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<blockquote data-quote="Vespidae" data-source="post: 913896" data-attributes="member: 2957"><p>I was talking to one of my students yesterday, a starter at Auburn (who made a monster play in the game!), about recruiting. What do you think of Kirby?", I asked. "Kirby Smart is a damn good recruiter", he said. "He almost got me. It's very very hard to say no to Kirby." Of course, he signed with Auburn instead. </p><p></p><p>"Tech", I asked? He mumbled something along the lines of "it was the guy before the guy who got fired". And? "Tech is just not a factor. There's football and there's football. I want to play football. It's just not a serious thing at Tech. Here, Athens, Tuscaloosa ... that's serious football. That's the League."</p><p></p><p>I don't think it is about high schools and coaches "liking Tech". We offer a different product. Dodd's time was still the SEC (mostly) and players like Bill Curry graduated and went to the NFL. Tech in 1960 was Alabama today. The Dallas Cowboys modeled their uniforms after Tech. It's a totally different environment today. We generate less media interest today than before. We schedule opponents that for the most part, have no connection recruiting wise, to the area. There's movement of coaches and staff across the SEC ... but almost never to Tech. </p><p></p><p>It's as if we unplugged ourselves and are complaining about the lack of electricity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vespidae, post: 913896, member: 2957"] I was talking to one of my students yesterday, a starter at Auburn (who made a monster play in the game!), about recruiting. What do you think of Kirby?", I asked. "Kirby Smart is a damn good recruiter", he said. "He almost got me. It's very very hard to say no to Kirby." Of course, he signed with Auburn instead. "Tech", I asked? He mumbled something along the lines of "it was the guy before the guy who got fired". And? "Tech is just not a factor. There's football and there's football. I want to play football. It's just not a serious thing at Tech. Here, Athens, Tuscaloosa ... that's serious football. That's the League." I don't think it is about high schools and coaches "liking Tech". We offer a different product. Dodd's time was still the SEC (mostly) and players like Bill Curry graduated and went to the NFL. Tech in 1960 was Alabama today. The Dallas Cowboys modeled their uniforms after Tech. It's a totally different environment today. We generate less media interest today than before. We schedule opponents that for the most part, have no connection recruiting wise, to the area. There's movement of coaches and staff across the SEC ... but almost never to Tech. It's as if we unplugged ourselves and are complaining about the lack of electricity. [/QUOTE]
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