Isiah Wilson, Mark Webb, and D'Andre Swift are all going to Georgia. All were players Rutgers would have loved to get and certainly recruited to some extent. I can understand, Penn State (2 are from PA), and Michigan or Ohio State or historically Notre Dame, but Georgia coming in and taking 3 of the top from the region, anyone know how this happened? I can't recall Georgia being a big player around here, but suddenly they are. Part of me thinks they are just kind of struggling in their own region, I don't think they were too good this year and some teams around them were, so maybe they just can't compete with the Clemson above, the Florida schools below and Alabama next door.
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3 kids not from Nj picked an SEC powerhouse. Consider me shocked and less than upset.
When do the sad sack feelings end?
Isaiah Wilson? Did you see his offer list? Did you post on Michigan's and Alabama's boards how they whiffed on this one? Nick Saban must be losing his edge, and Jim Harbaugh must have been afraid to do a sleepover in Brooklyn.
Mark Webb, a Pennsylvania kid. Hard commit 9/16/2016. Why in the world would he flip to RU after the season we just had? James Franklin's seat is getting warm again for missing on this one. Another whiff by Mark Saban. He must suck
D'Andre Swift. Hard commit since 9/1/2016. Why in the world would he flip to RU after the season we just had? Another Pennsylvania kid that Franklin whiffed on. That seat should be getting mighty hot right now. And WTF is going on with Saban going 0 for 3 here?
Tough to ask a question around here... you get 10 answers to a different question. Then someone gets upset at you for a point you aren't making, but they want to make by answering it.
Georgia's campus was nice I'm sure last year.
Georgia's girls I'm sure were pretty last year.
Moreno... this is one guy like 10 years ago.
Seriously, who's butt hurt? My question is really only about Georgia doing really well in our area this year, as opposed to other years.
Georgia's campus was nice I'm sure last year.
Georgia's girls I'm sure were pretty last year.
Moreno... this is one guy like 10 years ago.
Seriously, who's butt hurt? My question is really only about Georgia doing really well in our area this year, as opposed to other years.
my buddy, a uga grad, and I did the whole Florida-Georgia experience one year. Stayed at Saint Simons island, Friday at frat beach, Saturday at the game. One weekend of that and you would understand. UGA is a big, big deal in the state of Georgia, more so than the Falcons.
Georgia stil can't keep their top recruits in state. They routinely go to Auburn, Tennesee, Alabama and Clemson.
Georgia's offensive coordinator came from Pitt so he probably had a relationship with the 3 of them since they all play offense. The longer he's down south the less contact he'll have in our region. Georgia's class is ranked 3rd btw, they're basically getting anyone they want this year.
It was this part of your OP that prompted my response: "All were players Rutgers would have loved to get and certainly recruited to some extent. I can understand, Penn State (2 are from PA), and Michigan or Ohio State or historically Notre Dame, but Georgia coming in and taking 3 of the top from the region, anyone know how this happened?"
You do understand that these are NATIONAL recruits, and in your same post you mentioned Michigan and Ohio State, Penn State and Notre Dame in your post? They whiffed on all three. You do understand that Alabama had offers out to these guys?
You do realize Kirby Smart was DC at Alabama and was there for a lot of years and he recruited Minkah Fitzpatrick to Alabama. I'm sure Kirby knows that NJ is a hotbed of talent.
As well as Chris Ash has done this year, in my opinion, it is too early in the Ash era for us to have high expectations of beating out the national powers for the bluest of the blue chip recruits, especially after the past two seasons. This is not meant to be an attack on you, but we have some of the biggest frontrunners for fans in the history of college football. I would be ecstatic if Chris Ash landed any of these three players. I would also be shocked if he did it in year one. I want to have an expectation that in years 4-10 we are regularly landing 2-4 of these types of players and beating out the national powers. Sorry for my post above if it was snarky.
As an aside, Kirby Smart will fail at Georgia because of the board sub-narrative that he had no head coaching experience and DCs make bad head coaches.
He's been down south his whole life. He recruited Minkah Fitzpatrick to Alabama. Maybe Kirby Smart is an ace recruiter and we will be seeing more of him each year picking the top recruits in NJ.
They probably know they are ballers in the Northeast. I'm sure when Schiano started grabbing Florida kids, other schools like FIU, South Florida and FAU were like WTF, why can't we get those kids here. I'm sure Miami, Florida and FSU didn't care but it probably hurt the smaller programs.
Didn't realize it until I saw this thread. UGA is KILLING it in recruiting. May have the best OL class in the country.
The story goes that Knowshon was a big Rutgers fan until he started getting private tutoring from a local Red Bank couple that owns some kind of test prep business......the couple met at UGA.
Every few years there's a new guy who comes to this region and makes a quick splash. Georgia just happens to be the "flavor of the week" I guess.
MAC testing in Tinton Falls. Knowshon & Kade Weston from RBC were their two Division I football clients for their $3000 college prep classes, and they both coincidentally wound up at Georgia.
Swift and Wilson are near the top of their position rankings, everyone was after them. Does not mean that the NE is going to be a focus for Georgia in the future.
Long way to go. With Clemson landing Lawrence I suspect UGA to make Fields a priority.
FWIW, I've read two things about Swift. First, he apparently wanted to play in the South. Second, depth chart has been talked about as being an issue for several years (PSU has been talking about him since he was a So.). Personally, I think the depth chart part is BS but we'll never know unless Swift decommits as a result of Chubb and Mitchell hanging around.
Webb is his cousin and apparently they wanted to play together. I would guess that Webb was PSU's #1 WR recruit for 207...they were on him way before he blew up in the rankings. Kind of reminds me of Melton in a way as a SJ coach on our board has been talking about Melton for at least a year and said he is better than both the 2016 kids who went to UM (he thought both were highly overrated). He thought the initial 3* rating was a joke.
Here's what is scary about Swift. Based on HS alone, he was considered by everyone to be better than both Barkley and Sanders. In fact, when it was rumored that Sanders may look around, some said the silver lining was that it could help us with Swift because of the depth chart part.
Webb is his cousin and apparently they wanted to play together. I would guess that Webb was PSU's #1 WR recruit for 207...they were on him way before he blew up in the rankings. Kind of reminds me of Melton in a way as a SJ coach on our board has been talking about Melton for at least a year and said he is better than both the 2016 kids who went to UM (he thought both were highly overrated). He thought the initial 3* rating was a joke.
Here's what is scary about Swift. Based on HS alone, he was considered by everyone to be better than both Barkley and Sanders. In fact, when it was rumored that Sanders may look around, some said the silver lining was that it could help us with Swift because of the depth chart part.
UGA might end up with a #1 recruiting class this year, OL currently has 6 recruits, 1-5*, 4-4* and 1-3*, hands down best OL recruiting class in recent years
Yeah, like it's a bigger deal than Rutgers is in the state of New Jersey.
I love their mascot though.
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