Parker Braun explains his decision

JJacket said:
If he thinks he was going to play center, he wasn't going to play over a healthy Kenny Cooper
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Love the way this kid plays. Center is a big part in calling out defenses and setting run/pass coordinations. If he can nail that part, we will be good. I remember thinking he had really good feet during the season.
 
öööö, all you bitches giving him shit over his decision calling it contrived and whatnot. It seems pretty simple; he wants to study something that's not offered at Tech. It gets to the point that is typically thrown around here about not having diverse majors and the limiting factor of that to attract athletes. While I don't think we need anthropology, this likely happens with other recruits that have other academic interests we don't offer. Although, if he picks Ohio State, then the situation changes a bit. That place is almost worse than ugag.


Best of luck to Parker and I hope when he is introduced at the start of NFL games, he says, "Georgia Tech" and not some other school.
 
Ceiling Cat said:
öööö, all you bitches giving him öööö over his decision calling it contrived and whatnot. It seems pretty simple; he wants to study something that's not offered at Tech. It gets to the point that is typically thrown around here about not having diverse majors and the limiting factor of that to attract athletes. While I don't think we need anthropology, this likely happens with other recruits that have other academic interests we don't offer. Although, if he picks Ohio State, then the situation changes a bit. That place is almost worse than ugag.


Best of luck to Parker and I hope when he is introduced at the start of NFL games, he says, "Georgia Tech" and not some other school.
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So you truly believe that he 100% transfers if PJ was still coach? I'm just not buying that. This is a much about competition and winning as it's about school IMO.
 
thwg said:
Tech folks get pretty elitist about what is good. Florida is a great state school approaching UNC. That does not mean you can’t skate by there if you are an athlete and choose an easy major. But it’s still a very good school where you can get an excellent education with a plethora of options to choose from.
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Yeah I think that’s the same point i was trying to make. That going to UF doesn’t mean he’s not serious about academics being a priority. Just that Braun would probably be the smartest football player there.
 
gtphd said:
t's also why there are people with PhDs in History, Gender Studies, and Musicology working at Starbucks.
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Only one man has a degree in Musicology.
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Florida's academic reputation is much improved over what it was 30 years ago. I would put it in the same category as the University of Texas.
 
TechAKnee said:
So you truly believe that he 100% transfers if PJ was still coach? I'm just not buying that. This is a much about competition and winning as it's about school IMO.
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I'm not Parker Braun so I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. Yeah there might be other factors as any big life decision typically has. Maybe if CPJ is still here, that's more important to him than studying anthropology. It really doesn't matter. I'm just not gonna disparage a kid for transferring like this on good terms. He's given Tech 4 years of very hard work. Of course we would like him to continue here, but that's not the case, and we will have to get used to people leaving early when our star recruits are leaving early for the NFL.
 
ncjacket said:
So he’s lying?
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Who Parker? Not at all, but I do think he’s highlighting the reasons that don’t throw his old teammates under the bus. I believe he’s largely leaving due to next years outlook more then anything else. He’s going to transfer to a team that will win next year.
 
TechAKnee said:
Who Parker? Not at all, but I do think he’s highlighting the reasons that don’t throw his old teammates under the bus. I believe he’s largely leaving due to next years outlook more then anything else. He’s going to transfer to a team that will win next year.
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Lol that’s not a guarantee either
 
TechAKnee said:
Who Parker? Not at all, but I do think he’s highlighting the reasons that don’t throw his old teammates under the bus. I believe he’s largely leaving due to next years outlook more then anything else. He’s going to transfer to a team that will win next year.
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A great man, who Geoff Collins knows, once said "we will win with you. We will win without you"
 
gtphd said:
The technical requirement to teach college is a master's degree. However, in the social sciences, there aren't many positions for PhD's other than education. As a result, there are way more PhDs than there are jobs, resulting in pretty much every education position, including community college, essentially requiring a PhD. It's also why there are people with PhDs in History, Gender Studies, and Musicology working at Starbucks.

Compare this to Engineering or Business or Physics or Economics, where there are more non-education related jobs. You find many (most?) community college positions in those fields filled by people with master's degrees.
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Interesting.

When I was joint-enrolled in H.S., I had a Pharmacist teach me chemistry, which is the equivalent to a masters I imagine. It's fuzzy with the professional degrees.

What do most people do with a PhD in an Engineering field? Is it to go into academia/research? There's not that many in industry and I heard the pay differential between PhD and Masters isn't that wide at all.
 
cincyjacket said:
Florida's academic reputation is much improved over what it was 30 years ago. I would put it in the same category as the University of Texas.
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:rotfl:

And it's harder to get into uGA than Tech these days...
 
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BuckNasty said:
When I was joint-enrolled in H.S., I had a Pharmacist teach me chemistry, which is the equivalent to a masters I imagine. It's fuzzy with the professional degrees.
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He probably had a Pharm.D., which is a professional doctorate. It's not really equivalent to a master's, it's different. A Pharm.D. is a practical degree while a research MS is a theoretical degree.

BuckNasty said:
What do most people do with a PhD in an Engineering field? Is it to go into academia/research? There's not that many in industry and I heard the pay differential between PhD and Masters isn't that wide at all.
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It depends on your field, but there are many R&D positions for engineering PhDs. In engineering, the pay differential between a BS and MS is often minimal. What I usually see is that an MS graduate gets a 1 year tenure advancement (so, instead of starting at $70k with a BS, they start at $72k with the MS). A PhD will probably start around $100k in R&D.
 
gtphd said:
A PhD will probably start around $100k in R&D.
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Word. It’s not a bad life. I thought I wanted academia, but the pull to industry was strong. I can always go back and teach if I burn out.
 
Buzz_PhD said:
Word. It’s not a bad life. I thought I wanted academia, but the pull to industry was strong. I can always go back and teach if I burn out.
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The pull to industry is also profitable. A full tenured chaired professor will cap out at $200k. Not bad. But in industry that's a Sr. Manager or Director.

Someone with the ability to make a full tenured professor has the ability to make VP or SVP in industry. A VP is probably pulling in $400k cash + $200k equity. An SVP is probably $600k cash + $400k equity.
 
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