Why is a huge # of Texas recruits ALREADY qualified?

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I mean, are the schools better? Do they teach better? Do the students study harder understanding that the learning road is paved with scholarships? Texas will have over 300 recruits sign Div1a scholarships this yr & it seems every one of them is ALREADY qualified. Georgia will have approx 120 sign, but there's probably not 30 qualified as we speak. The rest of the Georgians are 'on-line' to graduate or get an adequate test score or pass the required core classes, etc, but come time for these youngsters to enroll in college & even then there will be a large # that does not get admitted for some reason.
That is not the case with the qualified Tex recruits. Here is Ga Tech, 800-1,000 miles away with stringent requirements, & we're throwing out schollies left & right in Texas. We get a great response from these young men who appear to value their education & after football life much, much more than most Georgia recruits. Why is there such a huge difference?
You know this has to have a lot to do with every major school in the country trying to get in on recruiting Texas. After Texas & A&M had out their offers there is a mountainous pig-pile of schools offering the remaining 250 or so. Notre Dame & Stanford have no problem getting 2,3,4 already qualified players for their programs from Tex each yr. These players sure don't mind leaving the state to get the best education offered either. They check out where they can best use their skills for the best education. I like it.
Thank goodness Ga Tech is now in this mix, big-time, & will remain in this mix because we are received so favorably. This motherlode of talent will continue to increase for GT. 1st it was Dixon then Honeycutt & Daniels, then Bridges, Sampson & McGuire. Now we're looking for Pena, Parker, Rhodes & Moore with very possibly a few more. The really good thing is that we don't have to worry about getting them qualified or admitted at all.
PS: They play probably the best brand of competitive HS football in the country. Quite a state to recruit football players from.
 
Reply from OldeGold

It's a combination of football tradition and tough rules
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Several years ago the state instituted very strict "no pass, no play" rules, such that (IIRC) before each game you needed a sign-off from teachers that you were going to class and making proper grades. Combine this with the incredible football tradition and guys learn early that they must be serious about grades. The worse thing is the world would be declared ineligible for a game.

The Texas guys can give you more detail. I moved away many years ago, but still keep up with my old High School (the Texas City Stingarees, with the lovely school colors of orange and black for you guys that complain about GT colors)
 
That's right, it's the no-pass no-play rule!
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I'd forgotten about it. Thank you, OldeGold. That's the reason the Texas players are already qualified. Heck, if they're playing, they're passing. That's why they think it's terrific to get an offer from a world renowned Institute of higher learning that also plays pretty good major college football. No wonder Gailey & staff are selling Ga Tech so effectively in Texas. We'll make a killing!
Ga, Ala, Miss, Scar, et al, sure ought to look at this rule. It has worked tremendously in Tex & probably would anywhere else. The Tex players are getting schollies by the busload & getting a very good EDUCATION to go with it.
 
IIRC, it was the guy who ran for president in '92 and '96 who pushed that no-pass/no-play rule in Texas. The guy who looked like a chicken and had the VP candidate who said, "Who am I? What am I doing here?" in a debate.
 
In Texas, does this apply to all extracurricular activities, ie. band? No pass, no play rule would be great in the SE, but it might be the end of SE high school football. When GA, SC, MS, AL have the worst SAT/ACT scores, the worst graduation rates among all their students, it is pretty obvious that this is not just a "player" problem.
However, in our wisdom we can take all of the "hope" scholarship money and ensure that at least all b students can take remedial courses and attend college for at least a year.
 
Yes the no pass no play did apply to all school activities. Having just returned to Texas I wasn't sure, my soon to be wife who works for NISD (Northside Independent School District San Antonio) told me it applies to all school activities.
 
It was Ross Perot who pushed the "no pass no play" rule in TX. Made a huge difference in TX as far student athletes "making the grade."

There has been much debate over this. Some felt that teachers would pass the players regardless of how they performed in class. Seems it didn't work out that way. Scores on standardized test like the ACT and SAT show otherwise as I see it.

I'm not trying to make this a political thread.

TX has come a long way in getting more athletes to be student/athletes because of this ruling in my opinion.
 
If Georgia instituted a No Pass/No Play policy then Jesse Jackson would be holding a press conference decrying this dispicable racist action...
 
Originally posted by ramblinwise1:
If Georgia instituted a No Pass/No Play policy then Jesse Jackson would be holding a press conference decrying this dispicable racist action...
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<font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif">YOU said this horse was dead, Rwise!

Now quit whining, you still sound like Jesse.
 
GTTerrific,
U are right about all academics improving in Texas. They know from Jr High on that the education part is as valued as the athletic part. Seems to have made a huge difference in getting them into & through college. Texans value the more difficult educations, now, & aren't afraid of taking actual classes leading to real degrees in college. I think it's a terrific way to run a High School ahtletic system & it sure hasn't hurt Texas HS football whatsoever.
 
My family moved from Grovetown GA to Baytown TX when I was five years old and to Macon Ga in the middle of my first year of high school. In between I don't think I knew what clean air smelled like,lived across ship channel from Houston, but got a seriusly good education, to the extent that I hardly cracked a book in HS. Went from the maroon/white of the coed Robert E. Lee Fighting Ganders to the orange and green of the Sidney M. Lanier for Boys Poets! Go Texas football!! Let's put in a 'no pass no play' and make it stick! Btw, if we let only college bound kids take the SAT we will be right up there w/ those high SAT/ACT schools.

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