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I am one of the few that will admit to saying that I hope we fall in line with what the ncaa demands. That is:

1) We do whatever it takes to offer an acceptable set of degree programs that will allow us to excel in football. Whether that means they are offered on campus or at GSU, I don't care. Leaning on the crutch that the Board of Regents won't allow it is BS. With the ncaa rule changes on eligibility, we could sue and win a law suit. I am one of the Tech graduates that is not worried about what others will think of my degree just because we can recruit and enroll, and keep eligible and graduate a high number of 4-5 star recruits. (I majored in MGT, so I have already felt the attempt to diminish my non engineer diploma from Tech "purebreds". Nobody on the outside takes that view, by the way.)

2) Ga. Tech needs to allow students to not declare a major until after their second year. This will be another normal step to put Tech on the same page as other college football teams we try to compete with.

Just a few of the things this will do is allow freshman football players to adjust to life away from home, adjust to being a college student, and to adjust to being a college football player without immediately putting him behind the 8 ball with Tech and the ncaa.

I wish the ncaa had special rules for places like Tech, but they don't. Plain and simple, we broke their rules and now we have to pay for it. Wayne Clough voted "yes" on these rules. Either his goal is to get out of college football, or to play within the guidelines that the ncaa has mandated. I refuse to believe that this Institute president wants to be known as the guy that pushed Ga. Tech out of D-1 football. Here is his chance to answer that question. If nothing changes as a result of this BS probation, Tech football, as we have known it and want it is over.

I would wager a lot that the purely academic side of Tech would not sit idlely if they were somehow cut out of hiring world class professors.

If I sound like a stupid jock on this, so be it. I have enough common sense to know that world class athletics at Tech is a great PR vehicle for the institute. That benefits everyone here.
I also believe that this probation is manure, but the extreme majority outside Tech doesn't care about the circumstances leading up to it.
Once again, the ncaa has given Tech a Google map with a GPS tool. We either follow it, or we are lost.
 
Well, not quite.

We didn't break the rules Clough voted on, we broke the rules in place prior to that. Our problem wasn't the rules per se, our problem was evidently nobody knew how to figure out what courses could be taken for credit in particular degrees. That's not the NCAAs problem that's ours.

Finally, to me this smacks of academic advisors trying to figure out how to keep athletes eligible rather than how to get a degree. What caught most of them was not realizing that sooner or later you have to take the required courses. It makes much sense to me now that Joe Burns was a senior who couldn't stay eligible. Or that Joe Ham is taking calculus now, after spending 5 years in school, or that Eric Henderson failed out as a RS-JR. Personally I think it goes back to an attitude under O'Leary that we just needed to keep them eligible and that's what caused all the changes when he left. Maybe I'm reading too much into this but that's sure what it looks like to me.
 
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Did you mean Travis Parker?

Henderson is on the team right now.
 
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"eligible vs on-track" is well taken. But doesn't that go towards institutional control? In Joe's last season, national broadcasters stated multiple times that he was on-track to graduate spring semester. It turns out that he was not. Did they make that up, or was that part of the press information package that GT provided about him? If the later, then does that not indicate a lack of control by the management structure? And what about the fact that the compliance officer was signing the certifications before they were completed, rather than after. Who was taking responsibility to assure that she did her job correctly? And what about the failure of the AA subordinate to comply with a direct order from the AD or his senior associate, and get away with it until the NCAA came in?

Aren't three of the fundamental functions of management organizing, directing, and controlling? It would seem, from the report, that our management did not set up clear lines of responsibility and review in the organization, did not properly direct subordinates and audit their performance on an on going basis, and did not set up control systems with tested feedback lines in the organization. No matter what level you are at, when you give an order, especially a verbal one, you must personally confirm your intent has been carried out. To leave it to chance, to allow a subordinate to circumvent your intent with his or her own, to a allow a person in an audit position to sign her certification on a blank form smacks of lack of management (institutional) control.

That's what got us slammed.

Perhaps it's time that the administration of the Georgia Institute of Technology start to practice what the faculty teaches.
 
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Excellent Post,IM! Like an old sgt told me once upon a time, 'people do what you inspect, not what you expect!'

Now , for extra credit,can you give me all of the eight principles of mgmt in order? Dr. Greene would be very proud of you if you can!

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Dr. Greene would be very proud of you if you can!

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Dr. Greene is/was fine, Im sure. However, I prefer the Socratic teachings of Dr. Phil...Adler. Sounds like JacketIM learned some things from him as well!

Adler would have had little patience with the mismanagement of this thing.
 
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You nailed it, pocket_watch!! Adler consulted to the railroads(remember the model he had in his office)and therefore had a low tolerance for bs.Wonder how he would apply Drucker's 'service objective' to this situation?

Here's to Phil Adler, and to James Caldwell!!

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Here's to Phil Adler, and to James Caldwell!!

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Twenty some odd years after my release (graduation), what I still remember from Tech classrooms came from Mack Moore (econ), Dan Papp (poly sci) and from my Tech hero, Dr. Adler. Good Lord, what a teacher/mentor!
 
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GOD rest Mac Moore's soul. He supported my golf tournament until he died. I think the world of him.
 
Dan Papp used to be a good basketball player on

courts in Area 3, in the 70's........
 
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OPM !! "Other People's Money" for the FNG's and the non manageers. (that felt good)

M Moore's secret to a prosperous life.
 
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Ramblin, Gamblin, Hell of an ENTREPRENEUR!!!

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