5 things I'd like from new AD

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First - get Admissions, Academics, Faculty, and President on the same page. If sports are not a priority, you are competing against teams where it is. A strong athletic program is the best recruiting tool you have.
 
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I'm not a GT alum but many of my friends did dual degree at GT. Some are apart of the GT community some are not. From the ones that are I've gathered these ideas.

1. Become a State community resource. Assist on growing STEM programs accross the state and not just in the burbs of Atlanta but in the urban communities and especially rural GA. The education system is lacking in most of GA. Becoming a resource would yield so much long term good will. Athletics can be a bridge for that.

2. Free tickets to area youth leagues and camps. Think long term.

3. There are a lot of diversity on GT's campus that doesn't feel apart of many of the traditions. Draw them in and embrace them. I read a story about how Stanford (boogeyman) convinced a beyond rich donor from the Arab Emirates to donate to the football endowment. He wasn't exactly knowledgeable on the sport but they wooed him up and he gave. That's the kind of out the box thinking that GT can do by embracing its diversity.

4. Embrace the geeks. Go to the different departments ask them how and what they would like to see from the athletic department. No reason why GT athletics couldn't be a test ground for robotics, software, and engineering at a premier engineering school.

If there is a Anime group invite them to a game and event at the game introduce them to the players. Same with Dugeons and dragons or War & Warcraft. You wanna fill the stadium stop excluding the geeks.

5. Smoodge the hell out of donors and alum. I mean smoodge. Not just a one and done. But make them feel like each of them are apart of an exclusive fraternity. Give them reason to let the checks flow. To my knowledge GT does not do that.
 

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txsting said:
Yeah, maybe David Perdue, at least hes a GT man. Also former CEO.

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David is known as a "turnaround specialist" (wiki) and former CEO if Reebok. Maybe can negotiate a nice apparel deal?

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txsting said:
David is known as a "turnaround specialist" (wiki) and former CEO if Reebok. Maybe can negotiate a nice apparel deal?

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https://www.perdue.senate.gov/connect/email
Email David
"I want to hear from you about your thoughts and concerns on the direction of our country. ..."

We have more pressing concerns ... the direction of our Institute and its Athletic programs ... we are even infiltrated by Boko Haram @Animal02

(okay, I'm pushing the glass away now ...)
 

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AE 87 said:
https://www.perdue.senate.gov/connect/email
Email David
"I want to hear from you about your thoughts and concerns on the direction of our country. ..."

We have more pressing concerns ... the direction of our Institute and its Athletic programs ... we are even infiltrated by Boko Haram @Animal02

(okay, I'm pushing the glass away now ...)
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So I was at the bar (naturally) at the lodge in the Serengeti,. wearing a GT logo polo (naturally). A Belgian walks over and asked how things were in Georgia. Our logo is recognized everywhere.
 
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Animal02 said:
So I was at the bar (naturally) at the lodge in the Serengeti,. wearing a GT logo polo (naturally). A Belgian walks over and asked how things were in Georgia. Our logo is recognized everywhere.
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That was your ISIS contact as you planned attack in Paris? Did you respond, "wet when raining without an umbrella?"
 
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