Five-star recruit Richard SamuelWith the commitments of Zebrie Sanders to Florida State and Omar Hunter to the Gators, UGA won't need to scrounge up another scholarship this year. It looks like recruiting is done. The rumors were that the coaching staff would try to find another scholarship for one of those two recruits, but it appears they didn't find one. I wish Zebrie Sanders luck. I wish Omar Hunter serious disaster every year on the football field, but this is not personal. I wish every Gator disaster on the field, floor, air, sea, in space, and underground.
For the second year in a row, we head into signing day without a serious storyline. Last year, we got the last minute surprise switcharoo by Chris Little and Antwan Greenlee, but it looks like the only noise we'll hear on signing day will be the hum of fax machines. Richt & Co. continue to wrap their classes up early and use January as an evaluation period for juniors. So far, we can't complain about the results. The Dawgs will reel in another top 10 class.
The only remaining questions are the continued flirtations of Dwayne Allen, the blue-chip tight end from North Carolina. Allen committed to UGA early, but has continued to visit other schools. There is a large school of thought that believes Allen's pledge was firm before Coach Johnson's departure and nothing has changed with the hiring of Coach Lilly. Allen was reportedly pleased with the hire. I think Allen has known he is going to UGA for a while, but is enjoying as much attention and coed company as possible before Signing Day.
It would have been nice to have Sanders or Hunter, but it should give you confidence that we are now turning away great prospects because we are full.
Quinton
For the second year in a row, we head into signing day without a serious storyline. Last year, we got the last minute surprise switcharoo by Chris Little and Antwan Greenlee, but it looks like the only noise we'll hear on signing day will be the hum of fax machines. Richt & Co. continue to wrap their classes up early and use January as an evaluation period for juniors. So far, we can't complain about the results. The Dawgs will reel in another top 10 class.
The only remaining questions are the continued flirtations of Dwayne Allen, the blue-chip tight end from North Carolina. Allen committed to UGA early, but has continued to visit other schools. There is a large school of thought that believes Allen's pledge was firm before Coach Johnson's departure and nothing has changed with the hiring of Coach Lilly. Allen was reportedly pleased with the hire. I think Allen has known he is going to UGA for a while, but is enjoying as much attention and coed company as possible before Signing Day.
It would have been nice to have Sanders or Hunter, but it should give you confidence that we are now turning away great prospects because we are full.
Quinton
15 comments:
yeah, this is a good recruiting class but the gators are ahead of us sitting at #1 on rivals.com so ive heard from ajc.com
They were quite a few spots ahead of us when we slapped them around in Jacksonville, also.
Florida eats it.
Amazing how the committment of Omar (who just recently got bumped up to the 5-star level) can propel Florida from out of the top ten to first place by Rivals.
According to Scout, we are #3 & florida is #6. It would have been nice to have Omar or Zebrie and it sucks that Omar chose our rival, but we have a great class if we get them all in.
There is still talk that we might get the DB out of Tucker. The bad part is, like Omar, if we don't he will go to another rival.
xavier avery is a concern, he'll eat up a scholly on signing day and then probably go the baseball route. frustrates me... more frustrating is that we'll probably give the scholly to a walk on over the summer.
To elaborate on jasonc's post: Tucker defensive back Neiko Lipscomb is down to Auburn and Georgia. He visited AU and is trying to set something up w/ UGA.
Neiko can set something up all he wants to, just like Omar did, but the bottom line is we don't have any schollys left. Zebrie was told that and Omar was told that. Unless someone decides in the next couple of days to leave Georgia or decommit, we are done.
And that's not a bad thing - we have a stellar class. I'm more than happy with this year's class!
Go Dawgs!
Great class this year. Go Dawes
Tim Tebow will not win his next two meetings with the dawgs.
We don't have to find another scolly for Lipscomb...he is a sign and place candidate, which means we wouldn't pick up his scholarship until next year.
Threadjack: Per the AJC, VanGorder is headed back to the Falcons to be the DC.
VanGorder to Falcon's translates into Tenuta to SC?
Actually Tenuta appears to be heading to UW to coach for Ty Willingham.
Columbia's The State has Ellis Johnson becoming the new DC at USC.
In "keeping it real" terms, what exactly does this mean?
"the coaching staff would try to find another scholarship for one of those two recruits"
The number of rides is set in stone. Does that mean somebody already on the team all of a sudden develops a discipline problem and loses his or they pull one back from anothe recruit? Honestly.
Dubbayoo,
You could have 4th year juniors who've got their college degrees retire. That's the also known as the Ronnie Powell / Clint Larkin plan.
PWD
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