re: 2017 UGA Recruiting Thread (commits, offers, visits, etc.)

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Yes, you are. Stanford is right there with any Ivy League school or any other university in the world.

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Princeton, Harvard, Yale, University of Chicago, and Columbia are all ranked ahead of Stanford. I'd wager MIT is better as well. Stanford is six. It is a great school without question. One of the nation's best. The problem I'm having is you guys are talking about this guy like he's a Rhodes Scholar. If it's simply all about education, then Harvard would be the choice. It's not though. He wants to play football and win according to his dad. Where does he have a better chance to do that? Which school puts far more players into the NFL?

Do we even know what this kid wants to study?

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What makes you so sure of this? Stanford has won 3 of the last 5 Pac 12 championships. We haven't really come close since 2012.

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There's no way of knowing and winning the PAC12 isn't difficult. His dad seems to think UGA is going to be huge due to recruiting.

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Go to the Ivy League.

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No athletic scholarships.

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I'm not downplaying a Stanford degree, but give me break. If that was the main factor, there are better schools than Stanford.

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I agree, but there are very, very few schools with Stanford's academics to go along with their kind of football program.

I have a degree from UGA and it has served me well, at this point in time my experience and work history is a lot more important than where I went to school. However, for a recent graduate, graduating from Stanford with a 3.0 will trump graduating from UGA with a 3.0, unless you want to work in Atlanta.

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If he is a 4 year, division one athlete with a degree from uga, he'd get an interview wherever he wanted.

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Not even close and especially compared to grad school entrances as well. Make no mistake, Stanford is 10x the school UGA is academically

I love UGA and love my degree, but we don't sniff Stanford

Yes, that statement was hyperbolic but UGA and Stanford are not in the same tier if you're ranking the schools academically. No one in the SEC is and very few in Power 5 conferences are.

Edit: I forgot about Vandy, damn it. Vandy is on Stanford's level. Power 5 schools that are also top tier, elite academic institutions: Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, Notre Dame, and Vandy are about the only ones. Arguments could be made for a couple others, but not many.

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So what you're saying is he has a better chance at winning at UGA even though the PAC 12 isn't difficult?

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So you're telling me they play a better brand of football than the SEC year in and year out?

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Yes, that statement was hyperbolic but UGA and Stanford are not in the same tier if you're ranking the schools academically. No one in the SEC is and very few in Power 5 conferences are.

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Never said they were, but I can't take statements like that seriously.

Isn't this the same party we just left this time last year with Cal and Demetrius Robertson?

And even then Stanford tends to sit above Vandy, Duke, etc

Hell, UGA is still a notch below UNC-Chapel Hill, Cal-Berkley, Michigan, Virginia, etc as public institutions go and all of those are below Stanford

Notre Dame, Vandy, and NW, yes. Stanford and Duke are both rated in the top 10 in nearly every publication's list of national universities (US News has Stanford at 5 and Duke 8)... they're pretty interchangeable.

I would say Stanford has a slightly better reputation than Duke, but I'm nitpicking.

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I would say Stanford has a slightly better reputation than Duke, but I'm nitpicking.

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As someone who has interviewed multiple candidates ranging from undergrad to MBA graduates, Stanford is top tier with the IVY leagues without question. At least that's true from a business discipline perspective. Quality of candidates is incredibly high. Second tier is Vandy, UNC, Virginia, Duke, etc. Third tier would be UGA, UF etc.

That would be my unbiased rankings of the schools at least when it comes to business acumen, interview capabilities, and ability to problem solve, which let's be honest, is all that should really be judged coming from an undergraduate institution with zero in-school, real-world business applications. And the distribution from each individual school can vary drastically. One of the best interviews i've heard was a UF grad and one of the worst was a Harvard man, so it really does come down to the candidates themselves.

Can we get back to recruiting and bitch about how Wilson, Fromm, and Swift aren't the #1-#3 recruits according to 247? What is this garbage?