Academic school vs Sports school

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Yankee_Vol said:
Well I see that you edited it after my comment so no apology....and they are pretty good at Lacrosse too fyi
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I edited my comment to add in the last paragraph... Not to say Dook is good academically. Does anyone even care about Lax? No...

Apology accepted.
 
#27
#27
Seeing as how your from the south I can understand that you don't care about LAX....and just so you know,Vandy is also rated higher than your beloved GT
 
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bowlinggreenvol said:
Bama's a top 40 public school and a top 40 law school overall. I'd say that's above average for a state school. UGA & Auburn are both ranked higher than Bama which I included more so from a football standpoint.
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U.S. News & World Report: Alabama 83rd best in country and 37th best public. Auburn 96th best in country and 45th best public. Both pretty good, just depends where you want to play football. Alabama has more merit scholars. Bama better business, law, and medical. Auburn engineering.
 
#31
#31
Between Sports school and Academic schools. It really depends on how far you project yourself to go in football. Sports school would be a lot more fun, but a degree is gonna get you further. Especially if its from a school like Vandy or Stanford. Bama... Not so much, more of a sports school. Teams like Miami have both though. Good a sports and really good academics.
 
#32
#32
I'm not sure how Bama gets included on this list. There are tons of kids there from middle TN who did not get in to UT, and tons of kids there from Atlanta who did not get in to UGA. Their honors program is very good but the rest is very mediocre. A professor friend who has taught recently at both UT and Bama told me that their regular classes make UT look like Harvard (which we all know it certainly is not, but if you look at quality of students admitted, it's better than Bama). In fact, if you look at the admission standards of all of the public SEC schools, SEC east beats the SEC west hands down.
That said, If I could go to Vandy for free, it would be hard to pass up.
 
#33
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GATechVOL said:
Georgia Tech is definitely a "best of both worlds" school. You CANNOT compare the academics of UGA, Alabama, UF, or even Climpsun to Georgia Tech. Dook and Vandy to a certain extent, yes. Dook is miserable at sports though (save basketball).

If I'm a stud athlete I'd go to a school where the academics are a little lighter so I could concentrate more on my "money maker" (football, basketball, etc)... but if I know that I don't really have a chance for the pro leagues, then I'd go to a good school to get that degree!

The person who said that certain schools open certain doors for careers is correct. I didn't have as high of a GPA coming out of Georgia Tech this year, but I think somebody would take me over somebody from say, Alabama, with a 3.8 GPA. It's just easier there.
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You make a good point but you may be the#1 player in the country but take one bad hit and your career is done. I really believe their are too many factors that go into playing in the leauge you must take the great degree. I am speaking from expirence.
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#34
#34
a degree from vandy/dook/gt/etc is much more of a sure thing than the chance of going to the league or the chance of using your celebrity from playing at tn/bammer/uga as a stepping stone to a career ...

imo, get the best education you can ... you'll be glad you did when you hit 40, 50, 60 .....
 
#35
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Daddy Gee said:
a degree from vandy/dook/gt/etc is much more of a sure thing than the chance of going to the league or the chance of using your celebrity from playing at tn/bammer/uga as a stepping stone to a career ...

imo, get the best education you can ... you'll be glad you did when you hit 40, 50, 60 .....
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Amen brother.
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#36
#36
You can get a job with a degree from a sports school, it might not be as prestigious but it can be done. You're much less likely to have the life long memories of a championship team, or of doing something special at an academic school. Kids that don't realistically have a shot to make it to the pros still choose football schools because they want to be part of something. Nobody wants to look back on their college career playing sub .500 football.
 
#38
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VolsFanRJ said:
For the most part, most employers don't really care where you got your degree anyways, as long as you have one. There are a few exceptions, but not many.
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I guess if you want to sell insurance. If you could look at college grads making six figures first year out of school (not including pro sports), not many are from UT, Bama, UF, UGA, Ohio State, or even Georgia Tech.
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#39
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FightinQuaker said:
I guess if you want to sell insurance. If you could look at college grads making six figures first year out of school (not including pro sports), not many are from UT, Bama, UF, UGA, Ohio State, or even Georgia Tech.
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I seen a article in the AJC where GT grads average almost 12,000 more when starting a job versus UGA grads.
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