Expecting GT to compete for top athletes with Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, FSU, Clemson, Tennessee and the rest of the SEC is a BS copout. GT is no longer a southern engineering school. It has evolved into an international engineering school and the academic standards are world class. When you walk on campus at a southern university, it feels like a huge version of high school. GT does not. It is not the same school that Bobby Ross or George O'Leary or even Chan Gailey represented. I believe that the student body has diverged from the southern base to the point that it alienates the athletes. I am certainly proud of GT's academic stature, but believe that it makes recruiting high school athletes very difficult.