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<blockquote data-quote="Skeptic" data-source="post: 279855" data-attributes="member: 2175"><p>I would argue it is much less the academic standards, though a factor, and far more the curriculum offerings. I don't know what it is about technical folks who just won't accept that their chosen vocation is a turnoff to a huge segment of high school students, and probably particularly football players. Lots of smart players could get in -- yes, it's true -- they just don't want to study something that bores them to tears and which even if they passed they would hate. I have known two former lawyers who did daddy's bidding and eventually passed the bar. Neither lasted ore than three years because they hated it, but the education before law school provided them an avenue to something else. I don't want somebody designing passenger airplanes who really wants to study Proust. Engineering and technology aren't for everybody, and a shoehorn won't make them work. Georgia Tech is now what Georgia Tech will be, but even if you cut academic requirements to the bone, you won't get football players who hate it. Would you buy in? Johnson has embraced it, why not the fans?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skeptic, post: 279855, member: 2175"] I would argue it is much less the academic standards, though a factor, and far more the curriculum offerings. I don't know what it is about technical folks who just won't accept that their chosen vocation is a turnoff to a huge segment of high school students, and probably particularly football players. Lots of smart players could get in -- yes, it's true -- they just don't want to study something that bores them to tears and which even if they passed they would hate. I have known two former lawyers who did daddy's bidding and eventually passed the bar. Neither lasted ore than three years because they hated it, but the education before law school provided them an avenue to something else. I don't want somebody designing passenger airplanes who really wants to study Proust. Engineering and technology aren't for everybody, and a shoehorn won't make them work. Georgia Tech is now what Georgia Tech will be, but even if you cut academic requirements to the bone, you won't get football players who hate it. Would you buy in? Johnson has embraced it, why not the fans? [/QUOTE]
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