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he sounds like someone pissed at their boss bc he didn't get the promotion he wanted.
 
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Always a possibility, but that doesn't mean what was pored over is not true. One of those where you had to be there.
 
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Doesn't everyone know what goes on at UGA? People aren't stupid and after a while people generally understand what's going on.

1)UGA is a fotball factory. They will stoop to no level to win. Look at the Leonard Popes. I bet you he is the tip of the iceberg. You think Max Jean Gillis is any better? No way.

2) UGA has always undercut GT. From yanking the Dept of Commerce out from under Tech in the 1930's to voting GT out of the SEC in the 1960's, to saying they would leave the SEC if GT was allowed reentry in the late 1970's, to the funding starvation of GT for over 100 years.

3) The governor's office and the state legislature are all UGAg graduates and manipulate the system to damage Tech and help UGAy.

4) UGAy props up their athletes with pathetic degree programs. An absolute joke. When has ONE UGAg player (in any sport) ever been flunked out or declared academically ineligible?

Need I go on...
 
As somone who\'s spent his entire life in academia.

If He's a Board of Regions[sic] professor, he's very well accomplished in his field. He would have well over 150 citations in peer reviewed journals, and have personally contributed to many local and national committees. Even if he's in "business." He probably also runs a very lucrative side consulting practice.

U[sic]Ga is the good ole boy network in our state. As long as GT people band together we'll be fine. It's when we start attacking each other that we'll fall like a house of cards.
 
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If he is a full professor, just what promotion would you think he's after? So you're saying you don't believe this I guess?
 
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Gotta chime in here - the SEC did not vote GT out of the conference in the 60s - Tech pulled out voluntarily for reasons discussed in other threads....

When Tech applied for re-entry in the early '80s, the requisition was voted down - we had lined up the necessary votes beforehand, but someone lied and voted against us - it's been speculated that it was Alabama, Georgia or possibly Mississippi, but I don't think anyone knows for sure who did the double cross....although the most likely culprit is considered to be Alabama...
 
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I thought Bryant and the Alabama pres never showed up to the meeting? Or is that just old hearsay?
 
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Adams is going to get an engieering school if he asks for it. The Board of Regents does not say no to UGAg.

UGA was recently approved to add 3 new engineering degrees: biochemical engineering, environmental engineering, and computer systems engineering. All of these are in direct competition with degrees at Tech.
 
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I think the Bear story was the proposed rule to limit scholarships. Dodd thought he had Bear's support but he didn't show up at the meeting and the Alabama AD voted against it. That was the last straw for Dodd and we left the SEC. Leastwise that's what I think I remember.
 
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Interesting story but you might want to edit it a little. I think I could figure out who this is quite easily and maybe your neighbor wouldn't appreciate that.

I will say that like it or not, UGA is up and coming because of Adams and his methods, and of course the Hope. In Maryland, my kids friend's are saying "UGA is a great school". My kids just laugh, but perception is everything in life.

If we don't go private, in 100 years we will be 2nd tier and UGA a top Five Public School. IF we went private, I could care less about how UGA grows (as opposed to now since I help fund their growth by donating at Tech) and Tech could potentially grow into Top Ten For All Schools within 100 years.
 
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Non essential, according to my man as being the adult kindergarten schools that fuel the football program.

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This doesn't make any sense to me....uga already has plenty of these types of majors, certainly enough to field a f-ball team....

not sure if i buy it..
 
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how in the world would we 'go private'?

rest of it, i agree with...uga will eventually pass us....most all of the smart kids in the state want to got there...

most GT alumn could care less though, so long as the school remains 'hard'....
 
How can UGA\'s SAT scores go up?

By now the Hope effect should be maxed out. UGA will attract few from out of state unlike GT. And GT will still get it's share of smart kids from Georgia.

I know kids from Richmond going to GT. When I lived in NATCHEZ FREAKIN MISSISSIPPI I knew a kid from there going to GT. You don't meet kids who go to UGA from two plus states away. That's how you get elite.

UGA may close the gap slightly since GT is near the top and UGA has more room to climb. And I certainly respect your opinions. But how exactly UGA will become a top 25 school getting kids almost exclusively from a state with only 4% of the population and a sub-standard high school system is beyond me.

