Kenan

I will say I was worried about GCG and his time over lapping with CPJ's last few weeks. However, I think it's great that CGC has had the opportunity to really get in some recruiting time while the team and CPJ preps for the bowl game. And the PR and "buzz" around GT and the program lately has been extremely positive.

I was a bit worried for a minute with reference to all of the various initialized codes for coaches being tossed about. I misread the bolded code above as meaning Coach Chan Gailey. I thought I missed something over the weekend.
 
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I think there are some structural changes in society over the past decade that will also contribute to this.

One of the biggest changes is that technology is cool now. When Paul Johnson was hired, the iPhone was 1 year old, Android in its current form didnt exist, Instagram didn't exist, no one had heard of an Uber, Twitter was the sound a bird made for most people, and Amazon hadn't yet taken over the world. The MCU didn't exist and the first Iron Man movie had just come out.

My point, basically, is technology is extremely cool now. Stuff geeks and techies used to love talking about is what everyone talks about these days, whether it's your primary computing device, software updates, comic book heroes, game of thrones, etc. What Tech stands for has become cool. Basketball players and actors today are more likely to talk about their technology investments as they are about anything.

Even the idea of education being uncool is changing rapidly. These are things Tech can really take advantage of.

It doesn't hurt that our coach is the guy who played a large hand in landing one of the best Tech recruiting classes in recent history.
Spends most of the post talking about how 2008 is ancient history and a completely different era. References 2007 as recent history.
 
I don’t want to get ahead of things, but I never recall there being this type of a buzz (pun intended) insofar as our recruiting is concerned. This gives me great hope.
Because we didn't know how, and could have given as $hit less about recruiting. Collins can and will get better players to Georgia Tech. That doesn't mean he will coach them successfully, but it is a very important first step. Better recruiting begets better recruiting. If he gets things to the point where more kids really want to come to Tech, that is half the battle. If he builds a better staff than we have seen in 15 years, even better.
 
Glad to have the kid aboard.
But, as the man says, if you are truly committed, then why are you taking visits somewhere else?

Wonder if Mack Brown said, "Don't get on that ox cart, Kenan!"
 
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