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<blockquote data-quote="Vespidae" data-source="post: 463594" data-attributes="member: 2957"><p>There are two sides to this. </p><p></p><p>First, historically, GT recruited the Atlanta metro heavily. In Dodd's day, he emphasized that to fill the stadium, you need kids within an hour of Atlanta so that on Saturdays ... friends and family would attend the games to see them play. Dominating high schools was the goal and you still see evidence of this with the naming of this school or that "Yellow Jackets". I know. Mine was one. Used the same logos and typeface as Tech. This has an added plus that Georgia/Alabama is the top recruiting ground in the nation. Both big plusses for recruiting heavily in Georgia. I wish we could dominate the state of Georgia in recruiting ....</p><p></p><p>But, we can't. While Georgia produces good athletes, the schools don't produce kids with the requisite math skills to attend Tech. This was true in the 1980's when I attended and it's still true today. Of the students I attended Tech with .... 80% of those who dropped out were from Georgia. Why? They couldn't handle the academics. I don't know the statistics today, but I'll bet the Hill knows. And that's useful for a recruiting strategy. </p><p></p><p>Moreover, we don't need a national recruiting strategy. We need a targeted recruiting strategy. The best players in the country come from a very small number of metro areas. We need to focus our attention not on Texas (too much to cover) but specifically, Dallas County. And fourteen more in cities like LA, Pittsburgh, (yes, Atlanta), etc. That does not require 40 recruiters and would be a novel approach compared to others. Data mining helps. I ran a data mining operation for a Fortune 50 company and staffed it with 100 analysts in India for a fraction of what it costs to do it here. Why Tech doesn't set up something similar is beyond me. The fact is Tech is suited to play Moneyball. We just don't. I wish we would. </p><p></p><p>These are problems most businesses have faced for decades. I think it's solvable. But you can't solve today's problems with yesterday's methods.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vespidae, post: 463594, member: 2957"] There are two sides to this. First, historically, GT recruited the Atlanta metro heavily. In Dodd's day, he emphasized that to fill the stadium, you need kids within an hour of Atlanta so that on Saturdays ... friends and family would attend the games to see them play. Dominating high schools was the goal and you still see evidence of this with the naming of this school or that "Yellow Jackets". I know. Mine was one. Used the same logos and typeface as Tech. This has an added plus that Georgia/Alabama is the top recruiting ground in the nation. Both big plusses for recruiting heavily in Georgia. I wish we could dominate the state of Georgia in recruiting .... But, we can't. While Georgia produces good athletes, the schools don't produce kids with the requisite math skills to attend Tech. This was true in the 1980's when I attended and it's still true today. Of the students I attended Tech with .... 80% of those who dropped out were from Georgia. Why? They couldn't handle the academics. I don't know the statistics today, but I'll bet the Hill knows. And that's useful for a recruiting strategy. Moreover, we don't need a national recruiting strategy. We need a targeted recruiting strategy. The best players in the country come from a very small number of metro areas. We need to focus our attention not on Texas (too much to cover) but specifically, Dallas County. And fourteen more in cities like LA, Pittsburgh, (yes, Atlanta), etc. That does not require 40 recruiters and would be a novel approach compared to others. Data mining helps. I ran a data mining operation for a Fortune 50 company and staffed it with 100 analysts in India for a fraction of what it costs to do it here. Why Tech doesn't set up something similar is beyond me. The fact is Tech is suited to play Moneyball. We just don't. I wish we would. These are problems most businesses have faced for decades. I think it's solvable. But you can't solve today's problems with yesterday's methods. [/QUOTE]
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