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<blockquote data-quote="TechTravis" data-source="post: 90806" data-attributes="member: 1766"><p>First of all, I'm new here, so maybe this isn't normally the case, but there seem to be a lot of people here who overvalue "star rankings." Fretting about stars is something people with too much time on their hands do.</p><p></p><p>Secondly, I've come to believe as an alum that it isn't the degree of difficulty that keeps kids out of Georgia Tech. It's the lack of academic diversity. I hear people say all the time "well, if Stanford/Northwestern/Duke/insert other good academic school here can do it, then why can't we?" It isn't the hard classes. Its that a kid that goes to one of those other schools never has to darken the door of a calculus class. Even if "survey" is easier than what most kids have to take. You know what's easier than survey? NOT TAKING CALCULUS. A smart kid, one that GT might have interest in, and one that might have interest in GT, can look at two great academic programs and realize that he isn't good enough at math to make it at GT. Meanwhile, the coursework at Stanford/NW/Duke et al might be just as tough, but its in a degree program they have far more interest in. Until whoever the coach is at GT is allowed to either: recruit from the same set of kids everyone else is, or: Be given a FAR more diverse selection in degree of study programs, the next coach is just going to have the same problem. CPJ may not be the best coach out there, but he isn't the problem. The problem goes much higher than that.</p><p></p><p>I remember vividly an anecdote being shared about when Dan Radakovich was conducting interviews for the coach to replace Chan Gailey. I heard from more than one source that Radakovich wanted to hire Jimbo Fisher, but that Fisher told him he "didn't have the resources" Fisher thought he needed to compete. Until that changes, GT will not compete at the highest possible level. What we as fans need to do is figure out what, if anything, we can do about it...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TechTravis, post: 90806, member: 1766"] First of all, I'm new here, so maybe this isn't normally the case, but there seem to be a lot of people here who overvalue "star rankings." Fretting about stars is something people with too much time on their hands do. Secondly, I've come to believe as an alum that it isn't the degree of difficulty that keeps kids out of Georgia Tech. It's the lack of academic diversity. I hear people say all the time "well, if Stanford/Northwestern/Duke/insert other good academic school here can do it, then why can't we?" It isn't the hard classes. Its that a kid that goes to one of those other schools never has to darken the door of a calculus class. Even if "survey" is easier than what most kids have to take. You know what's easier than survey? NOT TAKING CALCULUS. A smart kid, one that GT might have interest in, and one that might have interest in GT, can look at two great academic programs and realize that he isn't good enough at math to make it at GT. Meanwhile, the coursework at Stanford/NW/Duke et al might be just as tough, but its in a degree program they have far more interest in. Until whoever the coach is at GT is allowed to either: recruit from the same set of kids everyone else is, or: Be given a FAR more diverse selection in degree of study programs, the next coach is just going to have the same problem. CPJ may not be the best coach out there, but he isn't the problem. The problem goes much higher than that. I remember vividly an anecdote being shared about when Dan Radakovich was conducting interviews for the coach to replace Chan Gailey. I heard from more than one source that Radakovich wanted to hire Jimbo Fisher, but that Fisher told him he "didn't have the resources" Fisher thought he needed to compete. Until that changes, GT will not compete at the highest possible level. What we as fans need to do is figure out what, if anything, we can do about it... [/QUOTE]
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