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What makes Kirby Smart such a great recruiter?

Posted on 8/19/21 at 3:35 pm
Posted by bdavids09
Member since Jun 2017
625 posts
Posted on 8/19/21 at 3:35 pm
I get there is a lot to sell there and athens is a great place but Richt never recruited like this did he? There should be no reason UGA should not win a national championship in the next few years
Posted by BamaWins15
Member since Sep 2015
4612 posts
Posted on 8/19/21 at 3:35 pm to
Money
Posted by dirty bastard
Delacroix, Georgia
Member since Aug 2020
2114 posts
Posted on 8/19/21 at 3:37 pm to
State of Georgia, locked it down. He's a people person. Probably a lil money, like bama.
Posted by bdavids09
Member since Jun 2017
625 posts
Posted on 8/19/21 at 3:38 pm to
Yeah he is a very people person. seems very likable
Posted by SmokeTide
Gulf Coast Alabama
Member since Nov 2015
5287 posts
Posted on 8/19/21 at 3:39 pm to
UGA is pretty nice school, close to Atlanta plus the state of Georgia has great highschool football.

Historical UGA usually recruits in Top 10. Kirby can sell recruits on playing for a SEC championship most year and a playoff spot if things falls right.

Posted by bigDgator
Dallas, TX
Member since Oct 2008
41144 posts
Posted on 8/19/21 at 3:40 pm to
Posted by mikehoncho69
Member since Dec 2019
968 posts
Posted on 8/19/21 at 3:41 pm to
Georgia has a bunch of top recruits and little in-state competition(tech). Clemson, Auburn, and Bama snag recruits but there's plenty to go around.

Richt could never capitalize on the in-state talent for some reason and Kirby can. It's as simple as that
Posted by LSUBALLER
Louisiana
Member since Jul 2013
16044 posts
Posted on 8/19/21 at 3:44 pm to
Money Money money money
Posted by Hargojargo
Member since Nov 2020
296 posts
Posted on 8/19/21 at 3:55 pm to
Money and making promises he feels no obligation towards fulfilling.
Posted by DP4Tide
Member since Aug 2021
1113 posts
Posted on 8/19/21 at 3:58 pm to
He was pretty average when he was at UA. Not near as good as Mario, Pruitt, Tosh or Lance Thompson. You could always count on him signing a few kids from Ga each year that couldnt play dead in a western. Thought he should have been fired for telling Jalen Ramsey he wasnt good enough to play for UA. But he didnt think Will Anderson was good enough
to play at UGA either
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora, Georgia
Member since Sep 2012
63853 posts
Posted on 8/19/21 at 4:02 pm to
Richt- "we don't need an indoor practice facility or all these bells and whistles, we are UGA!"

Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora, Georgia
Member since Sep 2012
63853 posts
Posted on 8/19/21 at 4:05 pm to
I said this in another thread today-


Richt recruited skill players as good as anyone but never recruited well in the trenches.

Richt was a perennial top ten recruiter.

Kirby picked up where Richt left off, but also started getting the blue chips on OL and DL at a higher rate, and went from perennial top ten to perennial top five recruiting.

It really isn't much more complicated than that.
Posted by Eli Goldfinger
Member since Sep 2016
32785 posts
Posted on 8/19/21 at 4:21 pm to
Being in GA helps

Or…demographics - to put it another way.
This post was edited on 8/19/21 at 4:22 pm
Posted by Purple Tiger King
Member since Jan 2021
2016 posts
Posted on 8/19/21 at 4:36 pm to
Kirby is not a great recruiter. As UGA spends $2 million dollars a year more than Alabama and $4 million dollars a year or more relative to the other upper echelon teams in the SEC and in the country on recruiting.

When you can't win a Natty since 1980, you resort to trying to buy a Natty.

Nonetheless, it hasn't worked because no one has squandered away more elite talent without anything to show for it more than Kirby Smart and no one has choked in more big games in their careers other than Kirby Smart.
This post was edited on 8/19/21 at 4:39 pm
Posted by leeman101
Huntsville, AL
Member since Aug 2020
1496 posts
Posted on 8/19/21 at 4:39 pm to
Atlanta Strippers
Posted by djsdawg
Member since Apr 2015
32777 posts
Posted on 8/19/21 at 4:39 pm to
Hard work
Posted by ATW
Columbia, Mo
Member since Jul 2021
759 posts
Posted on 8/19/21 at 7:37 pm to
Hookers and blow
Posted by Pastor Mike
Florida
Member since Dec 2020
5088 posts
Posted on 8/19/21 at 7:39 pm to
Negative recruiting
Posted by BigTastey
Middle Georgia
Member since Feb 2019
3414 posts
Posted on 8/19/21 at 7:44 pm to
I will not reply, I will not reply, I will not reply, I will not reply………….
Posted by GatorOnAnIsland
Florida
Member since Jan 2019
5789 posts
Posted on 8/19/21 at 7:49 pm to
He’s been a Smart all of his life…


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