[RayChuang88]

I tell them I went to Tech so I could be properly educated and be gainfully employed.

i.e., you went to one of few really good universities in that state that is not ridiculously infatuated with football.

[abb]

I agree.

I covered a political event several years ago for my newsblog and ran into the Prez there. Told him a Tech diploma was good for nothing but a job. His comment was he would have to write that one down and remember it.

You have to know, though, there is a sizeable contingent of Tech alum and fans who pine for an all-consuming football powerhouse, to the exclusion of academics, or anything else.

IMHO, intercollegiate athletics should be done away with, so higher ed can focus on its primary mission - educating future productive, working citizens.