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<blockquote data-quote="Foxyg" data-source="post: 289066" data-attributes="member: 1508"><p>The theme of his post rings true. The coolness factor, or lack thereof, isn't enough to make up for the dearth of majors offered and the reputation for the academic work load required of players. Some of that can be overcome by devoting more resources to finding "our kind of recruit" and some of it can be overcome with enhancing the brand through things like continued success, better uniform suppliers, better facilities, etc., but we'll never be UGA or Auburn given the somewhat limited scope of our majors. We're a world class engineering school that attempts to field a football team solely out of funneling our kids into our business school, which is above-average, but not world class. Our business school isn't so much better than other schools that recruits will view it as a deal breaker. So then we're left trying to beat programs in a head to head based upon things like a) social scene; b) success putting players in the NFL; c) success on the field, etc. </p><p></p><p>I've noticed that for kids we get late in the process, a lot of times we're the best football program that's offered them and they're coming here mostly for football reasons. Those are the kids that wind up transferring when they get here and don't have immediate success on the football field.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Foxyg, post: 289066, member: 1508"] The theme of his post rings true. The coolness factor, or lack thereof, isn't enough to make up for the dearth of majors offered and the reputation for the academic work load required of players. Some of that can be overcome by devoting more resources to finding "our kind of recruit" and some of it can be overcome with enhancing the brand through things like continued success, better uniform suppliers, better facilities, etc., but we'll never be UGA or Auburn given the somewhat limited scope of our majors. We're a world class engineering school that attempts to field a football team solely out of funneling our kids into our business school, which is above-average, but not world class. Our business school isn't so much better than other schools that recruits will view it as a deal breaker. So then we're left trying to beat programs in a head to head based upon things like a) social scene; b) success putting players in the NFL; c) success on the field, etc. I've noticed that for kids we get late in the process, a lot of times we're the best football program that's offered them and they're coming here mostly for football reasons. Those are the kids that wind up transferring when they get here and don't have immediate success on the football field. [/QUOTE]
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