Just because spring practice ended a week ago doesn't mean work stopped for Georgia Tech's football team. Here is what they're doing now:

Recruiting

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NCAA rules prevent Tech head coach Paul Johnson from going on the road to recruit during this current four-week period, but his assistants are allowed to visit high schools.

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Coaches got one day off after the spring game before hitting the road on Monday for four weeks of visits to high schools all over Georgia and throughout the far-flung states where Tech recruits. Seven assistants can be on the road at one time. When one comes back, another heads out. The head coach, Paul Johnson, can't be on the road recruiting during this period.

Tech's main list of potential 2009 signees contains 250-300 players, said Liam Klein, the Yellow Jackets' player personnel director. Coaches will make two or three additions and subtractions per day as they get in-person updates from high school coaches about players' grades and potential. Tech's assistants visit an average of six schools a day and as many as nine, Klein said.

Evidence of Johnson's commitment to recruit Georgia: Tech plans to visit or call every high school in the state, no matter how small or how few signees a school has generated through the years.

Coaches can't contact prospects during this four-week period, but Tech's staff can make one call to each prospect. Johnson is making some of those calls.

At the end of the four-week period, Tech will know the prospects it hopes to see at its summer camps. Offensive linemen come in June 1 and 2, skill players June 3 and 4 and kickers June 5. The Junior Jacket camp, for children in grades 1 through 9, is June 6. Tech also has a one-day camp for juniors and seniors on June 14.

Those camps are for individuals. A seven-on-seven camp, exclusively for high school teams, moves up from its former July date to June 9-13. Teams play half-hour games on a 35-yard field. There are spots for nine teams per day.

For information on camps, call 404-894-5436.

Speaking tour

Beginning on Thursday at the Cobb Galleria, Johnson joins men's basketball coach Paul Hewitt, women's basketball coach MaChelle Joseph, play-by-play man Wes Durham and athletics director Dan Radakovich on a Rambling Wreck caravan. All events are free to the public and will run from 6:30 p.m.-8:45 p.m.

The schedule beyond Thursday: May 20, the Farm Golf Club, Rocky Face; May 22, Idle Hour Country Club, Macon; May 27, Wyndham Peachtree Conference Center, Peachtree City; May 29, the 1818 Club, Duluth. For information, call 404-894-5414.

Johnson might be able to talk about his golf game as well as his football team. He's teaming with former Tech basketball player Jon Barry in the Chick-fil-A Bowl Alma Mater golf tournament on Tuesday at Reynolds Plantation. The event is being taped to air on CBS on Christmas Day. Of note: One of the other coaches scheduled to compete is UCLA's Rick Neuheisel, who tried to get the Tech job.

Workouts

Tech's student-athletes are pretty much full-time students this week, with final exams to take and term papers to hand in. The players have this week and next week off before returning to work as athletes, with three days of conditioning and three days of weight lifting per week. The incoming freshmen arrive June 12.

Administration

Work on the freshman class of 2008 didn't end on signing day. There's still the task of getting the signees through the NCAA Clearinghouse, which checks their transcripts and test scores to confirm their eligibility.

"We're as far ahead as we've ever been with those guys," said Klein, who has been at Tech since the summer of 2003.