People know UF is a good school, and it is. Better than UGA. But is it elite? Will it ever be elite? Frankly I doubt it.
 
Re: How can UGA\'s SAT scores go up?

I don't think their SAT scores will pass us, hardly any public schools do. They may eventually be on par with public schools like UNC though - who many consider 'better' than us because of their high rankings in a large number of fields.
 
Re: Why GT got out of the SEC

I heard this from Coach Dodd's mouth in 1986, at a talk he gave. He said that GT would drop out of the SEC if a new rule was passed requiring scholarships to be recinded from hurt athletes. He said that he just couldn't live with that.

Dodd said Ole Miss, Miss St, Auburn resented us tremendously because we wouldn't go play them at their places and made them come to Atlanta. He said UGAg would always vote against anything we wanted.

The vote came down to Bammer. He said that he got Bear's personal word, the day before the vote, to vote GT's way. The day of the vote the Bear didn't show up and Tech lost the vote. Dodd then turned in GT's membership and never got an explanation from the Bear as to why he didn't show up...
 
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Based on this well known story and how the acc apparantly feels about Tech, does anybody want us? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/pat.gif

I am starting to have a complex.
 
Re: UGAy geeting engineering degrees

Clearly a move to cut the legs from underneath Tech. They've been doing this type of stuff for a century.

Let 'em have it. That should open Tech up to being able to expand our ciriculumn and UGA would never come close to competing with Tech in any engineering fields. Name one of their academic programs that is even in the top 20 (agriculture, Home Ec?).
 
Re: How can UGA\'s SAT scores go up?

Maryland is the 5th largest Tech alumni spot in the country. Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, NY, used to all send a lot of kids to Tech. Tech used to be the #1 value education in the country, but not anymore.

Hope changed all that. Tech is not cheap at all for an out of state student. I know a senior in high school who has a 800 Math, 730 Writing and 700 Reading, basically maxed out his AP tests as a Junior and is taking a VERY tough load of courses his senior year. Since he is not a Presidential Scholar he won't be getting any money from Tech.

This kid is looking at every Top school in the country. Tech is by far the most expensive NET cost. That includes Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, MIT....It really isn't close.

Tech's rise is being challenged by a few issues, the biggest is money. Tech has one of the top five best alumni giving in the country, but one of the lowest available money to give to students. Why? Because we're effectively funding UGA.

Tech's rise will also be stopped because of its curriculum. I was just talking last night with a higher up at UMBC, where he admitted to me was following Tech's model to rise in the rankings. He told me that UMBC is stuck in 2nd/3rd tier for one big reason: dropout. They are only engineering and the kids have no place to go when they discover that that isn't the right spot. There is no MGMT, Communication/Marketing, Accounting...

Well we have some of that but the second issue he stated was diversity in curriculum. Man, they really did follow Tech's model. Now this school, unknown to most of you, sent more kids to Harvard Medical School last year than any other school in the country! Meanwhile the Board of Regents does not help us in any easy way. I'd love to combine with Emory and take on the world without the state's help.

Unencumbered and with or without Emory, I do believe we'd be Top Ten in the next 100 years.

By the way, let me add:
Tech wanted that land by North Avenue. Atlanta wanted homes. I'd bet you that every bit of land provided to Tech would increase the Atlanta/Georgia coffers by X amount, but we put in more homes. There is no teamwork within the state, at least that I can see from afar.
 
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Cost is getting prohibitive for out of state students interested in Tech. My son was accepted at Tech and at NCState. He was very interested in Tech but it would cost twice what State will cost me. I believe firmly that Tech provides a better education on average. But as I told him, if he excels at State he'll do fine. Also if he excels at State for 2 years and wants to try to transfer we can check it out. But with the number of companies in RTP who do research with State, I doubt he'll want to look at it.

The long and short is that I would guess many kids are in the same boat. MD as a good engineering school, VT engineering is pretty good...neither may be Tech but they are solid and for instate kids a much better deal. The more Tech fills up with in-state students the more their student body will start to look like ugag's.
 
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