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If you had a wish list for AD JB what would it be?
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<blockquote data-quote="SOWEGA Jacket" data-source="post: 935212" data-attributes="member: 4334"><p>There’s the rub. We are bringing in students who have zero interest in sports let alone GT sports. There is no gimmick promotion to change a person raised for 18/19 years in a non-sports family or non-college sports part of the country into a rabid fan. GT has proven this over the past 2 decades and it doesn’t work. What works is keeping the fans you do have and letting that family tree of fandom grow into multiple branches.</p><p></p><p>I fully accept that the train has left the station on this topic. The administrators (most of whom are hired mercenaries and have zero roots or emotions towards GT) all believe they are smarter than the next guy. They’ll always have an emotional answer as to why they do what they do and if you call them on it you are the jerk. For instance, GT will accept any student who was valedictorian at an Atlanta Public high school. What’s up with that? So you could have an 1100 on the SAT, go to a craptastic high school, and get automatic acceptance over a kid who busted his butt, studied for 2 years for the SAT who got a 1550? In what world is that rational if you want to have the best student body?</p><p></p><p>GT will continue to reap what it has sown which is an alumni base that doesn’t give back because they aren’t in the state and an athletic fanbase that dwindles with each passing year as the old generation passes away. Sure, attendance will improve some as wins increase but the overall trajectory has been established. Until the elected representatives of the people stand up to the administrators they’ll continue to line their pockets with high paying jobs while guys like JBatt will wonder why no alum are answering the phone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SOWEGA Jacket, post: 935212, member: 4334"] There’s the rub. We are bringing in students who have zero interest in sports let alone GT sports. There is no gimmick promotion to change a person raised for 18/19 years in a non-sports family or non-college sports part of the country into a rabid fan. GT has proven this over the past 2 decades and it doesn’t work. What works is keeping the fans you do have and letting that family tree of fandom grow into multiple branches. I fully accept that the train has left the station on this topic. The administrators (most of whom are hired mercenaries and have zero roots or emotions towards GT) all believe they are smarter than the next guy. They’ll always have an emotional answer as to why they do what they do and if you call them on it you are the jerk. For instance, GT will accept any student who was valedictorian at an Atlanta Public high school. What’s up with that? So you could have an 1100 on the SAT, go to a craptastic high school, and get automatic acceptance over a kid who busted his butt, studied for 2 years for the SAT who got a 1550? In what world is that rational if you want to have the best student body? GT will continue to reap what it has sown which is an alumni base that doesn’t give back because they aren’t in the state and an athletic fanbase that dwindles with each passing year as the old generation passes away. Sure, attendance will improve some as wins increase but the overall trajectory has been established. Until the elected representatives of the people stand up to the administrators they’ll continue to line their pockets with high paying jobs while guys like JBatt will wonder why no alum are answering the phone. [/QUOTE]
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