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What we're hearing with Jared Curtis and Georgia football as final visit before decision winds down
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What we're hearing with Jared Curtis and Georgia football as final visit before decision winds down
Welcome to "Sentell's Intel" where Jeff Sentell not only provides you the latest recruiting information, he takes you into the homes of these students and what makes them special to the Georgia program.
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Big, strong, quick-release, accurate passer. Looks like future face of the NFL. Josh Allen comes to mind, but much more accurate at this stage I would say.
Not sure where the info about his classification of school being between A and AAA in Georgia. I live in Nashville and he is in the smallest classification of private schools. 3A a huge stretch and even 2A is a stretch to me. Pretty easy classification and only real competition is the rare out of class or the state final.
I respect when a fellow fan shares "inside" information they know from their proximity to a recruit. So that was good info.
I will say this. Stockton and Puglisi are both from the smallest of small high school programs. I was critical of Arch Manning's competition level when I saw "highlights" of his time at his private school. Yet with some seasoning Manning looks the part in '25. GS and Puglisi are still works in progress and TBD.
IF there is 1 position that benefits from beating up on overmatched opponents in HS football it would be the QB position. Build your confidence. See the game slower. Practice all your throws in games knowing you only need a sliver of space.
The point is that Curtis has all the tools to DEVELOP into a top level CFB QB. He is and will be a work in progress like everybody. But there is a lot to work with there.
We have all read that his mom really likes UGA. We have also read that OR will pay more. IF it is true that those are his final 2 then UGA has a good chance to land him based on proximity between Nashville and Athens. I have read that proximity to Nashville is important in this case. Curtis will make enough to uproot his family from Nashville and move them all out to OR. But going to UGA he won't have to.
Not getting Raiola set UGA back. Curtis is a must get.
I try not to get too excited about any potential recruits these days since things can always change in a split second. But, the stats on Curtis are mind blowing and his frame size and toughness really stand out. Hard to not get pumped up about this kid. Crossing most parts of my body...
Just allot of hype really until he inks his signature on a LOI. I hate to be a pessimist but even if he makes Another verbal commitment he can slip away on signing day. Thats the way it is now with All potential recruits now with NIL.
IF he were to sign he sounds like a good get though.
He’s coming from a private school which makes me think of Walker our RB. His private school won their Ntl. Title I say Ntl. because they compete against several different states. Private schools often compete against schools from other states as there’s not enough in their league for each individual state as private schools. Wouldn’t it be Great to see Walker imitate a previous Walker at RB at UGA ?? 😀
P.S. Love to see this young QB come to UGA but if he doesn’t and elects to go to OR at least he won’t be in the SEC where he could potentially hurt our Dawgs.
Every really good QB coming out of HS can spin it. However, I think Jacob Eason and Brock Vendergriff are examples of not getting too carried away with 5 star QB's from small HS where the QB is usually the biggest and fastest guy on the team.
The last guy(only guy?) to win back to back NC's as a QB wasn't even 6 ft. tall, and he was a walk on to boot. Go figure. BUt he played on a NC caliber team, and he wasn't asked to rewrite the record books. BUt he did have a fire in his belly and a heart bigger than most.
Eenie , meenie , minee moe - Your guess is as good as mine or possibly as good as the coaches. SB was told by the OC he would never start at UGA. Ohio St let Joe Burrow walk away. It's not an exact science.
I do love the tape on Curtis though, and Ryan Montgomery. The tape is great on Puglisi and Gunner as well. Whoever gives us the best chance to win. Sometimes that can't be readily observed until the lights come on.( Thinking of the guy who started ahead of SB in the Arkansas game a few years ago.) That didn't go so well, but I'm sure he looked the part in practice. Go DAWGS!
I would love to see Curtis in Athens, but @UGADad20, I don't see any 1 player as a must get. Not sure loosing out on Raiola set us back. He wouldn't have seen the field at UGA for at least 2 years and he is not exactly burning it up at Nebraska. There are complaints out of Nebraska over his lack of mobility and now his weight gain. The Dawgs need team QB's ready to fight for their job, like Puglisi, who may very well have beaten Raiola out in the long run. Kirby and company are not placing all their efforts on Curtis. Sure he's number 1 on the board, but not the only 1. All that said, Curtis would be welcomed to Athens with open arms. Go Dawgs
We coulda had Raiola last year but all the geniuses decided to give Napoleon Dynamite Carson Beck four million dollars to sabotage last season. Not a very good move…
the UGA offense needs several more playmakers in addition to a quarterback that we do not seem to have at the moment.
