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So in one year he's supposed to fix every recruit deficiency we had including, but not limited to: Quarterback, running back, the entire offensive line and all but one wide receiver?

I thought that was the narrative on why Kirby can't or won't be successful at UGA? He was supposed to walk in and make up for a non-functional offensive line, a freshman QB, and a receiving corps who clearly have family history in the masonry business as their hands are rather brick like.

It was a nice turnaround to land a top 10 class, but TJ also has some valid complaints re: the class that you did land. At an 88.82 avg rating per player, that falls much closer to South Carolina (87.01) than it does to Bama (93.61), or Georgia (92.71) for that matter. It's a little lacking in top end talent, and heavily laden with 3* guys. It's certainly possible that Mac and Co have done a great job with talent evaluation but I don't think UF should be in the business of taking in many guys ranked outside of the top 500 nationally, let alone them making up more than 25% of the incoming recruiting class. All in all, I'm happy if he stays there. If Kirby can't get it done in the East and is still consistently out talenting the division in recruiting, it will be pretty evident he's not the guy. Good measuring stick for me.

The "we would have had a higher offensive ranking than USC if we played one more cupcake" is a bit of a broken crutch. First of all, you would have needed roughly an extra 50 yards over your average of 344 for the per game avg to match USC. You managed this against North Texas but not against UMass, the other two cupcakes on your schedule. Even if UF puts up 500 yards in that game, it still puts you behind Vanderbilt... At the end of the day, this is not where an offensive coach should have Florida as a team. You shouldn't be in the same vicinity...

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Posted by StrawsDrawnAtRandom

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Posted on 2/7/17 at 2:38 am to fibonaccisquared

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I thought that was the narrative on why Kirby can't or won't be successful at UGA? He was supposed to walk in and make up for a non-functional offensive line, a freshman QB, and a receiving corps who clearly have family history in the masonry business as their hands are rather brick like.

You had Nick Chubb and an all-star quarterback recruit.

We had Del Rio and the backup quarterback at Purdue.

Georgia also had 2 deep at every offensive-line position when he walked in, McElwain had a backup for one of them.

Isiah Wynn: Junior.
Dyson Sims: Junior.
Brandon Kublanow: Senior.
Greg Pyke: Senior.
Kendall Baker: Sophomore.

In Comparison to the three true freshmen we played on the line the first year.

So yeah, you had a better quarterback, a better line, a better pair of running backs and outside of two freshmen receivers who broke a few records, we haven't had dick.

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It was a nice turnaround to land a top 10 class, but TJ also has some valid complaints re: the class that you did land.

Yeah, a Georgia fan doesn't really get just where we were -- coming off of two years failing and barely getting a bowl and the recruiting class McElwain walked into literally had 9 players by mid-December. It was the worst recruiting class we've had in a while and honestly, we were going to very bad places for our program.

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Offense.

Yep, last head coach didn't recruit anything on that side of the ball.

RS Senior transferred after being destroyed mentally by Muschamp's borderline retarded offensive mindset.

RS Freshman quarterback pisses hot.

Treon Harris is not a quarterback.

Luke Del Rio is a Walkon quarterback.

Appleby is a backup from Purdue.

The other two are Freshmen quarterbacks waiting, as this year was designed to be a rebuilding year where we just happened to have quite a bit of success.

Offensive line has 4 underclassmen starting.

Best receivers are underclassmen.

Best running backs are underclassmen.

You also conveniently left out the part where we had to play in Baton Rouge, thusly losing TWO home games while having to play against Alabama.

UGA recruits their asses off, and saying they haven't won the last few years in recruiting simply isn't intellectually honest -- regardless, we will still beat you on the field.