Skeptic
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Restaurant chains spend millions of dollars in market studies every year with one goal in mind: where to place their next restaurant. Not only which town or state, but where in those towns exactly. The point being that unless one is willing to add the liberal arts program in all its manifestations -- Virginia, Stanford being wonderful examples, Georgia even -- to give recruits this huge selection of career paths and academic majors, it won't work at all. Add five? Six? What? Adding a Chinese restaurant won't get it if the partial answer is Texas Steakhouse, or Olive Garden, or whatever qualifies. GT is not going there, with or without the board of regents. And stop and think: assuming they suddenly agreed that by golly this was the way of the future -- though up in my part of the country, NC, they apparently have decided education pretty much is elitist and what kids really need to know is how to fix a fuel injector, whether they want to or not -- how long do you think it would take? Ten years? Twenty years? It would be a massive undertaking.I don't think winning trumps academics but it does seem like the GT administration needs to make some changes to put us in a better position to recruit 4 and 5 star players. The obvious things are add more majors but I hear the board of regents which is controlled by dwags will not let this happen I have no idea if this is true. The other hurdle I hear a lot about in recruiting is the calculus requirement..... Is there anyway to drop this requirement? Virginia is a really good academic school and they are able to recruit 4 and 5 star guys so is Stanford and many others. I would love to see what CPJ could do with a team that had 8 or 9 4 star recruits and a couple 5 star guys. GT has never had one 5 star recruit Alabama has 18 on there roster right now and the dwags have 8 we need to do something to close that gap.
I'd like to see Johnson with those recruits myself. He's just not going to get them at Tech. (And the current AD, Bobinski, sounded like the village idiot when upon being hired he said the academics should not affect recruiting. Sounded like a man just out from under a manhole cover or the Ivy League.) So, nail things back together, coach 'em up, and compete with the big boys with what he has. I haven't heard him complain.