Recent content by bigrabbit

I will never forget my first employer post GT grad school had two Nebraska EE senior undergrads come in for interviews. Both had roughly 4.0 gpas, pretty cocky. I was on their interview list - but by mid morning my boss came to me and told me to take them to lunch and politely dismiss them...

UVA is a minor part of all this speculation, but fwiw, I grew up in Virginia and have family members who went to both vpi and uva, including some really plugged into athletics at vpi.. Between the two, vpi far and away fits the sec “selling your soul for athletics” culture more so than uva. In...

Agreed, and investment logic doesn’t exactly apply to university donations. I’ve given a good bit to the engineering school but it was only a couple percent of my net worth at the time and it was a gift. It helped that they were super nice about reporting back how the money was spent vs the AA...

I agree although I’m a nerd with degrees from 3 nerd schools. My kid’s friends at Uga all applied to GT, all would have gone to GT, none got in. So my sense is that serious student types who share our values aren’t driving this, it’s the goofball sec alums I see at my golf club. They went to...

I just can’t tell if alums are ready to pony up enough to get off the porch. Reactions on here to NIL tell me it might have to come from some new generation of donors, mostly folks I’m too old to know well. Hey I’m wrong at least once/day so who knows.

We’re not a fit for the current Ivy, but I’ve read about “Southern Ivy” ideas for years. If we continue to be dramatically out spent on NIL (yes I understand the displeasure with it, but iiwii) we might eventually end up with an elite group of schools outside the P2 equally unwilling to run a...

I think I heard Burns in a post game interview mention how once they got on a run, players started showing up on time, nobody caused problems. So the team had issues working and playing together earlier. Btw especially enjoyed watching that Filipowski ******* go down.

Sounds fantastic, I had to joint enroll at GSU to minor in music. But probably similar to the current music tech degree in terms of academic rigor i.e. not easy.

Clemsoning from free throw line.

ACC… Feel dirty cheering for Duke, but that’s over, go Wolfpack.

Boola boola

Burns very entertaining - DT playing basketball, handles the ball well. When UNC tried doubling him, he made them pay with a great pass.

I retired early and finished my career as a FT prof at GT…definitely treat students better now and try to retain. But the kids are still under a ton of pressure. Remember that curve busting nerd, the one you could count on to make 90 on a test with a class average of 50? Whole room full of...

I was at GT in the 70s, graduated summa in EE, my kid is there now - the school is a lot different and college sports could be any more different. Many if not most alums who graduated more than 25 years ago wouldn’t get in now. I love the tradition but my point was old alums arguing against...

I posted a whole back about my decision to contribute to The Tech Way, of course to help our programs, but also out of a sense of fairness to athletes who work non stop at sports+school and can’t do things like I did (co-op, internships) to have some money. My post got responses like somebody...