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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce Wayne" data-source="post: 92323" data-attributes="member: 231"><p>Strong academics is never an "excuse" it is a point of pride. It is Tech's strength. However, of course it is a <em>challenge </em>in recruiting and continuity of success in athletic programs. </p><p></p><p>I think coaching stability at Tech is more valuable than other schools because Tech really has to groom/recruit kids from very early on in high school since they have to take the right combinations of courses to even have a chance of applying and qualifying to Tech (or of even being taken as some kind of "exception"). Also, Tech frequently faces Junior Gnonkonde kinds of situations where all the attention and recruiting in the world by Tech coaches cannot overcome high schools and high school systems and coaches who have already failed the students under their charge. Finally, Tech cannot rely on a system of bagmen either like the factories because of the first two points. Even if it just came down to payola for 4-5 star recruits those kids still would have to have been willing to be prepped to get themselves in a position to accept a Tech scholarship offer by having taken the right kind and numbers of high school courses at a high school that also took serious the education of its student-athletes. So many high schools, especially in the south, simply do not do that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce Wayne, post: 92323, member: 231"] Strong academics is never an "excuse" it is a point of pride. It is Tech's strength. However, of course it is a [I]challenge [/I]in recruiting and continuity of success in athletic programs. I think coaching stability at Tech is more valuable than other schools because Tech really has to groom/recruit kids from very early on in high school since they have to take the right combinations of courses to even have a chance of applying and qualifying to Tech (or of even being taken as some kind of "exception"). Also, Tech frequently faces Junior Gnonkonde kinds of situations where all the attention and recruiting in the world by Tech coaches cannot overcome high schools and high school systems and coaches who have already failed the students under their charge. Finally, Tech cannot rely on a system of bagmen either like the factories because of the first two points. Even if it just came down to payola for 4-5 star recruits those kids still would have to have been willing to be prepped to get themselves in a position to accept a Tech scholarship offer by having taken the right kind and numbers of high school courses at a high school that also took serious the education of its student-athletes. So many high schools, especially in the south, simply do not do that. [/QUOTE]
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