re: TJGator was right

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They don’t. They didn’t get us anywhere bowl wise and I’m pretty sure it didnt help recruiting.

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I would disagree that they don't mean anything. Ultimately, it's Saban's world and we're all living in it here in the SEC right now. The East is the next most meaningful thing you can do in the conference. I think the *way* that UF made it there likely didn't help anything. Getting abused by FSU in recent years hasn't helped either...

As to the recruiting, I'm not sure you can blame poor recruiting or a lack of any kind of bump on the East meaning nothing. Mac just hasn't had an ace recruiting staff. I think it is a little better now with Shannon on board, but he's had 3 meh classes which is going to be tough to overcome. As I'd mentioned on the other thread and TJ has brought up in one of his posts... the shift from 50%+ Blue Chip ratio to ~35% (don't have article handy? maybe 37?) Blue Chip is pretty significant.

IIRC, Straws was telling us how great Mac and the staff were at evaluating and how all of these 3* guys were every bit the player that the 4/5* guys they were missing on were. Ultimately, some percentage of those might be hits, but recruiting is a numbers game and that's not the uphill battle you want to fight.

UGA on track to potentially win the East and our recruiting class is picking up steam... it's certainly still possible we don't end up going, but seems probable at this point, and I'd say it looks to be helping. Part of that is staff, part of that is perception. Unfortunately, winning the East for UF didn't seem to improve perception.