Increased Tech Athletics Budget

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This sure looks to me to be very encouraging for the future of Tech athletics.

Georgia Tech athletics budget continues to rise​

Former Georgia Tech baseball great and MLB star Mark Teixeira, center, talks with Georgia Tech Director of Athletics J Batt, left, at Russ Chandler Stadium on May 7, 2024, in Atlanta. (Jason Getz / AJC)

Credit: Jason Getz / Jason.Getz@ajc.com
Former Georgia Tech baseball great and MLB star Mark Teixeira, center, talks with Georgia Tech Director of Athletics J Batt, left, at Russ Chandler Stadium on May 7, 2024, in Atlanta. (Jason Getz / AJC)
By Chad Bishop
3 hours ago
Georgia Tech’s continued investment in athletics, and specifically football, was highlighted Tuesday during the Georgia Tech Athletic Association board of trustees meeting.

Tech’s balanced budget for the fiscal year of 2025 will be $137.8 million, an increase of nearly $10 million from the fiscal year 2024, when the budget was $127.9 million. Specifics of the budget, approved via vote by the board Monday, were not released.

The new budget marks a 45% increase in athletics budget for Tech from the 2022 fiscal year ($94.9 million). Tech athletic director J Batt inherited an athletics budget of $105.2 million for the fiscal year of 2023.

Tech also made a concerted effort to place more funds toward the football program, which will see more than a 30% increase in its specific budget.
“That’s a combined effort from donors, corporate partners, the institute continuing to support us and being aligned,” Batt told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Monday. “Just continuing to innovate and find different ways to drive revenue and to grow our budget to the point where we’re competitive nationally in that space is important.”

Batt spoke to the board Monday about the Yellow Jackets’ athletic season coming to an end with the baseball team’s loss to Georgia in the NCAA Tournament on Sunday. He highlighted that program’s return to the season, praised national champion golfer Hiroshi Tai and the men’s golf team and lauded Tech’s tennis programs qualifying for their respective NCAA tournaments.

Approaching his two-year anniversary at Tech in October, Batt also made note of the Jackets’ continued academic success, which continues to trend upward. Tech’s football’s TV schedule, which already includes two games on ESPN and another on ABC, was a point of emphasis as well.

“We’re certainly not at the destination for the level of programmatic excellence that we want to be at year in, year out, but I felt like there was a lot of progress made,” Batt told the board. “So really proud of all our teams and student-athletes.”
 
gtg970g said:
Not to be a downer but that's a 7.8% increase in an environment of very high inflation. Doesn't seem significant.
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Inflation was <3.5% over the past fiscal year. Moderately high, but that's less than 7.8%. So I guess you could say the budget increased by roughly 4% over inflation.

Inflation was like 8% for the fiscal year right after Covid though, before it started coming down in the past couple of years...

Source: https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-inflation-rates/
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
Better than nothing and probably more significant than in any past years.
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In business, its all about which way the arrow is pointing. Up and to the right is never a bad thing.

And I have to add one thing. Just think for a sec... not too long if you have any razor blades around... where we'd be right now that that stooge Stansbury were still our AD.
 
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00Burdell said:
In business, its all about which way the arrow is pointing. Up and to the right is never a bad thing.

And I have to add one thing. Just think for a sec... not too long if you have any razor blades around... where we'd be right now that that stooge Stansbury were still our AD.
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We are dominant in the bad AD category. Fortunately our current AD is an exception.
 
BrentwoodJacket said:
We are dominant in the bad AD category. Fortunately our current AD is an exception.
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Not being argumentative but I think its more a matter of having one really stupid University President (Bud Peterson).

So Joseph Pettit hired Homer Rice - best AD hire of all time. As a student, I had several meetings with Petit - he loved our athletic program.

Pettit retired in 1986 but Rice stayed on until 1996 when the President was Wayne Clough who hired Braine to replace Rice and later Radakovich when Braine retired for health reasons. Braine sucked but, in Clough's defense, the hire looked good on paper. dRad was also a solid hire on paper and maybe in fact - dude knew how to rake in the Benjamins. There is a perception that dRad left us in a bad spot financially. I completely disagree with this assessment. If dRad had stuck around, he would have managed that debt like a Wall St. veteran. But in 2009, GT hired literally the dumbest president in its history - Bud Peterson. That's pretty much why dRad bolted for Clemson.

