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I didn't see a MIT football quote in LongforDodd's link. However, I would think there's a significant difference between Div1 and Div3 football...

Sounds reasonable to me...

Agreed. And I would go even further and say GT is already over-saturated to the detriment of education/research, so there better be a very good reason to open up a new program and trying to improve athletic recruiting/retainment is not one. It doesn't matter how good your faculty is if the...

... Perhaps I'm missing some additional context, but that sounds like a pretty flimsy reason.

What's wrong with the reason that GT isn't creating enough engineers to meet GA's needs?

Is there sufficient demand for more teachers to start up a new school? Is this new teaching school REALLY for training new teachers? Ultimately, college football needs to be its own major called college football under the school of athletics. This subterfuge (and countless others festering in...

What are the odds that college football scales back to being a club sport or simple intramurals, and NFL creates their own junior system separate from higher education? That would be my guess for the odds that GT becomes a regular playoff powerhouse.

One of the negative things about CPJ's offense that I haven't seen mentioned is the increased wear and tear I see when compared to watching our opponents' offences. It seems our guys are consistently getting hit/tackled even when it's obvious (at least from a viewer perspective) that those...

I would also add that CPJ seems to retain a top graduation rate wherever he goes. I did a quick 5 min google search, and a cursory glance shows that he almost doubled GT's grad rate [1] and had Navy at #1 in the country [2]. I didn't find any quantitative numbers for his time at GSU, but found...

I agree with your points, particularly the part you bolded. In a strange twist, I would actually be worried if we are consistently winning, i.e. a C (0.7) or higher record, in this "modern era" of college football. Logically, we should not be. We're not running what is essentially a 2-4 year NFL...

Excuse me if I reword your statement a bit, but if the sentiment is that most kids are here to play football, and not have football be the path towards a GT education, then I would hope GT shuts down their football program or move out of Div 1. I personally think most kids that go to GT have the...

The strings attached is my argument that the athletics side is not divorced from the rest of the institution. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I have the impression that the pot of money for rent and keeping the lights on is not the athletics'. Furthermore, I don't think the GT admin/staff...

Also, to add to above, maybe adding some fluff major or similar institutional change will allow GT football to improve without negatively impacting the academic/research side, but would you want to be the GT admin that risks screwing it up?

I'm happy as just the role of a fan, but part of my intention was to also illustrate why perhaps the GT administration cannot entirely separate the athletics from the academics. GT gets paid magnitudes of order higher in dividends from contracts, donors, and influence on the academic/research...

Slightly nitpicking, but I think the majority of the threads and conversation is more encompassing of GT football overall.

My interpretation might be incorrect, but I saw the GT football program vision under CPJ as running an unorthodox offense in order to bridge the gap in both recruiting and on the field play by focusing on different talents, strategy, and tactics than the top tier football colleges, while not...

Did you misquote? His post didn't mention CPJ at all. Unless you just wanted to take a dump on GT's outgoing coach (who is leaving on a positive note, I might add), which I would describe as negative to a prospective GT recruit.

As an alumnus, I don't mind if there's an institution directive to help student athletes to pick professors that lead to an easier path towards higher GPAs. After all, aside from different time ticket priorities, any student can do the same. However, I would be extremely disappointed if there's...

The professor contributes significantly to the grade output, and the comparison for some courses (particularly the "weed-out" ones) can be night and day. Some of these methods include a target average GPA for the curve, the degree of "out of the box" thinking required for assignments/exams in...

Wasn't that one of the reasons for favoring the 3o offense at GT, because GT more often than not won't get the better passing qb or top receiver when compared to the "top factories"?