You are living in la-la land. “Academic eligibility “ is non-existent at all SEC schools and has been forever. What we’re talking about is paying players and their families. If you think all those 5-star players that sit in the bench at UGA and Bama when they could be starting at Texas, Oklahoma, Florida and other schools just because they want to play for Bama and Georgia, I’ve got swamp land I’ll sell you. The idea that it is OK to pay players has become so common at Bama that Jeremy Pruitt thought he could get away with it I just passing it out in the locker room in lunch sacks at Tennessee. The accusations were well publicized by a famous Georgia high school coach in the media last year. And unsurprisingly, absolutely nothing came from the NCAA. I don’t think there was even an investigation. The NCAA doesn’t care what goes on at The Factories. The NCAA too worried about jerseys and cotton T-shirts being mishandled by the Georgia Techs of the world and taking away their ACC championship banners.
I never hinted that Players don't get paid, in fact in multiple posts I have advocated in isolation that GT needs to create its own Network of Bagmen.
I was addressing the Academics issue only, a much larger percentage of the Players being Recruited in the 2010s and and later can Qualify for ND , Stanford, NW, BC, GT, Duke, and other school that had problems with Academic Qualifiers in the 70s and 80s, that was my only issue.
The Academics excuse is longer viable, because when we do find Elite 5* Academic Qualifiers GT's close rate on them has been miserable.
Example, Myles Murphy from Hillgrove in WCobb, same HS that produced Synjin Days & his Brother, he never considered GT for 1 second, came out of HS at 6-5 280ish playing DE and was a 5* that went to Clemson to major in Mech Engr.
If you play a position of critical need (OL & DL) and you know that you are worth 6-figures plus a new truck, you'd be a fool to trade that for the "hot air" of our 40yr plan will set you up for life, and you get to call yourself a "Tech Man".
This ain't 1950s Recruiting, it's 2021, you wanna be in the game, you gotta play, "The Game"
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