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<blockquote data-quote="Northeast Stinger" data-source="post: 289253" data-attributes="member: 1640"><p>I think your insight is valuable to this conversation.</p><p></p><p>It has been a couple of years maybe since I have waded into the Governor's Report Card on K12 public schools. My previous experience, after a lot of digging, was that approximately 80% of Georgia high school graduates are not college ready. As you point out, even a student with a good GPA may be missing in some area, whether language, writing skills or math, when it comes to being ready for college. </p><p></p><p>I have a theory which might be hard to test but it goes like this. Tech under CPJ has virtually all the pieces in place to compete at a high level year after year. The one thing that consistently holds the team back is a good DT or NG. It turns out that when it comes to getting the really good players at this position Tech is in the cross hairs of several mitigating circumstances. (1) Good defensive linemen are a rare commodity nation wide. (2) For some reason they often come from failing or under performing schools. (3) Those who might qualify to get into Tech have their pick of 40 or 50 schools. In which case they may want to be close to home or take the school that is least demanding on their time. (4) Schools like Ole Miss, Alabama, Auburn, and so forth, usually have a more attractive overall profile, at least from the perspective of a 17 year old. </p><p></p><p>At any rate, I am amazed that some Tech fans on this site don't take more seriously the academic challenges of a school like Tech to most public school students in the South.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northeast Stinger, post: 289253, member: 1640"] I think your insight is valuable to this conversation. It has been a couple of years maybe since I have waded into the Governor's Report Card on K12 public schools. My previous experience, after a lot of digging, was that approximately 80% of Georgia high school graduates are not college ready. As you point out, even a student with a good GPA may be missing in some area, whether language, writing skills or math, when it comes to being ready for college. I have a theory which might be hard to test but it goes like this. Tech under CPJ has virtually all the pieces in place to compete at a high level year after year. The one thing that consistently holds the team back is a good DT or NG. It turns out that when it comes to getting the really good players at this position Tech is in the cross hairs of several mitigating circumstances. (1) Good defensive linemen are a rare commodity nation wide. (2) For some reason they often come from failing or under performing schools. (3) Those who might qualify to get into Tech have their pick of 40 or 50 schools. In which case they may want to be close to home or take the school that is least demanding on their time. (4) Schools like Ole Miss, Alabama, Auburn, and so forth, usually have a more attractive overall profile, at least from the perspective of a 17 year old. At any rate, I am amazed that some Tech fans on this site don't take more seriously the academic challenges of a school like Tech to most public school students in the South. [/QUOTE]
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