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Why do we expect to beat the "big 4?"
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<blockquote data-quote="CLHarperJackt" data-source="post: 44897" data-attributes="member: 689"><p>I expect to beat them because I expect us to be recruiting much better than we currently are. </p><p></p><p></p><p>I have never understood the strategy that many fans and some new incoming coming coaches have had with focusing Georgia Tech’s recruiting efforts on the state of Georgia.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I know Georgia has a lot of football talent. However, Georgia Tech is an engineering school with a limited curriculum, and I would think that it would be obvious to the most casual observer that in order to obtain enough talented football players, who are interested in the limited majors, then you cannot place an inordinate amount of your recruiting focus and effort on the state of Georgia if you wish to field a competitive football team. I am by no means a recruiting guru but I did realized this basic fact as a kid when I first began following Georgia and Georgia Tech football: Georgia Tech needs to be much more far reaching in its recruiting efforts to be successful than Georgia.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Since I have been following Georgia Tech I witnessed, two head coaches, Bobby Ross and George O’Leary, who understood this coming in and recruited up and down the east coast and southeast, and two head coaches, Gailey and Johnson, who, to my chagrin, did not but expressed how they intended to focus their recruiting efforts primarily on Georgia because of all the football talent in the state. (I don’t recall what was Lewis’ recruiting strategy focus.)</p><p></p><p></p><p>I understand that the admission requirements that Ross and O’Leary operated under have gone up and that it was and is tougher for Johnson to get athletes accepted. But to me that is all the more reason that he and the fans should have known that focusing your recruiting efforts on a single state, or even a small group of states, at an elite and rigorous institution with a limited curriculum is playing against the odds. This aspect of being the head coach at Georgia Tech is not something that I believe any new coach should have to learn on the job. He should obviously realize it coming into the job. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Thankfully the new AD seems to realize as much coming in and has redirected the recruiting focus, and hopefully we can somehow stay afloat until the new recruiting focus bears fruit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CLHarperJackt, post: 44897, member: 689"] I expect to beat them because I expect us to be recruiting much better than we currently are. I have never understood the strategy that many fans and some new incoming coming coaches have had with focusing Georgia Tech’s recruiting efforts on the state of Georgia. I know Georgia has a lot of football talent. However, Georgia Tech is an engineering school with a limited curriculum, and I would think that it would be obvious to the most casual observer that in order to obtain enough talented football players, who are interested in the limited majors, then you cannot place an inordinate amount of your recruiting focus and effort on the state of Georgia if you wish to field a competitive football team. I am by no means a recruiting guru but I did realized this basic fact as a kid when I first began following Georgia and Georgia Tech football: Georgia Tech needs to be much more far reaching in its recruiting efforts to be successful than Georgia. Since I have been following Georgia Tech I witnessed, two head coaches, Bobby Ross and George O’Leary, who understood this coming in and recruited up and down the east coast and southeast, and two head coaches, Gailey and Johnson, who, to my chagrin, did not but expressed how they intended to focus their recruiting efforts primarily on Georgia because of all the football talent in the state. (I don’t recall what was Lewis’ recruiting strategy focus.) I understand that the admission requirements that Ross and O’Leary operated under have gone up and that it was and is tougher for Johnson to get athletes accepted. But to me that is all the more reason that he and the fans should have known that focusing your recruiting efforts on a single state, or even a small group of states, at an elite and rigorous institution with a limited curriculum is playing against the odds. This aspect of being the head coach at Georgia Tech is not something that I believe any new coach should have to learn on the job. He should obviously realize it coming into the job. Thankfully the new AD seems to realize as much coming in and has redirected the recruiting focus, and hopefully we can somehow stay afloat until the new recruiting focus bears fruit. [/QUOTE]
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