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Maybe interesting only to me, but with the news from the OM 247 site that we're surging (my words, paraphrasing) for Ayden Williams along with the note from AP that Edge/DL Jamarious Brown is coming for the BBQ - along with having John Slaughter in the boat already, I thought it was notable how hard we're recruiting MS. Add in S Isaac Smith who was on campus this spring and has been showing love on Twitter recently, and you're talking about being very involved with the TOP recruits in MS.

AL is not only much deeper of course but also just more difficult to recruit for all the reasons we know, but we're hitting that state harder than usual this cycle too, it seems. Not only do we have Sly Smith in the boat but we're also heavily recruiting Stanton Ramil, Hunter Osborne, Rickey Gibson, Vysen Lang and Karmelo Overton along with being involved with currently committed recruits Jeremiah Cobb (AU); Dakaari Nelson (PSU); Keldric Faulk (FSU); Tomarrion Parker (PSU); and Ryqueze McElderry - all of whom I'm sure we'll continue to keep tabs on during the season.

Of course TN and GA will always be our top areas, along with the Carolinas and cherry picking in FL, but it's nice to see us expanding into other states where we have had some success but just a bit more infrequently.
 
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jvols1999 said:
Maybe interesting only to me, but with the news from the OM 247 site that we're surging (my words, paraphrasing) for Ayden Williams along with the note from AP that Edge/DL Jamarious Brown is coming for the BBQ - along with having John Slaughter in the boat already, I thought it was notable how hard we're recruiting MS. Add in S Isaac Smith who was on campus this spring and has been showing love on Twitter recently, and you're talking about being very involved with the TOP recruits in MS.

AL is not only much deeper of course but also just more difficult to recruit for all the reasons we know, but we're hitting that state harder than usual this cycle too, it seems. Not only do we have Sly Smith in the boat but we're also heavily recruiting Stanton Ramil, Hunter Osborne, Rickey Gibson, Vysen Lang and Karmelo Overton along with being involved with currently committed recruits Jeremiah Cobb (AU); Dakaari Nelson (PSU); Keldric Faulk (FSU); Tomarrion Parker (PSU); and Ryqueze McElderry - all of whom I'm sure we'll continue to keep tabs on during the season.

Of course TN and GA will always be our top areas, along with the Carolinas and cherry picking in FL, but it's nice to see us expanding into other states where we have had some success but just a bit more infrequently.
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jvols1999, good research. How many of these players are 4* & 5* players? Just curious. I prefer a 3* kid who just likes to hit because it comes naturally to him. Any crystal ball info on them? Thanks.
 
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Next year (2024) is a huge year in GA high school recruiting. In our hey day we use to pilfer that State. Going to be harder now with UGA being relevant but we need to get our rightful share. I think like 18 of the current Top 100 players for next year are from GA.
 
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jvols1999 said:
Maybe interesting only to me, but with the news from the OM 247 site that we're surging (my words, paraphrasing) for Ayden Williams along with the note from AP that Edge/DL Jamarious Brown is coming for the BBQ - along with having John Slaughter in the boat already, I thought it was notable how hard we're recruiting MS. Add in S Isaac Smith who was on campus this spring and has been showing love on Twitter recently, and you're talking about being very involved with the TOP recruits in MS.

AL is not only much deeper of course but also just more difficult to recruit for all the reasons we know, but we're hitting that state harder than usual this cycle too, it seems. Not only do we have Sly Smith in the boat but we're also heavily recruiting Stanton Ramil, Hunter Osborne, Rickey Gibson, Vysen Lang and Karmelo Overton along with being involved with currently committed recruits Jeremiah Cobb (AU); Dakaari Nelson (PSU); Keldric Faulk (FSU); Tomarrion Parker (PSU); and Ryqueze McElderry - all of whom I'm sure we'll continue to keep tabs on during the season.

Of course TN and GA will always be our top areas, along with the Carolinas and cherry picking in FL, but it's nice to see us expanding into other states where we have had some success but just a bit more infrequently.
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Sounds like one of these guys might be flipping. I don't expect it to be here tho. We aren't taking Isaac Smith btw
 
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unfrozencvmanvol said:
Next year (2024) is a huge year in GA high school recruiting. In our hey day we use to pilfer that State. Going to be harder now with UGA being relevant but we need to get our rightful share. I think like 18 of the current Top 100 players for next year are from GA.
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It's very loaded even with Echols and Cunningham transferring out
 
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Defcon5 said:
jvols1999, good research. How many of these players are 4* & 5* players? Just curious. I prefer a 3* kid who just likes to hit because it comes naturally to him. Any crystal ball info on them? Thanks.
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I would be curious to know how much Covid has set back evaluations as well? If kids have been less involved in camps, scouts have been less active as well? Also we have more evaluation services but it seems some services are more watered down due to scouts jumping ship etc.
 
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unfrozencvmanvol said:
Next year (2024) is a huge year in GA high school recruiting. In our hey day we use to pilfer that State. Going to be harder now with UGA being relevant but we need to get our rightful share. I think like 18 of the current Top 100 players for next year are from GA.
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There's enough for UGA + 1-2 other out of state powers. We've always duked it out with Auburn for GA. Our problem recently has been Clemson.
 
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I guarantee you that Coach RG knows everything about all the players in GA and AL as he is a regular at all the Top teams practices and builds relationships with the players, parents and coaches from the time they are in Junior High. Coach Rodney Garner extremely valuable recruiting asset. Pay the man!!!!
 
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BigSteve09 said:
There's enough for UGA + 1-2 other out of state powers. We've always duked it out with Auburn for GA. Our problem recently has been Clemson.
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True, but UGA is the home school and now there are more kids that want to go there than in the 90's. We used to could pull players UGA wanted back then quite easily, now it's harder, not impossible certainly, but much harder than it used to be.
 
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unfrozencvmanvol said:
Next year (2024) is a huge year in GA high school recruiting. In our hey day we use to pilfer that State. Going to be harder now with UGA being relevant but we need to get our rightful share. I think like 18 of the current Top 100 players for next year are from GA.
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How you determine a "rightful share" of Ga. kids as "rightful" for UT??
 
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savannahfan said:
How you determine a "rightful share" of Ga. kids as "rightful" for UT??
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I would think if we could sign 5 or 6 top 50 GA players would be a significant haul. Same in FL. Keep 5 of our top TN kids, sign 2-3 kids each out of TX & CA. That’s about 20 players. Know it is probably a pipe dream, but hope NIL $ can make it happen.
 
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Pruitt recruited the state of Alabama and Tennessee will be going up against Kiffin and Leach for top talent in Mississippi on a regular basis.
 
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