Georgia Tech will never truly compete with Georgia in recruiting. The facilities and notoriety of the program just are too far behind right now. Couple that with the fact that Tech has limited financial means in the athletic department, and the odds are that they will never be a consistently upper-end college football program. Even under George O'Leary, when they had perhaps their best run of sustained success since the Dodd era, they couldn't really move the needle much in terms of upgrading facilities, etc. This is why I think their best approach in hiring a coach should be to get someone who can bring instant attention to the program and who has a proven track record in recruiting. That person may only stay 3-4 years and move on to the next best gig, but it could put the program in a better position moving forward.
Some friends and I were talking about how the school is viewed nationally and we agreed that the most comparable power 5 program is probably Purdue. A public research school that competes at the highest level in athletics, but only every 10 years has a really competitive season, at least in football.
