Does the type of school we have determine if athletes come here?

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BY that I mean
1. If our institution doesn't seem like we offer a good education is that enough to drive their family away to another school?
2. If the admissions process is too hard is that considered a negative to recruits and their families?
3. If the faculty have a history of treating players bad does that effect decisions?

Just trying to check the climate of everything outside of the football program that can help or hurt our chances of getting back on track.
 
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Each case is different and each recruit has their own goals and expectations from a program. I am sure there are some cases where we do not offer (educationally or otherwise) what a recruit is looking for
 
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Well Tennessee has continued to get better educational wise. Through my time here, UT has always had renovations going on to increase the way we can learn. Anyways, we are a top 50 school so kids get a great education. I don't think the admissions process is hard at all, it was actually simple. Also, professors give way to student athletes but you are always going have professors who give you hard time. It's a 50/50
 
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I would say that only in a small % of cases those things make a difference but most of the time the kid we are recruiting are looking at what the FB program itself has to offer. Not that education is always a distant second its just that most of the schools we compete against in recruiting all have similar things to offer academically.
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Orange&White said:
Well Tennessee has continues to get better education wise. Through my time here, UT has always had renovations going on to increase the way we can learn. Always we are a top 50 school so kids get a great education. I don't think the admissions process is hard at all, it was actually simple. Also, professors give way to student athletes but you are always going have professors who give you hard time. It's a 50/50
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Well, I hope any recruit looking for a good academic school doesn't read this
 
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Okay, okay maybe I'm not taking advantage of my resources haha but in all seriousness I posted that going down I40, so Im impressed.
 
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Orange&White said:
Well Tennessee has continued to get better educational wise. Through my time here, UT has always had renovations going on to increase the way we can learn. Anyways, we are a top 50 school so kids get a great education. I don't think the admissions process is hard at all, it was actually simple. Also, professors give way to student athletes but you are always going have professors who give you hard time. It's a 50/50
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jefferson said:
Where'd you get your degree, hot shot? Kennesaw State?
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Actually I did get my MBA from there. Great school! One of the fastest-growing in the nation in the past 10 years. 3rd largest school in the state, hot shot. Where did you matriculate?
 
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UGADawg4Life said:
I wus did git a gud edumicachian at tha unyver.........univarr.........Tenucee. It amazes me what schools are turning out these days!
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Playing grammar police on a message board is really sad. As a fellow fan of an SEC school not named Vanderbilt, you have no room to talk.
 
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Well the fact we arent Penn State and didnt have Sandusky at least makes us more appealing than them.
 
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UGADawg4Life said:
Actually I did get my MBA from there. Great school! One of the fastest-growing in the nation in the past 10 years. 3rd largest school in the state, hot shot. Where did you matriculate?
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You know what they say, less selectivity means a better education.

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The type of school UT is allows them to compete in the SEC. Its not a Big 10 school that for sure. Any way you slice it the players needed to make UT a contender could care less about the type of school it is. To most parents a college education is a college education as long as its free. I'm sure UT lowers its standards to get some players in just like the rest of the SEC.
 
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Orange&White said:
Well Tennessee has continued to get better educational wise. Through my time here, UT has always had renovations going on to increase the way we can learn. Anyways, we are a top 50 school so kids get a great education. I don't think the admissions process is hard at all, it was actually simple. Also, professors give way to student athletes but you are always going have professors who give you hard time. It's a 50/50
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Trust me, I wish this were the case but it isn't. Not that I take this as gospel but USNews lists us at #101. Well below Auburn #82, Bama #75, Georgia #62, & Florida #58. Tennessee administrators need to get their crap together. There's no reason for UT to be in the bottom half of the SEC especially following the addition of ATM #58 and Missouri #90.
 
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Voldemonium said:
Trust me, I wish this were the case but it isn't. Not that I take this as gospel but USNews lists us at #101. Well below Auburn #82, Bama #75, Georgia #62, & Florida #58. Tennessee administrators need to get their crap together. There's no reason for UT to be in the bottom half of the SEC especially
following the addition of ATM #58 and Missouri #90.
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Were a top 50 public school
 
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UGADawg4Life said:
Actually I did get my MBA from there. Great school! One of the fastest-growing in the nation in the past 10 years. 3rd largest school in the state, hot shot. Where did you matriculate?
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Speed of growth and overall size of the university have nothing to do with the quality of education. In fact, that might actually indicate the inverse. If your assumption was correct then a little school called Harvard (for instance) would be considered less of a school than mighty "K-State". Harvard is not growing all that fast nor is it all that large, right? The education there must be terrible.

Community colleges and for profit schools are growing due to their ease of access and their desire to over-cater to the student. Believe me, the quality of the education is not a factor. I am not disparaging all of these institutions but I am disparaging your effort to equate growth and size with quality. They are not connected.

I would have assumed that somewhere hidden deep in your MBA they would have taught you simple things like "data analysis". But you know what they say about what happens when one assumes...
 
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