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It is odd but it varies year to year. There are years that UGA grabs most of the top kids in their state and there are other years where not. Needless to say, being the lone state institution in a talent rich state has its benefit. It's why UGA and LSU have had so much success on the trail over the years,
 
Great thread topic. I looked at that recently and was shocked.

Georgia has an advantage. Elite local talent and no rival school to compete with. Georgia tech is a joke. I hope schools have recognized that the only way to slow down UGA is by doing what they did to Miami in South Florida. Breakdown the walls and overpay to get kids to leave home... but its probably just UGA choosing to recruit nationally because they feel its a down year in state lol.

LSU is in a similar situation. Thats why Brian Kelly went. He should be able to build a monster.

USC is in a similar situation. Lincoln recognized it. But they'll need to recruit nationally for the trenches. Cali kids are soft..
 
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They are such a machine that one top national recruit is willing to take $1mm less than his best offer in order to play there. We are offering exponentially more money than GA and still can’t compete with them for a single 5* they want. It’s pretty crazy how quickly Kirby built that behemoth.
 
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Even though Georgia is the lone in state power program, there are enough bigtime programs in close proximity that can compete for players also.

Specifically Clemson, Auburn, Alabama, South Carolina, FSU, and Tennessee. There are numerous players that are closer to those schools in proximity, even being out of state, than Georgia..or at least very similiar distance.

MOST OF THOSE programs are closer to ATLANTA and surrounding recruiting talent, than UF or FSU is to South Florida.
 
gacaneaddict said:
Even though Georgia is the lone in state power program, there are enough bigtime programs in close proximity that can compete for players also.

Specifically Clemson, Auburn, Alabama, South Carolina, FSU, and Tennessee. There are numerous players that are closer to those schools in proximity, even being out of state, than Georgia..or at least very similiar distance.

MOST OF THOSE programs are closer to ATLANTA and surrounding recruiting talent, than UF or FSU is to South Florida.
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Completely agree.
 
dycane said:
They are such a machine that one top national recruit is willing to take $1mm less than his best offer in order to play there. We are offering exponentially more money than GA and still can’t compete with them for a single 5* they want. It’s pretty crazy how quickly Kirby built that behemoth.
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Whats crazy about it?. They paid for it..wasnt that hard lol
 
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CaneLos said:
Found this interesting for being the flag ship CF and in-state program. They have none of the Top 10 kids (Riola is from Arizona) and only 4 of the Top 20. Ellis Robinson is originally from Ga. Not like their #1 class is suffering but imagine what their class would look like with the five 5* kids they're missing on in state.


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You can look at Ohio St and HS players in Ohio and see the same thing. For years OSU pre Urban would routinely sign most of there class from Ohio. Urban branched out and signed a lot of kids from Texas, Georgia. Florida, New Jersey, the DMV, and California.

Can’t argue with the results.
 
cway313 said:
Pay early or pay later. Kirby understood the assignment and wasn’t concerned about "overpaying".
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Wasnt his money he could care less.

We obviously dont have boosters to play that game correctly and definately are scary as an organization from top to bottom, where as most of those sec schools dont give a f-ck n tell ncaa go penalize ms state or ole miss or some sh-t
 
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I dont buy this no in state school to compete with. Thats factually true but Auburn, Tennessee and Clemson, FSU are all closer to the state of GA than FSU and UF is to south FL. They have to battle for these players. Louisiana is different and more isolated for LSU. Georgia on the other hand, is a vortex.
 
Maybe the UGA staff evaluated other guys that they liked more?

I also agree with the posters who mentioned that ATL is significantly closer to many schools than S Fla is to FSU....more competition.
 
gacaneaddict said:
Even though Georgia is the lone in state power program, there are enough bigtime programs in close proximity that can compete for players also.

Specifically Clemson, Auburn, Alabama, South Carolina, FSU, and Tennessee. There are numerous players that are closer to those schools in proximity, even being out of state, than Georgia..or at least very similiar distance.

MOST OF THOSE programs are closer to ATLANTA and surrounding recruiting talent, than UF or FSU is to South Florida.
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Auburn recruits heavily in all of Georgia, and Columbus is very much a divided Auburn/UGA city. The inner Atlanta suburbs contain scores of alums from schools throughout the Southeast, including a ton of UM alums.
 
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