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I don't like what I am hearing over on the other board in regards to Calvin Booker. A poster with insight knows this kid: great grades, GT fan and we don't even go after him. He goes to Auburn instead. I want to believe in this staff and its capabilities of recruiting the state of GA but then you hear stories like this. Can someone give me some good "game" as to what this staff has done this summer to make inroads to the stae of Ga. How is Wilson working out as our Recruiting Coordinator? Does he have great inroads in the state?
 
BBuck: I'm joining your "SAP CLUB"!!!
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15K-20K, I bet you were sitting right beside us and I didn't even know it! You could sit anywhere back then, as much as that was nice to move to the good seats, I like it being filled all the time.

Back then our seats were in the North End Zone - up high from '74-86 and then when Ross got here '87-92 first level southwest stands. '93 to present Upper East.

Sorry to get off the thread but loved your "sap" comment!
 
Let me ask this question because I don't remember after last season - who is the Recruiting Coordinator now?

Who ever it is has to have a marketing personality and well as being a coach. I remember when Lance Thompson and then Billy O'Brien were the Coordinators under O'Leary - I would read so many positive comments about them from recruiting analysts around the country.

Analysts would talk to high school kids around the country and they would bring up our Coordinator and having relationships with them and wanting to look at GT. I remember when Lance left to go to Alabama I was concered about who George would name - Billy O'Brien and we proceeded to have 3 of the best recruiting years in recent history.

This is such a big factor but mapping out your game plan and proceeding is also important. Just wonder - who's doing it now?
 
Coach Wilson is our RC. I don't know about his contacts in Ga. as he came from Miss. St. But he was also an assistant to Bobby Bowden at one time I just can't remember what his responsibilities were or how long he was at FSU. By the way this is Coach Wilson's first year as RC so we will have to wait for results.
 
It seems like such a bizarre recruiting strategy. The results last year (at least on paper) weren't horrible but the whole process seemed very uneven and frustrating. I never remember hearing of O'Leary and company not recruiting anyone hard enough but it seems to happen all of time now. Granted you have to take a lot of this with a grain of salt, but I think if there is enough smoke then there is probably a fire.
 
Im pretty sure Nix is the recruiting coordinator now. The man who clinched most of our recruits during those good years, (and who was our biggest loss during the Oleary deal) was coach Kelly. I am pretty sure he is at Clemson right now. Probably bringing them in left and right.
 
GTFish, Kelly was by all reports a good recruiter but you give him to much credit IMO. I don't think he was recruiting coordinator and Roof was our primary GA recruiter IIRC.
 
GTFish: I believe Coach Kelly is at Stanford and is the Asst. HC. I know he was there last year with Buddy Teevans - did he leave there and go to Clemson? You're right - great recruiter but before he got here - Billy O'Brien already had the first good class in tow.
 
Coach Wilson is the recruiting coordinator. Coach Nix was the recruiting coordinator last year, but Wilson was essentially running the recruiting program as Director of Football operations.

Coach Wilson is a recruiting specialist. He was a special recruiting assistant to Bobby Bowden at FSU and a HS football coach in Florida. He was also the recruiting coordinator at MSU. He was an on-field coach for a season or two at MSU, but basically he was an "off-field" coach in charge of recruiting which is rare.

Wilson is a very personable guy. He is very much like Coach Brooks. He is also a Georgia native.
 
OK im wrong. You are correct Axe, Coach Wilson is now the Re. Coordinator. and Ms. Tech was correct with the Coach Kelly situation. My bad guys.
 
Coach Kelly was good at recruiting the kids from Louisiana. The number one state for D1 prospects per capita, and an almost impossible state to recruit.
 
Originally posted by GTFish:
Coach Kelly was good at recruiting the kids from Louisiana. The number one state for D1 prospects per capita, and an almost impossible state to recruit.
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<font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif">GTFish: You are correct here! He had that position when he was with LSU and had inroads - he did a great job with Dorsey and Henderson, matter-of-fact, had a long conversation last year with Nat's dad and he said David Kelly was a superior recruiter, spoke highly of McWhorter as well.
 
MsTech, they are absolutely correct. These were two of GTs finest. I was a fan for the hiring of Mac but that is neither here nor there. Kelly was a big loss in the areas of recruiting and a wonderful recievers coach. Both were tough as nails and demanded (and recieved) the best out of their players.
 