2025 is the year that Oregon will eclipse UGA in football.
In general, there seems to be a big differnce between the five-stars that Bama recruits vs the five-stars that UGA recruits. Why is that?
I watched some of a few Nebraska games. Never once did I think, "Wow! We missd out on a franchise QB!" MAybe because he was playing for NEbraska and not Alabama or Ohio St.
CB was our best chance at winning a NAtty, 3,500 yards and 30 TD's the year before. HIm or a FReshman with zero experience in the SEC? Come on man. Really?
If you are happy being in that 5-10 range or missing the playoffs every other year then Curtis is not a must get player. In this day and age of CFB there is 1 player/position that is a very high level must get to challenge for championships. That is at the QB position. AL, OSU, MI, OR, TX all have 5* QB's queued up. IF UGA wants to compete with those programs it needs to keep pace recruiting at the most valuable position.
Before you bring up 3*-4* OSU's Howard he was a well seasoned CFB QB with solid numbers/experience previous to OSU. There is no arguing that he played like a 5* QB in the '24 playoffs. It helped that he had 2 NFL RB's, an NFL TE and 4 NFL WR's.
Because Raiola flipped, UGA now has a 2 (or more if UGA doesn't sign Curtis) year window of uncertainty at the QB position and a probable Top 5 ceiling. That is a setback. As far as Puglisi, "may well have beaten Raiola out", the probability of Puglisi never starting a game at UGA is higher than the probability of Puglisi beating Raiola out. Had he signed.
I don't agree that "he wouldn't have seen the field for at least 2 years". Raiola threw for almost 3000 yards and had a completion % of 67% as a freshman on a middling B10 team. I saw some of his games and he is a very polished player with all the measurables. His completion % last year was higher than CBeck's in '24. He has Beck's accuracy and arm while being a much more mobile player. He looks like a can't miss CFB star. Raiola was plug and play. Every other QB that UGA had/has or will have (sans Curtis) seem like guys that need 3 years before they can be trusted to play at a high level. Again, that is a UGA setback.
The parallel's between Jake Fromm's struggles during JField's freshman season and CBeck's struggles last year in what would've been Raiola's freshmen season are uncanny. Would CKS have learned from Fromm's struggles and the loss of Field's and pulled Beck last season for a very ready Raiola? Probably not, knowing how CKS operates. But maybe he would have. The way CBeck played at times last year vs the talent and readiness of Raiola, UGA may have been better served pulling Beck for Raiola last year. Raiola was certainly more ready to play high level QB last year than GStockton was.
Raiola is the face of the NE program. He is their ticket to improved recruiting and winning at a level NE has not seen in decades. He takes that role seriously. He knows what is on him. I saw a guy that was a good athlete. Very capable of moving in the pocket or running when necessary. Not sure who badmouthed him but the success of the NE program is on his shoulders. Doubtful that he would be mailing it in after 1 season considering how much pressure and attention will be on him in '25.
Can UGA afford to recruit (and pay) high level HS QB's and sit them (and risk losing them and pay them) for 3 years until they play? Or does UGA now change its recruiting strategy to recruit lower level players at the QB position hoping to develop them and luck into another SBIV (and '21 and '22 D)? It will be interesting to watch how it plays out. Curtis's recruitment will be very revealing.
BA just did a video on the value of the 4th or 5th year QB. SB, Will Howard, and JJ McCarthy, Mac Jones for BAMA as a very seasoned player, and of course Joe Burrow. Last 5 winners of the NC. If that holds again and again then even if we got Curtis and he waited a year like Arch Manning has, then theoretically, the best UGA could do with him in 2027 would be put him up against a very seasoned Arch Manning. And if the experienced QB holds true, then Texas wins.
IF you do a quick searchof Dylan Railoa you see articles such as, He has to work on "pocket mobility", and another one says he needs to work on "body composition", and another one says he has to "get the ball out of his hands".
So, right now, at this very moment, give me GS. Does Gunner need to work on stuff too? Of course. But Kirby was never going to start Raolia over Beck. So, even if we had gotten Dylan, he would have minimal to zero experience heading into this fall.
I don't see Dylan entering the 2nd half of the Texas game not having had any real game experience as Gunner and performing any better than Gunner did. Nor for that matter the Notre Dame game if that was his first start.
It will be harder for UGA to get back to the NC game in 2025 than last season IMHO. But stranger things have happened and hope always springs eternal. Well with UGA any way.