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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 578248" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>No, you aren't. There's nothing wrong with wanting good football players and telling them - except the fact that it has a very low probabililty and Tashard and everyone here knows it - that he wants them to get into the NFL. What's wrong is to make the education the recruit gets a secondary consideration. Because I can guarantee you that this is not a secondary consideration for the <em>parents</em> of most recruits. And make no mistake about it: when you are recruiting young men, you are recruiting their parents as well as the athlete. One of Paul's strengths was that parents said - over and over again - that they felt they had left their sons in the hands of someone who would see to their future and see that they were educated. That's because he never made any bones about saying that the education the players got at Tech came first. (Not, mind, that he had much choice; The Hill saw to that.)</p><p></p><p>This is not to say that Tashard and the rest of the coaches don't have exactly the same concerns; I'm sure they do and that they emphasize the education the players can get at Tech as their main selling point. Indeed, they've said as much. Problem = statements like this give the lie to those assertions. That's why it disturbed me so much. The education Tech offers is perhaps the main reason young men and their parents will decide in our favor; we aren't a factory and aren't (pace some here) likely to ever be one. If the choice is about who gets into the NFL, we've lost to Ugag and Bammer already. If it's about your education <em>and</em> getting drafted, in that order, then we have a fighting chance.</p><p></p><p>Here endeth the lesson.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 578248, member: 265"] No, you aren't. There's nothing wrong with wanting good football players and telling them - except the fact that it has a very low probabililty and Tashard and everyone here knows it - that he wants them to get into the NFL. What's wrong is to make the education the recruit gets a secondary consideration. Because I can guarantee you that this is not a secondary consideration for the [I]parents[/I] of most recruits. And make no mistake about it: when you are recruiting young men, you are recruiting their parents as well as the athlete. One of Paul's strengths was that parents said - over and over again - that they felt they had left their sons in the hands of someone who would see to their future and see that they were educated. That's because he never made any bones about saying that the education the players got at Tech came first. (Not, mind, that he had much choice; The Hill saw to that.) This is not to say that Tashard and the rest of the coaches don't have exactly the same concerns; I'm sure they do and that they emphasize the education the players can get at Tech as their main selling point. Indeed, they've said as much. Problem = statements like this give the lie to those assertions. That's why it disturbed me so much. The education Tech offers is perhaps the main reason young men and their parents will decide in our favor; we aren't a factory and aren't (pace some here) likely to ever be one. If the choice is about who gets into the NFL, we've lost to Ugag and Bammer already. If it's about your education [I]and[/I] getting drafted, in that order, then we have a fighting chance. Here endeth the lesson. [/QUOTE]
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