No, I don't act like I'm the only one who took calculus. You act like nobody else can pass calculus. There's a very big difference. And guess what? I also attended other universities. And I understand extremely well what the differences are. I was also a tutor of football players while I was at GT AND I was a teaching assistant in which a football player or two (starters on a very good team) took part. You have incredibly low opinions of athletes. That's the problem. It's not that I'm delusional. You've bought the story that GT is too different, too limited, too small, too hard to be attractive to good athletes. But there are lots of good athletes out there and they play for lots of schools. And the can meet and exceed all the points you have made.
The difference between us is that I see opportunities to shoot for success. You see unassailable and unclimbable walls. You've been programmed to believe that there aren't many kids who want to be here. And in the last 11 years you've certainly had evidence that suggests that may be true. We didn't spend much money on recruiting and we didn't have much in the way of charisma coming from our head coach. He's a brilliant football man but he isn't the best salesman in the world. Not a knock on him. He just isn't. And when you combine that with the fact that our AA didn't give him the kind of support he needed to get to enough players who may be interested you have a recipe for declining talent levels. And that's what we saw. Had CPJ gotten for all the last 11 years the kind of infusion of funds that we are starting to see then he might have even been able to recruit better.
Yes, we have limitations. But the kids are out there who want the Ferrari of degrees, not the Chevy. And we need to do a better job of selling our program as the Ferrari. And we need to do a better job of finding those kids who want the Ferrari, can handle the Ferrari, and are willing to work hard enough to get it. They are out there.
