This year's UGA game has the potential to be historically bad.

ATLNative said:
Hey however you feel about me, that’s on you. I’ve not been disrespectful to anyone on this board. I’ve not been negative about the GT football program and certainly not the Institute. I also have said I realize I’m a visitor here and you can say what you want about me or UGA or anything, some of it has actually been sort of funny. I’ve enjoyed several conversations on here with people reminiscing on GT v. UGA games over the last 53 years. I’ve also said that as a native Atlantan growing up in the shadows of the GT campus I hope that GT can return to football prominence and win every game except one. So, say what you will to me I’m not phased by your comments about me.
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Thank you. When I was writing that and I said University I thought that doesn’t sound right.
 
ATLNative said:
Thank you. When I was writing that and I said University I thought that doesn’t sound right.
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What a GTU would look like.

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PressManCoverage said:
The truth as it relates to CFB in 2021, whatever their Engineering School is , it was enough for them to Recruit their Star LB a likely 1st round Draft Choice, a guy that would've made a huge difference if CPJ had been able to Recruit him (he never considered GT BTW)
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Yes, it's mediocre, and that is optimal for attracting college football recruits who don't want a joke major. Being a college football player and trying to get a degree from the #4 undergraduate engineering school in the country is...well, it's not impossible, but let's just say Sean Bedfords are few and far between. And honestly, for someone with NFL aspirations, it would be a dumb decision: your career lies in football, you should be mainly focusing on that, not pouring 60 hours a week into getting a great ME degree you'll never use.

Does criticizing their Engr School make losing to them easier to deal with, it doesn't for me?
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To be honest, at this point it kind of does. The reality is that our school itself and our alumni are very focused on academics and it definitely hamstrings our football program.

Now, there are ways around that that have been discussed ad nauseum, but we're not currently doing most of those things, as has been argued about incessantly. The one thing everyone agrees upon is that we're currently playing with at least one hand tied behind our back, and while I'll root like hell for us to beat U[sic]GA, I know we're playing a losing game because we're two different schools with different focuses, so it doesn't upset me nearly as much as it did before I accepted that.

As for the jokes about their academics? Yes, it's petty and stupid...but what are college football rivalries if not petty and stupid?
 
If we aren't going to get serious about football, it's time we dropped this game. I suppose we can replace it with Georgia State but that isn't a sure win for this program either. I think the other "school" is growing bored with this game as well and will probably make that decision on their own. Yes, it's an easy warm up for their conference championship and their fans have an easy drive over to take over our stadium. Aside from that they could probably find another bottom program similar to ours to schedule and make even more money. In the meantime, I wish Collins would STF up about 404 and ATL as this is even more incentive for Athens to run the first half score up like Clemson did to us last year.
 
The Wasp said:
If we aren't going to get serious about football, it's time we dropped this game. I suppose we can replace it with Georgia State but that isn't a sure win for this program either. I think the other "school" is growing bored with this game as well and will probably make that decision on their own. Yes, it's an easy warm up for their conference championship and their fans have an easy drive over to take over our stadium. Aside from that they could probably find another bottom program similar to ours to schedule and make even more money. In the meantime, I wish Collins would STF up about 404 and ATL as this is even more incentive for Athens to run the first half score up like Clemson did to us last year.
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You join the board to cry like a little pussy? What makes you think we aren't serious about the game? We are upgrading recruiting. There is ABSOLUTELY no reason we can't recruit against and beat UGA. None. You want to reduce is to a ööööing glorified HS team to protect your fragile ego?
 
JJacket said:
You join the board to cry like a little pussy? What makes you think we aren't serious about the game? We are upgrading recruiting. There is ABSOLUTELY no reason we can't recruit against and beat UGA. None. You want to reduce is to a ööööing glorified HS team to protect your fragile ego?
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To this I will also add...

In 1980, we were in the bottom 25 and the dwags were pretty decent. In 1983, we were one play away from winning then we won the next two. And the dwags didn't regress - we gained on them.

So this notion that the there is an unfathomable gap that we can never close is nonsense and provides cover for folks who don't have the stomach to fight it out until we get back where we need to be. We aren't cancelling the series. Ever.
 
00Burdell said:
To this I will also add...

In 1980, we were in the bottom 25 and the dwags were pretty decent. In 1983, we were one play away from winning then we won the next two. And the dwags didn't regress - we gained on them.

So this notion that the there is an unfathomable gap that we can never close is nonsense and provides cover for folks who don't have the stomach to fight it out until we get back where we need to be. We aren't cancelling the series. Ever.
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We also did the same to Clemson in the same years.
 
andrew said:
Yes, it's mediocre, and that is optimal for attracting college football recruits who don't want a joke major. Being a college football player and trying to get a degree from the #4 undergraduate engineering school in the country is...well, it's not impossible, but let's just say Sean Bedfords are few and far between. And honestly, for someone with NFL aspirations, it would be a dumb decision: your career lies in football, you should be mainly focusing on that, not pouring 60 hours a week into getting a great ME degree you'll never use.



To be honest, at this point it kind of does. The reality is that our school itself and our alumni are very focused on academics and it definitely hamstrings our football program.

Now, there are ways around that that have been discussed ad nauseum, but we're not currently doing most of those things, as has been argued about incessantly. The one thing everyone agrees upon is that we're currently playing with at least one hand tied behind our back, and while I'll root like hell for us to beat U[sic]GA, I know we're playing a losing game because we're two different schools with different focuses, so it doesn't upset me nearly as much as it did before I accepted that.

As for the jokes about their academics? Yes, it's petty and stupid...but what are college football rivalries if not petty and stupid?
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Andrew this is the best assessment of the situation between GT & UGA I’ve seen anyone make. These are two very different types of schools and yes it’s fun to call UGA people everything bad known to man but, how do the Tech alumni and other interested parties affect change in the Tech football program? How do schools in the same or similar area of academic focus and prominence do it? You guys on this site may have hashed this over and over for years already I don’t know but, who cares what UGA is doing, that program is going to win at a minimum 9 games every year or the coach gets fired. Winning or losing to UGA doesn’t impact your standing in the ACC. Go win your division in the ACC. Hey you guys are the experts in GT football, I’m just the older UGA guy (insert defaming language) that’s making conversation because I got sick of dealing with all the flaming libs chatter on Twitter.
 
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