And look at the two idiots Bud Peterson hired after dRad left: Bobble-head-inski and Todd effing Stansbury. I met Peterson once. Literally five minutes into the convo I'm thinking this guy is a complete idiot and I'm wondering who the hell hired him.

Homer Rice
hired in 1979 (Joseph Pettit)
retired in 1996
Braine
hired in 1997 (Wayne Clough)
retired in 2006
Radakovich
hired in 2006 (Wayne Clough)
left for Clemson in 2012
Bobinski
hired in 2013 (Bud Peterson)
went back to Purdue in 2016
Todd Stansbury
hired in 2016 (Bud Peterson)
dishonorable discharge 2022
J Batt
hired in 2022 (Angel Cabrera)

Just fyi, the only President of GT in the modern era not to have a chance to hire an AD was Crecine - he retired a few years before Rice did so he never got a chance to put his stamp on the GTAA.

So I have a different perspective on our overall grade of AD hires. I think we hit gold with J Batt and hope he stays here long enough to accomplish what I hope is his top priority from Cabrera - get GT into the B1G.
 
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00Burdell said:
Not being argumentative but I think its more a matter of having one really stupid University President (Bud Peterson).

So Joseph Pettit hired Homer Rice - best AD hire of all time. As a student, I had several meetings with Petit - he loved our athletic program.

Pettit retired in 1986 but Rice stayed on until 1996 when the President was Wayne Clough who hired Braine to replace Rice and later Radakovich when Braine retired for health reasons. Braine sucked but, in Clough's defense, the hire looked good on paper. dRad was also a solid hire on paper and maybe in fact - dude knew how to rake in the Benjamins. There is a perception that dRad left us in a bad spot financially. I completely disagree with this assessment. If dRad had stuck around, he would have managed that debt like a Wall St. veteran. But in 2009, GT hired literally the dumbest president in its history - Bud Peterson. That's pretty much why dRad bolted for Clemson.

And look at the two idiots Bud Peterson hired after dRad left: Bobble-head-inski and Todd effing Stansbury. I met Peterson once. Literally five minutes into the convo I'm thinking this guy is a complete idiot and I'm wondering who the hell hired him.

Homer Rice
hired in 1979 (Joseph Pettit)
retired in 1996
Braine
hired in 1997 (Wayne Clough)
retired in 2006
Radakovich
hired in 2006 (Wayne Clough)
left for Clemson in 2012
Bobinski
hired in 2013 (Bud Peterson)
went back to Purdue in 2016
Todd Stansbury
hired in 2016 (Bud Peterson)
dishonorable discharge 2022
J Batt
hired in 2022 (Angel Cabrera)

Just fyi, the only President of GT in the modern era not to have a chance to hire an AD was Crecine - he retired a few years before Rice did so he never got a chance to put his stamp on the GTAA.

So I have a different perspective on our overall grade of AD hires. I think we hit gold with J Batt and hope he stays here long enough to accomplish what I hope is his top priority from Cabrera - get GT into the B1G.
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Bud Peterson and Todd Stansbury were two very low IQ individuals. I had way more interaction with Todd, but was unimpressed with both.
 
00Burdell said:
Not being argumentative but I think its more a matter of having one really stupid University President (Bud Peterson).

So Joseph Pettit hired Homer Rice - best AD hire of all time. As a student, I had several meetings with Petit - he loved our athletic program.

Pettit retired in 1986 but Rice stayed on until 1996 when the President was Wayne Clough who hired Braine to replace Rice and later Radakovich when Braine retired for health reasons. Braine sucked but, in Clough's defense, the hire looked good on paper. dRad was also a solid hire on paper and maybe in fact - dude knew how to rake in the Benjamins. There is a perception that dRad left us in a bad spot financially. I completely disagree with this assessment. If dRad had stuck around, he would have managed that debt like a Wall St. veteran. But in 2009, GT hired literally the dumbest president in its history - Bud Peterson. That's pretty much why dRad bolted for Clemson.