The same thing happened last year with two high schools that produced NINE 1-a players and Chan didn't contact anyone at the school. The two coaches say that Tech will never sign a player from those schools as long as they are HEAD COACHES.
I think Chan is doing what Ross did when he was here. Ross ignored Ga. players for the most part
and concentrated on those areas where he had recruiting contacts and it worked for him.
But his situation is much different than Chan's.
Ross had been super successful as a college HC at Maryland But Chan has never Coached on the 1-A level and it has been about 20 years since he has coached at any level in college so really Chan doesn't have any contacts that he has actually worked with in the past. I can't understand his logic and I will support him as long as I can unless it it obvious the wheels has come off the wagon.
I am one of the few SAPS that had season tickets all during the miserable PEPPER and BULL CURRY years when our real attendance was about 15 to 20 thousand in most games as well as the ROSS years
when his team couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time. But I knew Ross would win but I have some serious reservations about our present coach.
But I really would like to see Chan Succeed.
 
This is a prime example of the current staff's ineptitude. Here's a kid less than 10 minutes from our campus, one that all the top schools in the South were looking at and we don't make a serious run at him. I don't know what I'm more disgusted about,....looking at the list of the top recruits in the state and "seeing" our lack on involvement or,...reading about how the NFL folks are raving about a certain 215lb TB that runs a sub 4.4 forty that should have been in our backfield this year but we flunked him out of school. Brilliant job Gailey on both counts!!

GATA JACKETS!!!
 
Originally posted by Driver8:
This is a prime example of the current staff's ineptitude. Here's a kid less than 10 minutes from our campus, one that all the top schools in the South were looking at and we don't make a serious run at him. I don't know what I'm more disgusted about,....looking at the list of the top recruits in the state and "seeing" our lack on involvement or,...reading about how the NFL folks are raving about a certain 215lb TB that runs a sub 4.4 forty that should have been in our backfield this year but we flunked him out of school. Brilliant job Gailey on both counts!!

GATA JACKETS!!!
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<font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif">I hope this was said in jest/frustration. Your logic is a bit hard to follow.

Well, it's a shame for Georgia Tech that Tony will not be back this season.

Why is another issue. Do we know Tony was committed to hitting the books, going to class, using the tutors and still couldn't make the grade?

Finally, last time I checked, Gailey would be the last in line for a trip to the wood shed for any of the ten football players not making the grade. Behind the kid, stand Carol Moore, Dave Braine, and Wayne Clough.

We don't know why and probably won't find out beyond speculation and third-source information why any of the kids didn't make it but one possibility does stand out.

Any kid in college who gets wind that he can make some big dough by leaving school early should and likely will leave. How do you keep that top 5% happy just getting a ship and hoping they won't have a career threatening injury before their college career is over?

An interesting change appears to be taking place in basketball and maybe down the not-to-distant road in football. With the expansion and European league now, the NBA is not willing to wait until the NCAA is through with the top prospects. Not so sure this isn't a good thing for the kid and the NCAA. These top tier kids don't really want to spend 2-4 years in college but until the last few years what choice did they have? Now I know there are the exceptions (i.e. David Robinson), but they are rare.

So what we might end up seeing is fewer super-stars playing college ball but the kids who do play staying around longer.

We certainly don’t need any more one hit wonders. Not so sure, Georgia Tech wouldn't have been better off if Chris Bosh and been picked right out of high school and we hadn't wasted a ship and put so much effort (bye Ed Nelson) in his long-term potential.
 
Drive8 - we flunked him out of school? Last I heard he stopped going to class. Kind of hard to stay eligible if you don't show up isn't it?
 
***REGARDING COACH KELLY***

Let me please dispell this myth that he can close deals. He came across as a phony to the parents in the home visits.

Doug Marrone opened the door in LA and started all of the recruits coming in from there. Coach Kelly got Brian Lumar...remember that one!?

He could not recruit in GA because HS coaches disliked him from his time in HS there plus his time at UGA.

Ted Roof, Larry New, and Butch Brooks pressed GA hard and brought in the recruits.

Billy O'Brien was the other tremendous recruiter who went up the atlantic, midwest, and northeast.

Lets not forget Bob Casullo who went into Florida and nailed some good kids.

Coach Kelly did handle the WR's well though...he made them tougher and made them work hard.
 
Originally posted by Driver8:
This is a prime example of the current staff's ineptitude. Here's a kid less than 10 minutes from our campus, one that all the top schools in the South were looking at and we don't make a serious run at him. I don't know what I'm more disgusted about,....looking at the list of the top recruits in the state and "seeing" our lack on involvement or,...reading about how the NFL folks are raving about a certain 215lb TB that runs a sub 4.4 forty that should have been in our backfield this year but we flunked him out of school. Brilliant job Gailey on both counts!!

GATA JACKETS!!!
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<font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif">Driver... you may want to re-read your information concerning flunkgate.. I think you are giving Gailey a waaaay too much credit for its "success" .. but while you are at it... dont forget Joe Burns flunked out too, along with a host of others who either quit or flunked out.. dont forget to give Gailey credit for that as well.. just a heads up..
 
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