What is Flunkgate?

Almost drowned on I-75 after that BYU game when we lost Hollings. That was a really rainy and sloppy affair.

Flunkgate was a highly visible kind of beginning of the end for "The Shaft" at Tech. Kind of crazy how it even impacted athletes and the "academic support" staff back then. Now Tech has 98% overall student retention...lol
 
GT flunkout said:
Almost drowned on I-75 after that BYU game when we lost Hollings. That was a really rainy and sloppy affair.

Flunkgate was a highly visible kind of beginning of the end for "The Shaft" at Tech. Kind of crazy how it even impacted athletes and the "academic support" staff back then. Now Tech has 98% overall student retention...lol
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It does seem like we always seemed to lose a player academically. Notably, Reggie Ball before the bowl game.
 
GoldZ said:
All one need to know is....THIS. What's worse, is that it was on purpose---see Carole Moore.
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I knew Carole during my days on the IFC. She was pleasant, but an absolute radical feminist. Think Wellesly-type.
Wouldn't surprise me if she specifically targeted the superiority/status of a successful men's program.
 
GT flunkout said:
Almost drowned on I-75 after that BYU game when we lost Hollings. That was a really rainy and sloppy affair.

Flunkgate was a highly visible kind of beginning of the end for "The Shaft" at Tech. Kind of crazy how it even impacted athletes and the "academic support" staff back then. Now Tech has 98% overall student retention...lol
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I drove my truck into about 4 feet of water. ööööed up the engine. We lost Hollings and my truck that night.
 
It is where a school known for math couldn't do math. GT has a long history of stepping on it's own dick.

So when they converted from quarter hours to semester hours, SAs would have something like 4.2 hour courses instead of 5 which eventually led to not taking enough course load. And the academic advisors were not smart enough on the conversion calculator, so not really the SAs fault.
 
It was a dwag trick perpetrated by the Board of Regents to get back at GT for the entire Jan Kemp affair.
 
GoldZ said:
All one need to know is....THIS. What's worse, is that it was on purpose---see Carole Moore.
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Wait.

What.

Carole Moore. Director of the Oxford study abroad program… she was my professor at Oxford. She’s the one behind flunkgate?? Can anyone please expose more (Moore)?
 
And, not only did we lose the 10 FB players but the subsequent probation was related. I had, for years, treated them as 2 isolated incidents until @18in32 set me straight. Regardless, one has to wonder, at least a little bit, how successful Gailey would have been overall w/o these issues. Was gonna take him a while to get used to college ball, recruiting, etc anyway but it seemed to me at the time this delayed his figuring things out. On top of all that, UGAg hired Mark Richt whose first game against Tech was at ATL in 2001 (O’Leary coaching). Could have tied that one up had it not been for a late pick six, but anyway…Richt elevated the UGA program over Goff and Donnan while Gailey had to deal with what he had to deal with.

Tony Hollings was special. IIRC, was in O’Leary’s doghouse as a DB and got a chance as RB for Gailey. I was in Cartersville for the BYU game where he hurt his knee. Shame that I remember where I was.
 
JRJacket said:
Wait.

What.

Carole Moore. Director of the Oxford study abroad program… she was my professor at Oxford. She’s the one behind flunkgate?? Can anyone please expose more (Moore)?
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"Academic woes plague Athletic Association", she's quoted extensively.

A month after the NCAA handed down the probation she was reassigned:
apnews.com

Ga. Tech Official Leaves Post

ATLANTA (AP) _ The director of academic services at Georgia Tech was reassigned Wednesday, a month after 10 football players were declared academically ineligible for next season. Carol Moore will become a special assistant to the vice provost. She will be replaced by Col. James Stevens, a...
apnews.com apnews.com
 
I used to call that the fall of my senior year
 
wreckless said:
"Academic woes plague Athletic Association", she's quoted extensively.

A month after the NCAA handed down the probation she was reassigned:
apnews.com

Ga. Tech Official Leaves Post

ATLANTA (AP) _ The director of academic services at Georgia Tech was reassigned Wednesday, a month after 10 football players were declared academically ineligible for next season. Carol Moore will become a special assistant to the vice provost. She will be replaced by Col. James Stevens, a...
apnews.com apnews.com
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This should tell you all you need to know about GTHR that she wasn’t fired. She’s not special in that regard.
 
