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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 877392" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>This is roughly the same, imho, of saying that there is no constituency for <em>winning</em>. If I may:</p><p></p><p>• Tech is now after the same players as everyone else and "preparing for the NFL" is, I agree, at the bottom of that choice. Problem = we recruited good talent that went to the NFL just this year - Mason,Thomas, Swilling, Howard, Carpenter - using the TO. The league is famous for signing talent, not numbers. We had our share who got a chance; indeed, about the same as we see now, though that may change in future. And we won consistently with these players.</p><p></p><p>• There is a vast pool of high school talent out there that we tap into less consistently now, again imho. When Paul's teams had senior day, the theme for the players was usually to thank him for "goofing me a chance". The spread option was almost uniquely suited to exploit players with absolutely lights out high school careers - Wright, Godhigh(!), Zenon, Peeples, Shaq Mason - who didn't get a nod from schools looking to "prepare players for the NFL. And we won consistently with those players.</p><p></p><p>I agree that we will not bring back the spread option - though I, for one, would be glad if we did - but we need to start thinking about coaches with O schemes that will let us win with the players we can get into Tech and keep there and quit thinking about "preparing players for the NFL". We won consistently that way in the recent past. If we do that and, of course, win, we'll get our share of NFL players.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 877392, member: 265"] This is roughly the same, imho, of saying that there is no constituency for [I]winning[/I]. If I may: • Tech is now after the same players as everyone else and "preparing for the NFL" is, I agree, at the bottom of that choice. Problem = we recruited good talent that went to the NFL just this year - Mason,Thomas, Swilling, Howard, Carpenter - using the TO. The league is famous for signing talent, not numbers. We had our share who got a chance; indeed, about the same as we see now, though that may change in future. And we won consistently with these players. • There is a vast pool of high school talent out there that we tap into less consistently now, again imho. When Paul's teams had senior day, the theme for the players was usually to thank him for "goofing me a chance". The spread option was almost uniquely suited to exploit players with absolutely lights out high school careers - Wright, Godhigh(!), Zenon, Peeples, Shaq Mason - who didn't get a nod from schools looking to "prepare players for the NFL. And we won consistently with those players. I agree that we will not bring back the spread option - though I, for one, would be glad if we did - but we need to start thinking about coaches with O schemes that will let us win with the players we can get into Tech and keep there and quit thinking about "preparing players for the NFL". We won consistently that way in the recent past. If we do that and, of course, win, we'll get our share of NFL players. [/QUOTE]
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