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Georgia football winners and losers following first 2025 Signing Day
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Georgia football winners and losers following first 2025 Signing Day
Winner: Georgia pass catchers
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a quiet signing day is a good signing day in this day and age
"James Coley deserves a ton of credit for the class he put together. This is exactly why Kirby Smart brought Coley back to coach, and recruit, the wide receiver position."
I hope we get the opportunity to give James Coley "a ton of credit" for teaching receivers how to create separation and catch the ball in 2025! I believe there is a lot of room for improvement in those categories.
GO DAWGS!
I agree that Coley can recruit WR talent, but can he develop them? I understand some have it or don't so we either need to recruit the guys that have it or hopefully Coley can teach route running, separation, etc.
It's great seeing Kirby doing so well recruiting in the home State.
So, we're picking up some good to great potential WRs...now we just have to make sure we have a true stud QB that can effectively throw to them...and he'll need to do that by the end of August. The schedule is rinse and repeat next season, so it doesn't get any easier.
Do we have that guy on our roster?? I really don't know.
Winner: Sherrone Moore and the Michigan Wolverines and their Top 10 recruiting haul including the nation's #1 pick, 5 star QB Underwood. Best class that Michigan has put together in many years.
“…it feels like the day does not carry the same juice as it once did in its heyday.”
It never will again.
That's the question, ain't it? Is it a lack of talent that 's led to all these drops, or is there something amiss in the coaching?
Arian Smith has had butterfingers since he came to Georgia, but this year it's been devastating. Last year, Dominic Lovett and Dillon Bell were dependable third-down go-to guys; this year, they've caught the same butterfinger epidemic. Were those guys helped in 2023 by having McConkey and Bowers drawing away coverage? Or did they actually regress despite all their experience?
In '25, we'll need more experience at WR via the transfer portal. Bell, if he doesn't transfer, will be the only WR with more than 15 catches as a Bulldog! But overall talent won't be an excuse. Wiley has the most potential of any big X receiver since Pickens. And Talyn Taylor may have the tools (speed, evasiveness, route running, etc.) to be another McConkey.
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No blaming James Coley for UGA's WR issues. The blame for this goes with Kirby Smart. From 2017-2022, Kirby Smart chose to play QBs who didn't have the arm strength to make the big time throws that NFL scouts want to see and that WRs themselves dream of making plays on. It was an issue as early as 2018 when Terry Godwin's mother complained that the offense was ruining her (5 star recruit) son's draft status. (Godwin was ultimately taken near the bottom of the 7th round and his NFL career consisted of 3 catches). Not a few top 100 recruits who committed or initially showed interest in UGA went elsewhere because they didn't like the offense. (The Dawgnation chatter back then were how all those guys were prima donnas that UGA didn't need anyway and UGA would be better off with "team guys.") During the Jake Fromm era it didn't matter quite as much because UGA had 3 future NFL starters at tailback. During the Stetson Bennett IV era, it seems that Bryan McClendon (now the Tampa Bay WR coach) was able to land some 3 star diamonds in the rough like Ladd McConkey and AD Mitchell, to speak nothing of future College Hall of Fame TE Brock Bowers, but you now see how you can't count on that all the time. Even then, note that 4 star Jermaine Burton - who thought he was going to be running NFL routes with JT Daniels throwing passes - got frustrated with the offense and split and 5 star TE Darnell Washington nearly did the same but was coaxed back from the portal. And this is not just high school recruits. UGA was also not able to land elite WR talent from the portal, instead getting average guys from middling programs..
Don't give Coley too much credit. He wasn't able to land many top WRs during his previous stint either. The real reason why UGA has had more WR recruiting success is because Bobo has put the vertical passing game back into the offense with Beck. For 2 years WR recruits have been seeing the vertical and curl passes that Beck has (mostly) been putting right on the money only for the WRs to fail to separate from the DBs to make a play, or to drop the passes the few times that they do and thinking "I can make those plays, have a great time doing so and get NFL scouts to notice me." This didn't happen in the Fromm and SB IV eras. That's why people who want to go back to the Monken days aren't being realistic. UGA won those titles because they had a historically dominant defensive front 7, a College Football Hall of Fame TE and about 7-8 future NFL offensive linemen, plus a load of 4 and 5 star tailbacks recruited because they saw Chubb, Michel and Swift getting WAY more carries than any UGA RB has since. That isn't repeatable. UGA will contend far more regularly with the future NFL RBs and WRs that Alabama, LSU, Clemson etc. had when winning titles.
My thoughts as someone who hasn't followed this in depth. First off, we're third, but that doesn't really matter when there's only 4 pts that differentiate us vs #1 and that will go up and down as ratings fluctuate. The biggest question is whether #9 Justus Terry will sign with us (247sports thinks so) which would be a huge win.
Again, this is just what I see in rankings:
Offense:
- QB: #12 - I'm not going to be jealous of other teams as 4 star QBs seem to do better for us, ESPECIALLY since we can't get anyone that can catch the ball
Defense:
- DL - Got #1, #35 and hoping to get #2 which would be a huge win
So, seems like Georgia did decent although stronger on Defense vs Offense. Hopefully we will grab the #2 DL. Still seems to point to where we need to make changes on the Offensive coaching staff.
Wow! That's a lot of UGA football history to digest. I'm not sure what your point is, but I still hope we get the chance to give James Coley a ton of credit for rectifying those problems (separation and drops) in 2025. That's my point, not blaming him as you mentioned.
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