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northgajacket said:
Well for one thing you can do what Ross did and basically assure them they would more than likely play immediately (would not necessarily work on the top 10, but you could probably grab some better talent). Another thing is to actually adopt a mindset of winning, no recruit wants to play at a place where the fan base is happy with mediocrity and doesn't want a winning culture. I never said it would be easy and yes Tech would still lose some. Also I think the fanbase tends to not hold those accountable who are not trying to create a winning culture. The fact that there are fans who are content with 50th ranked recruiting classes is a little disheartning. The fact that fans want to take Braine's words as gospel instead of calling him out shows that some are happy with the way it is.
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We play true freshmen a lot.

Dedrick Mills. Bruce Jordan-swilling. Jaquan Henderson. Roof. Antwan Owens. Parker Braun. Will Bryan. I could go on and on so that part of your argument is flawed.
 
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Scubapro said:
I don't think PJ uses the academic rigors as a crutch...he has stated that the limited offering of Majors is an issue. If I had to guess the lack of a education major would be a problem since many of these kids want to coach after football.
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Absolutely. There is no reason at all GT can't offer an education major with a STEM focus. It's a high demand field and the state needs more qualified STEM educators. BOR would have a hard time denying that application.
 
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LargeFO said:
We play true freshmen a lot.

Dedrick Mills. Bruce Jordan-swilling. Jaquan Henderson. Roof. Antwan Owens. Parker Braun. Will Bryan. I could go on and on so that part of your argument is flawed.
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How many of those were at least 4 stars? Every team plays true freshman, it is not 1971. It is easy to get the players to play for you when their other offers are Louisiana-Lafayette and Bethune- Cookman.
 
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WreckinGT said:
What am I as a fan supposed to do, aside from calling for my coaches head, to prove that I don't accept mediocrity?
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Well for one thing, you could donate so that the AA has more to work with instead of working with a shoestring budget. Look at other places at what happens when it becomes mediocre, the boosters say something.
 
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CHE90 said:
Yeah you did state what the AD said. You also stated CPJ uses it as a crutch every week.
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Um yeah I did. Let me guess you're gonna say how tired you are of me and my whining. I don't care. I look at it as not being content
 
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AE 87 said:
People, we complain about a lack of a fan base, but when we get an obviously young, preteen, passionate fan on here, he gets blasted. We should be glad that @jacob cares so much. He wants to be the "say whatever I want kid," and we should respect that.
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Why are you so obsessed with calling me a kid? I'm not a kid. What are you like 85 years old and get mad when people get tired of the norm around here?
 
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northgajacket said:
Sorry, but my take is that CPJ seems to be alright with his recruiting. Heck I'm sure there is at least one 5-star who gives a **** about academics, just saying.
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There are absolutely some 5 stars who care about academics. But not many. And, of those, the ones that are math/science oriented are even smaller. And, it is not like we are the only good school that plays football. There are a lot of highly regarded academic schools that play top level football we are competing with for those same recruits. And even ones like Michigan, Stanford, etc that have world class engineering programs. And it isn’t like Alabama, FSU, UGA, Clemson, etc aren’t also trying to recruit those same kids.

We can get more than we do. And I agree that recruiting is not this staff’s strongest attribute. But I fully believe they are doing their best and have goal to recruit as many good players as possible. That doesn’t make it easy, however, as shown by every single other Tech coach in the last 50+ years.
 
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