Recruiting

lol, that page is hilarious, Stories of Success


This is not good. The star defender for my youth football team this last season, the DT with the Rat Tail, allegedly superglued a kid’s hands to his head today at school. This evidently happened during detention while the teacher was out of the room, so the details are a little sketchy. The DT with the Rat Tail and the "victim" were the only ones in the room when the teacher left to go to the restroom. But when the teacher returned, the “victim” was locked in a closet with his hands superglued to his head, and the DT with the Rat Tail was nowhere to be found.

The DT with the Rat Tail’s father (an executive shoe salesman at Payless) called me immediately after the school called him. Obviously, our main concern is a suspension/expulsion or anything that could put his eligibility for next season in jeopardy. So now I've got my cousin the workers’ comp attorney on the case. He's instructed the kid to stay out of school tomorrow and not talk to school officials. He's going to be contacting the school's vice principal tomorrow to invoke the Fifth Amendment, assert the DT with the Rat Tail’s Miranda Rights, and let them know that they're going to have to prove their case through “corroborating testimony,” which they don’t have. He also threatened to “start deposing every bureaucrat in the school system” if they don’t let this go, so I feel pretty good about where we are at right now. I have to give my cousin credit — he's really earning the unlimited use of my parents' time share in Westminster, SC that is his fee for serving as our team’s legal counsel. But if this ends in an expulsion, it could cause major troubles for our defensive front next season.
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texstinger said:
Would have to slightly disagree with "as well as any Tech coach has since Dodd" comment.

I think Ross had the most incredible eye for evaluating talent that just about any coach I have seen anywhere. Plus he got some great ones as well.

JMO
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Ross was a great evaluator of talent, but his recruiting classes weren't highly regarded until after the fact. Plus it's difficult to compare rankings as recruiting wasn't the spectator sport it is today.
 
Determined Look is a legend. High school chicks dig him and fight for a spot in his discount jacuzzi. Pop Warner players regard him as an avatar of the football gods. I think the OP of this thread is only basking in the reflection of his trademarked glory.
 
olgoldandwhite said:
Fan of Tech long? I remember the short lived euphoria when we signed Charlie Dudish. Techs recruiting has been down since the mid 60’s.
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Was our recruiting spectacular before the mid-sixties? Was anyone's? Not many schools recruited on a national scale except Notre Dame and a handful of others. Most stayed close to their own backyard. Dodd enjoyed a few pipelines: metro Atlanta, Valdosta, Jacksonville, and Baylor Prep in Chattanooga. We did better than most in Georgia, but Bama and Auburn had Alabama, we dabbled in Florida. The SEC was completely segregated, so it is difficult to compare then to now.
 
The diff between mid 60s and now is we were a big name on the CFB landscape back then and it was segregated. Then a tsunami of superior, yet unprepared academically, players came on the scene. Sadly, it's true even today to a significant degree, although better than then. The CFB world and the world in general changed a great deal in the late 60s, thank goodness. However, Tech didn't/couldn't/shouldn't (in many opinions). Fifty years since, academic progress of the superior players has been hugely disappointing for a number of reasons. Hence, we are now doing what Tech's President said in the late 60s as we exited the sec, except even more so---wtte---"Georgia Tech is attempting to do something in major CFB that NOBODY else is doing."
 
GoldZ said:
The diff between mid 60s and now is we were a big name on the CFB landscape back then and it was segregated. Then a tsunami of superior, yet unprepared academically, players came on the scene. Sadly, it's true even today to a significant degree, although better than then. The CFB world and the world in general changed a great deal in the late 60s, thank goodness. However, Tech didn't/couldn't/shouldn't (in many opinions). Fifty years since, academic progress of the superior players has been hugely disappointing for a number of reasons. Hence, we are now doing what Tech's President said in the late 60s as we exited the sec, except even more so---wtte---"Georgia Tech is attempting to do something in major CFB that NOBODY else is doing."
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I think we are a pretty big name now. Maybe not in the top of the CFB world, but we are in the discussion, play the marquee teams and beat them on occasion. We punch above our weight. People in the CFB world know we have a team. What we need is a branding strategy. We don't have the know nothing majors, it will not be easy as it might be elsewhere, but things worth doing aren't always easy. Our commercials should be about this. About coming to a place to prove yourself. A place that will make you bigger than you were. Shows you what is possible. Gives you the confidence to go beyond what everyone thought was possible. Those commercials need to be a FB recruiting tool.
 
Yukonwreck said:
Was our recruiting spectacular before the mid-sixties? Was anyone's? Not many schools recruited on a national scale except Notre Dame and a handful of others. Most stayed close to their own backyard. Dodd enjoyed a few pipelines: metro Atlanta, Valdosta, Jacksonville, and Baylor Prep in Chattanooga. We did better than most in Georgia, but Bama and Auburn had Alabama, we dabbled in Florida. The SEC was completely segregated, so it is difficult to compare then to now.
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I think that’s a little blinkered. My wife’s father and uncle played in Clearwater FL and were recruited by teams across the South and ND. (This is during segregation.) Even decades ago teams sought out the best talent wherever. Obvs it’s on a much higher level now.
 
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GoldZ said:
The diff between mid 60s and now is we were a big name on the CFB landscape back then and it was segregated. Then a tsunami of superior, yet unprepared academically, players came on the scene. Sadly, it's true even today to a significant degree, although better than then. The CFB world and the world in general changed a great deal in the late 60s, thank goodness. However, Tech didn't/couldn't/shouldn't (in many opinions). Fifty years since, academic progress of the superior players has been hugely disappointing for a number of reasons. Hence, we are now doing what Tech's President said in the late 60s as we exited the sec, except even more so---wtte---"Georgia Tech is attempting to do something in major CFB that NOBODY else is doing."
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You and Yukonwreck have a pretty good analysis, the divide got worse.
 
GoldZ said:
The diff between mid 60s and now is we were a big name on the CFB landscape back then and it was segregated. Then a tsunami of superior, yet unprepared academically, players came on the scene. Sadly, it's true even today to a significant degree, although better than then. The CFB world and the world in general changed a great deal in the late 60s, thank goodness. However, Tech didn't/couldn't/shouldn't (in many opinions). Fifty years since, academic progress of the superior players has been hugely disappointing for a number of reasons. Hence, we are now doing what Tech's President said in the late 60s as we exited the sec, except even more so---wtte---"Georgia Tech is attempting to do something in major CFB that NOBODY else is doing."
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Maybe not at first, but in recent years I get the impression that the GPA of our African American athletes is tremendous. Those guys are different than their counterparts at LSU, Louisville, FSU, UGA. Most are focused on education coming in. The "after football" experiences are amazing. Okay, so we don't get Saquon Barkely, we don't need him.
 
Bremstrahlung said:
I think we are a pretty big name now. Maybe not in the top of the CFB world, but we are in the discussion, play the marquee teams and beat them on occasion. We punch above our weight. People in the CFB world know we have a team. What we need is a branding strategy. We don't have the know nothing majors, it will not be easy as it might be elsewhere, but things worth doing aren't always easy. Our commercials should be about this. About coming to a place to prove yourself. A place that will make you bigger than you were. Shows you what is possible. Gives you the confidence to go beyond what everyone thought was possible. Those commercials need to be a FB recruiting tool.
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Heard a podcast the other day and the question was: "in the coastal division, who is more likely to surpass their predicted over/under win total? Georgia Tech at 5, Duke at 6, or UNC at 5.5?" Consensus, North Carolina. So people in the CFB world know we have a team, and it's a weak one.
 
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