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Every time we have gone head to head
Jun 27, 2017, 12:43 PM
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With Georgia on a major running back that player always seems to pick Georgia. Can anyone think of one I may be missing on ,I have been a recruiting junkie since the 80's so if anyone can name one let me know.
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Wayne Gallman. The guy that won a NC. Hey btw
Jun 27, 2017, 12:44 PM
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i agree with what you said in an earlier post - can you imagine if we had gotten Gurley and Clowney in that recruiting class? With our WR corps? ....
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Re: Every time we have gone head to head
Jun 27, 2017, 12:45 PM
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Was Georgia in the mix for James Davis?
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For some reason I want to say that UGA was
Jun 27, 2017, 4:47 PM
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late to the party offering JD and he was pretty set on Clemson by that point. I may be wrong, though.
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Not sure, but it sure doesn't seem to help their offense or
Jun 27, 2017, 12:49 PM
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records over the years. I mean if you can lose to Vanderbilt and Georgia Tech when you have Aaron Chubb, well there's something wrong with the offense. Georgia fans are more than a little restless about their offensive coordinator. He might have one more year there.
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Re: Not sure, but it sure doesn't seem to help their offense or
Jun 27, 2017, 12:58 PM
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This Aaron Chubb? Going back a ways for that 
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Nick Chubb I think***
Jun 27, 2017, 3:46 PM
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Re: Every time we have gone head to head
Jun 27, 2017, 12:51 PM
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Supermutt was on here a couple years back claiming they had turned Feaster. Well, we all know how that one worked out.
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Feaster***
Jun 27, 2017, 1:03 PM
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Bet Jay Rome would have liked Legget's or Allen's stats***
Jun 27, 2017, 3:47 PM
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Georgia has always been RB U
Jun 27, 2017, 5:12 PM
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Somehow they've always been able to stick RB's.
The only real mark UGA has ever made on the CFB landscape was their 1980 season with Herschel Walker. UGA fans are from the south, they live in the southern state with the largest economic engine. Charlotte and Nashville are close, Florida is in the south but is in of a category of its own so they dont have the rabid southern identity that is invested in football like you see at Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Tennessee, USuC, etc.
Given that UGA is surrounded by teams that have won several national championships since 1980, paired with the fact that UGA has a hilarious talent at coming oh-so-close to getting to a natty game only to fall flat on its face means that its fans worship 1980 like its the year christ was born and Herschel Walker was their football messiah.
Pair that with the fact that UGA has been "so close" to being a national championship team over the past 2 decades,RB recruits tend to think that they could be the second coming of Herschel (because the ENTIRE state of Georgia tells them they are) and they think said RB recruit could be the "IT" factor that wins them another trophy.
In other words, they have a lot of money thanks to their location, and their entire recruiting pitch is based on delusions of grandeur stemming from being stuck in the glory days of 1980 that they so wish to revisit. But you can't win championships living in the past, you have to innovate.
Prior to Dabo, we Clemson fans were living in 1981 in our heads too. Sure, living on our history earned us great recruits, but it never won us anything. Then Dabo came along, reinvented our entire football program's vision, and took us fans from living in the past to focusing on the future now. What happened? Well, that vision earned us a title.
Until they figure that out at UGA, they'll always be able to bring in great recruits on the Oline and at RB, but they'll never find the focus to win it all IMHO.
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I do think established run-heavy programs like the UGA's,
Jun 27, 2017, 5:59 PM
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Alabama's and LSU's of the world stand a better chance at top echelon prototypical RB talent as they stand a better opportunity to be the bulk of an offense and thus top money spots in the NFL draft. The league and pay scale is hard on RB's compared to other positions - more often their only big payday.
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Re: Every time we have gone head to head
Jun 27, 2017, 5:39 PM
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Pure speculation but I think other schools use the fact that we are WRU and they tell the running backs that we will not focus on the rb position. Right or wrong, that's the pitch I would use if I was recruiting against Clemson.
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