Re: Mark Richt actually said something insightful...

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Feb 1, 2021, 1:14 PM

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DBs - In the past 3 seasons we have had 2 CBs drafted in the top rounds, could have had a 3rd this season if Kendrick left. We also sent 2 safeties to the NFL last season. The two safeties before them went to the NFL also. Play on the field in those seasons matched their draft status. This year we had 1 safety who was a 2nd team All American and one spot that underperformed as a 1st year starter. We only had 2 bad games in the secondary all year and had players missing each time.

OL - (Closest to what he said) We were not good this year, but pretty much everybody saw it coming with 2 bad years in a row of recruiting (18-19). 20-21 recruiting showed that was not a trend. This group falls into what Richt said if we don't see an upward trend the next 2 seasons, but at this point we have only had 1 bad year.

DL - We lost 5 DL to the NFL 2 years ago and 4 of them made up what was maybe the greatest starting 4 on the DL ever. In '19 we struggled with limited depth and absolutely no experience. In '20 we struggled only against top teams and we were without a returning starter junior for half of the season and a returning starting senior for the whole season.

TEs - Are we actually struggling to perform here or are we struggling to use them? Davis Allen has overperformed his recruiting profile to this point. Galloway has been less then expected, but he did miss an entire season between his 2 years of playing and he has been pretty good when targeted. Both of them were only 3 stars. We also just signed the #1 TE in the country. The transition on the coaching staff basically removes this position from the question because it's about whether or not to look at coaching being a problem and we already made a change.

Special Teams - I'm not sure why this is included. We make almost all of our unblocked FGs. We make XPs. We kick touchbacks. Our punter has gotten better in each of the last 2 seasons (He had 1 bad game this season) and excels in pinning teams inside the 20. Neither area allows big returns. We had 3 kicks blocked in 1 game and fixed the problem before playing again.

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As always, comes through with spot on potd.

However, (and I didn't hear or read what richt said) but would challenge your point on TE this decade less GWill. He was pretty highly rated and developed. The 2 highest to this point never developed and rarely used as passing.

As for our oline recruiting, we've had a couple highly rated... Ok maybe 7 (this decade) that were top tier recruits but then surrounding them were 2 and 3 stars.

Same with safety and DB, since DK was really a WR. As for star power, we'd sign one per class at best for 3 positions. Other words out of 30 available positions we've recruited top star power in 5 and 5 solid to low 4 star... And 20 that were 3 or below.

Point being, we've developed pretty darn good but imo, the only weakness is TE. We've had some good ones but never developed to their fullest. Leggett was a 3 star and only TE drafted that ever sniffed the field. Same with oline, we had the star rating but never made it to the bigs except Simpson.

I'm confident you can chew my response to pieces lol.

Mark Richt actually said something insightful...

The answer is fairly obvious -- and not sure why you'd even