I’ve Never Seen Such A Wide Discrepancy Between GT & UGA in My…

[Milledgeville]

Again, if we want things to change, then as many of us as possible need to (1) go to games, (2) donate money, (3) participate in the NIL group, and (4) talk up GT with non-fans and unaffiliated football fans. Withholding any of the above just widens the gap--not only the gap between us and ugag, but us and mediocre P5 teams. We have to be average again before we can be really good. If not enough Tech fans do the above, we simply won't compete. It's hard (as a group) but not complicated.

If 29% of GT students are international, we probably shouldn’t count on them mailing donations from China, India or South America after graduating.

I could be wrong. I sure as to hell was wrong about Larry.

 

[GTFLETCH]

60+ years of following GT football. The last 4 contest have been routs , I’ve never seen that before. Even during UGA’s three consecutive SEC titles during the Herschel years we played them fairly competitive except for the 1981 game, and we were down to boot. I’m on this soapbox for the umptieth time but if your going to have a Division 1 Power 5 football program then do what’s necessary to succeed just like we do for the engineering programs. We don’t settle for mediocrity in our academic programs but we waddle in it in some of our athletic teams. I thought I would never say this but poop or get off the pot.

2016 seems like a decade ago...really sad state of GT football, maybe we can start being competitive this year.

 

[covingtonjacket]

If 29% of GT students are international, we probably shouldn’t count on them mailing donations from China, India or South America after graduating.

I could be wrong. I sure as to hell was wrong about Larry.

I pretty much agree. He's what I said about it:

In no way will a successful athletic department harm the school. The dead horse I beat on here though is the admissions process. We sacrifice having alumni who care about sports and will stay in Georgia and remain connected to the school for **slightly** better admissions statistics. We admit the students who would rather be in the library than go to the game and then we're all shocked that our alumni base will not expend the funds/effort to be successful at football or athletics generally. We are shooting ourselves in the foot for (as best I can tell) no discernible benefit.

 

[TampaBayJacket]

Yo gramps, things have changed in college football the last 60 years

 

[whiskey clear]

Ticket agent called me this morning to inquire about my interest in attending games this year. I made the same point about the president not caring and institute not funding. He then championed the non football sports (while the call was specifically about football tickets) and said it's not necessary for the president to be heavily involved in athletics for athletics to be successful.

All I can say is that the philosophy inside the institute is pervasive, longstanding, and never likely to change.