Why is Georgia Tech Not a Powerhouse?

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05_never_again said:
Don't forget Auburn either. There are a ton of Auburn people in Atlanta. It doesn't seem like it because it is in another state, but Auburn is basically as far away from Atlanta as Athens is.
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being down here I would say at best Tech is the number 5 or 6 college team in town. add in the pro sports and that drops even further.

UGA, Tennessee, Auburn, Bama, Clemson/Tech. would be my unscientific break down.
 
#27
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Went to over 20 bowls in a row then 3-8 last year. The big issue is the offense and Paul Johnson can't recruit. He needs to go.
 
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Like others have said alot of it comes down academics and the fact I'd say the very large majority of fans in Atlanta area are UGA fans. With the ACC Network coming in the near future it should help with recruiting and giving them some extra $$ for facility upgrades.
 
#30
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Academic standards

Run the triple option

Not as big an emphasis on athletics as the SEC schools (partially the reason it chose to leave the conference).
 
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GAVol said:
This question has been asked as long as I can remember. It's literally a 50 year hangover from the worst decision they ever made which was to walk away from the SEC in 1960s.

It's a neat campus in a good town with great academics. But it's the ACC and they're never going to spend the money to really get things rolling.
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Or just GT itself is never really going to spend that kind of money. I'm not sure that part's entirely an ACC practice across the board.
 
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TrueOrange said:
Academic standards

Run the triple option

Not as big an emphasis on athletics as the SEC schools (partially the reason it chose to leave the conference).
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Go back and read coach dodds book and Bryant screwed him and lied to him on a vote to honor scholarships. GT left because of it.
 
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Being in Indiana GT kinda reminds me of Purdue's football program. Tech has had more recent success than Purdue but academics, the fact that the school isn't committed to football and having to compete with the likes of Notre Dame,Michigan,OSU and now even Louisville has killed Purdue's program.
 
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GT has many variables. Most of which have been commented on already. The triple option is only a last decade development. They thought if the service academy's can run triple option then with the athletes they can get then they would be very successful. That has not happened obviously. On a single game basis many talented teams struggle against triple option if they don't emphasize assignment football that week rather than typical swarm to football. The melting pot city is a true issue. So many people move there with loyalties to teams elsewhere make it difficult to bring the great players. Academics are very high but like most institutions if the player is really good and wants to go there the school can manipulate a way to get the kid in if its not a crazy exception. Also their stadium isn't first class. The location is within a few hours drive of several SEC schools. No way we forget Kiffin strategically placing the Eric Berry for Heisman billboard in Atlanta because within recruiting radius of Tennessee. And the number one reason imo is they haven't hired the right guy. Schools like Houston, Baylor and others proves that if the right coach you can get a regular school rolling.
 
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Academics hasn't stopped other schools in football, or other sports.

Stanford in football and Duke in basketball are at the forefront obviously right now.
 
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The sad part is historically GA Tech is so much better than UGA. Not even that close really.
 
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I love the fact that we play them first. We have all summer to prepare for the triple option. It's really hard to prepare for it in just a week
 
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GAVol said:
Going to be interesting to see how far Ga State can go. They're about to buy the Turner Field property from the Braves and turn it into a football stadium, and build a baseball field next to it in the old Fulton County Stadium footprint.
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I thought I'd heard something about that on local news a while back.
 
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College athletics tend to struggle in professional sports cities. Here in Houston it's still difficult to find very much attention in sports media for UofH...don't even ask about Rice, Texas Southern and Prairie View A&M. Now throw in Texas, A&M, LSU, TCU and Baylor in recruiting the area and it will take a special coach to succeed...especially considering that UofH is a commuter school.

I would presume that Ga Tech has many of the same problems that schools in the Metro Houston area have.

70,000 Seat Rice Stadium

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Current Seating 47,000 Capacity
(expandable to 58,000)​

Academics, small student enrollment and professional sports have literally killed Rice Athletics. The only Owls program that is competitive at the national level is baseball...The Thinking Man's Sport.
 
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Remember when Vandy lowered their academic standards, so they would stop sucking at football? Oh wait... Only change was an assault scandal :question:
 
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