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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 292726" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>I see the frustration with the Hill and the positive aspects of a successful football program.</p><p></p><p>Problem = the financial awards of successful football and general athletic programs cited above are for <em>institutions that are very different from Tech</em>. The people who don't want to see athletics having as big a role as many here would like have an easy answer to the argument: the shifts you are talking about wouldn't work the same way at Tech. What we have to do, they would say, is gear up to compete with MIT and CalTech. You might have noticed that they don't have major college athletic programs or students or donors who are attracted by them. You could point to Perdue and Rice in answer and they would say, correctly, that our athletic programs appear to be better then (Rice) or equal to (Perdue) the schools you are referring to. "Why are you complaining? Go away and let us run one of the best engineering schools in the world. Play games if you want, but don't bother us with it."</p><p></p><p>What is needed to change their minds is an argument that meets their lack of concern. Otherwise, we are asking them to change what is an imminently successful approach - Tech <em>is</em> one of the best engineering schools in the world - for a voyage in uncharted waters. Problem = there really isn't any school anywhere that I know of that meets the kind of criteria that would undermine their counter-argument. If anyone has a solution for this conundrum, I'd sure like to hear it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 292726, member: 265"] I see the frustration with the Hill and the positive aspects of a successful football program. Problem = the financial awards of successful football and general athletic programs cited above are for [I]institutions that are very different from Tech[/I]. The people who don't want to see athletics having as big a role as many here would like have an easy answer to the argument: the shifts you are talking about wouldn't work the same way at Tech. What we have to do, they would say, is gear up to compete with MIT and CalTech. You might have noticed that they don't have major college athletic programs or students or donors who are attracted by them. You could point to Perdue and Rice in answer and they would say, correctly, that our athletic programs appear to be better then (Rice) or equal to (Perdue) the schools you are referring to. "Why are you complaining? Go away and let us run one of the best engineering schools in the world. Play games if you want, but don't bother us with it." What is needed to change their minds is an argument that meets their lack of concern. Otherwise, we are asking them to change what is an imminently successful approach - Tech [I]is[/I] one of the best engineering schools in the world - for a voyage in uncharted waters. Problem = there really isn't any school anywhere that I know of that meets the kind of criteria that would undermine their counter-argument. If anyone has a solution for this conundrum, I'd sure like to hear it. [/QUOTE]
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