re: 2017 UGA Recruiting Thread (commits, offers, visits, etc.)

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I think those days are over. I imagine we'll save them til next year for quality players.

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I think this is probably the case. Exception might be for a Herrien type guy who wasn't likely to qualify but makes some magic happen late. At DT, they obviously threw out the later offer here to the Ole Miss commit. So late offers may still happen, but likely only for positions of greater "need". Depth at DT is likely a concern in 18/19 if we don't get at least one solid contributor this season, particularly assuming Trent bolts to the NFL after next season.

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While I think you are right....wasn't one of the criticisms of Richt was that he undersigned?

I have a feeling Kirby knows where we stand, and is working on some good quality players to step in if we do whiff on a couple of players. I am surprised at the angst of some of the posters, though. We have a great class any way you slice it.

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its the rant way...

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possession guy.

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Tall, white, good hands, takes a lick over the middle and holds on. But never has YAC. Like a tight end, but not big enough to block linebackers.

Not sure about the CB picker, but hey its something

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The 27 signee target that many have thrown out is dependent on more attrition as far as I'm aware. Last I looked, I think 23-24 is the most we could take without additional guys transferring. Have had a somewhat difficult time trying to confirm though with my original spreadsheet who has/hasn't transferred + who's actually on scholarship.

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I really hate to bring this up....but there was an argument (No, I wasn't in it ) about how many players are allowed to be on scholarship at any given time. I THINK it was left that you could not have more than 85 on scholarship at any time. If somebody definitely knows the answer it could clear some things up.

Either way, I am beginning to wonder if some guys that Kirby thought would leave are not leaving, therefore we don't have the scholarship to give? I don't know. Just following the thread.

Yep. 85 is the max. That's what I was referencing in my post... there is a chance that guys we thought were going to leave and/or were encouraging to look elsewhere might be indicating they aren't going to, which would leave us in a tough spot. Obviously, only Kirby and the staff would know, but it's not like we're grossly undersigning this class even at 23.

Basically, there are 2 limits that matter here:
85 total scholarship players at any one time.
25 *Initial Counters* per recruiting year. This part is a little more ambiguous, due to "back counting" of Early Enrollees. Because the staff holds the cards here on who counts toward what class, it can sometimes be harder to determine this. If I had to take a wild stab, we may only have 2-3 signees (we've only got 6 EEs anyways) out of our 2017 class that is able to back count to 2016. This would be where the 27 target would come from that multiple recruiting analysts seem to think is UGA's cap.

Assuming the number is 3, and we didn't add *any* more members to this year's class, then the 23 signees are reduced to 20 initial counters for the 2017 class, leaving us room for 5 EEs to count back to this year's cap in the 18 class (probably a little more attrition next year as well between graduation and possible early departures).

I haven't had a chance to count scholarships. I will probably look at Bama's roster first. I think they had a ton of EEs.

I still have a hunch that 85 annual scholarships is different than 85 daily scholarships.

Jesus Christ. That's a big 'ol boy.