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GT1992

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TechTravis said:
Every time someone brings up Stanford, Duke, Vandy, or Northwestern as examples of how "smart schools" do it, I feel obligated to point out that just because a kid is smart, doesnt mean he likes math. BIG difference. Lack of majors hurts worse than academic standard.

In regards to the DT situation, there are so many hours in the day. You can't spend all your time recruiting kids who either don't want to be here or have no shot of getting in. Henderson and Glanton are both gonna be big time players, I think. Sellers may end up putting on enough weight to be a DT. GT is never going to have busloads of knuckle dragging defensive linemen on campus, so I think what the staff has to do is identify potential DL with interest earlier. Get to them in 8th or 9th grade. Help them on their path academically. I also think we should seek a formal relationship with Georgia Military College, a juco in the Atlanta area that offers lots of transferable credits for GT athletes. That might help us find some kids who didnt do quite well enough to get in, but want to be here.
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GMC is doggie pipeline. To my knowledge, we have a total of one player from there and he isn't sniffing the field despite being an NC State recruit.
 

takethepoints

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About the only thing I can think of that might help big time with our problem in recruiting DTs is more emphasis on places overseas that play football. I'm thinking her of the Pacific Islands. Lots of teams on the West Coast have DLs from Polynesia. Those people are unholy big and have a warrior tradition that works with the game. Wish we could get some of them to go along with and Aussie strain like Gotsis.

Anecdote: one of my friends here was a grad student in philosophy at Basel in Switzerland. He got a work study job as a janitor. His new partner was a member of the ruling family in Tonga. This guy was 6' 9" tall and weighed - wait for it - 430 lbs. Every bit of it muscle. He was a rugby player to boot. My friend said it was like walking around with a moving, talking mountain. We need one of those.
 

Skeptic

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takethepoints said:
About the only thing I can think of that might help big time with our problem in recruiting DTs is more emphasis on places overseas that play football. I'm thinking her of the Pacific Islands. Lots of teams on the West Coast have DLs from Polynesia. Those people are unholy big and have a warrior tradition that works with the game. Wish we could get some of them to go along with and Aussie strain like Gotsis.

Anecdote: one of my friends here was a grad student in philosophy at Basel in Switzerland. He got a work study job as a janitor. His new partner was a member of the ruling family in Tonga. This guy was 6' 9" tall and weighed - wait for it - 430 lbs. Every bit of it muscle. He was a rugby player to boot. My friend said it was like walking around with a moving, talking mountain. We need one of those.
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As long as you're dreaming, go for two of those.
 
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