Monday, 12 March 2012

Zone read: Georgia Tech tries to lure recruits with Hollywood promises ()

The Zone Read is your college football primer to make you seem like the smartest person at the water cooler even if you're not. Georgia Tech is trying a new recruiting pitch: Come to GT and you might see a movie star. That's what several of Georgia top high school juniors were hoping this past weekend when the coaching staff took them for a tour of campus and stopped at the baseball fields where Clint Eastwood was shooting scenes from his new movie "Trouble with the Curve." According to MTV.com , the movie "revolves around an aging baseball scout (played by Eastwood), who goes on a road trip to Atlanta with his daughter to check out a potential recruit" and stars Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, John Goodman and Justin Timberlake. Unfortunately for the recruits, the stars were not out as they rolled by, so it wasn't exactly a selling point. But the idea that there might have been Hollywood royalty on Georgia Tech's campus created a little bit of intrigue. "That was awesome, seeing how everything was set up," JJ Green, an all-purpose athlete from Camden County High School told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution . "We probably should've stayed around there and tried to get into the movie."

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