re: Our recruiters are straight-up embarrassing

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Spurrier may have beaten FSU in recruiting once or twice during Bowden's tenure. And that was after he won big.
You know what he always loved? That Georgia was always signing the great classes and he was still kicking their asses.

Here is a quote from him.

On Georgia recruiting: "Why is it that during recruiting season they sign all the great players, but when it comes time to play the game, we have all the great players? I don't understand that. What happens to them?"

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Spurrier ain't walking the sidelines in 2020, Mullens is...

Your #8 2020 class is closer to #22 Stanford than it is to #1 UGA.

#closing the gap...

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It’s not that Mullen can’t recruit. It’s that he won’t recruit. He is too arrogant to beg a kid to play for him. He thinks it should be the other way around.

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He's never going to be a great recruiter himself imo.
But he needs to get rid of Knox and English at least.

If only you could have performed as well in ATL as you have on the recruiting trail. Congrat's on your recruiting trophy.

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Yeah all about Spurrier until it doesn't fit your narrative

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Spurrier was a better recruiter than some gators, including himself, remember.

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No excuse in October

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Y’all the October excuse makers..”muh refs...muh injured corners..”

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love all the revisionist history.

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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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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.

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As much as everyone likes to call Mullen a lazy recruiter

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He's not lazy. He's just weird. Offputting to normal people. Probably scares the hell out of some kids and their folks with his gooberness.

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Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Fib, you are gonna give me a headache.

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I do what I can.

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but I don't think Spurrier made that up out of thin air. Had to be some articles written or something similar in order for him to go there. He had a much more prickly personality back in the day. And I think he was a little sensitive about his recruiting or lack thereof.

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I don't recall when the quote was from. Frankly, I thought it was from his time at South Carolina (along with the one about playing us early in the season and suspensions)... If it was from his time at UF, one would imagine if it had any validity to it at all, it would have been during the Donnan tenure, as he actually did manage to land a fair amount of talent (that ultimately set Richt up for earlier success).

Yea he needs a few good recruiters on the staff. This class is still strong overall when you include three five star transfers which is pretty nuts. Before transfers don't count...Greenard was a transfer as were Grimes and Jefferson...they have panned out well for us.

We def need to replace Knox and English though.