re: 5-star DE Williams Nwaneri live decision today

If players can start cashing checks while still in high school that’s a huge advantage. Get paid, and if they don’t like their decision after the first year they can transfer out. That’s a heck of a deal.

eli is really excited for a player he’ll won’t coach.

Who said players are turning down 6 figures? They aren’t. Once they are signed they are able to accept money on NILs. And UGA has collectives with enough resources to satisfy them.
And wearing the red and black is very important to a lot of players. They do sign so they can say that they played at UGA. It’s a point of pride to be good enough to play there. And there is an excellent chance that if they work hard and accept the excellent coaching they will be receiving they will be playing in the NFL in a few years.

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Georgia doesn’t promise money to players to sign.

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That’s a lie

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If kids know about “big bags” coming to them and sign because of it, someone is breaking the rules. There aren’t a lot of rules any more but paying a recruit to sign or telling him he will be getting a “big bag” is illegal.

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UGA is definitely above that.

Just stop.


ETA A great friend of mine played for Vince. Vince was as above board as they come. That kid did not go to UGA for free.

UGA pays top 3 money overall but they pay it more uniformly to the existing roster. UGA pays you to be on the roster…not to attend. No informed UGA fan is claiming we don’t pay like everybody else. You can’t have discrepancy from player to player when you recruit a lot of top players. And since there’s no salary cap imposed externally you have to do so internally to maintain team chemistry and unity. It’s the only way you can keep a roster of top shelf talent together and you’re going to lose some guys…AD Mitchell, Bear, Etc. But you’ll keep more than most. It’s not a more virtuous method or nefarious method. It’s the most pragmatic method for a school that recruits like UGA.

Mizzou did what they should do, go hard in the paint with a big offer on offense and defense…Nwaneri and Wingo. It was smart.

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We also spend the vast majority of our NIL on retention. With the 2 time national championship roster, you can imagine that the NIL number is large. Again... NIL is a limited resource. We are either prioritizing existing players or prioritizing high schoolers.

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........or both, because recruiting is the lifeblood of any program.

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If you can't comprehend the NIL strategy, that is a you problem.

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no, you just have your head stuck in the sand regarding how it works. You think UGA is above the fray for some reason........which is beyond me. Buying the best does not diminish what UGA has done.

LSU is also focusing on player retention and giving deals to proven transfer players rather than getting in bidding wars for high school players.

Funny considering Vince graduated from AU and coached there. If he paid players - and I don’t believe for a minute he did - where do think he learned it? And for an AU fan to talk about any school paying players is ridiculous.
AU actually testified before Congress in an investigation into cheating in college sports. I remember testimony about payouts,freezers of meat and “loans” from your HCs bank. It’s been years but nothing has changed at AU. We all know how y’all got Cam Newton.
And you say you know a UGA player, it was common knowledge in a middle Georgia town that a AU player was riding around town in a truck he claimed AU had given him. The NCAA practically lives on your campus. It’s one scandal after another at AU and one disasterous coaching hire and ginormous pay out after another. Any school who would hire Hugh Freeze with all his baggage has NO room to criticize any school.
Maybe AU should concentrate on their issues instead of spouting nonsense about others. If they did they might be more competence with the Georgias of college football. Might even make the Belk Bowl once in a while