(04-09-2013 12:10 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  

(04-06-2013 12:58 PM)BruceMcF Wrote:  

(04-05-2013 06:19 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  ... I do think that their prestige has benefited a lot from their Computer Science program, and that's a relatively new thing.

They owe the bulk of their prestige to their engineering school. That's the reason that Purdue are pushing the Georgia Tech case inside the Big Ten.

And when was there a situation of there being any question whether GTech was "good enough" academically for the SEC. Who other than Vandy would have been competitive in academic prestige with GTech at the time that they left the SEC in part because of the academic taint of being football factories?

In answer to your last two questions :

Plenty of schools didn't have the academic prestige (or, at least, the size) to get into the SEC back then. FSU, ECU, and USM were all perceived as beneath the SEC... FSU was a women's college from about 1890 - 1955. GT was not.

I wasn't talking about the 1930's when GTech was included as a charter member, I was referring to the 1960's, when GTech left.

Quote: Also, Tulane was in the SEC back then.

Tulane left shortly after GTech left, 1966 rather than 1964, so I wouldn't be surprised if the two schools left for similar reasons.

Quote: You may look at the SEC as a bunch of football factories, but I still maintain that being able to get into the SEC back in the 1950s says something about a school's academics.

I was referring to GTECH's concerns about too many of the SEC schools becoming football factories, when it left in the 1960's.

Since nobody joined the SEC in the 1950's, I guess nobody not in the SEC was "good enough".