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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce Wayne" data-source="post: 149575" data-attributes="member: 231"><p>Then I think to some extent there is some talking past each other going on since you say some Tech fans "don't realize that other schools are putting out quality alums as well." Do you specifically mean football and basketball player alums? Because when I speak about Tech vs. a factory school so far as academic reputation I most definitely have in mind the general approach and caliber of education provided to student athletes at Tech compared to the "just keep em eligible" attitude rampant at so many schools (hence called factories). So I am thinking of "Tech" when speaking on this as maybe more precisely as "Tech as a athletic program and its relationship to the general academic mission of the Institute taken as a whole" or some such idea.</p><p></p><p>Harvard can even laughingly claim to put out quality drop outs like Bill Gates. So I was not trying to treat of a university's overall academic reputation as a college/university but always have in mind that college in relation to the manner in which it runs its revenue sports. </p><p></p><p>(Well, except when I tacked on the mean comment about Bama. But I was of course also thinking of it in terms of comparison to <em>all </em>such places of higher education and not just "big state schools with BCS football" or something else which makes the comparison more narrow.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce Wayne, post: 149575, member: 231"] Then I think to some extent there is some talking past each other going on since you say some Tech fans "don't realize that other schools are putting out quality alums as well." Do you specifically mean football and basketball player alums? Because when I speak about Tech vs. a factory school so far as academic reputation I most definitely have in mind the general approach and caliber of education provided to student athletes at Tech compared to the "just keep em eligible" attitude rampant at so many schools (hence called factories). So I am thinking of "Tech" when speaking on this as maybe more precisely as "Tech as a athletic program and its relationship to the general academic mission of the Institute taken as a whole" or some such idea. Harvard can even laughingly claim to put out quality drop outs like Bill Gates. So I was not trying to treat of a university's overall academic reputation as a college/university but always have in mind that college in relation to the manner in which it runs its revenue sports. (Well, except when I tacked on the mean comment about Bama. But I was of course also thinking of it in terms of comparison to [I]all [/I]such places of higher education and not just "big state schools with BCS football" or something else which makes the comparison more narrow.) [/QUOTE]
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