re: Our recruiters are straight-up embarrassing

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YOUR revisionist history that uga was a recruiting juggernaut and Spurrier struggled is exactly what I am trying to correct.

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It was a lot easier in the 90s to pretty much claim whatever you wanted about recruiting classes... so long as it fit your narrative... Spurrier liked whatever narrative gave him the best chance to land a barbed jab at a rival...

I don't have the time or patience to do it, but would be interesting to cross reference this Google Doc that has all the old recruiting rankings pre-internet era by year, and try to approximate what the kids rankings would have been...

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Example rubric would be looking at last 5 years and taking average rating of positions by their relative rank (ie. on average #1 QB in the country is a .9785, #2 is a .9698, etc...) and then piece together some rankings... probably could be done with some excel magic, and maybe I'll have some time to cobble something together in the future, but suffice it to say, while that jab from Spurrier was funny, it wasn't really based on any empirical data.