Top 50 recruits in Georgia

RamblinWreck92

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If the easy “athlete major” at UGA was business, and not whatever cakewalk you currently have, would your recruiting suffer compared to your competition?
the majors at that ööööhole are a joke, just like that ööööing "university".

one can say what they want about Auburn, 'Bama, etc but I've never heard any of their fans try to compare their degrees to ours. At least they're honest that they're a factory school. ööööing mutt fans seem to think otherwise - ööööing morons.
 

BigChooch0405

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who cares what a dwag fan thinks?

Answer: No football player going to 'u'ga is gonna qualify to play for us. mutt players are ööööing idiots. the place is a ööööhole factory that'll let 'em take stupid-ass'd majors like "women's studies" or some bullshit like that. The mutt admin only cares about winning football games and not a damn about the athlete.
to hell with all of 'em.

The below graphic was making its way around recruiting twitter in the past few weeks. Ignore the poster (Dwag premium writer) and look a the content.
We had to make 167 offers in attempts to build our current class. UF, UGA, UM, UT - all had to offer way, way more.

I'm generally curious. Do we need to streamline and put more attention into fewer offers or should we ramp it up and cast a wider net.

 

GEETEELEE

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The factories have a system of boosters and shadow boosters that GT simply can't match. It's numbers and money. Kim King used to be the unofficial head of the booster system; his death was a severe loss. Don't know who's coordinating it now, but we just don't and won't have the boosters that a UGA, Clemson, Alabama, etal is going to have.

Pretty sure the below article has made the rounds on ST before now, but it bears repeating:
The Bag Man excuses himself to make a call outside, on his "other phone," to arrange delivery of $500 in cash to a visiting recruit. The player is rated No. 1 at his position nationally and on his way into town. We're sitting in a popular restaurant near campus almost a week before National Signing Day, talking about how to arrange cash payments for amateur athletes.

"Nah, there's no way we're landing him, but you still have to do it," he says. "It looks good. It's good for down the road. Same reason my wife reads Yelp. These kids talk to each other. It's a waste of money, but they're doing the same thing to our guys right now in [rival school's town]. Cost of business."

Technically, this conversation never happened, because I won't reveal this man's name or the player's, or even the town I visited. Accordingly, all the other conversations I had with different bag men representing different SEC programs over a two-month span surrounding National Signing Day didn't happen either.

Even when I asked for and received proof -- in this case a phone call I watched him make to a number I independently verified, then a meeting in which I witnessed cash handed to an active SEC football player -- it's just cash changing hands. When things are done correctly, there's no proof more substantial than one man's word over another. That allows for plausible deniability, which is good enough for the coaches, administrators, conference officials, and network executives. And the man I officially didn't speak with was emphatic that no one really understands how often and how well it almost always works.
https://www.sbnation.com/college-fo...lege-football-bag-man-interview?src=longreads
 

18in32

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The below graphic was making its way around recruiting twitter in the past few weeks. Ignore the poster (Dwag premium writer) and look a the content.
We had to make 167 offers in attempts to build our current class. UF, UGA, UM, UT - all had to offer way, way more.

I'm generally curious. Do we need to streamline and put more attention into fewer offers or should we ramp it up and cast a wider net.

The stereotypical fan view is that Saban gets whoever Saban wants. So why is he offering the same number of kids as powerhouses Minnesota and Maryland?

Obviously Saban doesn't really get whomever he wants, but more to the point, there's lot of reasons why students say they have an offer from Alabama, but don't. Since the school doesn't report that information, you're getting it from student-athletes who may or may not be telling the truth. What this is really is a compilation of schools that kids want to have offers from, and either do have, or think they can get away saying they do.

Moreover, we're all aware that not every "offer" is equal; sometimes they're just expressions of interest; and in almost every case they're 'first-come first-served' anyhow. So offers from these schools may nor may not be real, and reflect varying levels of interest anyhow. This is a case of 'garbage in garbage out.'
 

GoldZ

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The factories have a system of boosters and shadow boosters that GT simply can't match. It's numbers and money. Kim King used to be the unofficial head of the booster system; his death was a severe loss. Don't know who's coordinating it now, but we just don't and won't have the boosters that a UGA, Clemson, Alabama, etal is going to have.

Pretty sure the below article has made the rounds on ST before now, but it bears repeating:


https://www.sbnation.com/college-fo...lege-football-bag-man-interview?src=longreads
Yeah GTL, there are those on here that are so naive they post silly big cries on claims that there are actually bagmen under the bed.
 

PasadenaJacket

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From gojackets.com:

· From 1985 to 1999 we had six top twenty-five classes.

1985 # 12
1988 # 22
1991 # 14
1993 # 19
1996 # 9 (based mainly on Quincy Carter)
1999 # 19



Some random rankings. The ranking system does not necessarily match with some of the current systems.

Robert Lavette 5*
Gary Lee 3*
Ivory Lee 4*
John Davis 4*
Todd Rampley 4*
Terrence Curry 5*
Eric Bearden 5*
Rod Stephens 5*
Ricardo Ingram 2*
Steve Davenport 4*
Jerry Mays 3* (give credit here. only one 1-A offer)
Cedric Stallworth 5*
Randy Baldwin 5*
Joe Siffri 4*
Shawn Jones 4*
Bobby Rodriguez 5*
Antoine Moore 5*
Emmett Merchant 5*
Willie Clay 4*
Kevin Battle 5*
William Bell 4*
Calvin Tiggle 4*
Coleman Rudolph 4*
Donnie Davis 5* (#2 QB behind Eric Zier and ahead if Heath Shuler)

Bottom line is that it’s BS that it can’t be done.
Wait, could you give us the URL? Because I don’t see that anywhere.
 

manjano mdudu

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smokey_wasp

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I like how yall are avoiding the elephant in the room. NO KID WANTS TO PLAY IN THE FLEXBONE IN 2018
You really think that's the elephant in the room as far as recruiting is concerned, rather than academics, money, etc? Its more like you are focusing on the cockroach hiding in the crack of the wall and ignoring the room itself.
 

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Does the Tech men's basketball program recruit as well or better than UGA's?

If so, what are they (the basketball program) doing that the football program might emulate?
 

wesleyd21

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The below graphic was making its way around recruiting twitter in the past few weeks. Ignore the poster (Dwag premium writer) and look a the content.
We had to make 167 offers in attempts to build our current class. UF, UGA, UM, UT - all had to offer way, way more.

I'm generally curious. Do we need to streamline and put more attention into fewer offers or should we ramp it up and cast a wider net.

Interesting
 
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