re: Comparing this class to 2001

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I mean what schools are constantly churning out players like AJ Green? We have had our share of good to great college WR's but there just aren't many WR in college in general that can take a game over like AJ Green did for us.

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I wasn't really setting the bar at AJ Green, there just happens to be a pretty wide gap between him and the next closest receivers. But one could argue that LSU (LaFell, OBJ, Jarvis Landry) and UF to a lesser extent (Harvin comes to mind immediately) have done a pretty good job of grabbing some good receivers. Additionally, Ole Miss probably had 3 guys on the roster this year that each would have been our #1 receiver. Bama is on a pretty good string right now from Julio to Amari to Calvin Ridley. Hell, fricking Ga Tech had both Calvin Johnson and Demaryius Thomas during this time span.

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Also not having a good qb will make your WR's look worse off as well... Huston Mason and Lambert

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So 14-15 are explained, but that's only the most recent 2 years. That doesn't do anything to explain the previous 12. When you consider the QBs that have been on campus during that 12 year span - David Greene, DJ Shockley, Matthew Stafford, and Aaron Murray - that's a pretty damn good list of college QBs. And while UGA has traditionally been a run heavy offense, during the Bobo years at least, we were also known for the play action passing game. It's not like the programs that I listed above are in the Big XII and every other play is a 60 yard pass completion...

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I know our problem with A Murray was that he liked to spread the ball out so we never really had a true go to #1 WR who will get 70% of the looks

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Look at the names on the roster and tell me who would have been that 70% guy? I'm fairly certain Murray didn't just spread it around because he wanted to, this was designed by necessity. Do you think the coaches and/or Murray would have spread the ball around with AJ still on the roster or an Amari Cooper?

Do I think it's the reason that we weren't able to break through? No... I've stated that opinion plenty and it's in line with Kirby... gotta win on the LOS. However, it's pretty odd when you really look at it compared to what you would expect with a program that had one of the top rated offenses in the SEC for much of the previous 14 years (2015 was an abomination, sort of like the Star Wars prequels) and above average to great quarterback play during that time span as well for all but the last 2 years.