I am very proud of DRad

uga's businees school, through their honors program, is very well-regarded in the business world. Other than that nothing much to pound one's chest about.
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Didn't Tech's School of Management/Business overtake the Flagship UGA business program in the US News rankings? UGA has been offering business classes forever and I believe they were recently passed in a cloud of smoke by Tech.

As a generalized university statement, I've always believed UGA is Tier 2 while Tech and Emory are Tier 1. UGA students impress me as being more interested in football, partying and drinking than in serious academics. This works OK for them while they are enrolled in school but this attitude does not help them when they get into the real-world workforce.
 
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for not doing the standard thing and offering Gailey sweeteners to not go pro. Clearly this was a salary blackmail attempt and DRad didn't blink which is a good thing.
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Do you always jump to conclusions about life, or do you limit your idiocy to sports?
 
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he was btw a rock and a hard place...hes a loyal guy he struggled with things that went down!!
 
Lay Em Down, I think you are wrong. For the last ten years or so, HOPE has made a huge difference to Tech (and UGA). In years past, the states of Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Massachusett's, New York, etc. sent loads of talented kids to Tech. That is no longer true.

My sons teacher (in Maryland, the most college educated state in the union and extremely competitive for limited instate), a native Georgian, asked Tech about five years ago: "My daughter has excellent grades, excellent scores and is offered a full or half scholarship at every major top university in the south. WHy does Tech offer nothing?" The answer, privately given and specifically off the record, was that Tech had to go after the top instate students now and international students. They are not chasing nationally ranked students.
And I can concur as my son with very high scores, etc. got nowhere with Tech.
 
I am not that close, however, I have been observing Clough for many years and he is absolutely no fan at all for Tech athletics. Except of course, when he's smoozing with money at the games. Then it's okay.
 
I met Clough at the watching party for the GT-BC NCAA tourny game in 2004. He seemed like a nice enough guy and he seemed to care about the outcome of the guy.

However, I beleive he worked at Vandy and Duke before he came to Tech. He probably wants Tech to look like Vandy, which has divested of its AA altogether and has put the sports teams under the President. Now, I'm sure Vandy's presidents cheers for them to win all other things being equal, but there's no way in hell he would make changes to help them become competitive.

Vandy's president, btw, is also one of the main guys blocking a playoff from happening. In an interview, he basically said, "I won't let anything happen that could take away from classtime. You can have a playoff over my dead body." I'm sure Clough feels much the same way.
 
Buzz Bomb said:
UGA students impress me as being more interested in football, partying and drinking than in serious academics. This works OK for them while they are enrolled in school but this attitude does not help them when they get into the real-world workforce.
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I can tell you first hand with a son in his second year that you are absolutely right. My son and his buds feel like their frat relationships are the real reason for going to school. They will look after each other in the real world after they graduate, i.e. help each other get jobs. It is sad and pitiful. It is the good ole boy system alive and well.

I am working hard to keep him in the real world.

Biggest revelation I have run into is that kids go to Athens Tech and Gainesville College to take the "tough" courses (calculus, science). They are much easier and fully transfer for credit to UGA. This is how they keep they assure they keep the Hope.
 
floridajacket said:
However, I beleive he worked at Vandy and Duke before he came to Tech. He probably wants Tech to look like Vandy ...
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Clough was never at Vandy. He was on the faculty at Duke, Stanford, Virginia Tech, and Washington.

Perhaps the sleaze that goes on at Virginia Tech influenced him to be wary of letting the athletic department sully the school's image.

In any case, not making space for Richard was stupid, whoever made the final call.
 
It is the good ole boy system alive and well.
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Ramblin: I had one daughter that went to UGA and one that went to Tech. The Tech daughter has her feet on the ground with respect to academics, being responsible and showing a high degree/level of ambition. The UGA one had to spend a additional 2 years in Nursing School after her UGA campus experience, just to land a job. Comparing UGA and Tech is like night and day to me based on what I've seen each school produce relative to my daughters. I could never recommend the UGA diploma-mill with a straight face to anyone. And that's just my academic opinion of them. You don't even want to hear my athletic opinion of the place. Some of the athletes they manage to field and keep academically eligible with some of their questionable degree majors is simply shy of criminal.

I thank my lucky stars every day that my Tech daughter is marrying a Tech Man. I also thank my lucky stars that my UGA daughter didn't marry one of those perpetually drunk UGA Frat Boys.
 
Buzz Bomb said:
Didn't Tech's School of Management/Business overtake the Flagship UGA business program in the US News rankings? UGA has been offering business classes forever and I believe they were recently passed in a cloud of smoke by Tech.

As a generalized university statement, I've always believed UGA is Tier 2 while Tech and Emory are Tier 1. UGA students impress me as being more interested in football, partying and drinking than in serious academics. This works OK for them while they are enrolled in school but this attitude does not help them when they get into the real-world workforce.
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Tech and Emory's schools may have overtaken uga's business school in the eyes of US News. And you're right about the rest of your post but I believe what I said in my post still stands.
 
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