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SOWEGA Jacket said:
I used Dennis as an example. I could name just about every wide receiver, DB, and LB for the 1990 team that I was in classes with who weren’t here for school and made it known. I also know that GT has signed players from down my way in south Georgia who had the academics of a high school freshman. I wish we had an entire roster of these guys because we would have been winning a bunch more games than we have been the last 40 years.
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Again, you seem to be extrapolating that since academics was not a consideration for Scott (and some others), it never truly was a consideration for Tech. We were really just faking it that we care about academics with our athletes. While we were hypocritical about academics, we also were not as good as others because we didn't not bring in enough fake students to your liking. This ignores the institutional changes that occurred with PTG and Flunkgate, as well as the graduation rates of the past two decades and is an inane position

On top of this, you suggest that we, as fans, should not care that academics, continuity, or loyalty are no longer part of the equation since they were never really were and it is hypocritical to ask for these things now. We can agree to disagree on this as well.

Finslly, I noticed you did not answer my question. Have you ever donated to the scholarship fund? If so, why? By your logic, it would seem that money is being wasted and you would have been better served just giving $200 hand shakes to athletes before the games.
 

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Again, you seem to be extrapolating that since academics was not a consideration for Scott (and some others), it never truly was a consideration for Tech. We were really just faking it that we care about academics with our athletes. While we were hypocritical about academics, we also were not as good as others because we didn't not bring in enough fake students to your liking. This ignores the institutional changes that occurred with PTG and Flunkgate, as well as the graduation rates of the past two decades and is an inane position

On top of this, you suggest that we, as fans, should not care that academics, continuity, or loyalty are no longer part of the equation since they were never really were and it is hypocritical to ask for these things now. We can agree to disagree on this as well.

Finslly, I noticed you did not answer my question. Have you ever donated to the scholarship fund? If so, why? By your logic, it would seem that money is being wasted and you would have been better served just giving $200 hand shakes to athletes before the games.
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Why do you ask me a personal question? I’ve never asked you or anyone a personal question. This is a football board not a dating site. But, yes, GT football would have won a lot more games if we gave thousand dollar handshakes and got players like Cam Newton, Reggie Bush, and Herschel Walker. Instead, we played school and got our head bashed in for decades. In 60 seasons we have beaten UGA 14 times. That’s a 14-46 record. Up to that point it was a 50/50 series. You tell me what changed? UGA changed with the times and GT didn’t. We finally have a coach, AD, and Prez who understand that school does not matter in sports and having a couple hundred athletes who aren’t real students doesn’t hurt our reputation. And if they believe it does then we should drop sports altogether and just play school. I’d be fine with that as well. But, if you are going to put the GT name on something then you should try your best to be successful. The past 60 years of GT football outside of about 10 seasons has been mediocre. I don’t like mediocre for anything GT related.
 
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SOWEGA Jacket said:
Why do you ask me a personal question? I’ve never asked you or anyone a personal question. This is a football board not a dating site. But, yes, GT football would have won a lot more games if we gave thousand dollar handshakes and got players like Cam Newton, Reggie Bush, and Herschel Walker. Instead, we played school and got our head bashed in for decades. In 60 seasons we have beaten UGA 14 times. That’s a 14-46 record. Up to that point it was a 50/50 series. You tell me what changed? UGA changed with the times and GT didn’t. We finally have a coach, AD, and Prez who understand that school does not matter in sports and having a couple hundred athletes who aren’t real students doesn’t hurt our reputation. And if they believe it does then we should drop sports altogether and just play school. I’d be fine with that as well. But, if you are going to put the GT name on something then you should try your best to be successful. The past 60 years of GT football outside of about 10 seasons has been mediocre. I don’t like mediocre for anything GT related.
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Asking if you donate to the general scholarship fund is a personal question equivalent to one I would ask if we were on a date? Um, ok.

I never asked how much you give. I asked if you gave at all. I think you need to get out of your head. It is a mess up there.
 

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Asking if you donate to the general scholarship fund is a personal question equivalent to one I would ask if we were on a date? Um, ok.

I never asked how much you give. I asked if you gave at all. I think you need to get out of your head. It is a mess up there.
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No, I just don’t see why you’d ask something that has nothing to do with football. The ONLY thing in my head, regarding this message board, is about GT winning football games. Every post I make is about GT football. None of this is personal to me except when someone asks me an off the wall question. I love your posts and everyone’s posts. It’s all fun to me. GT football has tried to win the old fashion way and we fell off the map using the 1950’s blueprint.

