Help a genius out.

When the AJ-C throws you a fastball down the middle with a header like this, you’ve got to turn on it.

Suggestions are more than welcome in the comments.  Do it for the Johnson Doctrine.

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‘Your school is hard, and you don’t have any fun.’

Do you ever get the feeling that when Paul Johnson complains about coaches negatively recruiting against Georgia Tech, he’s including himself?

After all, it’s kind of a tradition on the Flats.

Knowledge is good.

Malkom Parrish is a south Georgia kid being recruited by the Dawgs and by Georgia Tech.  He’s worth keeping an eye on, simply because of this quote:

How do Georgia Tech and UGA compare? “Aww, I can’t really compare them,” Parris said. “I know Georgia Tech has a higher learning than Georgia…”

The StingTalk board threads write themselves, don’t they?  Regardless of where he winds up.  Although I kind of hope the Johnson Doctrine comes into play.  As once said to Bogie, it’s the romantic in me.

“It seems strange to consider a car as a mascot…”

Evidently.

There’s a Mandel/Montana joke just dying to get out here, I think.

“I don’t think they did us any favors, that’s for sure.”

The genius sounds a mite bit perturbed with the ACC scheduling office.

On the plus side, at least he’s got his excuse ready when Tech finishes the season 7-5.

The hardest job in college athletics

Georgia Tech employs someone whose title is associate athletic director for sales and fan experience.

“Four tickets, four hot dogs and four cokes” will only take you so far.

Monday morning buffet

Go get a plate.

• What cracks me up about this story isn’t that Tennessee cops can’t tell the difference between a marijuana leaf and the Ohio State symbol.  It’s that they think drug dealers are stupid enough to advertise their wares on their cars.
• Georgia Tech’s participation in the last ACCCG had the effect on FSU ticket sales you might have guessed.  In other words, Chantastic!
• Georgia announces a study into the long-term effects of high school football.
• Bill Connelly kicks off the preseason review field with a look at newly minted D-1 member Georgia State.  Based on his piece, anybody wonder how soon GSU achieves parity with Georgia Tech?
• “… of the 20 Georgia recruits that were rated as ’2′ or ‘No’ stars during the last 13 years, EIGHT of them were signed in Richt’s initial season of 2001.”
• I’d find John Infante’s be-careful-what-you-wish-for take on the O’Bannon suit more persuasive if the NCAA weren’t so stubborn about trying to find some sort of reasonable settlement with the plaintiffs.
• And in non-football (although I guess you could call it tailgating) news, the Maker’s Mark folks have their New Coke moment.

“Nothing against Rivals or Scout, but I’d prefer to go with my own rankings.”

As Mark Bradley gently points out, Georgia Tech just signed its weakest class of the Paul Johnson era, which is saying a lot, if you think about it:

According to Rivals, the average star ranking for Tech signees in Johnson’s first five classes was 2.93. The average star ranking of this class was 2.71. Only in 2008, Johnson’s first season here, has one of his Tech signing classes ranked lower according to the star system, and this is by far his lowest-rated class overall. (Rivals rated previous Johnson classes 49th, 49th, 43rd, 43rd, 41st and 56th.)

Which is all good, because he’s a genius and all.

At this late date, though, it’s possible to wonder if Tech recruiting is simply what it is and what it will remain – not so great as to dazzle, not so horrible as to make the Jackets an ACC afterthought. Only one of Tech’s past 12 classes –the spans the entire Chan Gailey era — has ranked higher than 40^th according to Rivals, but only once in that span has Tech finished below .500.

Johnson refuses to accept that, it seems, because he’s decided to “tweak” Tech’s recruiting focus.

Earlier in the day, Johnson revealed that Tech is tweaking the way it approaches recruiting, which isn’t a bad idea. It’s going to broaden its geographic scope – Johnson mentioned the Cincinnati area, which might play well with incoming Tech athletic director Mike Bobinski, who currently resides there – and target more out-of-state Catholic schools.

Why turn your back on your home ground, one of the most talent rich states in the country?  After all, Vanderbilt, possessed of a similar academic repute to Tech’s, came in and signed as many Georgia kids this year as Johnson did.  So what’s the problem?

Ahem.

… Johnson said coaches have talked about targeting private schools outside of the state, possibly venturing into Cincinnati and Nashville. First, Johnson said, Tech’s reputation holds up well outside of the state and seems to do better the farther one gets from Georgia.  [Emphasis added.]

Feel free to insert your defensive tackle from East Asia joke here.

Seriously, if you’re a head coach in the South, why wouldn’t you be investing some serious time in Georgia recruiting when the state’s ACC program is basically abdicating its role as a landing spot for in state high schoolers?

Sunday morning buffet

Grab a plate and indulge yourself.

• Ted Roof is planning on running more of the same, except he’ll be doing it with Tech’s 3-4 personnel.  It’s Mike Bobo’s wet dream.
• Alabama public officials get the best of both worlds – no season ticket expenses and no secondary market premium prices, either.  Nice work if you can get it.  (And no, I doubt Alabama is only place where this happens.)
• Trust us, Jesus wants you to use this deer antler shit.
• One thing about any possible Big 12-SEC scheduling partnership – if you’re Mike Slive, it’s a nice negotiating tactic to throw out as an alternative to a ninth conference game.
• Okay, so now Junior admits he made mistakes at Tennessee.  Was that part of the plan?
• Seth Emerson looks at the recruiting services’ rankings systems and thinks the stars are aligning more properly.
• “LSU is known nationally as a football team, not as an institution of higher learning.”

Now here’s a question.

I think I’ll open this one up for general response.

What about the “Ted Roof effect”?

Mere laughter is not an answer.