Is Demariyus Thomas GONE?

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According to this ARTICLE Thomas will switch his commitment over to South Carolina, as did a few players last year.

This one sucks big time. Do any of y'all think the bowl game may have had something to do with Thomas and Batchelor wanting to switch or is their thinking completely unrelated to that blunder?
 
Actually I just saw where Rivals.com has already taken him off of our commitment list and have him High on USC East and Med on GT. This Freakin' Sucks. I remember that when he commited to GT he said a big reason is because Chan and the Jackets wanted him to play WR instead of TE or Safety like a lot of other schools did. Is this all that it took...For one other schools to tell him he could play WR and he bails on us. The decision is ultimately up to him, but a Verbal agreement should be more binding and kids should have enough honor to stick with it. I have a question for Lawbee or any other lawyers out there...Will a verbal agreement hold up in court if there is proof that it happened, like a witness or something? What these kids are doing by switching around all the time is unfair to football programs and fans, and in this instance it was my football program and my fans which really pisses me off. I guess we want have to monster WRs lining up across from each other like I imagined. Oh well, it is beyond our control now.

Go Jackets!!!
 
Here is a comment from rivals.com that was made November 29th of last year:

"Dublin (Ga.) West Laurens wide receiver Demaryius Thomas has one official visit set, and is currently focused on four schools. The South Carolina Gamecocks are the only school in his top four to not have offered a scholarship. Would a scholarship vault the Gamecocks to the top of his list?"

Answer = YES
 
Sorry, verbals mean nothing. Signing day is the only thing that counts.
There did not use to be a recruiting industry. There were no Jamie Newbergs or Rivals, or arbitrary stars handed out to kids.
IMO, the people that have brought the act of recruiting to market are brilliant.
These guys love the decommits, and probably love even more when a kid changes baseball hats in his highschool cafeteria on signing day itself.
All of these things allow them to sell more premium sites and magazines. Brilliant!

It use to be where college teams got their "kids" in the offseason without hoopla. Of course back then, freshmen were not eligible to play.
These recruiting marketeers have successfully created another college football season for a starving audience.
 
Kinda sucks considering we have been with him from the start of recruiting. I guess we are now at a point where our program is no longer thought of as one of the great southern programs. Never thought I'd see the day where players wanted to be in Columbia getting a USuCk degree as opposed to in Atlanta getting a GT degree.
 
That is the problem right there...Kids are lazy. They would rather gamble on making it in the NFL(not saying that they wont make it to the NFL if they go to Tech) and risking getting a piece of toilet paper for a degree rather than working hard to assure themselves a comfortable living later on. I hope he enjoys his time in South Carolina and in 10 years, when he is picking up my trash on Tuesday mornings, regrets the hell out of it.

Go Jackets!!
Dollar Bill Y'all
 
JJacket - These young guys want to go where they can play in what will probably be an explosive, exciting offense, certainly not Chan Ball. At their age the majority of them could care less about a degree from USC-East or GT; I don't think where the degree comes from means a thing in most of their minds; unfortunately. These young guys are about playing football, not academics, and SOS will probably beat us out in any recruiting race he so chooses. SOS is going to dominate Chan in recruiting when/wherever he chooses.
 
Yes, it does suck!
Trying to put myself in the position of a sought after D1 prospect, I might think if S Spurrier doesn't think Columbia is a hick town, why should I?

Also, I don't believe we have recruited great numbers of great players because of any academic tradition.
In the long ago Dodd years, we got great players because we had great teams or a very recent tradition of great teams, and kids wanted to play for Dodd. The academics are like my minor degree in International Affairs: a nice little bonus.
These kids won't appreciate their diploma until they get out of school.

Most have disagreed with me about needing to get an AD on board pronto. Tech is such an easy target for guys like Spurrier to plant visions (not that he would be necessarily wrong) of our program being in turmoil.
How hard of a sell is it when another school can point out that we have a HC in the last year of his contract, and no AD. I could sell this all day long. We are in a position right now that we could only wish uga was in.
 
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Most have disagreed with me about needing to get an AD on board pronto. Tech is such an easy target for guys like Spurrier to plant visions (not that he would be necessarily wrong) of our program being in turmoil.
How hard of a sell is it when another school can point out that we have a HC in the last year of his contract, and no AD. I could sell this all day long. We are in a position right now that we could only wish uga was in.

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I do not think we have ever been in a position to have an AD hired before signing day.

Our program does appear to be rudderless at the present, especially in football. I am sure that this perception is being used against us in recruiting.

GT fans do need something positive to happen to improve our hopes that the future will be brighter. I agree that naming a new AD may help to turn around the attitude of many fans.

However, I can see holding off the new AD announcement until the NCAA appeal is finalized. Then the announcement of a new AD will help to give the GTAA a fresh start, and we can hope for positive press going forward. There is no need to hurt the chances for success of a new AD by trying to energize the fan base with the hire followed by the negative press of the finalized NCAA penalties.
 
Please answer this honestly: You are a 3 to 5 star recruit. You were the best receiver in your town and everybody knows that. You have an offer from a mediocre coach that hasnt proven that much yet - Chan Gailey
You also have an offer from the nations most respected well known coach that has an explosive offense and led his first year team full of nobodys to a bowl game - Steve Spurrier
Hands down I would go to USC. USC is a football school with a big stadium and tons of fans. Georgia Tech cant even sell out a game unless they give the other team majority of the tickets. I love GT and I always will, but I see our football program just falling lower and lower. I cant see anything bright for the future of GT's football. I know that the bashings of me are gonna come, but I just dont see it coming.
Ugag is the number 1 recruiter in our state and now Steve is number 2.
 
