‘23 JUCO OT Larry Johnson III ( Tennessee commit)

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Can I ask something? Does this get us Larry Johnson as an analyst...I would take either grandma ma or the Defensive Line coach from Ohio State.
 
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peachtreecornersVOL81 said:
:rolleyes: Wow, thanks for calling me a closet Georgia fan. I guess I can't be critical of the team I follow and if I do then I'm somehow attacking them and not a fan.
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You're learning the ways. Good...good.

There was probably some .gif I could have put in here to make this better.
 
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Wickman said:
Our OL was lights out this year. Ojulari and Anderson got completely shut down. Elarbee took dudes that were gonna be undrafted free agents (Carvin, Mays, and Wright) and made them $$$. Zero reason to question his development ability
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Except vs GA who is filled with 5 stars. That’s where we need to get

As much as people want to discredit rankings, the proof is in the pudding. It’s why you hear coaches point out the star power on GA’s roster all the time. But I think we’re getting there and I’m impressed with how much our staff has gotten out of less talented players
 
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Boom! That's a big fella.
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Not sure if he can actually be an LT or RT in our offense against speed rushers. Worst case scenario, he would be a big road-grader LG or RG and that could go against DTs and open holes in the run game. He will probably take a year to get in condition to be able to play in our offense, I would think.
 
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peachtreecornersVOL81 said:
:rolleyes: Wow, thanks for calling me a closet Georgia fan. I guess I can't be critical of the team I follow and if I do then I'm somehow attacking them and not a fan.
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I'm saying you have no credibility. Stick around and build some if that bothers you.

But to show up and dog our recruits, implicitly dog our staff's abilities to either judge or land talent, and then make a useless point about how great UGA is, it'll take more than a few weeks on here for us to fawn at your analysis. As a matter of fact, members who have been here for years take flack for such analysis.

Now, as to your point about us needing to "beat UGA" on recruits, it's trash.

(1) We have beaten them on recruits. Just because UGA wasn't going after this recruit doesn't prove anything. What you are actually saying is that either our staff is afraid to go up against UGA on a recruit and defaulted to this one instead, or you are saying that our staff should be using UGA's staff as our talent evaluaters.

Either way, it's a trash attitude.

(2) The same has been said for years about Bama before UGA was the standard of choice. "We'll have to (go up against and) beat them for recruits before we can beat them on the field." "We'll have to compete with them on class rankings before we can beat them on the field."

Then this year's game happened. Oops.

I'll tell my thoughts on it. I don't want a staff that has to use other staffs as talent evaluators for them. I don't want a staff that has to use the recruiting website rankings as talent evaluators. I want a staff that sees what they want and goes and gets them If it's in competition with other programs, so be it. We won't win them all, but we'll win our share. If it's hidden gems and we were the first to see them, then that is a win in itself. Maybe others should use our staff as evaluators.

I find your logic (and that same logic in more proven posters around here) tired and lazy, the product of ignorance, and basically just disrespectful to our program.

Note: I call it the product of ignorance because that's exactly what it is. The parrot of the logic isn't skilled enough at talent evaluation to come here and say, "These are the specific attributes that either make the recruit great, or make them subpar." The parrot of the logic can merely say, "I don't know what the hell I'm talking about, so I have to trust someone's opinions. (And those someones won't be our coaches)."
 
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Ron Swanson said:
Why are we doubting Heupel and Elarbee? Wasn’t our OL filled with mostly 3 star nobodies and became one of the best OL’s in the country this fall? I’m pretty sure they know what they’re doing and wouldn’t take this kid if they didn’t think he could be a contributor.
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Not all 3 star nobodies. Cooper was a 4 star, Darnell Wright was a 5 star, Carvin was a composite 4 star. Though Spraggins, Mincey, and Crawford were more along those lines.
 
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T2P_Priceless said:
Except vs GA who is filled with 5 stars. That’s where we need to get

As much as people want to discredit rankings, the proof is in the pudding. It’s why you hear coaches point out the star power on GA’s roster all the time. But I think we’re getting there and I’m impressed with how much our staff has gotten out of less talented players
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That's an interesting take.

Did you notice that our class/recruits took a huge bump with the recent rerank? Think about that. The exact same class. The exact same recruits. All that changed was their rankings. Not their skills or attributes.

The rankings changed.

By your logic, that means that our class got more prone to win, and our staff became better recruiters, all because some websites changed their evaluation of some players.

You guys argue that correlation proves causation and then whistle past the graveyard about the facts that challenge your assumptions.
 
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Orange_Crush said:
I'm saying you have no credibility. Stick around and build some if that bothers you.

But to show up and dog our recruits, implicitly dog our staff's abilities to either judge or land talent, and then make a useless point about how great UGA is, it'll take more than a few weeks on here for us to fawn at your analysis. As a matter of fact, members who have been here for years take flack for such analysis.

Now, as to your point about us needin to "beat UGA" on recruits, it's trash.

(1) We have beaten them on recruits. Just because UGA wasn;t gooing after this recruit doesn't prove anything. What you are actually saying is that either our staff is afraid to go up against UGA on a recruit and defaulted to this one instead, or you are saying that our staff should be using UGA's staff as our talent evaluaters.

Either way, it's a trash attitude.

(2) The same has been said for years about Bama before UGA was the standard of choice. "We'll have to (go up against and) beat them for recruits before we can beat them on the field." "We'll have to comete with them on class rankings before we can beat them on the field."

Then this year's game happened. Oops.

I'll tell my thoughts on it. I don't want a staff that has to use other staffs as talent evaluators for them. I don't want a staff that has to use the recruiting website rankings as talent evaluators. I want a staff that sees what they want and goes and gets them If it's in competition with other programs, so be it. We won't win them all, but we'll win our share. If it's hidden gems and we were the first to see them, then that is a win in itself. Maybe others should use our staff as evaluators.

I find your logic (and that same logic in more proven posters around here) tired and lazy, the product of ignorance, and basically just disrespectful to our program.

Note: I call it the product of ignorance because that's exactly what it is. The parrot of the logic isn't skilled enough at talent evaluation to come here and say, "These are the specific attributes that either make the recruit great, or make them subpar." The parrot of the logic can merely say, "I don't know what the hell I'm talking about, so I have to trust someone's opinions. (And those someones won't be our coaches)."
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Excellent!!!
 
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CNeagleVolFan said:
Not all 3 star nobodies. Cooper was a 4 star, Darnell Wright was a 5 star, Carvin was a composite 4 star. Though Spraggins, Mincey, and Crawford were more along those lines.
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So just like CPF’s OLs in the 90s? Wait, before the season the OL was going to be trash?
 
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SweetasSoda said:
So just like CPF’s OLs in the 90s? Wait, before the season the OL was going to be trash?
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They were good enough to beat almost everyone on our schedule, which is definitely something to be proud of. But to run the ball on Georgia we need to get to stronger. Always pursuing perfection!
 
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volfan_28 said:
They were good enough to beat almost everyone on our schedule, which is definitely something to be proud of. But to run the ball on Georgia we need to get to stronger. Always pursuing perfection!
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Keep working hard! Maybe it will help us with recruits!
 
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peachtreecornersVOL81 said:
Yeah diamonds in the rough only get you so far. We need to be winning recruiting battles against Georgia if we want to beat them on the field.
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The 2023 class has several commits that UGA wanted. There were even a few guys in the last class that UGA was after. There should be even more in the 2024 class. Considering the debacle Heupel inherited, what more do you want? He's getting there quicker than anyone could have predicted.
 
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Everyone keeps talking about the former UNLV/Hornets player, but are we joking or is that really this kid's dad?
 
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