This is Part I in Engineering a Program, our series on explaining Georgia Tech’s athletic context to outsiders. If you’d like to read other parts of the series or get a primer on what the series is about, head to its homepage.
To properly understand the current realities of Georgia Tech as a whole — let alone that of the athletic program — it’s best to turn back the clock. Our modern concept of the Institute as an entity is simply an incomplete snapshot based on the last N years, and much like Rome, Tech wasn’t built in a day.