And look at the two idiots Bud Peterson hired after dRad left: Bobble-head-inski and Todd effing Stansbury. I met Peterson once. Literally five minutes into the convo I'm thinking this guy is a complete idiot and I'm wondering who the hell hired him.

Homer Rice
hired in 1979 (Joseph Pettit)
retired in 1996
Braine
hired in 1997 (Wayne Clough)
retired in 2006
Radakovich
hired in 2006 (Wayne Clough)
left for Clemson in 2012
Bobinski
hired in 2013 (Bud Peterson)
went back to Purdue in 2016
Todd Stansbury
hired in 2016 (Bud Peterson)
dishonorable discharge 2022
J Batt
hired in 2022 (Angel Cabrera)

Just fyi, the only President of GT in the modern era not to have a chance to hire an AD was Crecine - he retired a few years before Rice did so he never got a chance to put his stamp on the GTAA.

So I have a different perspective on our overall grade of AD hires. I think we hit gold with J Batt and hope he stays here long enough to accomplish what I hope is his top priority from Cabrera - get GT into the B1G.
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I agree Peterson was a huge part of the problem, I remember thinking when he was hired that since he played college football he would be great for our athletic programs. He was the exact opposite. Is it true he rejected an opportunity to join the Big 10?

We have had great AD;s and it appears we have one now.. However few schools have been subject to AD's as bad as Braine, Bobinski and Stansbury.

Finally, Dodd may be the worst of all the AD's. He was as bad as an AD as he was good as a coach. If we had remained in the SEC, we are in a vastly different place today.
 
BrentwoodJacket said:
I agree Peterson was a huge part of the problem, I remember thinking when he was hired that since he played college football he would be great for our athletic programs. He was the exact opposite. Is it true he rejected an opportunity to join the Big 10?

We have had great AD;s and it appears we have one now.. However few schools have been subject to AD's as bad as Braine, Bobinski and Stansbury.

Finally, Dodd may be the worst of all the AD's. He was as bad as an AD as he was good as a coach. If we had remained in the SEC, we are in a vastly different place today.
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Another thing about Tech's departure from the SEC that is becoming lost to time is that GT's president at the time (Edwin Harrison) solidly endorsed the exit. Dodd did not do this all by himself. There are some articles from the early 60's that suggest Harrison wouldn't even wait for the SEC to convene and formally address Tech's objection to essentially no-limit signing classes - Tech just literally said eff all y'all - we're outta here.
 
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00Burdell said:
Another thing about Tech's departure from the SEC that is becoming lost to time is that GT's president at the time (Edwin Harrison) solidly endorsed the exit. Dodd did not do this all by himself. There are some articles from the early 60's that suggest Harrison wouldn't even wait for the SEC to convene and formally address Tech's objection to essentially no-limit signing classes - Tech just literally said eff all y'all - we're outta here.
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It made sense at the time
 
00Burdell said:
Another thing about Tech's departure from the SEC that is becoming lost to time is that GT's president at the time (Edwin Harrison) solidly endorsed the exit. Dodd did not do this all by himself. There are some articles from the early 60's that suggest Harrison wouldn't even wait for the SEC to convene and formally address Tech's objection to essentially no-limit signing classes - Tech just literally said eff all y'all - we're outta here.
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It sort of made sense at the time, and if Dodd had actually scheduled, or been able to schedule, some real NATIONAL competition, it is at last possible that we could have become the "Notre Dame of the South", which he said he wanted. But the schedules we ended up with were TERRIBLE. Now was that his fault or just the lay of the land, so to speak? No idea. But on top of leaving the SEC and not having good schedules, we then hired Bud Carson. Dodd didn't want Carson to replace him, but I don't remember him having any better options, and nobody else stepped up. The whole series of events was a total disaster, which only got worse with time.
 
