2024 Recruiting Thread



Sark keeping his Mater Dei pipeline flowing

#HookEm
 
Thiefery said:


Sark keeping his Mater Dei pipeline flowing

#HookEm
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Wait I thought Riley said he was going to lock up all the California recruits? Anyways congrats on moving up to #15.
 
Wishbone said:
Wait I thought Riley said he was going to lock up all the California recruits? Anyways congrats on moving up to #15.
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i was surprised that Nebraska thought they had a legit shot.. He didn't entertain SC for whatever reasons.. thought Oregon fumbled with him since his brother plays there now..
 
Some NIL intel ... I am going to put this out there. It comes from some posts behind a paywall, but from a poster who is clearly connected at UGA. He's on staff, and what we have been told in a roundabout way is that this is a staffer who is on the largest UGA website with permission from Smart. This particular account has been around for a long time, so the belief is that it's an account manned by different people over the years. Again, there is no doubt this person is on staff in some capacity. There really isn't anything new, and it's not pro-UGA or anti-anyone else. It just offers up how UGA is doing this. This comes to us from Ny Carr's recent de-commitment where it appears that Miami may be the leader, but FSU, Miami, and Auburn are now in the mix.

Biggest difference in how we use nil and other schools is we dont hardly ever use it to get in bidding wars. We actually breakdown to recruits how in the long run they will get more here. Other schools give a lot upfront to sign them. Also amounts that schools are alleged to have offered is also suspect . If schools made their offer public it would just drive up the asking price. We do not get in bidding wars. We have a set figure that we would be willing to give and if that is not enough we tell them to move on. Now in some higher profiles we may counter a bit but almost always not what is being offered. Those cases are not very common though.

About Carr:

He said today that the money being told to him is much bigger than he envisioned. So he wants to see if it is worth it. A couple of his football family said they are not sure he made the right choice. Door is open and we will keep knocking. It is sorta like a person who is getting paid by a company hears about how some co workers are getting way more than him. Eventually most people become either pissed or start checking out other jobs to see what is out there. That is what he is basically doing. He may eventually wind up back in our class at some point. He could commit later today to a pile of money from another school. I would think miami has the biggest offer for him. Time will tell.

Someone asking the obvious ... it's hard to turn down a ton of money:

Definitely is hard to turn down a pile of money. Don't blame him at all. But if there was no such thing as nil he would be still in the class.

Interesting that UGA isn't the only one handling it this way. From what I have read, tOSU, Bama, UGA for sure. I suspect other places like PSU, UM, aren't doing this. It takes a team that has money, wants to win, and probably has some history of winning but hasn't in a while - think what Miami, FSU, ATM, and Auburn have in common. Throw in UTjr. BTW, I am not faulting them ... you do what you have to do, and there are no ramifications for doing so. As this guy says, everyone is doing it, just different amounts. No one is totally clean on any of this, UGA included.

Hard to imagine because no school is paying all their players huge sums. They pay the big money to the top guys. Which is where the way to invite horrible team chemistry. In fact not all schools will even get in a bidding war. It is not just UGA.
 
@Thiefery ...

This is the second QB in our class ... so, if Raiola bails, we good.



All you have is that Manning kid ... SMH.
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
@Thiefery ...

This is the second QB in our class ... so, if Raiola bails, we good.



All you have is that Manning kid ... SMH.
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ahh see even Kirby knows a redflag when he sees it lol

Yeah we got Manning.. no red flags.. just an ALL AMERICAN :)
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
Some NIL intel ... I am going to put this out there. It comes from some posts behind a paywall, but from a poster who is clearly connected at UGA. He's on staff, and what we have been told in a roundabout way is that this is a staffer who is on the largest UGA website with permission from Smart. This particular account has been around for a long time, so the belief is that it's an account manned by different people over the years. Again, there is no doubt this person is on staff in some capacity. There really isn't anything new, and it's not pro-UGA or anti-anyone else. It just offers up how UGA is doing this. This comes to us from Ny Carr's recent de-commitment where it appears that Miami may be the leader, but FSU, Miami, and Auburn are now in the mix.

Biggest difference in how we use nil and other schools is we dont hardly ever use it to get in bidding wars. We actually breakdown to recruits how in the long run they will get more here. Other schools give a lot upfront to sign them. Also amounts that schools are alleged to have offered is also suspect . If schools made their offer public it would just drive up the asking price. We do not get in bidding wars. We have a set figure that we would be willing to give and if that is not enough we tell them to move on. Now in some higher profiles we may counter a bit but almost always not what is being offered. Those cases are not very common though.

