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<blockquote data-quote="SidewalkJacket" data-source="post: 38261" data-attributes="member: 546"><p><em><strong>Hope its ok to post this excerpt... Extremely relevant to all the recruiting talk that goes on here, and good news IMO!</strong></em></p><p> </p><p>Up until last year, Johnson said, he was permitted to have 20 percent of the signees fall below the school’s admissions standards so long as they met NCAA qualifying standards, signees termed by the program as exceptions.</p><p></p><p>“(Peterson) said, with the success we’ve had, he would give me more leeway if I thought guys could make it through,” Johnson said.</p><p>Johnson said that Peterson removed the 20 percent cap and gave him autonomy to offer scholarships to prospective players as long as they were NCAA qualifiers, which are a lower standard than Tech’s.</p><p>It is not a privilege that Johnson said he intends to abuse, if for no other reason than practicality.</p><p></p><p>“It would be really stupid for me to go sign 20 guys and they’re miserable because they can’t do the schoolwork, then they make you miserable and everybody around them miserable,” he said.</p><p>But the liberty has been freeing. Johnson and his staff believe they can gauge whether a high school player will have the drive to make it through Tech, regardless of his transcript and standardized test score. In the past, when those candidates fell below Tech’s admissions standards, it often meant they had to give up recruiting them.</p><p></p><p>“What happened was, you’d get the recruiting board and you would have them — exception, non-exception,” he said. “And you would have to make a choice on who you were recruiting. Because if you were going to take five (exceptions), well, as soon as you hit the five, (you couldn’t recruit any more) and now we don’t have to do that.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SidewalkJacket, post: 38261, member: 546"] [I][B]Hope its ok to post this excerpt... Extremely relevant to all the recruiting talk that goes on here, and good news IMO![/B][/I] Up until last year, Johnson said, he was permitted to have 20 percent of the signees fall below the school’s admissions standards so long as they met NCAA qualifying standards, signees termed by the program as exceptions. “(Peterson) said, with the success we’ve had, he would give me more leeway if I thought guys could make it through,” Johnson said. Johnson said that Peterson removed the 20 percent cap and gave him autonomy to offer scholarships to prospective players as long as they were NCAA qualifiers, which are a lower standard than Tech’s. It is not a privilege that Johnson said he intends to abuse, if for no other reason than practicality. “It would be really stupid for me to go sign 20 guys and they’re miserable because they can’t do the schoolwork, then they make you miserable and everybody around them miserable,” he said. But the liberty has been freeing. Johnson and his staff believe they can gauge whether a high school player will have the drive to make it through Tech, regardless of his transcript and standardized test score. In the past, when those candidates fell below Tech’s admissions standards, it often meant they had to give up recruiting them. “What happened was, you’d get the recruiting board and you would have them — exception, non-exception,” he said. “And you would have to make a choice on who you were recruiting. Because if you were going to take five (exceptions), well, as soon as you hit the five, (you couldn’t recruit any more) and now we don’t have to do that.” [/QUOTE]
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