Cross, don't come in here talking dumb **** when you don't know the back story to his recruitment.
Complain about the staff, and what Emjay was saying early on about Gailliard's interest in Miami, but you have no way of knowing that even if the staff got on him early that we would have gotten him. It's just speculation.
I was actively posting on Scout (Grassy) when Emjay first started posting there months ago, expressing his frustration at the lack of response by the UM staff. I was making suggestions, different ways to contact, etc., etc. Remember, Emjay was mostly posting there, not here, in the beginning.
Still, we don't know that we would have gotten him even if we were on him from the very beginning. He might have fallen in love with UGa anyway. It's always been tough for us to pull kids from the Carolinas, as well as the entire deep south. We've done better in recent years, but back in the '80's, we hardly ever got a player from those areas.
Given that he was from a southern state, I still suspect we would have had a difficult time pulling him, and I think both Lamont and his teammate, the DE, were influenced by their coach's love for UM.
Think of how hard it's been for us to convince some kids from south Florida, who grew up loving the U, to stay home. You can blame the staff, but you can't say for sure that it would've come out any differently.