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Ugag is the number 1 recruiter in our state and now Steve is number 2.

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Interesting thought. If those are the top 2, who would round out the top 5? Remember that fsu, clemmons, AU, and Tenn. are still out there. How about even Ga. Southern.
To be fair, scratch off the kids we can't recruit because of grades.
That considered, do we recruit Ga. better than any of these teams?
 
I don't think there are many people left who will bash you. More and more fans are seeing the light. Perhaps our program will have to hit rock bottom before any changes are made. Just remember...any successes CG has only prolongs his stay here. He cannot get out of here fast enough for me.
 
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Just remember...any successes CG has only prolongs his stay here. He cannot get out of here fast enough for me.

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You are correct. Like him or not, supporter or not, Gailey is labled in the fan's eyes (just visit any of the GT boards and you'll see debates on Gailey) and through the eyes of recruits as an average, non-creative offensive mind. I want the best for GT and I just don't see it happening under Gailey. Recruits like this one jumping ship is just another red flag.
 
Amen and Amen. Pass the bottle. Correct me if I am wrong but didn't we lose a LB (Sapp?) to S. Carolina last year.
Now we lose a OL b/c of our limited classes (Lord knows adding a few more majors would forever tarnish Tech's glorious rep as a top notch school) and a WR b/c of our poor offense.

Face it under Spurrier this kid will get the chance to catch the ball. At Tech he will be catching ducks from Reggie if/when we throw the ball. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/drink1.gif
 
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At Tech he will be catching ducks from Reggie if/when we throw the ball. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/drink1.gif

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so true...just ask Calvin Johnson. The best receiver in the country and he only gets a handful of touches in the past few games. Why would any other potential receiver want to be a part of a system where the star of a team isn't even fully utilized? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif
 
To answer your question, no we are not in the top 5 recruiting wise even on our on turf. Which is a damning indictment of the current regime. It is sickening to watch this pathetic charade being played out like some kind of farce. Chan exudes no energy, no enthusiasm and little rapport with the players or recruits. His offense is boring, inept beyond belief and a deterent to any youngster wanting to play exciting football. Frankly, it is going to be a long road back from this debacle.
 
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To answer your question, no we are not in the top 5 recruiting wise even on our on turf. Which is a damning indictment of the current regime. It is sickening to watch this pathetic charade being played out like some kind of farce. Chan exudes no energy, no enthusiasm and little rapport with the players or recruits. His offense is boring, inept beyond belief and a deterent to any youngster wanting to play exciting football. Frankly, it is going to be a long road back from this debacle.

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No doubt we can stand with anyone in terms of the academics we can offer recruits, but with few of our scholarship athletes ultimately selecting our majors that put us in this position, I'm not sure what good it does us. So if we aren't graduating loads of football players with EE degrees, what is that makes us really the most appealing choice for a hot recruit? Is it the social environment we offer? According to the Princeton University survey, our students comprise the 2nd most unhappy student body in the country, so that must not be it. Is it loads of lovely coeds that grace our campus? Uh, no. Is it the support our players get from their classmates? Maybe not as Chris Reis said half of them don't even know we have a football team. OK, then it must be our zealous fan base that fills the stadium at ever opportunity... I guess not. Could it be that we win regularly despite our handicaps? I guess we miss that one, too. Oh, how about our exciting brand of football that puts up points and showcases talents to the NFL? Hmmm...We may have to scratch that one. Fun bowls games to enjoy during the post season? Yes, that's it! Every year we get a long trip across the country! Come to GT! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
In all seriousness, we do need to address a lot of issues. We have just locked ourselves into many more years of the above shortcomings. Unless we throw a heavy duty wrench into our entire process, I'm afraid the continued weeping over losing only a 3-star recruit, who may have been our top prospect, will remain more the norm rather than such a player being on the bottom end of our recruiting scale as he would be if he played basketball.
Lots of things are wrong, guys, and we need to find the right AD now that can begin the effort to fix them.
 
Just curious...do alumni from other schools

..end up homeless and unemployed? I meet and talk to literally dozens of people in business who went to school at places like Ga.,Murray State,Purdue,Clemson,Memphis,Ohio State,Kansas State,Alabama,Virginia Tech, etc.(to name a few off the top of my head) and they seem to be doing fine. Why do we perpetuate the myth that you must have a degree from Tech to get a job or achieve any kind of career success (whatever that means)? Seems a bit too biased to me. I am guessing that the greatest place on earth to go to school is whereever you happen to go to school.So, if you were a USC fan this decision would actually look to be the best choice for this young man.
 
Re: Just curious...do alumni from other schools

B, Before I completely agree with you, I think it is probably the Tech students and alumni of the finite world of rocket science, bridge building and waste system design that take the totalitarian point of view when it comes to education.
I definitely do want someone qualified to be behind the bridge my family scoots across, but when it comes to doing well in the world for non scientists, I want to share a thought I picked in a book I am reading.

Paraphrased: Doing well in life is about the skills someone picks up in high school, not those they acquire in college.
Of course this pertains to the millions of more liberal people on this planet.

I agree with you B, but Tech is at a major intersection if it wants to compete at the highest level of Division 1 football.
It's a charade to think Tech can win championships without dealing with the needs of people (recruits and players) that don't want the absolute rigors of hard line Tech.
 
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