Parrish

dressedcheeseside said:
They make fun of us in football, we make fun of them in, well, everything else.

Tit for tat, right?
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I'm just saying there is no reason to get butthurt about something that is outside of our control. All we can do is buy the tickets, show up, yell, and hope for the best. I will say that for what GT does in academics it does extremely well. I can't fault someone for not choosing something offered by GT. I certainly don't think it makes a person stupid just because they are a ugag grad and I have met GT grads that are great with numbers but couldn't pour piss out of a boot.

Crying over ugag having advantages is a waste of time.
 
KrazieJacket said:
I don't see why this still bothers people.
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Why shouldn't it bother people? You can bet it bothers our coaching staff who invested resources in recruiting Parrish to accept our scholarship offer.

Anytime Uga gets something we are fighting for whether its a recruit, a victory, research funding or some love from the BoR then its bothersome.

Should it lead to a spike in the price of butthurt futures? Probably not but let's not pretend we don't care when we lose a battle with Uga over anything. We are Georgia Tech and I'd fight UGa for something I didn't even need just to keep those inbred sibling porkers from having it.

When it gets to the point where we don't care about losing a head-to-head with a school so academicallly putrid its own acorn-brained mascot couldn't fail out of it then its time to call it a day.

And while I rarely comment about a recruit's rationale for choosing one school over another, Parrish's regurgitated comments spoon-fed to him by UGa's recruiting staff do not speak highly of his ability to think for himself.
 
00Burdell said:
Why shouldn't it bother people? You can bet it bothers our coaching staff who invested resources in recruiting Parrish to accept our scholarship offer.

Anytime Uga gets something we are fighting for whether its a recruit, a victory, research funding or some love from the BoR then its bothersome.

Should it lead to a spike in the price of butthurt futures? Probably not but let's not pretend we don't care when we lose a battle with Uga over anything. We are Georgia Tech and I'd fight UGa for something I didn't even need just to keep those inbred sibling porkers from having it.

When it gets to the point where we don't care about losing a head-to-head with a school so academicallly putrid its own acorn-brained mascot couldn't fail out of it then its time to call it a day.

And while I rarely comment about a recruit's rationale for choosing one school over another, Parrish's regurgitated comments spoon-fed to him by UGa's recruiting staff do not speak highly of his ability to think for himself.
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:biggthumpup:

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mtownjacket said:
you are dumb. He said he wants a good degree. Most of those do not qualify. Here is a list of professions where you are legitimately better off going to uga for:

Lawyer
politician
journalist
veterinarian
farmer
wildlife/fisheries biologist
forester/park ranger
history/english/music teacher
mcdonald's night assistant manager
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ftfy
 
MadTownJacket said:
UGA is actually a really good school...if you want a good job instate. If you want a good job anywhere, Tech's the way to go.
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Why perpetuate this myth?

Who thinks UGA is a "good school"? People who go there, the secretary at your dad's office, and the assistant manager at Target.

Who thinks UGA is not a "good school"? Anyone at a high level in business (and I don't mean your uncle who owns a Chick-fil-A franchise, I mean an executive at Coke) or influential (outside of Georgia politics).

Really - in what area is UGA a "good school"? Law? UGA is 2nd tier and not even the top school in a state that has 5 law schools. Medicine? No medical school. Business? Terry is a 3rd tier business school, which oscillates between 3rd and 4th in the state?

How about just "overall"? THE ranks UGA from 200-225 (GT is 25). It's 2nd tier on US News.

At the end of the day, UGA is a "good school" when you compare it to the Devry, Fort Valley State, and Atlanta Metropolitan College options. But in the grand scheme, it's not a "good" school by any means. The only way to achieve a high level of success after attending UGA is to obtain some other qualification (Marshall Scholar, go to a better school for grad school, etc).
 
gtphd said:
At the end of the day, UGA is a "good school" when you compare it to the Devry, Fort Valley State, and Atlanta Metropolitan College options. But in the grand scheme, it's not a "good" school by any means. The only way to achieve a high level of success after attending UGA is to obtain some other qualification (Marshall Scholar, go to a better school for grad school, etc).
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Agree with just about everything you wrote especially the bolded portion. I don't think it's snobbish to say that either. It's just the truth, especially if you're the average athlete that's going to get routed through the "easy" majors.
 
gtphd said:
Why perpetuate this myth?

Who thinks UGA is a "good school"? People who go there, the secretary at your dad's office, and the assistant manager at Target.

Who thinks UGA is not a "good school"? Anyone at a high level in business (and I don't mean your uncle who owns a Chick-fil-A franchise, I mean an executive at Coke) or influential (outside of Georgia politics).

Really - in what area is UGA a "good school"? Law? UGA is 2nd tier and not even the top school in a state that has 5 law schools. Medicine? No medical school. Business? Terry is a 3rd tier business school, which oscillates between 3rd and 4th in the state?

