They already made up their mind. What you are watching is the product 11 years after starting their new academic requirements program for SAs.Are they going to let the football program compete or not. Either compete or drop to FCS. Can't continue with the status quo. Embarrassing!
TruthThey already made up their mind. What you are watching is the product 11 years after starting their new academic requirements program for SAs.
What the program and admins need to decide is do they see enou declining support and revenue to actually change back to slightly looser requirements. And they haven't and so they won't.
So it's status qou. Get used to it. I have. I am watching other games and have been after 7-0 when it was evident how bad this was going to be.
Yup. This. I dont care. At least I have Texas to pull for. They give a ---- and will be back sooner rather than later. It may take us decades to put the program back together.They already made up their mind. What you are watching is the product 11 years after starting their new academic requirements program for SAs.
What the program and admins need to decide is do they see enou declining support and revenue to actually change back to slightly looser requirements. And they haven't and so they won't.
So it's status qou. Get used to it. I have. I am watching other games and have been after 7-0 when it was evident how bad this was going to be.
They made up their mind when they left the SEC.They already made up their mind. What you are watching is the product 11 years after starting their new academic requirements program for SAs.
I don't see why not. They already made academics easier over the past decade. We might as well get the good football team with it as a bonus.Why do people always say stuff like this? It's quite clear that we've already made up our mind that we're not going to allow our team to compete on the level of schools like UGAy.
Nor should we, frankly.
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All comes down to how much easier you think we'd have to make it. There's a world of difference between making academics easier to improve academic reputation (as paradoxical as that sounds) and making them easier to improve football.I don't see why not. They already made academics easier over the past decade. We might as well get the good football team with it as a bonus.
I could not agree more....and by the sounds of another poster on here...it sounds as if our admin has decided we should move more toward the MIT, Cal Tech side then embracing the legacy that is GT football....I am very disturbed and angry given the money me and my family give this great school....The school does need to decide. There is absolutely no reason we could not dumb down one of our existing majors and drop the standards some to put the athletes in. It will have no affect on our reputation at all. This is exactly what every other school ahead of us on the top university list does to have competitive athletics. Notre Dame admits Rhodes scholars and dumb jocks side by side and nobody thinks the worse of them for it. As does Duke for bballers.
In fact, most schools that DO try to excel in athletics reap benefits overall. National championships bring students who want to be part of the experience, increase enrollment, etc.
Unless of course you think our academic competition is MIT, Cal Tech, Johns Hopkins etc. in which case your position should be to do away with athletic distractions altogether.