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<blockquote data-quote="Boaty1" data-source="post: 515993" data-attributes="member: 2631"><p>Thanks for the response. A couple of thoughts. For one I don't set my expectations for GT based off anything UGA does. Any comparison with them is apples to oranges on many levels. </p><p></p><p>As far as academic exceptions go I believe you are correct in GT is not taking as many as they used to. The question then goes to how much of an affect is this having on our recent classes? What percentage of recruits does this eliminate from consideration at GT? The fact is there are 39 4 or 5 star players in the state of Ga and 26 claim to have offers from us. A few of the 39 are drop back qb's that just wouldn't fit into Johnson's offense so we aren't sure of their academic status. Regardless, it appears we deemed roughly 2/3rds of this elite group of in state players to be qualified to handle the academic rigors at GT. Out of these 26 players we believe academically equipped we have zero commitments. While in the past we have never signed as many of these prospects as our larger competitors, we have signed these players at a higher percentage than the Johnson staff ever achieved. There are probably numerous factors for this but I am of the opinion that Johnson's offense and his personality were limiting factors in recruiting. </p><p></p><p>Our program has recruited better than what Johnson did. That is just a cold hard fact. We can debate the reasons why that was the case but we can't deny others before him recruited better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Boaty1, post: 515993, member: 2631"] Thanks for the response. A couple of thoughts. For one I don't set my expectations for GT based off anything UGA does. Any comparison with them is apples to oranges on many levels. As far as academic exceptions go I believe you are correct in GT is not taking as many as they used to. The question then goes to how much of an affect is this having on our recent classes? What percentage of recruits does this eliminate from consideration at GT? The fact is there are 39 4 or 5 star players in the state of Ga and 26 claim to have offers from us. A few of the 39 are drop back qb's that just wouldn't fit into Johnson's offense so we aren't sure of their academic status. Regardless, it appears we deemed roughly 2/3rds of this elite group of in state players to be qualified to handle the academic rigors at GT. Out of these 26 players we believe academically equipped we have zero commitments. While in the past we have never signed as many of these prospects as our larger competitors, we have signed these players at a higher percentage than the Johnson staff ever achieved. There are probably numerous factors for this but I am of the opinion that Johnson's offense and his personality were limiting factors in recruiting. Our program has recruited better than what Johnson did. That is just a cold hard fact. We can debate the reasons why that was the case but we can't deny others before him recruited better. [/QUOTE]
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