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<blockquote data-quote="33jacket" data-source="post: 30602" data-attributes="member: 628"><p>the reason dodd left the SEC ended up not mattering over time. ie had he been patient the NCAA instituted rules anyway and clamped down on behavior. So the point being his reasons eventually eroded over then next 10 years anyway. I think we should have stayed in just for the school roots, rivals, history etc. It was a bad move...and the money would be better.</p><p></p><p>At the same time, I also think had we stayed in we wouldn't have dealt with as big a mess in the 80s, but also may have never won a national title in 90, BUT and a HUGE BUT, the second clough took over in the 90s and homer rice left in the 90s....I think that is when you would see tech athletics dive to vandy levels in the SEC...as since that day we have gotten tougher on admissions, and the importance of the school ranking has dictated alot of the schools behavior...we have become a much more elitist school than we were 20 years ago. Of course, one could say had we stayed in the SEC, that dive to vandy levels may have happened much earlier than clough...u may be right...i am just drawing that line as a definitive point. Or you could say had we stayed in the dive never would have happened and our program would be right there with the top 1/3 of the SEC....who knows...</p><p></p><p>I think there were 3 times that changed tech and tech athletics forever in the past 50 years.</p><p></p><p>One was the move from the SEC</p><p>Two was hiring homer rice to correct the mess and bring tech back into the picture (football and basketball)</p><p>And the third was the popularity of US News and world reports rankings. This affected many schools not just tech on how they behaved. For us...it made athletics that much harder since the administration put more emphasis on admission requirements, research dollars etc (all metrics in rankings). Not saying its a bad thing for the school...we are just purely talking affect on athletics, but no doubt this put a strain on the programs at tech.</p><p></p><p>Just my crazy opinion here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="33jacket, post: 30602, member: 628"] the reason dodd left the SEC ended up not mattering over time. ie had he been patient the NCAA instituted rules anyway and clamped down on behavior. So the point being his reasons eventually eroded over then next 10 years anyway. I think we should have stayed in just for the school roots, rivals, history etc. It was a bad move...and the money would be better. At the same time, I also think had we stayed in we wouldn't have dealt with as big a mess in the 80s, but also may have never won a national title in 90, BUT and a HUGE BUT, the second clough took over in the 90s and homer rice left in the 90s....I think that is when you would see tech athletics dive to vandy levels in the SEC...as since that day we have gotten tougher on admissions, and the importance of the school ranking has dictated alot of the schools behavior...we have become a much more elitist school than we were 20 years ago. Of course, one could say had we stayed in the SEC, that dive to vandy levels may have happened much earlier than clough...u may be right...i am just drawing that line as a definitive point. Or you could say had we stayed in the dive never would have happened and our program would be right there with the top 1/3 of the SEC....who knows... I think there were 3 times that changed tech and tech athletics forever in the past 50 years. One was the move from the SEC Two was hiring homer rice to correct the mess and bring tech back into the picture (football and basketball) And the third was the popularity of US News and world reports rankings. This affected many schools not just tech on how they behaved. For us...it made athletics that much harder since the administration put more emphasis on admission requirements, research dollars etc (all metrics in rankings). Not saying its a bad thing for the school...we are just purely talking affect on athletics, but no doubt this put a strain on the programs at tech. Just my crazy opinion here. [/QUOTE]
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