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<blockquote data-quote="daBuzz" data-source="post: 16058" data-attributes="member: 56"><p>I agree. But I also agree that it is much more difficult (and more rare) for a kid who has skated by in high school to catch up. </p><p></p><p>The problem is that we are currently stopping all of those players from getting into Tech. We like to take the academic snobbery approach of saying "Well I don't want my degree tarnished." While the truth is that most of these guys on the football team who are the "players in question" aren't people who would have passed the cut to get into GT if there weren't exceptions made for them being football players. So what we're really arguing about is the degree of exceptions we're willing to make. </p><p></p><p>I don't want, in any way, shape, form, or fashion, for Georgia Tech to just open the floodgates and start accepting anybody and everybody who can tote the rock. But I do think it's incredibly stupid for us to just take the blanket policy that we're taking right now and just indiscriminately stop all of those guys from getting a chance to do what Darryl Smith did and learn what it's like to be able to succeed at GT.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="daBuzz, post: 16058, member: 56"] I agree. But I also agree that it is much more difficult (and more rare) for a kid who has skated by in high school to catch up. The problem is that we are currently stopping all of those players from getting into Tech. We like to take the academic snobbery approach of saying "Well I don't want my degree tarnished." While the truth is that most of these guys on the football team who are the "players in question" aren't people who would have passed the cut to get into GT if there weren't exceptions made for them being football players. So what we're really arguing about is the degree of exceptions we're willing to make. I don't want, in any way, shape, form, or fashion, for Georgia Tech to just open the floodgates and start accepting anybody and everybody who can tote the rock. But I do think it's incredibly stupid for us to just take the blanket policy that we're taking right now and just indiscriminately stop all of those guys from getting a chance to do what Darryl Smith did and learn what it's like to be able to succeed at GT. [/QUOTE]
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