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Immature.
It sucks but it really is the best. Curtis was either going to transfer,.force one of our QBs to transfer or both. Georgia just doesn't fit what high profile QBs want and need. We will rarely have NFL QBs (Stafford didn't do amazing at Georgia). We have the game managers, the scrappy fighters and the guys with chips on their shoulders.
Here's the thing. Stockton isn't going to the NFL this year. He needs that second year. So that means that Puglisi and Montgomery will have to wait another year. We didn't need an impatient Freshman complicating that.
Also remember that Smart gets whatever transfer QB he wants. They never work out but he gets them.
“ He was no longer a Dawg. He was a Commodore.”
He was never a Dawg! He’s never been through a practice, been assigned a locker, or dropped one drop of sweat on the practice field as a Georgia Bulldog! These so-called “commitments” are becoming more worthless every year.
“The one thing that was consistent throughout all of the stories, headlines, and edits was that Jared Curtis never really had his say about any of it.”
He certainly had the opportunity to “have his say about it”. He didn’t get to do it in the suspenseful way that he planned. He wanted to control the narrative all the way up to the moment he put the Vandy hat on (see comment by @BubbaBill below). He is literally upset that he didn’t get the opportunity to prolong his deceptive double-cross.
Justin Fields, all over again
ok I have no problem with him choosing Vandy, heck he probably would have TP out next year. My problem is the saying I’m committed to Georgia not once but twice then flips. It hurts the staff from looking for another QB. He seems to have a ME ego but next years Vandy won’t be the same team as the one this year, they are losing a lot of players. Godspeed to him, I know he will be playing at home and will make a lot of money.
it’s like he was rubbing it in Kirby and the staff face. They invested a lot of time in this kid… seems like a spoiled one who doesn’t fit the TEAM not ME that Kirby preaches.
yeah after reading some great post it comes down to..why did he recommitt? When he went to the Vandy game I knew he was gone. Hey that’s his business don’t don’t try to embarrass my school and coaches who put a lot of their time and effort into you just so you have your moment of throwing a Georgia hat down so you can’t put on a Vandy hat. Go dawgs.. we got bigger fish to fry
Yea, if he came to UGA we lose at least one or maybe two sitting QB's to portal. We don't recruit elite receivers, so the scrappy "Gunner/Bennet" types will always do well under Kirby. All we need is an excellent OL to make it all work!
@Vetdawg and @DawgMike:
This is nothing like the Fields thing. Please read the link at the bottom of this comment for a blast from the past.
First off, Smart swiped Fields from Penn State, where he was a longtime commit from back when he was a 3 star prospect before his rating skyrocketed. Also, UGA promised Fields a legitimate QB competition during recruiting. It never happened. Next idea: give Fields meaningful snaps during games as consolation, but Fromm made his displeasure VERY clear. It devolved into Kirby Smart telling Fields - and allowing it to get out into the press - "if you transfer you are going to have to sit out a year anyway so you may as well sit out here." Translation: Fields was not going to get a shot to win the job in 2019 either. (And how exactly was this "sitting out" thing going to work anyway? There was no other scholarship QB on the roster!)
So Fields split. Recall the "he should have gone to Penn State from the beginning" thing: a bad decision for his long term NFL career. He should have prioritized a place where he would learn an NFL type playbook, read defenses and go through progressions, even if that place wasn't Athens. But he has made $38 million in the NFL so far. Plus his NFL career is far from over. After the Jets ditch him in a few weeks, he would be a perfect backup and developmental QB in Baltimore for Lamar Jackson with Todd Monken. So not a disaster.
Fields should have never broken his commitment to Penn State. Smart never should have allowed him to believe that he had a realistic chance of winning the starting job in order to flip him. Fromm, who was very much right to protect his own interests, should never have been put in this situation to begin with. But as things turned out the way that they did, Fields getting out of Athens was best for all involved. Fields got his big NFL contract without UGA, UGA won 2 national titles without Fields and Fromm got to keep the starting QB job that he had earned.
Also, all the people who are upset at Justin Fields for leaving should protest against the very many Carson Beck bashers. You know, the guy who stayed 4 years despite PLENTY of teams trying to get him to transfer and who started 2 seasons at UGA until the depleted talent at WR, RB and OL resulted in a near career-ending injury that 100% was not his fault. Had Beck put his NFL earning potential over his loyalty to UGA, he would have hit the portal and long gotten his NFL contract by now. As it is, he is trying to salvage his NFL shot at Miami despite his elbow still clearly not being 100%.
https://www.si.com/college/2019/08/09/jake-fromm-georgia-quarterback-kirby-smart
Happy trails. And don’t look back…
You know there are players that want and get the nice NIL and other agreements but they Also really, really want to play at UGA.
When your hear them say things like All my life I’ve dreamed of playing at UGA and being a Dawg.
So there’s a level of Loyalty in the picture to. That matters.
We’ve read over the years and seen in interviews Kirby say I want kids who Want to be here. That kid that thinks that way is gonna give every thing he has. With Kirby running a NFL type practice camp the young men are gonna Need that type of loyalty to succeed.
You have some that are thinking ALL for themselves. How much NIL do I get ? How soon do I get to play ? Am I gonna be the starter ? And in the back of their mind their thinking if this don’t work out I’ll just hit the TP !! Where’s the Loyalty in any of that ?
Now I realize that Loyalty unfortunately doesn’t always add up to being a great player. But I’d want someone I know I can count on especially in a clutch moment.
Another thing some players get the idea of “saving themselves for the NFL”. Well football is a hard contact sport. The difference some times between a very good WR and a great WR is the great guy will go up and get the ball Knowing he’s about to take a wicked shot from the Defender. Not to long ago Kirby said something along those lines about Gunner.
The vs GT game was a bad outing for Gunner. Things just wouldn’t go his way. And that happens from time to time even with world class pro athletes. But as far as Effort that was the one area he got his Usual A in that game. His body was brutalized in that game.
And the Dawgs are very blessed with quite a few players that have tons of Loyalty in all three units. I think that’s one of if not The main reason for their success. They honestly see each other as life long brothers. That’s a strong bond and makes for a great football team. I don’t see that in this kid, obviously not for UGA anyway. But I do see it in Puglisi and Montgomery. Puglisi said it was a dream come true when he got his offer from Kirby !!
I’d be sick to my stomach to see Gunner suffer a critical injury. But I’m confident that if God forbid that happened Puglisi is gonna give every thing he has so would Montgomery from what I’ve read on him. I think we’re in good shape with our QBs.
You cannot worry about kids that are not at the school. If he is good enough to start at Vanderbilt in the SEC, then good luck to him. He was not going to start at Georgia. It basically comes down to that.
Recruiting has always cost money. It harms a program when kids do as Curtis did, flipping at the last minute. College football is not going to survive without some changes. The pro model seems to be the way. Instead of “commitments” that mean nothing, go straight to contract signing. Put a large buyout in the contract. That is how it’s done for coaches. And build into every contract for coaches and players a set date (two weeks following the national championship?) where contract business can be begin and a set date when it must end prior to setting rosters. No more pretending the kids need to be protected—it’s all about the money and freedom. So the sport and its health needs to be protected. If they want the money, then take care of the business.