Quote:No waffling here: Signing day was a huge win for Tech


Georgia Tech just endured a horrid season. It began with a 38-point thrashing at Clemson and ended with a 45-point obliteration by Georgia. The Yellow Jackets’ 45-0 loss to Virginia Tech marked the Institute’s first home skunking since Ike was in office. Tech’s victories were by four, seven and two points. If not for a South Florida fumble, a blocked Miami field-goal try and a failed N.C. State 2-point conversion, Geoff Collins’ first team might have gone 0-12.

Now forget all that. Collins and Tech slogged through 12 mostly wretched games just to get to Wednesday, and Wednesday — the first and bigger of the national signing days — did not disappoint. As of noon, the Jackets’ signing class was ranked No. 23 by 247Sports. » MORE: See all of Tech’s early signeesIn the post-George O’Leary days, only the 15th-ranked 2007 group — Chan Gailey’s final class, the one with Morgan Burnett, Jonathan Dwyer, Derrick Morgan and Joshua Nesbitt — stands higher. (This isn’t to say Tech didn’t sign good players under Bobby Dodd and Bobby Ross, but 247Sports wasn’t around to collate.) Hired on Dec. 7, 2018, Collins’ eye was already on the third Wednesday in December 2019.