Imagine how mad you'd be @ Gailey if he beat uga and wake last year..

Let's see, I would have been mad, why? Because we were ACC champs, hadbeaten Georgia, were 11-2, and getting a BCS bowl.......instead of losing to West Virginia to complete a three game skid.
 
You're fooling yourself if you think we hold our athletes to a much higher standard than other schools.
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We certainly don't hold our athletes to the same standards as non-athletes, but we hold them to MUCH higher standards than other schools.
 
gth816f said:
Well, what they said happened in the case of Reggie(who got a D in the class that knocked him out of school) was there was a mix-up with his final project being emailed in late or something and the teacher gave him a zero(which I could see happening, I was in the class and the teacher was ridiculous...). I don't think that it's inconceivable for them to ask the teacher to give him at least a little credit for his project even though it was in late(and, according to him, was done on time) so that he could get a C in the class. Hell, normal students do that all the time(or at least try to) by appealing their grades.
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So, in your own words, what you suggest is what "normal" students do all the time. So it's nothing to do with the standards we hold athletes to. Also, I assume that's what eventually happened, there just wasn't time to get it done before the bowl game. Whether someone would have found time if we were in a BCS game is anybody's guess, but it wouldn't have been some underhanded way of keeping him eligible. KS was gone though, no matter what kind of bowl game we were looking at. So you're suggestion, if that's what it was, that we somehow let athletes get away with stuff still rings hollow.
 
Regarding academic standards...I know athletes get special treatment and a ton of help, especially after sharing some classes with them over my recent years at tech. That said the Management school is arguably the easiest college at Tech but is considered one of the top in the country. I think it says something where you can stick your players in the least challenging program yet still be one of the tops in the nation.

For what its worth the only other D-1 schools above us in US News ranking are: Duke, Rice, Vandy, ND, Cal, UVA, Michigan, UCLA, Wake, and tied with BC. Seems to me we're doing pretty good compared to that group especially being a public school.
 
TechSBP said:
Quite frankly, those were senior players and the monitoring system was in place. I'd be upset if we saw this with freshman and sophomores--and we haven't.
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Inside sources say we will be seeing a true Freshman QB flunk out soon.
 
law_bee said:
if that is true that sux
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A friend of mine's dad is a big, big donor. I think he's one of those guys that enable the Reggie Ball's of GT to drive brand new $35,000 Harley Davidsion edition trucks to drive around on campus w/ their shirts off (man, that was a funny sight). Anyway, he says that Nesbitt is in trouble. I'm going to press him more on the issue Saturday.

You never know about these "rumors" though.

I'd rather have a true passer like Renfree in the next few years anyway. Assuming of course that he comes around, which isn't a given with this coaching staff and their development of QBs.
 
gth,

The system was automatic with regards to Reggie and KS. The professor entered those grades into OSCAR and it was over for them. The only argument that it wouldn't have happened otherwise is that the professor would have changed his grades based on the results of the last two games. Because there's certainly no way in freaking hell that the registrar or anybody higher up the food chain would have just put their grades under the rug.

I also vaguely remember FSU benching their starting QB five or so years ago for sleeping through a final. There's examples like that of it happening at even football factories.
 
floridajacket said:
gth,

The system was automatic with regards to Reggie and KS. The professor entered those grades into OSCAR and it was over for them. The only argument that it wouldn't have happened otherwise is that the professor would have changed his grades based on the results of the last two games. Because there's certainly no way in freaking hell that the registrar or anybody higher up the food chain would have just put their grades under the rug.
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There is an appeals process to change grades put into OSCAR that any student is able to use. He may have even been able to appeal and get his grade back up legitimately(if what he said was true). Probably they would have had to speed up the process for his appeal, but that's probably not even against regulations.

Maybe he still would have been suspended, I just don't think so. Wasn't he reinstated that January anyway?
 
gth816f said:
There is an appeals process to change grades put into OSCAR that any student is able to use. He may have even been able to appeal and get his grade back up legitimately(if what he said was true). Probably they would have had to speed up the process for his appeal, but that's probably not even against regulations.

Maybe he still would have been suspended, I just don't think so. Wasn't he reinstated that January anyway?
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Yeah, he did win his appeal but the probation didn't wait for his appeal to go through. He could come back some day to finish his degree and probably will considering his realistic chances at football.
 
GTatUSC said:
That said the Management school is arguably the easiest college at Tech but is considered one of the top in the country.
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Ummm, no. Please show me one remotely reputable source that considers Tech's management program "one of the top in the country". Engineering programs, yes. Management, absolutely not.

Doesn't matter anyway. Athletes should get a ton of help consider how rigid their schedule is outside the classroom. There's got to be a system in place to keep everyone eligible. Too bad that didn't work out so well in recent years.
 
chilidogking said:
Ummm, no. Please show me one remotely reputable source that considers Tech's management program "one of the top in the country".
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I guess it depends on what you mean by "one of the top".

The undergrad program is rated 33rd nationally by US News. The MBA program is ranked 34th/25th overall and 15th/10th for public schools by Forbes/US News.

Those are certainly Tier One rankings.
 
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