Did our new football players make a good choice?

I find that CPJ is slowly ratcheting up his recruiting. And if he begins winning more it will aid recruiting. I mean, what are Francis Kallon, Justin Thomas, and Adam Gotsis if not players with elite potential? We definitely were “punching above our weight” to land Kallon. And last year it was Vad Lee. Ok, so we whiffed on Tomlinson, but it’s not like he left us for Wofford. We were in that race with Bama and georgie. In my opinion, we didn’t recruit this well after the season when we beat georgie nor when we had just won the ACC (classes of ’09 and ’10 followed those two seasons…are they even as good as this class is?)

I’m curious which elite talent you were thinking Tech could realistically reel in after losing to georgie for the 3rd straight time, losing a bowl for the 7th straight time, losing to VT and Miami for a second straight time and only going 8-5. Is there some other highly academic medium sized university that is pulling in a five star player or two in every class after a season like that?

I am making a slightly different point. I believe it was CMR who pointed out that their recruiting class was once again one of the best in the country but that because other teams signed a higher number of players that skewed the way the “experts” looked at it. As for LSU versus Georgia I was not saying Georgia had better talent on the field. I was suggesting that if you were to line up recruiting classes over the last few years I doubt LSU had more “stars” on the field. Georgia’s average rank in the nation for recruiting over the last five years is 6th in the nation. LSU’s is 8th. Apparently Georgia gets more “stars” even without over signing.

Obviously, how that pans out on the field is one of life’s mysteries however. Otherwise, why doesn’t Ohio State, Miami or Florida State have a national championship in the last five years?

Let’s stop with the confessions or I may embarrass myself even more.

http://www.ajc.com/sports/they-use-you-up-1327740.html

do you think there’s any reciprocal desire to educate a kid at these schools of football doesn’t work out?

I know there is not. Most football players at Alabama (and if it’s true at Bama, it is true at LSU, Georgie, Tennessee, etc.) are on the academic equivalent of life support. It is well hidden, but some of them come to college with such low levels of academic ability that they have to be re-taught basic math and reading comprehension. Their hands are held on every assignment so that, while homework is not quite “done for them,” it is completed with constant help from “tutors” who are really just students interning with the Athletic Department who tell the players how to answer all the questions to complete assignments. A ton of the team couldn’t pass high school again on their own if they had to. They do tend to let the QB be a real student, though, at Bama. He’s usually a white Business major who’s a decent student all on his own. He is protected by meatheads throwing the ball to meatheads or handing off to meatheads.

I am not crazy. I was told all of this by a Bama athlete who had to study on their own while FB players got all the academic advising attention. It is a family member of mine who lived in proximity to this day in and day out. It is the same at every SEC school except Vanderbilt.