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<blockquote data-quote="JacketOff" data-source="post: 688468" data-attributes="member: 4572"><p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-01-04/college-football-s-top-teams-are-built-on-crippling-debt" target="_blank">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-01-04/college-football-s-top-teams-are-built-on-crippling-debt</a></p><p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-01-04/college-football-s-top-teams-are-built-on-crippling-debt" target="_blank">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-01-04/college-football-s-top-teams-are-built-on-crippling-debt</a></p><p></p><p>This article from 2017 shows GTAA’s debt at over $200M. GTAA has run at a deficit for 2 straight years.</p><p></p><p>I’m not sure why you assume people are taking your posts personal. There’s certainly nothing in my post that seems personal. But anyway...</p><p>Most basketball programs at football schools are just trying to pay for themselves. Hardly any basketball programs turn a profit. GT is not Duke or Kansas. Any significant money that will be made by GT athletics will come from the football program. Sure, the Patriots used GT’s facilities for a week. That doesn’t mean they’re anywhere near up to par with any of the schools Tech is competing against. Also, having an indoor facility first doesn’t make it superior in any way. There’s not even a 100yard practice football field on campus anywhere. The training room in Edge looks like it hasn’t been updated since the 80s. There was even an old jukebox in there that provided music. Literally, a jukebox. Like one from a bar scene in a movie set in the 70s.</p><p></p><p>Russ Chandler is dwarfed by better facilities all around “baseball country” in the South and West Coast. Nearly every P5 school besides the B1G (and even some of those) have much better facilities than RCS. I don’t mean the stadium itself which also needs an update, I mean the player and coach areas. That’s getting a well deserved update this offseason.</p><p></p><p>Volleyball plays in O’Keefe because it actually provides a great atmosphere and home court advantage. O’Keefe sells out pretty regularly, and it gets loud. Moving those matches to McCamish takes away all of that atmosphere and makes the matches sterile and unexciting.</p><p></p><p>Is GT basketball in a good place right now? No, absolutely not. Does that mean there needs to be immediate action and change? No. Like I said. There’s no need to rush a move. Wait for the NCAA stuff to play out, see who will be available, look at how stable the football program is. Then make a move. Making a move out of angst will almost never work out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JacketOff, post: 688468, member: 4572"] [URL='https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-01-04/college-football-s-top-teams-are-built-on-crippling-debt'][/URL] [URL]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-01-04/college-football-s-top-teams-are-built-on-crippling-debt[/URL] This article from 2017 shows GTAA’s debt at over $200M. GTAA has run at a deficit for 2 straight years. I’m not sure why you assume people are taking your posts personal. There’s certainly nothing in my post that seems personal. But anyway... Most basketball programs at football schools are just trying to pay for themselves. Hardly any basketball programs turn a profit. GT is not Duke or Kansas. Any significant money that will be made by GT athletics will come from the football program. Sure, the Patriots used GT’s facilities for a week. That doesn’t mean they’re anywhere near up to par with any of the schools Tech is competing against. Also, having an indoor facility first doesn’t make it superior in any way. There’s not even a 100yard practice football field on campus anywhere. The training room in Edge looks like it hasn’t been updated since the 80s. There was even an old jukebox in there that provided music. Literally, a jukebox. Like one from a bar scene in a movie set in the 70s. Russ Chandler is dwarfed by better facilities all around “baseball country” in the South and West Coast. Nearly every P5 school besides the B1G (and even some of those) have much better facilities than RCS. I don’t mean the stadium itself which also needs an update, I mean the player and coach areas. That’s getting a well deserved update this offseason. Volleyball plays in O’Keefe because it actually provides a great atmosphere and home court advantage. O’Keefe sells out pretty regularly, and it gets loud. Moving those matches to McCamish takes away all of that atmosphere and makes the matches sterile and unexciting. Is GT basketball in a good place right now? No, absolutely not. Does that mean there needs to be immediate action and change? No. Like I said. There’s no need to rush a move. Wait for the NCAA stuff to play out, see who will be available, look at how stable the football program is. Then make a move. Making a move out of angst will almost never work out. [/QUOTE]
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