Just so I don't have to keep going through all of those I have seen before.
1. Pres Clough is now on "the", an NCAA President's Board. He is hardly likely to ask for any type of change or support any type of change that would lower requirements.
2. NCAA, in all its wisdom, has instituted new requirements for incoming freshmen beginning next fall. Those changes, bottom line, lower the bar for getting recruits in school.
3. Neither, the ACC,, nor GT - thank God, are lowering their requirements. As you probably know, Duke has lowered their requirements for FB to coincide with what they allowed Coach K to do.
4. However, the NCAA has upped (is that a word) their requirements for athletes to cotinue their eligibility. They must name a major their 1st year, they must obtain 40% of the graduation requirements by the end of 2 calendar years and 60% by the end of 3 calendar years of school for that major. Note this is not allowing for a RS year, for a semester of taking remedial courses, or anything else. Eithe you have it or you don't.
5. GT has been criticized from far and wide about our FB and BB graduation rates compared with other NCAA Division 1 schools. GT's President, our AD, and all of our coaches are aware of these rules and "will not" allow GT to continue the past few year's performance.
6. It should be noted that summer school can be used to achieve this "calendar" requirement. However, it should also be known for those of you who attended GT, that the summer class offering for courses needed to meet degree requirements is slim. IN BB, athetes can start the school year, the summer before fall on scholarship, but not in football. It should also be noted, that if a degree requirement for some schools require only 100 hours, like some at Duke, while others require 130 hours, like many at GT, the bar is a little different; and certainly not equal for the athletes.
7. GT is trying to address items in #6 internally and through the NCAA, but Rome wasn't built in a day. Also, realize there are a lot of professors, who think any changes just for the benefit of athletes is ludicrous.
8. Our FB coaches are determining who we can recruit, who they believe will make it through GT and whom they want here to play football. There are some general guidelines that GT has about bring in recruits for visits, etc. I have it on almost, the highest authority, that only one student athlete the coaches wanted to bring in, didn't meet the guideline. The coaches can go through a review and get an exception, even then. I don't know what happened with this case.
9. Bottom line is:
a. I don't think any of us have been lied to about "the hill's limiting of recruiting in GA:
b. With the new rules of NCAA eligibility requirements for this coming fall's recruits, who we recruit has to be affected, and not only GT. By the way, those who recruit JC players, this coming fall will also have to adhere to these requirements.
c. In the last half dozen years, GT almost never brought in more than 9 GA players per year. When we did, look at how many lasted.
d. Based on our verbals YTD, we seem to be doing pretty well, and hopefully we'll have a great recruiting class and then no one will be concerned.
And last, I am as big a "recruiting fan" as almost anyone, but let's face it - neither we nor the gurus who charge for their service know very much about it. You want examples, Brooking and by the way, Bilbo was a pretty highly rated recruit wasn't he; the QB for Fresno State that stepped in after their starting QB went down during mid-season, you know know the one that helped to beat our butt. How highly rated was he, could he learn the plays, could he make the reads, did he have an arm? Heck no, not coming out of HS, I guess he is one of the guys that had no ability and then boom - through osmosis, there he was beating our butts. By the way, he and Bilbo are both RS fresmen.
1. Pres Clough is now on "the", an NCAA President's Board. He is hardly likely to ask for any type of change or support any type of change that would lower requirements.
2. NCAA, in all its wisdom, has instituted new requirements for incoming freshmen beginning next fall. Those changes, bottom line, lower the bar for getting recruits in school.
3. Neither, the ACC,, nor GT - thank God, are lowering their requirements. As you probably know, Duke has lowered their requirements for FB to coincide with what they allowed Coach K to do.
4. However, the NCAA has upped (is that a word) their requirements for athletes to cotinue their eligibility. They must name a major their 1st year, they must obtain 40% of the graduation requirements by the end of 2 calendar years and 60% by the end of 3 calendar years of school for that major. Note this is not allowing for a RS year, for a semester of taking remedial courses, or anything else. Eithe you have it or you don't.
5. GT has been criticized from far and wide about our FB and BB graduation rates compared with other NCAA Division 1 schools. GT's President, our AD, and all of our coaches are aware of these rules and "will not" allow GT to continue the past few year's performance.
6. It should be noted that summer school can be used to achieve this "calendar" requirement. However, it should also be known for those of you who attended GT, that the summer class offering for courses needed to meet degree requirements is slim. IN BB, athetes can start the school year, the summer before fall on scholarship, but not in football. It should also be noted, that if a degree requirement for some schools require only 100 hours, like some at Duke, while others require 130 hours, like many at GT, the bar is a little different; and certainly not equal for the athletes.
7. GT is trying to address items in #6 internally and through the NCAA, but Rome wasn't built in a day. Also, realize there are a lot of professors, who think any changes just for the benefit of athletes is ludicrous.
8. Our FB coaches are determining who we can recruit, who they believe will make it through GT and whom they want here to play football. There are some general guidelines that GT has about bring in recruits for visits, etc. I have it on almost, the highest authority, that only one student athlete the coaches wanted to bring in, didn't meet the guideline. The coaches can go through a review and get an exception, even then. I don't know what happened with this case.
9. Bottom line is:
a. I don't think any of us have been lied to about "the hill's limiting of recruiting in GA:
b. With the new rules of NCAA eligibility requirements for this coming fall's recruits, who we recruit has to be affected, and not only GT. By the way, those who recruit JC players, this coming fall will also have to adhere to these requirements.
c. In the last half dozen years, GT almost never brought in more than 9 GA players per year. When we did, look at how many lasted.
d. Based on our verbals YTD, we seem to be doing pretty well, and hopefully we'll have a great recruiting class and then no one will be concerned.
And last, I am as big a "recruiting fan" as almost anyone, but let's face it - neither we nor the gurus who charge for their service know very much about it. You want examples, Brooking and by the way, Bilbo was a pretty highly rated recruit wasn't he; the QB for Fresno State that stepped in after their starting QB went down during mid-season, you know know the one that helped to beat our butt. How highly rated was he, could he learn the plays, could he make the reads, did he have an arm? Heck no, not coming out of HS, I guess he is one of the guys that had no ability and then boom - through osmosis, there he was beating our butts. By the way, he and Bilbo are both RS fresmen.
