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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce Wayne" data-source="post: 119150" data-attributes="member: 231"><p>That was great. Love his giving insight into what being a "coddled" football player at the Institute looks like as compared to at a Factory. Every college has to give priority registration to student athletes because they have mandatory practices and other obligations they must meet to fulfill their part of getting a free education. At a factory that means the school administration and AA can steer their players all into the same courses which are designed to ROB them of their free education and simply keep them unchallenged, undisciplined/trained by academic life, and uneducated fodder that is considered by the NCAA sham governing apparatus to be "eligible" to play football. At the factory it is exploitation, at the Institute it is invaluable preparation for life and an attempt to mature these young men from late adolescence into young adulthood.</p><p></p><p>Bobby Dodd couldn't hack it in school and settled for Tennessee. But when he had the chance to get back to Tech (where he wanted to go to college but couldn't hack it) he always knew that what will always set Tech players apart is that they will be smarter than the competition. In a special year like this one all you need to add to that is enough athleticism with total commitment to the concept of a team, toughness, and never giving up and Tech football can be at the pinnacle of the sport not in spite of its academic rigors and limitations compared to the factories but <em>because</em> of them.</p><p></p><p>Just look at the extent to which these offensive linemen made UGA and other defensive "superstars" practically give up and run away from them as games wore on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce Wayne, post: 119150, member: 231"] That was great. Love his giving insight into what being a "coddled" football player at the Institute looks like as compared to at a Factory. Every college has to give priority registration to student athletes because they have mandatory practices and other obligations they must meet to fulfill their part of getting a free education. At a factory that means the school administration and AA can steer their players all into the same courses which are designed to ROB them of their free education and simply keep them unchallenged, undisciplined/trained by academic life, and uneducated fodder that is considered by the NCAA sham governing apparatus to be "eligible" to play football. At the factory it is exploitation, at the Institute it is invaluable preparation for life and an attempt to mature these young men from late adolescence into young adulthood. Bobby Dodd couldn't hack it in school and settled for Tennessee. But when he had the chance to get back to Tech (where he wanted to go to college but couldn't hack it) he always knew that what will always set Tech players apart is that they will be smarter than the competition. In a special year like this one all you need to add to that is enough athleticism with total commitment to the concept of a team, toughness, and never giving up and Tech football can be at the pinnacle of the sport not in spite of its academic rigors and limitations compared to the factories but [I]because[/I] of them. Just look at the extent to which these offensive linemen made UGA and other defensive "superstars" practically give up and run away from them as games wore on. [/QUOTE]
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