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South Carolina Gamecocks (official thread)

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LovelandBuckeye said:
How can they be so damn bad in such a hot bed of good football talent?
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2 problems

1). Tech has most of the entire south and Blue Blood programs like Ohio State descending on Atlanta and metro exurbs for talent. It’s a pit fight.

2). To their credit, it’s a fabulous school with very high academic standards and very hard classes. Many (but not all) blue chippers don’t want to deal with that course load. The ones that do are also considering ND, Stanford, UVA…etc
 
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BigWoof31 said:
2 problems

1). Tech has most of the entire south and Blue Blood programs like Ohio State descending on Atlanta and metro exurbs for talent. It’s a pit fight.

2). To their credit, it’s a fabulous school with very high academic standards and very hard classes. Many (but not all) blue chippers don’t want to deal with that course load. The ones that do are also considering ND, Stanford, UVA…etc
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The problem here is that a B1G school, Washington, UNC/UVA or Berkeley/UCLA can get around that because we have easy easier majors to slide those "not so bright" 5-stars into. GaTech is literally a STEM specific university (and the third hardest public to get into outside of Cal/UCLA), and I don't think they have a "sports management" or "kinesiology" major to shuffle some Jim Harbaugh type off to.
 
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BigWoof31 said:
2 problems

1). Tech has most of the entire south and Blue Blood programs like Ohio State descending on Atlanta and metro exurbs for talent. It’s a pit fight.

2). To their credit, it’s a fabulous school with very high academic standards and very hard classes. Many (but not all) blue chippers don’t want to deal with that course load. The ones that do are also considering ND, Stanford, UVA…etc
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They seriously seem like a southern military academy to me without the rigorous military training. I could see them vying with the Citadel for all aspiring service related fields for professionals.
 
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Bestbuck36 said:
They seriously seem like a southern military academy to me without the rigorous military training. I could see them vying with the Citadel for all aspiring service related fields for professionals.
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Major difference is their research grants. I have buddies from high school who are GT Grads and while they are monumentally proud of their Alma mater (as they should be), they do have a gripe that a lot of their profs provide very limited Face time in classes. They are there only for the grants and research.

I’m not terribly sure how this would work and would defer to @ORD_Buckeye on the strategic nature of hiring good researchers vs. hiring good professors
 
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welp, since somebody bumped the USCe thread, I guess now is as good a time as any to post this one:

that time the Gamecocks entered mid October undefeated and #3 in the country.
and made a visit to Death Valley.
at Night

 
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BigWoof31 said:
Major difference is their research grants. I have buddies from high school who are GT Grads and while they are monumentally proud of their Alma mater (as they should be), they do have a gripe that a lot of their profs provide very limited Face time in classes. They are there only for the grants and research.

I’m not terribly sure how this would work and would defer to @ORD_Buckeye on the strategic nature of hiring good researchers vs. hiring good professors
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A professor can be a great teacher and a great researcher.
 
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Steve19 said:
A professor can be a great teacher and a great researcher.
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While this is true (and I don't doubt that you are) I'm sure you could testify that for most in your profession, "Publish or Perish" is very real.

In other words, research moves the needle in a way that teaching does not, because that's what the people that control your career care about.

Or so say the people I've known who stayed in academia.
 
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