More head in the sand by the resident Troll.
no head in the sand
I simply believe that GT FB should recruit equal to or better than these teams
ND
Stanford
Michigan
Penn St
UCLA
Cal
NW
Purdue
Vandy
U-Dub
Dook
UVa
For those that think I have my head in the sand, maybe my detractors should update their outdated from-the-80s info about CFB recruiting & academics
For example:
GT has been ranked by US News & World Report (USNWR) ever since they started doing rankings, GT has always been ranked between 25 & 40, BTW we are ranked 35 in the most recent rankings for 2019
In that same time frame, UGA, which was once ranked in the high 90s, 97 or whatever, has steadily climbed the USNWR rankings and are now ranked
#46 overall, within spitting distance of our cherished, academically elite GT
This is how this impacts recruiting, now UGA coaches, Kirby for example can legitimately sit in a Recruit's living room and pull out reprints from that Magazine that shows that UGA is also an "elite academic school in the Top50 just like GT", for FB players with strong academics that never wanted to major in CompSci-Engr-Arch anyway, this could easily tilt things in UGAs favor
If I were a UGA coach and had
my best salesmen's hat on, I'd tell that Recruit and his parents, "hey, there are more than 2000 colleges that offer bachelor's degrees, and based on what your son wants to major in, 11 slots outta 2000 ain't gonna limit his career options when he graduates from UGA, and we've got the tiebreaker of much better FB in a Conf. that all the experts think is better, can I get you to sign during early signing....."
Other coaches & schools don't have to have academics = to GT's,
they just have to have academics that are "close enough" to GT's
Given these facts that other coaches have at their disposal, you guys are the one that has their head in the sand, everyone has some glowing report to woo parents that their school has great academics, GT's old, outdated recruiting pitch of "it's a 40yr. decision, blah blah blah" no longer has the impact it had during the days of Dodd.
USNWR has a website for those that like to name call
I guess one major disconnect between
common sense folks like myself and my detractors is that I understand that we are recruiting FB PLAYERS,
whereas many of you guys act as if we are recruiting ENGINEERS who happen to play FB.
Those 2 groups aren't the same and rarely do those 2 groups intersect, we ain't recruiting engineers that happen to play FB folks
