re: Why does GA Tech not recruit better?

Well for starters it's not like we don't have relatively recent proof that they can excel in athletics. O'leary and Cremins worked around the same academics. In football the coach's system is what holds them back from being consistently good(I mean 8-9 wins every year) in football, so that's solvable.
People keep saying academics but even Harvard massaged things so they could be successful in basketball. UNC's a great school so how did they solve their problem with keeping athletes eligible? They made a major so they wouldn't have to go to class. UNC wanted it bad enough, Tech doesn't.