How about just "overall"? THE ranks UGA from 200-225 (GT is 25). It's 2nd tier on US News.

At the end of the day, UGA is a "good school" when you compare it to the Devry, Fort Valley State, and Atlanta Metropolitan College options. But in the grand scheme, it's not a "good" school by any means. The only way to achieve a high level of success after attending UGA is to obtain some other qualification (Marshall Scholar, go to a better school for grad school, etc).
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Preach on brother, I had to grow up with dumbasses who went to UGA saying "UGA has gotten so much better with the Hope Scholarship because now the top tier students are staying in state." All the while I was thinking well there was no HOPE when you went there and you don't even realize the stupidity of your statement. Either way having better students only marginally increases the quality of the school if the actual education doesn't also get better. UGA is a good place to go get a 4.0 so you can hopefully get into grad school...
 
KrazieJacket said:
As long as GT allows ugag to be THE football school it will be this way.
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and by "allows" you mean not let persons who probably should not have been allowed to graduate from high school come to Georgia Tech in the guise of being a student, then being somehow magically kept eligible - maybe even get a Academic All-American status - while being tracked through joke majors that help the university by letting them keep the player eligible but do nothing for the player in the long run unless he happens to be one of the few to make a decent living in the NFL for a few years?

as far as i can tell there are a few other options than Georgie to play football, and players from other colleges in Georgia make it to the pros; so its not really THE football school, just the one that you can go to and get on TV and not have to actually be a student and get barked at and slobbered on.
 
UGA might not be a "good school" but I have a ton of friends and a wife that all have very good jobs making good salaries that went there.

In other words, the UGA network does have some advantages, especially in the state of Georgia, despite the generally lesser rigors of the education.
 
BuzzCzar said:
and by "allows" you mean not let persons who probably should not have been allowed to graduate from high school come to Georgia Tech in the guise of being a student, then being somehow magically kept eligible - maybe even get a Academic All-American status - while being tracked through joke majors that help the university by letting them keep the player eligible but do nothing for the player in the long run unless he happens to be one of the few to make a decent living in the NFL for a few years?

as far as i can tell there are a few other options than Georgie to play football, and players from other colleges in Georgia make it to the pros; so its not really THE football school, just the one that you can go to and get on TV and not have to actually be a student and get barked at and slobbered on.
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And? I am just pointing out there is no use in crying about it. That is just the way it is.
 
Georgia has some decent majors and has a large campus that serves the need for most of the average people in the state, and increasingly competitive with more and more surrounding states.

so AVERAGE, not good, with some good majors; a good Vet school and an average law school.

given the State of Georgia's poor education at the lower levels, a Georgie degree might seem "good" but its only because the overall education is rather poor in comparison to other states
 
Ranking of public schools in the South:
GT
UNC
UVA
Florida
UGA

As far as their direct competition goes UGA is not bad. They are comparing themselves to Auburn, Alabama, Tennessee, and South Carolina when they claim to be a "good school".
 
gtphd said:
Why perpetuate this myth?

Who thinks UGA is a "good school"? People who go there, the secretary at your dad's office, and the assistant manager at Target.

Who thinks UGA is not a "good school"? Anyone at a high level in business (and I don't mean your uncle who owns a Chick-fil-A franchise, I mean an executive at Coke) or influential (outside of Georgia politics).

Really - in what area is UGA a "good school"? Law? UGA is 2nd tier and not even the top school in a state that has 5 law schools. Medicine? No medical school. Business? Terry is a 3rd tier business school, which oscillates between 3rd and 4th in the state?

How about just "overall"? THE ranks UGA from 200-225 (GT is 25). It's 2nd tier on US News.

At the end of the day, UGA is a "good school" when you compare it to the Devry, Fort Valley State, and Atlanta Metropolitan College options. But in the grand scheme, it's not a "good" school by any means. The only way to achieve a high level of success after attending UGA is to obtain some other qualification (Marshall Scholar, go to a better school for grad school, etc).
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But if you are already planning to go to grad school, like the recruit in question, and it happens to be a grad program that fits very well with undergrad programs offered at Uga, then it becomes more about football and college life. We all know who wins that battle.
 
dressedcheeseside said:
But if you are already planning to go to grad school, like the recruit in question, and it happens to be a grad program that fits very well with undergrad programs offered at Uga, then it becomes more about football and college life. We all know who wins that battle.
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This comes with two assumptions:

1. Grad school undergraduate major matters - it doesn't. That's why I know History majors with PhDs in Neuroscience (and that is actually plural; I know two). He's better off with a GT degree in biology then applying.

2. GPA matters more than school. If that's true, why go to UGA? In-state, a school like Fort Valley is easier than UGA and you're even more likely to get a 4.0. Out-of-state (since his college is free), Alabama has better looking women than UGA, a better football team, and easier classes. Hell, Auburn is about as close to home as UGA.
 
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