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<blockquote data-quote="Vespidae" data-source="post: 754179" data-attributes="member: 2957"><p>Sunday mornings are always a good time for reflection. So, I was thinking ... "<strong>What is Geoff Collins Game Plan for Tech</strong>?"</p><p></p><p>We're heard about his great recruiting, branding, etc. We haven't heard so much about winning games. </p><p></p><p>I'll paraphrase a few comments to put some perspective in it:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Recruiting in college athletics is a tough business</strong>. Georgia Tech is one of the leaders in making the availability for brand-building opportunities to their student athletes. Tech hired JIS Creative and Darlow to help deploy this. (Note: Geoff is not a branding genius. He's identified a trend and hired the right resources.) JIS handles team branding and Darlow is helping SA's develop their personal marketing and branding. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>The main theory is to help student-athletes prioritize their earnings potential.</strong> Doing so will help drive recruiting. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>The challenge is that other P5 schools do this really well.</strong> And that a school like Alabama ... 55% of their 5-stars are first round draft picks ... twice that of any other school. Development of players into NFL-ready is driving recruiting like no other and Alabama is the best at this with Clemson a close second. It drops like a rock after that. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">So ... for Tech to help kids maximize earnings potential, they have to recruit 3-stars and 4-stars and excel at developing them into NFL-ready. Hence, the focus on development. (TStan has stated this.)</li> </ul><p>No where, is it discussed, the goal is actually winning games. We have to take it at face value that by developing earnings potential, we will recruit better (over time), and then ... wins will come. </p><p></p><p>So ... my theory is ... we won't know if this is working until Tech starts to place kids into NFL contracts and can demonstrate that all of this actually works. Which will take 5-7 years. </p><p></p><p>That's the gamble.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vespidae, post: 754179, member: 2957"] Sunday mornings are always a good time for reflection. So, I was thinking ... "[B]What is Geoff Collins Game Plan for Tech[/B]?" We're heard about his great recruiting, branding, etc. We haven't heard so much about winning games. I'll paraphrase a few comments to put some perspective in it: [LIST] [*][B]Recruiting in college athletics is a tough business[/B]. Georgia Tech is one of the leaders in making the availability for brand-building opportunities to their student athletes. Tech hired JIS Creative and Darlow to help deploy this. (Note: Geoff is not a branding genius. He's identified a trend and hired the right resources.) JIS handles team branding and Darlow is helping SA's develop their personal marketing and branding. [*][B]The main theory is to help student-athletes prioritize their earnings potential.[/B] Doing so will help drive recruiting. [*][B]The challenge is that other P5 schools do this really well.[/B] And that a school like Alabama ... 55% of their 5-stars are first round draft picks ... twice that of any other school. Development of players into NFL-ready is driving recruiting like no other and Alabama is the best at this with Clemson a close second. It drops like a rock after that. [*]So ... for Tech to help kids maximize earnings potential, they have to recruit 3-stars and 4-stars and excel at developing them into NFL-ready. Hence, the focus on development. (TStan has stated this.) [/LIST] No where, is it discussed, the goal is actually winning games. We have to take it at face value that by developing earnings potential, we will recruit better (over time), and then ... wins will come. So ... my theory is ... we won't know if this is working until Tech starts to place kids into NFL contracts and can demonstrate that all of this actually works. Which will take 5-7 years. That's the gamble. [/QUOTE]
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