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A running joke on JOL for years comes via the great 1990s movie Glengarry Glen Ross by the brilliant David Mamet (also an amazing stage play in the 1980s), as Alec Baldwin's Blake aims to motivate a group of older outbound salesmen with his firey speech, "put that
down, is for closers only!"
My favorite line is., "As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired." That's about two minutes into the clip below.
Instead of, Coach Key hits the links in the Bobby Dodd Memorial Golf Tournament today and then heads off to a well-earned vacation. The full extent of this wild June commitment spree will unfold over the next few weeks as a few more targets announce their decisions, but the strong push put the Jackets into the top 15 of the Rivals.com team rankings bolstered by two very high-profile 4-star commits CJ Jackson and Koby Young.
It has been a wild month and the first time since the summer of 2019 GT has had any mojo in recruiting nationally or regionally.
What has been impressive to me about this is how much of team effort it has been led by Key at the top and flowing through his various assistants with Marco Coleman and Andrew Thacker looking like completely different people under his watch and both emerging as stronger recruiters, the new guys like Buster, Geep, Norval, Sherrer and Brumfield all grinding and then the development of guys like Crawford, Tillman, and Weinke along with Thack and Coleman as recruiters as well. This is the strongest overall recruiting staff I've seen at GT.
The support staff should also get acknowledged, Key knows the uphill battle GT faces in the state of Georgia and he added some tremendous people behind the scenes and that is paying off as well because that adds a layer of trust from the in-state coaches and kids.
The trick now will be holding on to these commits and improving where they can with the class and adding some key final pieces on the offensive line and at defensive tackle. The core is very strong though.
I would say it is an exciting time to be a Georgia Tech football fan and drink up boys and girls.
A running joke on JOL for years comes via the great 1990s movie Glengarry Glen Ross by the brilliant David Mamet (also an amazing stage play in the 1980s), as Alec Baldwin's Blake aims to motivate a group of older outbound salesmen with his firey speech, "put that
down, is for closers only!"My favorite line is., "As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired." That's about two minutes into the clip below.
Instead of
, Coach Key hits the links in the Bobby Dodd Memorial Golf Tournament today and then heads off to a well-earned vacation. The full extent of this wild June commitment spree will unfold over the next few weeks as a few more targets announce their decisions, but the strong push put the Jackets into the top 15 of the Rivals.com team rankings bolstered by two very high-profile 4-star commits CJ Jackson and Koby Young.It has been a wild month and the first time since the summer of 2019 GT has had any mojo in recruiting nationally or regionally.
What has been impressive to me about this is how much of team effort it has been led by Key at the top and flowing through his various assistants with Marco Coleman and Andrew Thacker looking like completely different people under his watch and both emerging as stronger recruiters, the new guys like Buster, Geep, Norval, Sherrer and Brumfield all grinding and then the development of guys like Crawford, Tillman, and Weinke along with Thack and Coleman as recruiters as well. This is the strongest overall recruiting staff I've seen at GT.
The support staff should also get acknowledged, Key knows the uphill battle GT faces in the state of Georgia and he added some tremendous people behind the scenes and that is paying off as well because that adds a layer of trust from the in-state coaches and kids.
The trick now will be holding on to these commits and improving where they can with the class and adding some key final pieces on the offensive line and at defensive tackle. The core is very strong though.
I would say it is an exciting time to be a Georgia Tech football fan and drink up boys and girls.
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