UGA has been dropping bags, Richt just wasn't in on it or encouraging it like Kirby is.
Also, during his time at UGA there was very little rivals for in state recruits, Clemson for most of his tenure was not the dominant force they are now, Spurrier was actually running shìt in South Carolina during that time so a lot of the recruits that Clemson gets now he was getting, they also didn't really have the cache to take too many from them. They basically got the guys that Richt miss evaluated, like Watson.
All he really had to contend with was Bama, Auburn & occasionally Ole Miss or FSU whenever Jumbo would try to land a kid Georgia.
Recruiting at Miami is arguably the most difficult recruiting ground to navigate, because for 1), we don't have the financial backing & booster base willing to pay whatever to get the best talent & for 2), the school doesn't allocate enough funds to the recruiting budget, therefore bare minimum gets spent & the results show. We also haven't been a winning program in **** near 20 years which is very hard to sell to recruits, especially when you're not paying.
Miami is war zone recruiting ground, every program in P5 football is gunning after the talent down here, so if you don't have something to attract the recruits to consider you, you're shìt out of luck.
It's why Miami has been retarded not switching to a Full spread offense all this time these last two decades, because in the process of us losing so much & looking like a god awful program, we had absolutely nothing to sell except yesteryear prestige. Had we been running a high octane offense we would've won more games & been able to sell locally to kids that regardless of the record they can come here, be productive putting up numbers & play in an exciting offense.
That's why it's crucial that Miami hires the right coach, because when we do, we have the potential to go on a major run that looks like what Bama & Clemson had going for these last 10 years. We get the right coach who can eval & recruit, we'll win more games, which will make us more viable for more high level recruits, which attracts better talent, which increases the probability of winning big. It's all a domino effect.
