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<blockquote data-quote="slugboy" data-source="post: 464317" data-attributes="member: 282"><p>I think our recruiting rankings are averaging the same as they were before CPJ. I'd prefer that they'd improved, but nothing changed, and Gailey had some good recruiters on his staff. </p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">I don't think the administration or the professors are hostile to the athletic department. Probably the opposite. The faculty academic representative position has been a laurel offered to someone well respected who is usually a fan. The main goal of the administration is to make GT the best university (*cough* *cough*) that they can. As long as the athletic department isn't actively hindering that, they're fine. </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"></span></span></p><p></p><p>If you want a new degree program, it needs to be funded and it needs to add to the prestige of Georgia Tech. Attracting athletes doesn't accomplish either of those, but it's gravy. We do focus on our mission of technical education, and that's something the administration will look for. One counterexample--Georgia State's law school basically started at GT and got rejected by our admin as "not in the mission of the school", but that was in the Petit days--I think we would have had one under any of our presidents after him if they had been in charge. However, that was a while ago, and if a degree makes sense, and it can be fit somewhere (like in the Management school), and it would pay for itself on an ongoing basis, I think the administration would probably act on it. </p><p></p><p>Most of the faculty I know of have liked football, and sports, and the ramblin wreck parade and everything that goes with the campus. Many of them are so busy on weekends that they can't make the games, but the faculty I've known aren't hostile to sports. Many of them love it. They wouldn't think of football as a costly distraction unless their funding was getting taxed to pay for it, and it's not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slugboy, post: 464317, member: 282"] I think our recruiting rankings are averaging the same as they were before CPJ. I'd prefer that they'd improved, but nothing changed, and Gailey had some good recruiters on his staff. [LEFT][FONT=Georgia][COLOR=rgb(20, 20, 20)] I don't think the administration or the professors are hostile to the athletic department. Probably the opposite. The faculty academic representative position has been a laurel offered to someone well respected who is usually a fan. The main goal of the administration is to make GT the best university (*cough* *cough*) that they can. As long as the athletic department isn't actively hindering that, they're fine. [/COLOR][/FONT][/LEFT] If you want a new degree program, it needs to be funded and it needs to add to the prestige of Georgia Tech. Attracting athletes doesn't accomplish either of those, but it's gravy. We do focus on our mission of technical education, and that's something the administration will look for. One counterexample--Georgia State's law school basically started at GT and got rejected by our admin as "not in the mission of the school", but that was in the Petit days--I think we would have had one under any of our presidents after him if they had been in charge. However, that was a while ago, and if a degree makes sense, and it can be fit somewhere (like in the Management school), and it would pay for itself on an ongoing basis, I think the administration would probably act on it. Most of the faculty I know of have liked football, and sports, and the ramblin wreck parade and everything that goes with the campus. Many of them are so busy on weekends that they can't make the games, but the faculty I've known aren't hostile to sports. Many of them love it. They wouldn't think of football as a costly distraction unless their funding was getting taxed to pay for it, and it's not. [/QUOTE]
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