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<blockquote data-quote="Techster" data-source="post: 947349" data-attributes="member: 360"><p>If you want to know the difference in mindset between Cabrera and Peterson regarding GT sports, this article pretty much sums it all up. Very depressing to read given the stakes GT sports is facing with the inevitable formation of mega death stars of the B1G and SEC. If you read between the lines, it reads like Peterson was the death of GT going to the B1G...and it was his emphasis on "academics" of the ACC and his romanticizing of academics in college sports that kept him from moving GT to the B1G. To this day, I don't think Peterson knows just how valuable and big of a chip GT was during that time when media market size of Atlanta meant more then than it does now. He was disturbed by how college sports had become such a big business...even though he saw up close how important it was for athletic programs to thrive as a business and not a redheaded extension of a school.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.ajc.com/sports/georgia-tech/bud-peterson-revisits-georgia-techs-role-in-last-realignment-frenzy/EDFWAIEYBFB73CJZUZOGEPZSA4/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>That's an old article that's been posted on here before, with a tidbit about the SEC reaching out to GT as well when B1G reached out. I know there were some big donors that also chimed in about staying in the ACC because of regional proximity, so Peterson wasn't making the decision on an island. Radakovich pushed hard for the B1G, but he wasn't going to win over GT's President, important board members, and some big donors insistence that the ACC was best for GT.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Techster, post: 947349, member: 360"] If you want to know the difference in mindset between Cabrera and Peterson regarding GT sports, this article pretty much sums it all up. Very depressing to read given the stakes GT sports is facing with the inevitable formation of mega death stars of the B1G and SEC. If you read between the lines, it reads like Peterson was the death of GT going to the B1G...and it was his emphasis on "academics" of the ACC and his romanticizing of academics in college sports that kept him from moving GT to the B1G. To this day, I don't think Peterson knows just how valuable and big of a chip GT was during that time when media market size of Atlanta meant more then than it does now. He was disturbed by how college sports had become such a big business...even though he saw up close how important it was for athletic programs to thrive as a business and not a redheaded extension of a school. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.ajc.com/sports/georgia-tech/bud-peterson-revisits-georgia-techs-role-in-last-realignment-frenzy/EDFWAIEYBFB73CJZUZOGEPZSA4/[/URL] That's an old article that's been posted on here before, with a tidbit about the SEC reaching out to GT as well when B1G reached out. I know there were some big donors that also chimed in about staying in the ACC because of regional proximity, so Peterson wasn't making the decision on an island. Radakovich pushed hard for the B1G, but he wasn't going to win over GT's President, important board members, and some big donors insistence that the ACC was best for GT. [/QUOTE]
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