TechRush said:
It is where a school known for math couldn't do math. GT has a long history of stepping on it's own dick.

So when they converted from quarter hours to semester hours, SAs would have something like 4.2 hour courses instead of 5 which eventually led to not taking enough course load. And the academic advisors were not smart enough on the conversion calculator, so not really the SAs fault.
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We also had the Physics didn't substitute for Biology BS. I mean who in the hell doesn't think Physics is equal to or harder than Biology. Just typical GT shafttastic ööööerovery. Just imagine how many regular students got ööööed out of graduating on time.
 
AugustaJacket said:
And, not only did we lose the 10 FB players but the subsequent probation was related. I had, for years, treated them as 2 isolated incidents until @18in32 set me straight. Regardless, one has to wonder, at least a little bit, how successful Gailey would have been overall w/o these issues. Was gonna take him a while to get used to college ball, recruiting, etc anyway but it seemed to me at the time this delayed his figuring things out. On top of all that, UGAg hired Mark Richt whose first game against Tech was at ATL in 2001 (O’Leary coaching). Could have tied that one up had it not been for a late pick six, but anyway…Richt elevated the UGA program over Goff and Donnan while Gailey had to deal with what he had to deal with.

Tony Hollings was special. IIRC, was in O’Leary’s doghouse as a DB and got a chance as RB for Gailey. I was in Cartersville for the BYU game where he hurt his knee. Shame that I remember where I was.
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Gailey' greatest asset was his ability to spot talent. I think the reason we got CJ21 was because Gailey simply wanted him more than any othrer P5 coach who probably saw CJ as just another good receiver. I still give Gailey more credit for that 2007 class than I give Geoff. There is no question that moving Hollings to RB was the correct move.
 
aeromech said:
Gailey' greatest asset was his ability to spot talent. I think the reason we got CJ21 was because Gailey simply wanted him more than any othrer P5 coach who probably saw CJ as just another good receiver. I still give Gailey more credit for that 2007 class than I give Geoff. There is no question that moving Hollings to RB was the correct move.
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Geoff taking credit for that class has always been laughable
 
JJacket said:
Geoff taking credit for that class has always been laughable
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If people haven't figured out that scam artist by now they never will. He's attached himself to anything and everything that even remotely went well, ran away from the job most of the time before it imploded on top of him. This time he caused the catastrophe right out of the gate & it was by design. He planned it that way. He thought if I can just suck at a historic rate, if I notch 1 or 2 wins better than that I can parlay this into a 10 year gig and öööö GT into complete submission while providing me enough $$ to live on forever. He damn near got that anyway the MFer enbled by his bitch of an AD & a President Peterson that didn't give a crap, maybe even liked the fact that he ööööed over football.
 
Liberty said:
If people haven't figured out that scam artist by now they never will. He's attached himself to anything and everything that even remotely went well, ran away from the job most of the time before it imploded on top of him. This time he caused the catastrophe right out of the gate & it was by design. He planned it that way. He thought if I can just suck at a historic rate, if I notch 1 or 2 wins better than that I can parlay this into a 10 year gig and öööö GT into complete submission while providing me enough $$ to live on forever. He damn near got that anyway the MFer enbled by his bitch of an AD & a President Peterson that didn't give a crap, maybe even liked the fact that he ööööed over football.
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Who was DC at Mississippi State the year we beat them?
 
JJacket said:
Who was DC at Mississippi State the year we beat them?
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You mean the year we completely bitch slapped them on national TV? Ripped them a new 5 hole you could drive truck thru, you mean the guy that masterminded that juggernaught?

I think he's been clowned off the face of the earth & is hiding in a basement somewhere. That's what people do these days when they don't want their incompetence out in public view.
 
originalwombat said:
Good luck finding any game footage of Hollings at GT. I can’t find a thing. I’ve wanted to re-live those few games. When people ask me who the best Tech RB was, I always say TH.
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He wasn't the best, but he was very special. His instant burst of speed was incredible. The best, is reserved for ELI, of course.
 
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