re: Do we start landing more big time recruits from GA??

I think we have more of Atlanta than you think but that's just my opinion. It's still less than what the OP mentions. Also, these kids may have grown up in GA but they're not reflecting on our sec titles in 02 and 05. These are young, impressionable kids who focus on the past few years. Which, for the most part, has seen Georgia do well compared to most the nation but generally chokes vs the blue blood programs. So when stacked up vs the big time programs if anything our history works against us.

So, no to the OP. I think if Georgia lands more instate talent it isn't because we've had richt forever it'll be because of the new DC. I'm not even sure they will do better from here on but I'd like to think so.

So you lament Georgia's inability to lock down GAs top talent but think Richts long tenure will change these kids minds?

Well since Richt has been here, our program has done better than it did in the 90s right? If you grow up and watch UGA that has winning seasons, and 2 SEC championships, and a couple of breaks away from a Natty vs uga of the 90s where they only won 63% of the games, compared to RIchts 74% (or so).

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Just b/c your not born in GA doens't mean you can't grow up here. So with almost 10million people in Ga, you are saying maybe a small % is from here or grew up here?

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Big difference.

When you are two years old when mommy and daddy move here because there are no jobs in their poor state, lets us Alabama as an example, you can still grow up here, but daddy is going to be yelling Roll Tide every saturday on TV and you are not necessarily going to grow up a UGA fan. You may like UGA, and cheer for them, except when they play your real favorite team, the one that mommy and daddy dressed you up with your whole life. And when it comes time for you to sign, and you've got an offer from your favorite team Alabama and your second favorite team, UGA, which one are you going to sign with?

People that were actually born here, and are lucky enough to have parents were actually born here, of which there are many outside metro ATL, those kids are going to get dressed up in UGA stuff, go to UGA ball games, daddy gets drunk and yells Go Dawgs on Saturdays... that kid is a totally different kid than the one who moved here when he was 2 years old.

Do you understand?

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Richt has been here 13yrs, so an 18yr old signing would of been 5 when Richt got here

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Damn I feel old

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Then compare population percentages. The state of Alabama's population is on par with the state of georgia minus atlanta. Same with South Carolina. Add in the fact you have a percentage of that additional population, you have more base in which to start.

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And that fact supports what point?


70% of the population is a hodge podge of fanbases, so 70% of the high school kids don't necessarily have any loyalty or allegiance to UGA, or at least weren't raised to.

If 247 Sports had two different lists for Georgia, one was metro Atlanta high schools and the other is the rest of the state, you'd see UGA dominating the rest of the state, the way the schools you mentioned dominate their state.

When you throw in the hodge-podge metro area, it looks like pretty much everyone is taking a bite, because pretty much everyone has an established fanbase of at least 100,000 people in the area, and the kids grow up as fans of other schools.

When you combine these two lists, where 70% of the kids are hodge-podge, you are obviously going to have alot more attrition to out of state schools.

If 200,000 UGA grads decided to go set up a colony in Alabama, get married, have kids, raise them up UGA fans, how do you think the 247 Alabama Top 25 recruiting list would look in 18 years?

Now imagine if Clemson, Tennessee, and South Carolina grads all did the exact same thing.

People would be pissed that Auburn and Bama weren't locking down the state... losing too many recruits to out of state schools.







Go down to Orange Beach and Gulf Shores Alabama... it's a hodge podge of LSU, Florida, Bama, Auburn, UGA, Ole Miss, FSU, etc....

Now imagine if 70% of Alabama's population was Orange Beach.

Your recruiting rankings in-state would look like shite too.

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if you drive around the rest of the state, its Uga

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except in western georgia it's auburn, in southwestern and southcentral georgia it's FSU, in eastern central georgia it's SCU and clemson, etc..

UGA has good inroads to a lot of talent, but a lot of kids who play hs football here have allegiances to many neighboring schools..

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Well first off your statement that 70% states population atlanta is incorrect. It's a little over 50%

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It's actually 62%.

Your number comes from the MSA which was determined in the 70's, the new CSA that reaches out a little further to include the suburbs that didn't exist in the 70's includes another 500,000 people.

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