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GA Tech should expand options, not reduce standards
Every coach in the ACC and SEC knows the old recruiting trick against Georgia Tech. Slap the calculus book on the table and ask the recruit if he really wants to study this in college.
It is also known that Georgia Tech simply cannot recruit certain players due to their lack of academic credentials. But what hurts the Yellow Jackets the most in bringing in more top level talent is the lack of majors offered at the Institute.
I would naive if I thought having high academic standards for entrance was not a hindrance, but having a narrow amount of fields to study is almost like playing with both hands tied behind your back.
The school has largely offered an engineering and business management based curriculum since its beginning in 1885. Stanford going 12-1 shows that a school with high academic standards can win big at the BCS level. Michigan has done it for years too and Virginia and UNC have had their moments as well. But what all those schools also have in common is a wide variety of majors for students to choose from.
Some Tech alumni use the lack of non-mathematical majors as a source of pride about the school, but any well rounded person knows a variety of backgrounds is necessary for any company or organization to succeed.
Not every player even those with high SAT scores want to major in engineering or a math heavy discipline.
The time for Tech to strike is now as the Georgia Board of Regents recently authorized engineering at UGA. Tech should go after a medical or law school or an expansion of their highly ranked business program into more disciplines.
Tech can do all of this without lowering its academic standards too. The US Census recently showed the large amount of growth the state has undergone in the last 10 years and it shows no signs of slowing down. Many of the residents moving in are also highly educated and that will only filter down to the next generation.
Instead of letting kids go to UGA or Georgia State or Georgia Southern and raise those schools prestige and alumni base why not be inclusive and have them at Tech?
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I hate to disagree with you but Georgia Tech doesn’t need to do either to be successful. Last time I checked none of these things prevented Calvin Johnson, Tashard Choice, Demaryius Thomas, Jon Dwyer, Derrick Morgan, Morgan Burnett, Josh Nesbitt, Daryl Smith, or Philip Wheeler from coming to GT and elevating the program.
What GT might want to do is find a better recruiting coordinator. Giff Smith was the architect of that overwhelming class of 2007 that was talent laden.