Willie Fritz leaving Southern

I simply wanted an in state school that was far enough away to enjoy some semblance of independence. UGA is, well, UGA. Chemical Engineering was as close to anything that GT offered that I found interesting. Other than that, I'm not attending GT "just because." UGA students do that already.

What did you study at Southern as opposed to Chemical Engineering at Tech?
 
Attending Georgia Southern over, say, Duke is like getting a face tattoo then entering the business world.


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So much gold in this thread.
 
Georgia Southern is a fine regional state school. It serves Southeast Georgia well and attracts a large number of metro Atlanta students. I agree that the top students at a GSU would be successful students almost anywhere. Many top students will choose the highest academic scholarship at a school like GSU and the advantages that affords over attending a more renowned school where they are granted admission.

Tulane is a well-respected private university in New Orleans. It is going to have certain programs and graduate/professional schools that are much higher regarded than anything comparable at Georgia Southern. It could be argued that Tulane's academic reputation has plateaued or declined, particularly post-Katrina, while Georgia Southern is more on the rise. But, no one would seriously argue GSU is the better school academically.

As for football, Tulane has a long legacy that goes back to SEC days. They have been awful, for the most part, for five decades now. Only a couple of coaches have come to Tulane and moved on to better jobs in recent years. They have the new stadium, but any early enthusiasm seems to have faded. Their conference afford them few natural rivals. Success at Tulane will be hard to come by.

I think GSU fans are reasonable in believing Fritz is not making a move up the college football coaching ladder. Fan interest in Statesboro is high and the attractiveness he could have gained with another strong season or two would have led to a much better coaching gig than at Tulane.
 
I think GSU fans are reasonable in believing Fritz is not making a move up the college football coaching ladder. Fan interest in Statesboro is high and the attractiveness he could have gained with another strong season or two would have led to a much better coaching gig than at Tulane.

While at this point, Tulane may not be a step up from Southern, I think the AAC is a step up from the Sun Belt. A big step up.

Southern's upside is still pretty good - depending on who the next coach is. Guessing Ivin Jasper is out of the mix if Niumatalolo takes the BYU job. Tulane is a rebuilding project, though there are certainly the implements in place to make it happen.
 
I wish I had a documented high IQ but all I have is this meaningless Tech degree.
 
Southern is fine. I know some very successful people who went there. One went to uga for a year, hated it, and transferred to Southern. Dude makes bank.

Southern also attracts it's fair share of idiots like any large regional school.

Southern is loaded with hot girls.

In sum, Southern is not much different from Uga in terms of undergraduate programs. Uga has more prestige but that's artificial bs from its flagship designation and riding the coat tails of the grad programs such as law and vet.
 
Southern is fine. I know some very successful people who went there. One went to uga for a year, hated it, and transferred to Southern. Dude makes bank.

Southern also attracts it's fair share of idiots like any large regional school.

Southern is loaded with hot girls.

In sum, Southern is not much different from Uga in terms of undergraduate programs. Uga has more prestige but that's artificial bs from its flagship designation and riding the coat tails of the grad programs such as law and vet.

Meh, right?
 
49% of all people hold an IQ higher than 51%. Blah blah blah. Go buff out the bondo on your el Camino and quote Joe Dirt with your Southern buddies. I heard you spend your weekends at Swinging Richards talking about how you'd like to "GATA"
 
Georgia Southern is a fine regional state school. It serves Southeast Georgia well and attracts a large number of metro Atlanta students. I agree that the top students at a GSU would be successful students almost anywhere. Many top students will choose the highest academic scholarship at a school like GSU and the advantages that affords over attending a more renowned school where they are granted admission.

Tulane is a well-respected private university in New Orleans. It is going to have certain programs and graduate/professional schools that are much higher regarded than anything comparable at Georgia Southern. It could be argued that Tulane's academic reputation has plateaued or declined, particularly post-Katrina, while Georgia Southern is more on the rise. But, no one would seriously argue GSU is the better school academically.

As for football, Tulane has a long legacy that goes back to SEC days. They have been awful, for the most part, for five decades now. Only a couple of coaches have come to Tulane and moved on to better jobs in recent years. They have the new stadium, but any early enthusiasm seems to have faded. Their conference afford them few natural rivals. Success at Tulane will be hard to come by.

I think GSU fans are reasonable in believing Fritz is not making a move up the college football coaching ladder. Fan interest in Statesboro is high and the attractiveness he could have gained with another strong season or two would have led to a much better coaching gig than at Tulane.

Tulane suffered post-Katrina when they merged their colleges of engineering and sciences in order to survive. They are still a competitive school, and any comparison made to Georgia Southern, really on any level, is hilarious.

I've always thought of Tulane and Emory as sister schools... good graduate and professional schools, but their undergrads don't really have much of a campus identity. Putting in an on-campus stadium is an important step in the right direction. I think luring Fritz away could work out extremely well for them.

With regard to their coaches, Mack Brown, Tommy Bowden, and Rich Rodriguez are guys who moved up through Tulane in recent memory. They are really a lot like Tech in terms of their post-SEC trajectory, but they didn't get picked up by a conference with a seat at the big-boy table.
 
I've always thought of Tulane and Emory as sister schools... good graduate and professional schools, but their undergrads don't really have much of a campus identity.

Tulane, Emory, Rice, and Vanderbilt are all similar.
 
Jeez, is fritz going to "coach" pre-law or Econ?

One poster had it correct - he is going to a better conference, but perhaps to a school with less commitment to winning. (Money difference has lot to do with size of school, alum and conference earnings.

For a coach that commitment could mean more as gsu coach.

But money runs a lot of things these days (like it never has before)

I wonder if "discipline" could be a little harder to maintain in NOLA.
 
Jeez, is fritz going to "coach" pre-law or Econ?

One poster had it correct - he is going to a better conference, but perhaps to a school with less commitment to winning. (Money difference has lot to do with size of school, alum and conference earnings.


But money runs a lot of things these days (like it never has before)
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Agree. At GSU he made great better. But, can he make very bad good?
 
Whether or not it's a good move depends on his goals. The path to a P5 coaching job might be easier at GSU, since they have a long history of football success and the recruiting advantages that go along with that. Tulane will be a bigger challenge, so Fritz might get paid a lot more over the next few years, but then discover that his ceiling is lower.
Who will be the new coach at Southern?
 
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