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I mean compared to ourselves for the past decade, the amount of lost starters seems normal. After giving your lists another glance, I recall only hearing a lot of the top ranks prominently for only 1-2 seasons. By hearing, I mean their names would be announced making the plays, e.g. x tackled by...

My memory's a bit fuzzy on specific personnel details, but I feel it was more often than not for about a decade that we would lose a similar portion (just different parts) of our starters due to graduation, injury, academics, or other reasons.

Edit: Moved my reply to relevant thread. Can delete.

One of my previous posts before this game, I mentioned that some people should set aside their lofty expectations and just enjoy the game of football. I didn't realize that I myself still maintained an expectation of having some measure of competitiveness. There's a few hypotheticals out there...

Hot take: Football is not GT's "culture". Actually, it's not really that hot of a take... I think it's rather obvious. GT is not a football factory and I can say with some confidence that it never will be. Apologies to those that are significantly vested into it while thinking otherwise, but...

Don't have a clip and not really wanting to watch the game again searching for it, but I remember seeing on the screen a quick glimpse in one of those pileups of a GT player reaching towards a Citadel player with what started looking like a grab but ended with a closed fist. Although it wasn't...

I want to preface by saying I don't mean to blame only the QB. The QB position may be the weak link, it might be the OL, might be other positions, or mix of above, but the point I was trying to make is that it seems to me that the offense side is missing teamwork and direction. Whether they...

Dunno about back in the 70s, but I'm under the impression that the law field in general has been oversaturated for the past decade? Although a specialization in patent law might be worth a look.

So professional networking 5 days a week and football 1 day a week? On a more serious note, it takes a full week's commitment to excel in either, and I think GT's fundamental identity/purpose lies elsewhere... something something helluva engineer?

?? I was talking about the HC (or OC's) plan to start the first game with a 3 QB rotation based on what happened and what they stated. If I remember correctly, MD was extremely unlucky that season in that their QBs (4 of them?) were injured during the games to the point that yes, a linebacker...

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think CPJ refused to to develop a credible passing threat full stop, as much as that he just believed given his present personnel, particular opponent, the week's practice, and/or a series of plays during gameday that passing would not give him the best odds of...

But the main difference is that it seems the plan starting the season is a 3 QB rotation, and based on the first two games, a rather puzzling rotation where the QB that shows more success is not kept in.

If I remember correctly, two weeks before that game, the 1st string QB went out due to injuries. One week before that game, the 2nd string QB went out due to injuries. Perhaps one can argue CPJ should've prepared the 3rd string QB to run his offence better during the off-season since that...

Agreed. 1) Before the season is the time to prepare and practice a strategy. 2) During the season but before the game is the time to finetune for a specific opponent and account for anomalies (e.g. injuries, suspensions, etc.). 3) During the game is pretty much just (2) on the fly at game...

When I first saw 404 (on this forum), first thing that came to my mind was the page not found error and why was that being celebrated in association with GT... the humor is pretty obvious, at least from my perspective, and my cell number area code is 404. Actually, I'm mildly surprised if true...

Assumed implicitly (and mentioned once explicitly) in this approach is the retention rate. The majority of the weeding occurs during the earlier years, so the student population is bottom heavy. This idea isn't novel in any way and was the tried and tested method for about a century (some...

Lower grad rates is to deal with limited capacity. Better engineers result from trusting in house system vs admission selectivity based on poor inputs by all statistical measures, not to mention uncertainty introduced by psychological growth. This is not by any fault of GT. The only standards...

My personal guess is that the move towards higher grad rates is primarily due to administration resume padding by tackling the low hanging fruit to eke out higher ratings on mass consumer publications such as US News. I doubt it's due to economic related forces, since GT already has a captive...

The reason I offered a binary choice (edit: more of a spectrum) is because there's finite resources so there exists tradeoffs. I doubt there's been a significant change in the relative value of Tech degrees or its eliteness. I am thankful for the overall effectiveness of the returns I gained...

Low acceptance rate with high graduation (i.e. grade inflation) rate vs high acceptance rate with low graduation rate (i.e. weed out). Personally, I would pick the latter (and that's how it was when I went to GT) since there's too much variance and inconsistency in admission metrics derived from...