recruiting and academics

Hear your frustrations goldmember.

I see a problem with rumors on the net being twisted and seemingly made into fact. The 9 player comment by Dave Braine is one of them. He never stated that we could only recruit 9 players in GA. The lie is saying that he did in my opinion.

I don't know about your comment about "every" insider we have either. Every insider I have isn't telling me that the eggheads on the hill have raised the standards. In fact inside people I know wouldn't call the people on the hill eggheads to begin with.
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You seemingly think it's important to say that the AD and the President of Georgia Tech apparently lied to you. You seeming thought this was important to put on a public message board as well.

It might be difficult to get an appointment with the President of Georgia Tech, but if you'd like I can meet you down at the edge center and you can accuse Dave Braine in person face to face for lieing to you. Can do my best to help you with the president as well.
 
Originally posted by GTTerrific:
Hear your frustrations goldmember.

I see a problem with rumors on the net being twisted and seemingly made into fact. The 9 player comment by Dave Braine is one of them. He never stated that we could only recruit 9 players in GA. The lie is saying that he did in my opinion.

I don't know about your comment about "every" insider we have either. Every insider I have isn't telling me that the eggheads on the hill have raised the standards. In fact inside people I know wouldn't call the people on the hill eggheads to begin with.
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You seemingly think it's important to say that the AD and the President of Georgia Tech apparently lied to you. You seeming thought this was important to put on a public message board as well.

It might be difficult to get an appointment with the President of Georgia Tech, but if you'd like I can meet you down at the edge center and you can accuse Dave Braine in person face to face for lieing to you. Can do my best to help you with the president as well.
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<font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif">I am just having a little fun with the egghead comments, maybe that is a little overboard. I heard the 9 player comment. He said something to the effect of 'It is an off year in GA academically, of the top 50 we can only recruit 9 and 4 (or 5) have commited elsewhere'. I also heard both Braine and Clough say, in a football pregame show, that the academic standards have not changed. If the standards have changed, did they not lie?

Also, I would have not problem asking Dave Braine to his face why he said the standards haven't changed.
 
Dont think that we need to even think about dropping to div 2 sports. We have too much going for us to devalue our athletics.

I cant help but believe that a school which can offer great athletics and the best academics around would be far more attractive to recruits and their parents than a lesser school like the Ugag football factory.

Our tutoring is supposedly good, but I am wanting it upgraded signicantly. Why not have every athlete monitored by a tutor to the extent that every class is attended, every paper is written, all homework is done, and every test is prepared for.

Many athletes want to party with girls and have dreams of the sand and surf offered by Miami, UF, and FSU. But their parents have more common sense and hold much influence over these guys.
 
Originally posted by mustard:
Our tutoring is supposedly good, but I am wanting it upgraded signicantly. Why not have every athlete monitored by a tutor to the extent that every class is attended, every paper is written, all homework is done, and every test is prepared for.
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<font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif">A tangible program to demonstrate to the recruits? Something official? An added bene of the scholly? That sounds like a decent idea. "Come to TECH and look what an education we're gonna lay on ya." I like it!
 
Thanks 67. I think that the AD at Arkansas (a former GT player, his name escapes me right now) once said that GT has the great advantage in recruiting because we have the extra offer in academics but that we were ignoring it by treating it as a disadvantage.
 
Ingteresting thread. Just a few random thoughts.

Once again, rumor flies on message boards. What Braine said, according to both goldmember and and gtterrific, was we could only recruit 9 of the top 50. That's much different than 9 players in GA. We can win with the second 50.

I don't have a problem with expanding our curriculum if it is done in a thoughtful way and serves some purpose other than helping our athletic dept. We are too narrow in scope IMO for the general student body. This would also help SAs just by giving them more choices.

Good point made by several that the NCAA may force our hand on this soon. If penalties materialize for sub-par grad rates (whatever those idiots decide that is) we'll have to fix things somehow. Maybe the AA and administration are trying to take a proactive approach.

I have no clue whether our admissions standards for SAs has changed or not. I've seen so many posts pro and con that it makes no sense to me. However, I would pose a question. If our requirements (SATl, GPA, etc) haven't changes (meaning no hard floor, etc) but we now make a commitment to only admitting SAs who we believe can graduate (based on the kind of analysis admissions normally does) does that mean we've changed our requirements?

What I'm trying to say it there are plenty of kids with 1200 SATs who are not going to graduate from Tech because there is nothing they want to major in. Or maybe they had 700 verbal and 500 math. Does it make sense to admit that kid?
 
goldmember that's cool you wouldn't have a problem asking Coach Braine face to face why he said the standards havn't changed.

BTW, I was kidding about the "egghead" comment. That was why I put a wink in there. It was my poor attempt at a joke.
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Right on 71. Glad you reminded me or I might not have gotten any sleep tonight.

Anyway, as I recall his talking about GT, he seemed to think that our reputation for academic excellence was a big sell for us, but we were not taking advantage of it.
 
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