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<blockquote data-quote="LibertyTurns" data-source="post: 281113" data-attributes="member: 789"><p>Vespidae,</p><p>Agree with the above but I guess I'd just like to see some indications that The Hill actually gives a crap about our major sports. I look at the erosion of the gameday experience and it signals to me a major chasm between the GT sports fans and academic elites that run the school.</p><p></p><p>We've got all these fancy new buildings now. Our academic programs are hailed to be in the top tier of the world, certainly the country yet the same dogged daily work that's put into academics is not put into athletics. Read GT's strategic plan and tell me what's missing- a commitment to athletics. It just isn't even on the radar.</p><p></p><p>We don't recruit high academic calibre student athletes like our peers do. We have a massive capability to leverage our technological expertise with athletics & look down our nose at it. We have alums with deep pockets but seemingly do everything we can to piss them off UNLESS they're interested in donating to academic endeavors.</p><p></p><p>Homecoming in disintegrating. Some you can blame on the globalization of the economy. Most you can blame on "taking the fun out of it". The Wreck Parade's now a joke. There used to be huge contraptions, now there's these little embarrassing things. There used to be a "festival" atmosphere on campus, now it's small isolated pockets.</p><p></p><p>As far as attracting top level teams to come here. Our stadium is too small which means either playing off campus or not at all. Bammer, etc doesn't want a challenging game that frankly would be embarrassing for them to lose. They'll play other top teams but they don't want to risk the indignity of losing to a "high school" offense type program & a bunch of nerds to boot. They lose to GT then ZERO chance of a national championship that year. Lost to FSU, etc & it's a "quality loss".</p><p></p><p>The list goes on but leadership starts at the top. Rebuilding the faanbase & turning the program around is a decade long proposition. GT has a "we want it now & we want it cheap" mentality & that's just not going to happen. I hope Stansbury has the passion & resilience to craft his vision & execute it AND our fanbase has the perseverance to allow him the time to do it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LibertyTurns, post: 281113, member: 789"] Vespidae, Agree with the above but I guess I'd just like to see some indications that The Hill actually gives a crap about our major sports. I look at the erosion of the gameday experience and it signals to me a major chasm between the GT sports fans and academic elites that run the school. We've got all these fancy new buildings now. Our academic programs are hailed to be in the top tier of the world, certainly the country yet the same dogged daily work that's put into academics is not put into athletics. Read GT's strategic plan and tell me what's missing- a commitment to athletics. It just isn't even on the radar. We don't recruit high academic calibre student athletes like our peers do. We have a massive capability to leverage our technological expertise with athletics & look down our nose at it. We have alums with deep pockets but seemingly do everything we can to piss them off UNLESS they're interested in donating to academic endeavors. Homecoming in disintegrating. Some you can blame on the globalization of the economy. Most you can blame on "taking the fun out of it". The Wreck Parade's now a joke. There used to be huge contraptions, now there's these little embarrassing things. There used to be a "festival" atmosphere on campus, now it's small isolated pockets. As far as attracting top level teams to come here. Our stadium is too small which means either playing off campus or not at all. Bammer, etc doesn't want a challenging game that frankly would be embarrassing for them to lose. They'll play other top teams but they don't want to risk the indignity of losing to a "high school" offense type program & a bunch of nerds to boot. They lose to GT then ZERO chance of a national championship that year. Lost to FSU, etc & it's a "quality loss". The list goes on but leadership starts at the top. Rebuilding the faanbase & turning the program around is a decade long proposition. GT has a "we want it now & we want it cheap" mentality & that's just not going to happen. I hope Stansbury has the passion & resilience to craft his vision & execute it AND our fanbase has the perseverance to allow him the time to do it. [/QUOTE]
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