketball team in the mid 80's and now? I am sorry but your argument is going to fall on deaf ears. I hate an average program too, but there is a coach out there that can win here without making those changes. Spurrier won at Duke, Willingham is winning at ND, DeBerry wins at Air Force, Ross and O'Leary won here. It can be done.
 
OK one more time:

Duke has won what? They haven't won squat! Two years because of a system that is truly devised by a genius.

ND, hmmmmm Liberal Arts Majors galore and last time I checked they have a built in recruiting tool (religion)

AF, we want to compare our program to Air Force???????????????
 
Let's see how accurate it would be to blame our huge loss today on quality of players. We beat Vandy by the same score as UGA so we must be pretty even with UGA.

We should have beaten Clemson, but barely lost to them. Clemson should have beaten UGA, but barely lost to them. It appears through these two games, we are pretty even with UGA.

We beat a good Virginia team and a good NCSU. Both teams would have given UGA a good game and could have possibly beaten them. It appears we must be pretty even with UGA.

Florida State has been one of the major powers for years and we have almost beaten them several times in the past few years. I believe UGA would have a hard time with FSU. In fact Florida beat UGA, FSU is presently beating Florida, and we barely lost to FSU. It appears we are pretty even with UGA.

We beat UGA three years in a row with Friegden. It appears our talent level has been pretty even with UGA.

Anyone that believes we lost today because of talent level reminds me of the ostrich. We lost today strictly because their coach prepared them better than our coaches prepared our players. Pure and simple. We do not need to weaken our requirements, but need to strengthen our coaching staff.

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Okay, if you don't like my suggestion of actually finding a coach, what majors are we going to add that don't duplicate what is already being offered by other universities in the system, because that is what it is going to take to get it through the Board of Regents?
 
Granted GT is steeped in great football tradition. There are _other_ traditions of which all true GT should be even more proud:

1. GT has provided a quality education without compromising its standards. To compromise would cheapen its reputation and integrity.

2. Football TV revenue be damned. Should TV $'s govern the standards for our academics?

Don't misunderstand, we have been football season ticket holders for 18 years. But for gosh sakes, GT fans, don't follow the fate of 50+ year-old men who to this day gladly, when invited, get on all 4's and bark proudly like a dawg.
 
In my opinion... using the academic crutch is just that ... a crutch... there are 85 studs in the US that want an engineering degree and can play ball... we just need to recruit like hell to find them... I dont buy the academics thing...
 
Originally posted by Wrecked:
Okay, if you don't like my suggestion of actually finding a coach, what majors are we going to add that don't duplicate what is already being offered by other universities in the system, because that is what it is going to take to get it through the Board of Regents?
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<font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif">What are you taling about, a major can be offered at only one university in the state?
 
RW1 I've got your back! Excellence does not equal snobbery, just a willingness to hold your self to a higher standard,i.e. the Marines, Army Airborne/Rangers, Special Forces/Seals. It has to start at the top though, and if Clough and Braine are not willing to back excellence in all phases of life at GT then they need to go! Frankly, I think we need to reinstate Swimming PT but BW won't help me start the petition!

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Originally posted by jacketguy:
In my opinion... using the academic crutch is just that ... a crutch... there are 85 studs in the US that want an engineering degree and can play ball... we just need to recruit like hell to find them... I dont buy the academics thing...
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<font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif">I don't buy the academic crutch if we are allowed to recruit comporable kids which we I don't think we are anymore. Practically no one on the football team majors in engineering so that argument doesn't make an sense.
 
At the risk of engaging a low blow...I went to school with a certain DE from Tech, and I know for certain that he would have an extremely difficult time getting into to a JUCO much less Tech.
 
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