Hope sometime very soon we at least get started getting "seen" in suburbs around a few more major cities.
I was wondering that too. I also thought that others on this site have done the math each year and we actually end up as close to the NCAA roster limit of scholarship players (from offers) as any of our competitors, such as Clemson. I am always amazed that with all the variables Tech is able to cut it as close as they are.
Teams like UGA have over 20 college students working in the football office writing letters, making flyers , breaking film down by positions, creating media twitter post, etc. When Will was being recruited he would get 5 to 20 letters/flyers a day in the mailbox from schools. The only ones written by a real coach were the ones from GT. Other schools have students writing and signing the coaches names. GT coaches write their own, they do not have the support staff other schools have. GT has to have the smallest recruiting staff support in D1 football. GT does not have to talk kids into coming here, most players who want GT are mature and smart enough to get it. My point is that GT needs the additional support staff numbers in media and recruiting to cast a larger net to find more of the Student Athletes that are looking for the combination of Education and Football that GT offers. GT I believe with more resources could have commitments wrapped early every year. Will committed in Aug before his Jr year. Its not a hard choice when you get the facts. It did help that Will had already visited Aub, Kentucky, Clemson, UGA, Furman,USC,Tenn,and Ga Southern when we were traveling watching Justin play baseball. He already had a good ideal about what he wanted. For Will GT was the first girl standing at the bar ,she was a 10, so he did not see any reason to wait around until closing time.
Could not agree more. Players like Will are rare and rarer still in our geographic footprint. However, it has always been my impression that recruiting is primarily about relationships. Coaches with long established close contacts in high schools are necessary.
This is what I have been saying for a while, probably not as well as you just did. Well said. We need to turn over more stones. The right kids are out there. We just need to apply enoughed pointed resources to find them and get them interested.
Then why did we fire the other guy who could recruit. I'll tell you why, because guys like you think they know more than the coaches. You have it all figured out although you've never been in a position where your plan was what counted sink or swim. You haven't had the responsibility that goes along with having "the plan." Nobody has recruited consistently at Tech since I've been watching sinçe Dodd. Thing's changed. We will never recruit consistently unless something else changes besides the coach. Yes, I think It's an unbelievable coaching job anytime we win 11 games at Tech and beat Georgia. But If you think someone else can come in here without anything else changing and do better you're wrong.
The OL has talented players, just most are young. Normally at this level it takes OL until their Redshirt Soph years to contribute. GT does not have that luxury due to the number of upperclass OL who have left the program for various reasons. GT does need to add to the numbers. It seems that they have lost more upperclassmen than normal over the past two years . GT needs to load up on OL every year JMO.
I agree and think it's true even if you brought back guys who were successful in the past like Ross and O'Leary. Recruiting parameters are not the same as in those days.
Yes he did. I heard it also. It's just goes to show that those guys pay little attention to us and won't until we stay consistent in accumulating 7+ wins a year. Consistency is the only thing that will get us more attention.
Some will think you are being cynical but I think you are absolutely right. Tech has not gotten equal reporting in over 50 years and I do not see that changing.
