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Sentellâs Intel: The 411 on the 12 Georgia football weekend official visitors
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Sentellâs Intel: The 411 on the 12 Georgia football weekend official visitors
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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Really disheartening to see almost overnight, recruiting becoming a huge down for the future. Hope Kirby proves me wrong!!
One sentence to sum up this class UGA will sign 5 major blue chips - Spell, Dollar, Gouda, Jackson, and ??? - and the rest a development class cycle. Likely less than 25 and begin loading up the next cycle with the QB Wade.
Highest bidder now
Florida and Florida State and Miami were ruling the 90s and early 2000s and then all of a sudden those schools could not get their top talent to stay in state for anything. None of them could keep the states best players. I am trying to stay positive but you also are not developing an entire roster one day. What team has won the National Championship without stars all over the roster. Indiana number one QB. It’s not rocket science. The coaches try to make it like rocket science but sign really good players and then act like you got the special formula.
Iowa develops an entire roster and they have a pretty good team every 4 years. After the next two seasons, the come practice against the best of the best pitch ain’t gonna work either. I kept thinking we are still gonna do good in recruiting but we are not cracking the top 15 this year. Not enough top talent left. Huge difference in watching some of the highlights we are watching. Huge difference. Huge.
I am tired of hearing this developmental pitch from people. Yea we can develop a few guys I get it. The roster that won the national championship that had 45 players eventually drafted. That team that barely got by Ohio State had one of the best blue chip ratios the earth has ever witnessed. Just tell us we ain’t recruiting very well this year. Our plan and I know that UGA had a plan but it did not work at all. It happens sometimes. We lost some important employees in the recruiting department and it is no doubt rearing its head.
@HellHound I am depressed to admit you are 100% correct. I am a 32 year ticket holder and a tiny donor, but I disagree with the logic that older 3 stars are going to compete with 4/5 stars. The theory that all these elite players will all transfer from thier existing schools is crap. They will be well paid to retain. We are going to be shocked in a few years at how we have missed the boat in recruiting philosophy. Tailgating is a young mans game and I will soon be giving up the process. I hope my remaining years are not 8-4 Bluebonnet Bowl days!
y’all remember the days when we could pay players illegally and get the best talent…the good ole days, miss those days
Haha, if you think wade is staying, you haven’t been paying attention
what I just read. Embarrassing if true.
I am starting to see a pattern now. This is another in a series of woe is me Dawgnation articles about the struggles of recruiting.
Nothing is more indicative of that than the rankings of these visiting prospects. Neatly spelled out in the chart above.
How long before Dawgnation, as a tenticle of the UGA athletic program, becomes more direct about how us fans can become more involved ($$$) in winning these recruiting battles?
desperate fanbase pumping in cash after being in the college football wilderness for 15+ years. Kinda like Georgia in 2017…
"It’s the latest sign that it has gotten harder for everyone, including Georgia, to recruit elite talent"
Huh? Maybe UGA, certainly not everyone especially our major competitors.
Fully trust Kirby, but at some point you at least have to think the other @ 90% may know something. Maybe it's a version of "Billyball" of the old Oakland A's, the championship Red Sox. IF this apparent new strategy of avoiding top 5*'s frees more money to pay & retain your proven talent AND pay for proven transfers, it may make sense. Similar to why a business would pay more & sometimes only hire a person with experience vs. a new undergrad. I hope that's the case.
Kirby's board is the market. If one team each poaches one of his prime targets with bigger bucks, that's a lot of poached prime targets, leaving Kirby with tier 2 candidates. We are becoming a development team for CFB.
Kirby has been slow to react to this fact.
I posted this idea under one of BA's podcast a few days ago. I think Smart has taken a new path on talent acquisition, transfer portal. He is putting greater weight on seasoned veterans that have been developing for a few years rather than the 1 and done 5-stars of today that don't stay around and develop. Veteran players are proving to be a winning combination for other programs and Smart is adjusting to it. Veterans are winning championships not guys entering the draft after 3 years. Not saying recruiting is going to go away, it will remain an important part of the equation, but the math has changed for the winning formula. We are seeing a change in MO, not a decline of the program.
All of which I just stated, combined with the money grab, has ruined the sport for me. Good luck to the program, but I can't compete with Delta/Coca-Cola/Southern Company for tickets, just to watch a game gutted of passion and loyalty.