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I know you do, I just don’t understand why, if you don’t care who wears the GT uniforms. If GT decided to stop playing college football and decided to sponsor an XFL team, would you root rabidly for them?
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Would they may be wearing GT uniforms and representing GT in any way? Then, yes, I’d root for them. I rooted for Dennis Scott and Kenny yet they barely saw the inside of a classroom. I had 2 classes with Dennis. You know how I know? He showed up for the final exams. Everyone was laughing, including him. These players haven’t been real students in a long time. You guys have been believing in the tooth fairy and you just discovered how the dollar actually got under your pillow and you‘re shocked!!
 
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Would they may be wearing GT uniforms and representing GT in any way? Then, yes, I’d root for them. I rooted for Dennis Scott and Kenny yet they barely saw the inside of a classroom. I had 2 classes with Dennis. You know how I know? He showed up for the final exams. Everyone was laughing, including him. These players haven’t been real students in a long time. You guys have been believing in the tooth fairy and you just discovered how the dollar actually got under your pillow and you‘re shocked!!
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Right! Because your experience over 30 years ago with one of the most prolific basketball players in our school's history is indicative of every other single student athlete at Tech that has ever attended school here since. Never mind PTG or the fact the we have been graduating basketball and football players at 95% rate for the past two decades. The fact Scott skipped two of your classes means there are no student athletes and academics are a complete sham. So, we should not care who wears the uniform. Just cheer the uniform. Yeah, go with that.
 

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Right! Because your experience over 30 years ago with one of the most prolific basketball players in our school's history is indicative of every other single student athlete at Tech that has ever attended school here since. Never mind PTG or the fact the we have been graduating basketball and football players at 95% rate for the past two decades. The fact Scott skipped two of your classes means there are no student athletes and academics are a complete sham. So, we should not care who wears the uniform. Just cheer the uniform. Yeah, go with that.
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So, you’re not going to root for Rivers or any other GT player that doesn’t fit your definition of a GT student athlete? Good for you then. You do know that guys like Height and Singleton are laughing at you, right? Do they fit your definition of a GT student athlete?

My stance is clear - I’m rooting for anyone in a GT uniform. You apparently are only rooting for them if they fit your personal definition of a GT student athlete.
 
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So, you’re not going to root for Rivers or any other GT player that doesn’t fit your definition of a GT student athlete? Good for you then. You do know that guys like Height and Singleton are laughing at you, right? Do they fit your definition of a GT student athlete?

My stance is clear - I’m rooting for anyone in a GT uniform. You apparently are only rooting for them if they fit your personal definition of a GT student athlete.
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Where did I say that?

I never said anything about who I will cheer for or what constitutes a GT student athlete.

I was pointing out the stupidity of your false assumption that academics has not been part of GT sports for decades because you had two classes with D Scott where he never went to class.

You are lost inside your own head. No football player is laughing at me, or anyone on this site. We do not exist to them.

Let me add, there is a difference between cheering for a team vs. being emotionally and financially invested in its success. I will continue to cheer for GT. I just won't be as happy or upset when they win or lose, and I certainly will not be funding scholarships or capital projects for the two revenue sports.
 
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Where did I say that?

I never said anything about who I will cheer for or what constitutes a GT student athlete.

I was pointing out the stupidity of your false assumption that academics has not been part of GT sports for decades because you had two classes with D Scott where he never went to class.

You are lost inside your own head. No football player is laughing at me, or anyone on this site. We do not exist to them.

Let me add, there is a difference between cheering for a team vs. being emotionally and financially invested in its success. I will continue to cheer for GT. I just won't be as happy or upset when they win or lose, and I certainly will not be funding scholarships or capital projects for the two revenue sports.
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I never said academics haven’t been a part of GT sports. Of course it has. But GT has also sold its soul for decades to bring in people who are here for other reasons than an education in order to win. We just haven’t brought in enough to win consistently. We are hypocrites because we do the same thing the factories do just not at their level. Guys like Romello Height and Rivers, and the others are proof that GT isn’t too worried about academics and just want to win. I personally applaud and believe we should have been bringing in a lot more “less than student players” for decades instead of falling from a top 10 program to a mediocre one. NIL and the portal now allows GT to break away from our own self imposed probation and Key and Batt seem not to worried about academics at all which is great. All these transfers may be here for literally 1 semester of eligibility and then can bounce again like Height just did.
 
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Come on now. It’s been this way for decades. I was in class with a lot of the Final Four players in 1990 and Natty team. You think Kenny was at GT for school or for GT? Or Dennis? They were here for playing time and Bobby C. I had a lot of classes with football starters and they could care less about GT. A lot of them were straight up jerks to regular students.

Just because a player in the old days were forced to stay at a school doesn’t mean they were any better than today’s guys. If they had the chance to leave a lot of them would have jumped at a better NIL deal.

NCAA is, has been, and will continue to be corrupt and played by people who are r the brightest. The brightest aren’t doing that to their bodies with very little reward but for a small percentage.
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Um, this.
 
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I never said academics haven’t been a part of GT sports. Of course it has. But GT has also sold its soul for decades to bring in people who are here for other reasons than an education in order to win. We just haven’t brought in enough to win consistently. We are hypocrites because we do the same thing the factories do just not at their level. Guys like Romello Height and Rivers, and the others are proof that GT isn’t too worried about academics and just want to win. I personally applaud and believe we should have been bringing in a lot more “less than student players” for decades instead of falling from a top 10 program to a mediocre one. NIL and the portal now allows GT to break away from our own self imposed probation and Key and Batt seem not to worried about academics at all which is great. All these transfers may be here for literally 1 semester of eligibility and then can bounce again like Height just did.
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You did say that players not being student athletes has been going on for decades at Tech and you used D Scott as your proof. I reposted it above. So, there is that.

Regardless, you are making my point. The school is moving away from caring about academics. As such, my support of scholarship will be impacted to where I will only support non revenue sports.

I am curious, have you ever given to the scholarship fund at Tech? If so, why?
 
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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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I’m with you, it still feels great to me when GT wins- that some players are getting paid or may not be here next year doesn’t diminish that
 

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You did say that players not being student athletes has been going on for decades at Tech and you used D Scott as your proof. I reposted it above. So, there is that.

Regardless, you are making my point. The school is moving away from caring about academics. As such, my support of scholarship will be impacted to where I will only support non revenue sports.

I am curious, have you ever given to the scholarship fund at Tech? If so, why?
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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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