BainbridgeJacket said:
Bud Peterson and Todd Stansbury were two very low IQ individuals. I had way more interaction with Todd, but was unimpressed with both.
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Met Petersen and talked to him for a few minutes one day. Eh. Met Stansbury one night at the bar in the GT Hotel. He was pretty open and forthcoming about the hurdles they had, i.e., pointing the finger at Sasquatch without actually pointing the finger at him.
 
swampsting said:
Met Petersen and talked to him for a few minutes one day. Eh. Met Stansbury one night at the bar in the GT Hotel. He was pretty open and forthcoming about the hurdles they had, i.e., pointing the finger at Sasquatch without actually pointing the finger at him.
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Yeah, Todd couldn't manage his personal finances. At that salary level, that's quite a feat of stupidity and negligence. He had no business running an organization like the GTAA.
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
It sort of made sense at the time, and if Dodd had actually scheduled, or been able to schedule, some real NATIONAL competition, it is at last possible that we could have become the "Notre Dame of the South", which he said he wanted. But the schedules we ended up with were TERRIBLE. Now was that his fault or just the lay of the land, so to speak? No idea. But on top of leaving the SEC and not having good schedules, we then hired Bud Carson. Dodd didn't want Carson to replace him, but I don't remember him having any better options, and nobody else stepped up. The whole series of events was a total disaster, which only got worse with time.
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Dodd DID NOT want Carson - Dodd wanted Doug Dickey from UT, had offered him the job & was driving back to Atlanta from Knoxville after meeting with Dickey.

After Dodd talked to Harrison to tell him Dickey had accepted the offer, Harrison ordered Dodd to call Dickey & renege on the offer. Carson was Harrison's man, not Dodd's. BTW, neither Ray Graves nor Frank Broyles wanted to follow Dodd & Jim Carlen had burned his GT bridges the year before. Both Graves & Broyles were about to step into "legendary status" at UF & Arky & didn't need the aggravation in Atlanta.

Nationally, USC(Real), ND, Cal, Michigan State (HFC Duffy Daugherty & RB Eric "Flea" Allen, future NFL HoFer Joe DeLamellieure, All NFL LB Brad Van Pelt, and Cowboys legend TE Billy Joe Dupree), Pitt (with Johnny Majors as HFC & some guy named Dorsett) and a host of others hit the already difficult quasi-SEC-legacy schedule we played. And Clemson was starting to get some future NFL players in, too.... Charlie Waters & Bennie Cunningham to name two.

Every bad decision only led to another until Homer Rice broke the chain, & even Homer had his moments.

THWG!
 
DeepSnap said:
Dodd DID NOT want Carson - Dodd wanted Doug Dickey from UT, had offered him the job & was driving back to Atlanta from Knoxville after meeting with Dickey.

After Dodd talked to Harrison to tell him Dickey had accepted the offer, Harrison ordered Dodd to call Dickey & renege on the offer. Carson was Harrison's man, not Dodd's. BTW, neither Ray Graves nor Frank Broyles wanted to follow Dodd & Jim Carlen had burned his GT bridges the year before. Both Graves & Broyles were about to step into "legendary status" at UF & Arky & didn't need the aggravation in Atlanta.

Nationally, USC(Real), ND, Cal, Michigan State (HFC Duffy Daugherty & RB Eric "Flea" Allen, future NFL HoFer Joe DeLamellieure, All NFL LB Brad Van Pelt, and Cowboys legend TE Billy Joe Dupree), Pitt (with Johnny Majors as HFC & some guy named Dorsett) and a host of others hit the already difficult quasi-SEC-legacy schedule we played. And Clemson was starting to get some future NFL players in, too.... Charlie Waters & Bennie Cunningham to name two.

Every bad decision only led to another until Homer Rice broke the chain, & even Homer had his moments.

THWG!
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Forgot to add, nationally, we also played USAFA, USMA, and USNA, though they had some problems recruiting due to the Southeast Asia War Games.... and no, it didn't stop Navy from thumping us in a driving rainstorm in 1968 & Army blocking punts & kicking FGs to win in 1971.

And for extra credit, we played Duke, South Carolina, FSU & Miami.
 
DeepSnap said:
Forgot to add, nationally, we also played USAFA, USMA, and USNA, though they had some problems recruiting due to the Southeast Asia War Games.... and no, it didn't stop Navy from thumping us in a driving rainstorm in 1968 & Army blocking punts & kicking FGs to win in 1971.

And for extra credit, we played Duke, South Carolina, FSU & Miami.
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Thanks for the history lesson.
 
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