I love the direction of this sport because it gives my team a better chance to win in the future. More playoffs slots helps every team. Playoff games on campus are decades over due. GT getting to pay players has taken our recruiting to another level and the portal has given us a legit college QB and OLinemen that lead to scores. We are on the uptick because of this new era. In the old era, we would have a recruiting class in the 40’s while Auburn, UGA, Clemson, Bama, etc would have bought every 4 and 5 star 8n a 5 state radius. Now, we signed many of them which will lead to wins.
 
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SOWEGA Jacket said:
No, I just don’t see why you’d ask something that has nothing to do with football. The ONLY thing in my head, regarding this message board, is about GT winning football games. Every post I make is about GT football. None of this is personal to me except when someone asks me an off the wall question. I love your posts and everyone’s posts. It’s all fun to me. GT football has tried to win the old fashion way and we fell off the map using the 1950’s blueprint.

I love the direction of this sport because it gives my team a better chance to win in the future. More playoffs slots helps every team. Playoff games on campus are decades over due. GT getting to pay players has taken our recruiting to another level and the portal has given us a legit college QB and OLinemen that lead to scores. We are on the uptick because of this new era. In the old era, we would have a recruiting class in the 40’s while Auburn, UGA, Clemson, Bama, etc would have bought every 4 and 5 star 8n a 5 state radius. Now, we signed many of them which will lead to wins.
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Football players are on scholarship. Therefore, donating to the scholarship fund is relevant to football. I am not trying to trick you.

You seem to like to write a lot of words that do not amount to much with regards to progressing the conversation. This is what I mean to being lost in your head. Good luck with life.
 

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Reading some of these posts I wonder to myself how many of these same folks have Ayn Rand lovingly featured on their bookshelves, pray at the alter of the 'Invisible Hand,' and are self professed patrons of Chicago school monetarist economic policies and only when they find the toe of free market policies in their anus do the sing the blues about the lack of regulation, altruism, loyalty and amateurism?
 
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MtnWasp said:
Reading some of these posts I wonder to myself how many of these same folks have Ayn Rand lovingly featured on their bookshelves, pray at the alter of the 'Invisible Hand,' and are self professed patrons of Chicago school monetarist economic policies and only when they find the toe of free market policies in their anus do the sing the blues about the lack of regulation, altruism, loyalty and amateurism?
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Holy crap I was just about to say the same thing.
 

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MtnWasp said:
Reading some of these posts I wonder to myself how many of these same folks have Ayn Rand lovingly featured on their bookshelves, pray at the alter of the 'Invisible Hand,' and are self professed patrons of Chicago school monetarist economic policies and only when they find the toe of free market policies in their anus do the sing the blues about the lack of regulation, altruism, loyalty and amateurism?
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something that was not on my bingo card this morning
 
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MtnWasp said:
Reading some of these posts I wonder to myself how many of these same folks have Ayn Rand lovingly featured on their bookshelves, pray at the alter of the 'Invisible Hand,' and are self professed patrons of Chicago school monetarist economic policies and only when they find the toe of free market policies in their anus do the sing the blues about the lack of regulation, altruism, loyalty and amateurism?
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I have both Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead on my shelf. Objectivism is a fascinating philosophy, but I am more a Subjectivist in that I don't believe in any absolutes.
 
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If you never believe in absolutes, does that sort of cancel each other out...aka a self-defeating prophecy? Or am I overthinking things again?
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I believe that people have absolutes for them but that there are no universal or objective absolutes. Don't want this to turn religious, so I'm just going to say, I'm not going there before someone tries to take it there.
 

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What are you talking about? I root rabidly for the GT teams. I could care less about the individual players if that is what you are getting at. Are you going to now root for Height at Texas Tech or Singleton at Auburn? I sure am not. I will be rooting for the DE’s and WR’s at Georgia Tech. I’m not rooting for Gibbs either cause he is no longer wearing a GT uniform, nor did I root for Calvin with the Lions or Kenny with the Nets. I root for Georgia Tech and whoever is playing for them. I don’t live in some fantasy world where I believe we are one big happy GT family. We have a game in a week yet individuals who used GT for free classes, free weight equipment, free food, free exposure aren’t going to show up, yet most of us will be there. That is not shocking to me.
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Why would you not support alum athletes in professional sports? I don't see rooting for a Calvin Johnson as not rooting for Tech, Mark Price, or Keith Brooking, Tex, Charlie B, I could go on. Playing pro ball with a Tech degree or affiliation is a net positive. At one time Tech was tied with uncheat with the most players on a NBA roster. Now that was in the 80's-early 90's but it happened. Just don’t understand the logic.
 
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