About Carr:

He said today that the money being told to him is much bigger than he envisioned. So he wants to see if it is worth it. A couple of his football family said they are not sure he made the right choice. Door is open and we will keep knocking. It is sorta like a person who is getting paid by a company hears about how some co workers are getting way more than him. Eventually most people become either pissed or start checking out other jobs to see what is out there. That is what he is basically doing. He may eventually wind up back in our class at some point. He could commit later today to a pile of money from another school. I would think miami has the biggest offer for him. Time will tell.

Someone asking the obvious ... it's hard to turn down a ton of money:

Definitely is hard to turn down a pile of money. Don't blame him at all. But if there was no such thing as nil he would be still in the class.

Interesting that UGA isn't the only one handling it this way. From what I have read, tOSU, Bama, UGA for sure. I suspect other places like PSU, UM, aren't doing this. It takes a team that has money, wants to win, and probably has some history of winning but hasn't in a while - think what Miami, FSU, ATM, and Auburn have in common. Throw in UTjr. BTW, I am not faulting them ... you do what you have to do, and there are no ramifications for doing so. As this guy says, everyone is doing it, just different amounts. No one is totally clean on any of this, UGA included.

Hard to imagine because no school is paying all their players huge sums. They pay the big money to the top guys. Which is where the way to invite horrible team chemistry. In fact not all schools will even get in a bidding war. It is not just UGA.
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WR is the spot where UGA probably hurts itself with it's offense. I can see why one would bolt to a school who pays more upfront or gives them a shot at bigger NIL opportunities in their footprint.

AD Mitchell has been terrific in championship games for y'all.. but at UT we are using him better during the season (so far) than he was being used at UGA.

No knock on UGA but their offense isn't big on WR yet
 
Thiefery said:
WR is the spot where UGA probably hurts itself with it's offense. I can see why one would bolt to a school who pays more upfront or gives them a shot at bigger NIL opportunities in their footprint.

AD Mitchell has been terrific in championship games for y'all.. but at UT we are using him better during the season (so far) than he was being used at UGA.

No knock on UGA but their offense isn't big on WR yet
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Your point is valid - we rotate WRs instead of highlighting 2 or 3. It's why when the Bama and tOSU fans whine about their injured WRs they can fuck off. It's a strategic choice to rely on a few players and one risk of that is injury. We don't have that risk, or at least it's less of a risk.

AD was not under-utilized by design. He was only with us for 2 years. His first year he was a true freshman and had to earn time. He got that time by the end of the year and we know what happened then. In his second year, he was injured all season long and only got healthy by the end of the year. His not playing much was an injury situation. Even then, he would have been in a rotation. He's a great, clutch receiver.

As for us not being big on WR, we do pass to RBs and have the best TEs in the country. I like that mix. This year as an example, a TE leads our pass catchers. We have 18 players who have caught a pass. You have 13. We have a couple hundred more yards passing than you do, so it's not like we don't pass ... it's just who we pass to that's different.
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
Puglisi committed first and he isn't backing off. He's not afraid of the competition like Mullet Head you have who ran from tOSU!
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Quinn didn't want to be associated with a coach who's career defining win was last week because of what Lou Holtz called him.. Nothing says this is a tough football team like running a jet sweep on 3rd and goal from the 1 yard line lol
 
fordman84 said:
Nah, I don't think he will be on the Ewers track unless he gets in trouble here and cut from the team.
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You call it the "Ewers track" as if you guys weren't near the top of the nation in transfers last year.
 
Across The Field said:
You call it the "Ewers track" as if you guys weren't near the top of the nation in transfers last year.
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Didn't lose a single person that played much or wasn't cut from the team. "transfer" is what you want, but no one of consequence.

Ohio St on the other hand would give its left nut to have a QB that doesn't suck.
 
fordman84 said:
Didn't lose a single person that played much or wasn't cut from the team. "transfer" is what you want, but no one of consequence.

Ohio St on the other hand would give its left nut to have a QB that doesn't suck.
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Why would we need a new 4th string QB? We already have 3 that don't suck. Also you do realize McCord has been better than Ewers this year in a number of categories, right?
 
Across The Field said:
Why would we need a new 4th string QB? We already have 3 that don't suck. Also you do realize McCord has been better than Ewers this year in a number of categories, right?
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Ewers>McCord
 
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