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Kirby Smart knows the negative recruiting used against Georgia. Hereâs how he plans to beat it.
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Kirby Smart knows the negative recruiting used against Georgia. Hereâs how he plans to beat it.
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another 2027 recruiting class piece while diamond dawgs 2026 version are on fire!!!
Miami will buy teams and try to get a National Championship, but I wonder if they can do it with their coach. When Miami can't foot the bill in a couple years, will he move on to another team and **** them dry? Will universities wise up to the scheme?
I guess I would like to see more diamond dawgs articles, but I've seen them choke so many times. Their hitting is fantastic, but they have a chink in the armor with their pitching. They got crushed by GT.
The recruiting landscape has changed — and fast. NIL is no longer a side factor; for many recruits and their families, it has become the decision factor. The programs most willing — and most capable — of spending at the highest levels are increasingly the ones playing on the final weekend of the season. That evolution was probably inevitable.
Kirby Smart has consistently said he wants 22 players who truly want to play for University of Georgia — competitors who embrace the culture, the standard, and the responsibility that comes with wearing the G. That philosophy built a championship program.
But college football is entering a different era now. If Georgia intends to remain at the very top, development alone can no longer be assumed. Since the 2022 championship season, Georgia has not won a CFP game, and too often the program has not looked like the same relentless, player-developing machine that separated it from the field during the championship run.
That means one of two things has to happen: either Georgia returns to elite player development and maximizes the talent already on the roster, or it fully commits to competing in the new financial arms race at the highest level. Ideally, it does both.
What makes this harder for many fans to understand is that much of the coaching staff has continued receiving raises and extensions every year since 2023. From the outside, that signals institutional satisfaction with the current trajectory. For a fan base accustomed to championship standards, that can feel surprising — even disappointing — when postseason results no longer match the expectations the program itself created.
While I agree with and applaud Kirby's recruiting and development approach, I do think this will be the season that starts to really determine if that approach is working well enough to compete for an NC.
It's also an important season for Bobo and the offense to prove they can be consistently productive as we move through the season.
Good points Peter and all valid. I just think he should splurge on one or even two each year for an important position. If we fall to #8 or whatever this year, will Kirby adjust? I don't see us having enough 5 star/high 4 star to compete in the playoffs against teams loaded with high $ players. Kirby used to say X&O's don't win, talent does!
I admire Kirby’s approach. The only flaw I see is that players on the offensive side of the ball are not getting developed due to poor coaching. Outside of Branch, who was a one year transfer, we have not seen our QBs or WRs taken high in the draft over the last three years. So the “development model” doesn’t hold water on the offensive side of the ball. Therefore, we do not land elite QBs or WRs and will continue to miss out on these prospects until we change the trajectory of our offensive coaching and play calling.
I’d rather we splurge on a better OC
I thing the opportunity to start was why Curtis flipped to Vandy. Yes money probably played a part but he was looking at sitting this year and then having to try to win the starting job next year where at Vandy he was given the job. In some ways you can’t blame him. He won’t be missed at UGA, he more of a ME type guy. Go dawgs!!
that starting opportunity and the $ was exactly why he flipped. The way he went about it was gross, but I’m hoping we can make him want to quit football when we play them.
This recruiting thing is a moral dilemma. I agree with Kirby in preferring kids who want to be at Georgia, are willing to work hard to get better, and will stay put for 3-5 years. In addition, I have difficulty even wanting these kids who are in it primarily for the money. However, as our culture continues to encourage greed and selfishness as not just appropriate but strongly approving of those character flaws, it may become difficult to compete with the schools willing and able to pay such athletes. It is troubling that coaches, parents, and administrators are willing to reward greed and selfishness in order to win games. It’s a failure to teach kids important life lessons like the importance of integrity, loyalty, and doing what is best for the common good. What will these greedy, selfish young men be when they are 35 or 40 years old? Who knows?
Dooley’s Dawgs were seldom the most talented, but they always played hard. The roster in that era was almost all Georgia kids. They loved UGA and played their guts out. They didn’t always win, but I was always proud of them. Those days are gone. Money rules. Loyalty is rare. Willingness to be coached hard is seen less and less. Nevertheless, I’m with Kirby. Go find 22-25 young men who want to be DGDs and see what happens. Who knows, it might work. Of course, as pointed out by many on this site, improved offensive coaching would be helpful.
100%! For the recruits who AREN'T about the NIL money, they want to know they're learning from an NFL worthy coordinator to help them get the NFL money.
If Kirby knows what they say about NIL, surely he knows what other schools say about Bobo.
Slime ball sports agents have now been allowed into college football. Nuff said.
The state of Georgia is the #1 producer of both NFL draft picks and blue-chip recruits—per capita—in the nation. They are #1 straight up in Top 100 recruits. I wish these guys would mention that.
I’m just glad the article didn’t have data on the percentage of those in-state blue-chip recruits that signed elsewhere;-(