I see them here as well but I’ve seen worse elsewhere.
My guess is that Charlotte actually has some deep-ish pockets here and a willingness to commit. I doubt the AAC would have taken them otherwise despite the TV market. The one common factor among all of the incoming schools is commitment. UTSA is looking at a basketball arena, UNT and FAU recently built stadiums and facilities, UAB has recomitted to football and has a new stadium, Rice is building facilities, and Charlotte I think is expanding their stadium.
I think schools are often too quick to pull the trigger, but I think Memphis would be justified in moving on.
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Must be nice to have the city and county 100% behind you and writing checks.
What a novel thought that UTSA success = helps San Antonio.
“I’m deeply grateful for the continued leadership and partnership of Bexar County and the City of San Antonio as we collectively work to advance UTSA Athletics…We are so fortunate that our county and city believe deeply in our purpose and mission as a university, especially in support of our athletics program.”
UTSA breaks ground on Park West Fieldhouse | UTSA Today | UTSA | The University of Texas at San Antonio.
Behind a paywall. The relevant part.
" The Bexar County Commissioners Court in February committed $8 million to the project over three years, setting construction in motion."
https://www.expressnews.com/sports/colleges/utsa/article/UTSA-takes-next-step-on-long-list-of-facilities-17336824.php
“RACE became a project that included $10 million in funding from the part of the 2017 municipal bond dedicated to parks and recreation. The bond money supplemented private donations and money from the university’s permanent fund.”
“*A new 10,000-seat arena for basketball and volleyball;
*New baseball and softball stadiums;
*A dedicated basketball/volleyball training facility;
*Also, a “standalone” facility for track and field and soccer.”
https://thejbreplay.com/eighmy-says-utsa-is-planning-a-new-basketball-arena
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Too bad they can’t lose the "directional " school label and change the name to the University of San Antonio…
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Because then they would be called USA and I imagine some people would take exception to that!
“San Antonio Tech”
There is already University of South Alabama (USA)
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I think UTSA is fine, honestly. With the four letters if kind of ends up in the same bucket as UCLA/UNLV as far as naming conventions. Not as good as San Antonio probably, but good enough. It won’t hold them back if their program improves.
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GT had 39,771 students in 2020, the last year I could get figures for. UGA has 40,118 students this year, only 347 more than GT had in 2020. Secretly, most public universities love having a lot of out of state students who pay much more than state students.
They will never let go of the UT part of the name, no way, they love being UT-lite.
GT turns away OOS kids with 1500 SATs. They’re on par with, if not better than, UT-Austin for engineering and computer science. UGA needs to improve its STEM offerings but it’s b-school is solid. It stinks to have really solid kids who have great grades but not great test scores and have to go out of state when UGA is your next best state school offer. U of Florida is still quite good and is rather inexpensive.
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The bigger problem is that GT and UGA are both hard as heck to get into. So a lot of quality students are picking between Georgia State and leaving.
is is one of the reasons I’ve become bullish on Georgia State. If they can hold on to those kids they will become a very good university very quickly. Kennesaw too.
Not even close. All the whining about our fan base complaining is comical. Our reaction is still mild if you read what Aggie fans say about Jimbo and whorn fans say about Sark right now…
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Kids go there 2 years and then try to transfer to the death star
So are you basically saying it’s OK to be jerks because there are bigger jerks?
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Yes, the media is a real problem in so many regards relative to today’s society.
Reason I like Saban. He don’t take any crap from those guys.
There are so few real reporters now a days !
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A majority of Ga Tech’s student body are grad students. Completely out of whack.
Look, as a GA taxpayer, I expect that vast majority of my tax money, which Ga Tech uses to fund its programs, should be used to educate Georgians, not people from outside the state and definitely not people from outside the U.S.
Again, I understand that Ga Tech sees itself on par with MIT, Caltech, etc. I have no problem with that. If that is the case, then become a private university, just like those schools are. Otherwise, understand that as a public institution you have a responsibility to the broader public to provide educational opportunities to the broader student body that has paid for your existence. Simple as that.
There are plenty of excellent public technical universities that produce excellent engineers that are more accessible to the broader public, such as UT, TAMU, NC State, UIUC, Iowa State, Clemson, FSU, Auburn, LSU, Va Tech, USF, and Missouri S&T, Penn State, Ohio State, Arkansas and Maryland.
Those schools are not skewed the way Ga Tech is. Again, Ga Tech’s profile is now a private school profile. As such, it should go private, and the state of GA can take that money and funnel it into the other public schools in the state who need it. Georgia State, Kennesaw State and Georgia Southern can use that money to build up their existing engineering programs (or in the case of GSU, add one). Even UGA, which started its engineering program due to complaints that Ga Tech was becoming less accepting of local GA grads, can use that money to expand its engineering program.
To tie it back to their recruiting problems, again these things go hand in hand. No athlete, even many 2 and 3 star recruits, would want to go there to be surrounded by old people, many of whom have no understanding of American football. Also, again Ga Tech is overwhelmingly male, so for many that alone is just not gonna cut it.
Love it. Death Star.
Auburn w the latest 4 guys into the portal w 3-4 Ark (-3.5) in town saturday in a must win.
Guys getting an early start on the upcoming house cleaning ?
https://247sports.com/Season/2023-Football/TransferPortal/
“With Diamond’s and King’s decisions, that makes nine of Auburn’s 18 signees in the 2021 class gone, including five of the top 10 prospects in that haul.”
https://247sports.com/Article/ad-diamond-auburn-football-196173472/
" Harsin was denying redshirts for players without medical reasoning. According to the report, the second-year coach told players to either “quit the football program or enter the transfer portal.”