Today is the beginning of the early signing period, which is like Signing Day for football without the stupid hat tricks and unwarranted pomp afforded high school football players. Coach Fox is expected to sign Florida forward Cady Lalanne, the nation's No. 142 overall prospect according to Rivals. The fact that Coach Fox's first 2010 signee is a top 150 guy is promising, considering UGA has been largely absent from that list in prior years. The bad news is that there are seven Georgia players on that list and we have signed none of them. Only Jelan Kendrick, a national top 10 prospect and the top guy in state, remains uncommitted at this point.
Coach Landers also expects a good day. Point guard Ronika Ransford, guard Khaalidah Miller, and center Ariel Johnson are supposed to sign with the Lady Dawgs. Both guards are top 40 prospects. It's another top 15 class to add to last year's stellar group. It's nice to see the girls program getting a bit more recruiting attention.
In sports only I care about, blue chipper Kate Fuller signed with the women's tennis team. Fuller was the 2008 Georgia Junior Tennis Player of the Year and is a top national recruit. Alpharetta's Rachael Hart is also expected to sign with UGA.
Manny Diaz and the men's tennis program has commitments from two national recruits, but I don't know if they were signing today or not. Garrett Brasseaux of Covington, Louisiana and Californian Campbell Johnson are both top 20 prospects and are committed to the Dawgs.
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If Fox can do what I think he can do at UGA (called "winning"), then I think we'll be able to jump up on some guys' lists in-state. Especially if the triangle offense features more scoring than we've seen in the past.
This is a really weird time of year to have spring signing day.
You're right, Fuelk2. For some reason I was thinking spring=tennis. I changed it for you.
That was probably kind of a smart ass way for me to put it, but I guess that's the nature of blog comments. Anyway, glad to Coach Fox getting it going (at least to some extent). And, uh, go tennis.
Actually, all I know about tennis is that my wife is a Texas grad and when we lost to them this spring, I ended up having to pick up after her for a while as a result of a lost bet. Dammit.
If you want to make yourself sick, go look at Tennessee's men's basketball commitment list for 2010 and 2011. Almost all kids from Georgia. One is a 6 star player from frickin Conyers.
Mistake above, I mean a 5 star player from Conyers.
Landers has the same problem as Richt. Top 20 class but still only 5th in the SEC.
Thanks, PWD. I loves me some country club sports on top of football, too. And don't get me started on Hoops. Very fired up for that as well.
Lol @ top 150. That's terrible. Given that there are 6 times as many scholarships in football as in basketball, this is like celebrating a single TOP 900 signing in football.
A full recruiting class in basketball is 3 guys (not a large one, a full one). Basically 27 teams could fill up their recruiting classes with players better than this guy.
This guy is a mediocre three star at best. Nothing that new - we've had them in 2008 and 2007. In fact, we've had better recruits almost every year under Felton - Gibbs (03); Toney (04); Mercer (05); Williams (05 but NBA); Price (07); Thompkins (08).
Fact remains, Teams like Miami, Northwestern, Georgia State, and Florida International are pulling better in-state guys than we are. It's not like we have a lot of talent that will keep anyone from getting playing time either.
It begs the question - can a bald white guy who's been in Nevada for god knows how long recruit black athletes from Metro Atlanta?
I think the answer to that question is a resounding NO.
Anon @ 10:40 AM ...
Bruce Pearl is a short, portly Jewish man who coached four years in the state of Wisconsin. He seems to do just fine recruiting "black athletes from Metro Atlanta."
The fact that Fox is a "bald white guy from Nevada" will have zero impact on recruiting. Winning solves everything.
And not to get too political, but Felton was an African American. Didn't put together too many top recruiting classes.
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