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LBs in the past 10 drafts:
Georgia 11 (5 in 1st round)
Texas 2 (both 3rd round)
That leaves two reasons not to pick Georgia: chasing bag and being afraid of competition.
Well, the $$ wing again……
See ya, next man up.
Bunch of nil and pay-to-play nonsense ruining the college and soon high school game, but the lawyers, politicians and agents love it…follow the money
I still strongly believe this—-if he picks Texas, NIL is the important factor——if he picks UGA, superior development and a higher NFL pick are the important factors. My question is answered. GO DAWGS!!
It take a team to win 🏆 the natty. One player of his size is not the game changer. Georgia dodged the headache.
Maybe after the Dawgs spank Texas…again…he'll change his mind and see past the $$$.
The kid announced suddenly to be in the middle of SEC media days only Texas would do something as crass as that. What I read about him he is into his brand and stuff like that as a teenager which is sole focus is not football. For me the boogie man still is Bama. Texas is just good at making noise.
TX is probably just beginning their spending. It looks like Manning is planning to stay 2 years as starter. He should be developed by Sark while he is there (#1 overall NFL pick). He has all the physical tools. More so than Archie, Peyton and Eli. So he will be a player before he leaves. Expect TX to win a national championship in '25 or '26.
@PeterA There's quite a list of outstanding college players who didn't make any money in the NFL because they were injured in college or had skills for the college game but not the NFL one. For them, the ability to make money in college is a positive. And I am dubious about the effect on the college game. Even if you exclude the Big 12 refugees you are still left with half the SEC - Arkansas, Kentucky, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, South Carolina and Vanderbilt - that have only made the SECCG once (if that) and have never won it. This was when the kids were supposed to be playing for free. Other conferences are no different. Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State from the Big 10; FSU, Miami and Clemson from the ACC; USC, Washington and Oregon from the Pac-12; Texas and Oklahoma from the Big 12. Maybe more teams had a shot back when the sport was more regional, we still had the bowl system and there were more conferences. But now that college football is driven by national TV, super conferences and a playoff any notion of an even playing field where most any program that hires the right coach can build a contender is long gone.
Just be glad that UGA is one of the "have's." Take a have not: Georgia Tech. Because they decided to spend decades manufacturing an elite academic reputation for themselves, they have a tiny mostly out of state alumni base that doesn't like sports and could care less about their alma mater. Result: athletics department almost $300 million in debt. No way they are ever going to manage a competitive collective. The best they will be able to do is scavenge the portal for kids who already made their NIL money coming out of high school and are just looking for playing time. With good coaching and a weak ACC schedule they can win 9 games a year but no more.
So unlike Tech and the other have nots, UGA's issues are fixable. They have a ton of resources for coaching, athletics department support staff and NIL collectives. There is more than enough talent within a 6 hour car drive from Athens - for example Jacksonville is 5 hours 45 minutes - to use said resources to identify and compensate 105 kids, the new scholarship limit, who want to be in Athens for 5 years. Michigan in 2023 showed that the "quantity over stars" approach can work. They used the portal to build a team that, while not having the explosive individual athletes of the 2021 UGA team, was crazy deep, had a ton of upperclassmen, executed extremely well and had no weaknesses. UGA can build even better rosters primarily with high school recruiting.
UGA is the flagship university of a talent-rich state whose border states lack schools with UGA's academic reputation (Tennessee, South Carolina, north Florida) or football tradition (North Carolina) and unlike the Florida, California and Texas schools they have no in-state competition for players. Not like, say, the Gators, who have to use NIL money to recruit against FSU and Miami for 5 stars that they need to start AND against UCF and USF for the 3 stars that they need for depth. If UGA can't adapt in a way that uses this new era to their advantage, that is on them.
Money talks. No way a Georgia guy goes to Texas unless he’s chasing the money. I wanted us to get this young man, but if money is that important to him I prefer the young men who value other things higher.
@JBMDawg46 If money played no role in where people went to college then pretty much everyone would go to colleges close to home. Instead athletes choose colleges that can get them to the NFL if they are good enough (money) and everyone else chooses Ivy League schools etc. that maximizes their chances to make big salaries at Fortune 500 and other elite companies. All that's changed here is the ability to make money while in school as opposed to waiting until you leave.
I guarantee you that were universities to offer non-athletes the ability to make $50,000 a year in some sort of apprenticeship arrangement with corporations while they attended school that did not objectively harm their graduate school or job prospects, pretty much everyone to whom $50,000 a year is real money would take it and no one would criticize them over it. Like if the top 25 state schools i.e. Michigan, UCLA, Berkeley, Texas, Maryland, Virginia etc. were to do that to lure more kids from Stanford, MIT and the Ivy League schools. (Honestly the only reason why this hasn't been tried is because most of those schools are run by lefties, but another story for another day.) That is all that is going on here.
Of course, the real question is: “How long is he ‘committed’ to Texas?”. Committed these days means basically nothing.