I agree but that's not likely to ever happen. GT grads/fans generally know how to prioritize what's truly important, and at the end of the day, college football is not very important. Plenty of uga fans will put themselves into debt if they think it will help their team.
So all of the gt alumni giving ( which is doing great) culminates at
I agree. That’s why those who run GT need to use their smarts and figure out how to get money to where it does help. A winning product absolutely increases the GT brand. Anyone who has ever googled “Georgia Tech” knows that 28 of the first 30 articles that pop up are related to athletics. It shouldn’t be that way but that’s the reality. Alumni don’t come to campus to watch a EE presentation. There is plenty of money out there to ”prime the pump”. Our leaders just have to have a will to do it.
Why does GT need to increase its brand though? It's already a top 5 engineering school with very selective admissions. there is not much room to move up in regards to its main focus.
And sign them to multi year cotracts. You get a 3-4 star, coach him up, and he's locked in for contract duration. Let the elite fight for the 5 stars. Minimizes portal crap which is just amplifies NIL/ Pay
Because everyone believes that if you aren’t growing you’re dying, and research dollars are trophies administrators can brag about to each other. Personally I’m not convinced that the coupling of undergrad education and high-$ research (vs, say, industry or dedicated organizations) makes any more sense than the coupling of undergrad education and football.
because no one really gives a **** about a EE presentation.
This may do in the NCAA. I can see programs dumping it like a burning ship.
I believe the PAC12 still exists on paper until this summer.
Tech IS growing though, and it doesn't need football to do that.
This is not even remotely true.
You wouldn't understand it anyway.
GT shouldn't want to grow without Football leading the way. GT should be a football program that also hands out degrees. That's how bluebloods are viewed and it works fine for them.
What is the alternative? If they go to trial, they are likely to lose much more than the settlement amount.
I agree that the colleges have made wrong decisions when they made votes in their intercollegiate sports organization and are now paying the price for those wrong votes.
GT was originally modeled after Worcester Polytechnic and we’d still be sort of like WPI with sports if GT hadn’t aggressively transitioned to a research university starting with Pettit. It’s not trophies, it’s about getting top flight faculty, students, labs, facilities and rankings. Research funds all that. WPI stayed as it was and is ranked #92.