If you read my first post in this thread, I agree with you that GT has to sack up and start winning, which will attract the recruits.
With that said, I don't think there has ever been a time when one conference had as strong a grip on the sport as the SEC does now. Tech, and the southern half of the ACC has the pleasure of overlapping with SEC country, and that is yet another hurdle to jump over. The schools you've mentioned have managed to get over that hurdle well enough for a number of reasons which I laid out earlier, but Tech is in a different boat due to the uniqueness of the Institute and our failures against uga.
The primary solution, as you said is to grow a pair and beat the SEC (though poor recruiting is a vicious cycle with regards to competing against the SEC/on a national level). The traditional powers outside of the SEC (f$u, OU, Texas, etc) are the likeliest to break up the current aura of hype around the SEC as they still are able to recruit around or at the same level as the SEC can. We can play our part by striving to compete with and beat uga.