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<blockquote data-quote="dtm1997" data-source="post: 92332" data-attributes="member: 572"><p>I've also been there. Was friends with football players. Took classes with athletes. Tutored for some as well.</p><p> </p><p>I'll take back what I said about easy/no work. That was my personal situation in switching from a planned Bio major to GT's Ivan Allen College.</p><p> </p><p>I'm not blowing off the academics, but if you're willing to put in some level of effort, GT has majors & the GTAA has a support system that will help get you to graduation. Also, I don't know about anyone else, but I think any expectations to academically achieve at levels above maintaining eligibility falls to the personal ambitions of the student-athlete & their families. It would not be fair of us, as fans, to expect more.</p><p> </p><p>When I was in school, the major of choice among athletes was management, because of the relative ease compared to engineering. I have no idea of the academic inclinations or abilities of our current athletes, not fair for me to speculate, but go peruse their bios. We have many majoring in HTS (flexible to study history or sociology), LMC (flexible to study English, communications, or media), in addition to business administration. Layer on the recently developed Sports, Society, & Technology major and you can see the powerful potential to study some really interesting things, with reasonable difficulty, and getting a degree of value and a good job, potentially in an industry people would fight tooth & nail to get entry in to.</p><p> </p><p>I'll admit that we don't have any classes you can sleep through, although I once passed out drooling during Math for Management I and used to read comic books during Finance I, BUT the majors are in place to allow non-engineering students to avoid the helter skelter lives of engineering & CompSci majors at GT. Student-athletes have the added benefit of a support structure to assist in their studies.</p><p> </p><p>How many of the engineers on this board had friends that were management majors whose weekends started on Thursday night, while you were studying for Remag/Threemag/Dmag?</p><p> </p><p>Meanwhile, this sign of the apocalypse just convinced me we should extend CPJ for a year.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://recruiting.blog.ajc.com/2014/10/24/why-is-georgia-techs-paul-johnson-having-recruiting-success/?ecmp=ajc_social_twitter_2014_recruiting_sfp" target="_blank">http://recruiting.blog.ajc.com/2014/10/24/why-is-georgia-techs-paul-johnson-having-recruiting-success/?ecmp=ajc_social_twitter_2014_recruiting_sfp</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dtm1997, post: 92332, member: 572"] I've also been there. Was friends with football players. Took classes with athletes. Tutored for some as well. I'll take back what I said about easy/no work. That was my personal situation in switching from a planned Bio major to GT's Ivan Allen College. I'm not blowing off the academics, but if you're willing to put in some level of effort, GT has majors & the GTAA has a support system that will help get you to graduation. Also, I don't know about anyone else, but I think any expectations to academically achieve at levels above maintaining eligibility falls to the personal ambitions of the student-athlete & their families. It would not be fair of us, as fans, to expect more. When I was in school, the major of choice among athletes was management, because of the relative ease compared to engineering. I have no idea of the academic inclinations or abilities of our current athletes, not fair for me to speculate, but go peruse their bios. We have many majoring in HTS (flexible to study history or sociology), LMC (flexible to study English, communications, or media), in addition to business administration. Layer on the recently developed Sports, Society, & Technology major and you can see the powerful potential to study some really interesting things, with reasonable difficulty, and getting a degree of value and a good job, potentially in an industry people would fight tooth & nail to get entry in to. I'll admit that we don't have any classes you can sleep through, although I once passed out drooling during Math for Management I and used to read comic books during Finance I, BUT the majors are in place to allow non-engineering students to avoid the helter skelter lives of engineering & CompSci majors at GT. Student-athletes have the added benefit of a support structure to assist in their studies. How many of the engineers on this board had friends that were management majors whose weekends started on Thursday night, while you were studying for Remag/Threemag/Dmag? Meanwhile, this sign of the apocalypse just convinced me we should extend CPJ for a year. [url]http://recruiting.blog.ajc.com/2014/10/24/why-is-georgia-techs-paul-johnson-having-recruiting-success/?ecmp=ajc_social_twitter_2014_recruiting_sfp[/url] [/QUOTE]
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