The atttitude of allen kohilic is total BS. Get over yourself and join the real world. Otherwise place your mechanical pencil back in your pocket protector and go crunch numbers as it is really f'ing obvious that you want an intramural program like Vanderbilt. You can not have both in football. But you can have both if you lose the holier than thou attitude and realize that your Shiate stinks just like that of the liberal arts majors.
Attitudes like this, in my opinion, miss the point.
For starters, who the hell wears pocket protectors anymore?
Also, I don't see how an attitude of "academics should come first" implies that we want to be like Vanderbilt. I also feel it that it should be pointed out (again) that we do have liberal arts majors, conveniently located in the "Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts".
This whole "liberal arts majors are needed" argument is kind of a straw man argument to me anyway. Most of the joke majors I see on TV (like "interdisciplinary studies", "turf management", "apparel, housing, and resource management", etc.) aren't really liberal arts majors anyway. They also aren't engineering or science majors. They are football majors. What normal person would pay to go to school and major in "interdisciplinary studies" or PE? The answer is no one. These types of majors are exist exclusively to hide and protect athletes while they compete at their large, state university, whereupon they will be spit out at the end of their career likely to do some crappy job. (Remember some of the quotes from the Jan Kemp incident? Working at the post office would, indeed, probably be a pretty cushy job for some of these guys.) Georgia Tech should never have programs like this.
I realize some people in the thread were advocating the creating of academic programs that are rigorous and appeal to potential students that are not athletes and not interested in engineering. While I still disagree with your position, this post is not directed at you. (Also, again, we do have several liberal arts degrees now!)
