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<blockquote data-quote="bobongo" data-source="post: 460855" data-attributes="member: 3893"><p>The reason money hasn't helped is because we haven't spent it where it could do the most to help, namely the recruiting budget. We need to go national with our recruiting and target athletically gifted smart kids with a bent toward science, technology, engineering, and math. We have to turn the liability of being the only top 25 STEM school in a power 5 conference into an asset. I know I've harped on this before, but I'll do it again because it is what we need to do in order to improve our situation. We are NOT going to do that by recruiting in our back yard against all the football factories that surround us in a state with such academically weak high schools. Nine out of the last 10 college football national champions have come from states bordering Georgia. And here we sit right in the middle of them with our high academic standards and limited curriculum.</p><p></p><p>If we don't get out of our back yard and start recruiting nationally, we are going to stay trapped in our vortex of mediocrity. If we do get out of our back yard, we have a chance to dramatically improve our situation. And as the only power 5 school among the top 25 STEM schools, we have an excellent chance to do that. We have to turn that into an asset. And to do that we need to spend dramatically more on recruiting even if it means cutting back on our other projects. And I have no idea why we haven't already done it. Maybe we need to change coaches and maybe we don't, but it's like debating whether we need a new arrangement of the deck chairs on the Titanic while what we need to be doing is figuring out how to fix that hole in the hull.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobongo, post: 460855, member: 3893"] The reason money hasn't helped is because we haven't spent it where it could do the most to help, namely the recruiting budget. We need to go national with our recruiting and target athletically gifted smart kids with a bent toward science, technology, engineering, and math. We have to turn the liability of being the only top 25 STEM school in a power 5 conference into an asset. I know I've harped on this before, but I'll do it again because it is what we need to do in order to improve our situation. We are NOT going to do that by recruiting in our back yard against all the football factories that surround us in a state with such academically weak high schools. Nine out of the last 10 college football national champions have come from states bordering Georgia. And here we sit right in the middle of them with our high academic standards and limited curriculum. If we don't get out of our back yard and start recruiting nationally, we are going to stay trapped in our vortex of mediocrity. If we do get out of our back yard, we have a chance to dramatically improve our situation. And as the only power 5 school among the top 25 STEM schools, we have an excellent chance to do that. We have to turn that into an asset. And to do that we need to spend dramatically more on recruiting even if it means cutting back on our other projects. And I have no idea why we haven't already done it. Maybe we need to change coaches and maybe we don't, but it's like debating whether we need a new arrangement of the deck chairs on the Titanic while what we need to be doing is figuring out how to fix that hole in the hull. [/QUOTE]
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