Josh Cardiello: UGA lands second OL for 2013 class
UGA OL commit Josh Cardiello of Buford HS (AJC)
After secretly committing to UGA several weeks ago, one of the state’s top interior linemen made it official on Saturday.
Josh Cardiello, a 6-foot-4, 280-pounder from Buford High School, committed to UGA over Florida State on Saturday. He also had football scholarship offers from Florida, Nebraska, South Carolina and North Carolina.
“I told Georgia a while back that I was coming there,” Cardiello told the AJC. “I just wanted to get my whole family over there [to Georgia] to do it. It’s official now: I’m a Georgia Bulldog.”
Cardiello took an unofficial visit to Georgia on Saturday with his family, including his parents and grandparents. He met with UGA’s Mark Richt and let him know he was ready to go public.
“I told Coach Richt ‘Let’s do this, let’s make it official,’” Cardiello said. “He was pumped up and excited, as were all of the other Georgia coaches.”
Why UGA over FSU? “I just had that feeling about Georgia that it was the place I needed to be.”
Cardiello, who will likely play center and maybe some at offensive guard in college, is commitment No. 16 for UGA for its 2013 recruiting class. He is the second commitment at offensive line, which is a position of need for the Bulldogs.
UGA commits for 2013
- RB Derrick Henry, 6-3, 241, Yulee, Fla.
- QB Brice Ramsey, 6-3, 190, Camden County HS
- S Tray Matthews, 6-2, 205, Newnan HS
- DB Shaq Wiggins, 5-10, 160, Sandy Creek HS
- DB Steven Nelson, 6-0, 185, College of Sequoias JC (Northside-WR HS)
- DT Chris Mayes, 6-4, 295, Mississippi Gulf Coast JC (Spalding HS)
- DT DeAndre “Moose” Johnson, 6-3, 311, Northgate HS
- WR Tramel Terry, 6-0, 185, Goose Creek (S.C.)
- LB Johnny O’Neal, 6-1, 230, West Laurens HS
- WR Kyrin Priester, 6-2, 185, Brookwood HS
- OL Aulden Bynum, 6-5, 250, Valwood HS
- LB Ryne Rankin, 6-1, 231, Orlando, Fla.
- LB, Reggie Carter, 6-1, 220, South Gwinnett HS
- ATH JJ Green, 5-9, 178, Camden County HS
- DB Reggie Wilkerson, 6-0, Citron, Fla.
- OL Josh Cardiello, 6-4, 280, Buford HS
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Brainiac
May 20th, 2012
8:53 pm
@ Game Changer:
“Spurrier has been a winner everywhere he’s been”!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How bout that stint with The Redskins???? Just like Saban. They both tucked their tail and came running back to college coaching. Meanwhile CMR was busy getting to 100 career wins the 6th fastest time in history. CMR has a better won loss percentage than any SEC coach(He’s in the top 10 in the nation in won/loss records). How many years did it take Spurrier to win ANYTHING resembling a title of ANY TYPE at Game Chikun country???
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kingdaddy
May 20th, 2012
8:54 pm
Brain
What can I say, I took a nice pill and Vodka just ain’t cutting it! Tequila when I get to The Rock House down the beach!!! I’ll be back after I start some TROUBLE…LOL…
Whiskey Breath
May 20th, 2012
9:22 pm
Something tells me Richt didn’t even put forth the effort to even recruit this kid.
Richt would be talking about how much hard work he put in. Any man that is constantly
telling you about his hard work, is generally one lazy man. Have you ever heard Nick Saban
talk about hard work? The man lives it, he doesn’t have to tell you about it. Can you imagine Richt
trying to teach a young man about benefits of a work ethic? That would be a short conversation.
Now posing in front of cameras, he has Nick beat.
Ole Big Dawg
May 20th, 2012
9:47 pm
I tell ya what is gping to be funny….when Richts Dawgs roll Spurriers chicken heads….and then…lol…god bless em if Saban and the turd nation are in the Dawgs path…..heaven help’em!!!!!
Game Changer
May 20th, 2012
9:55 pm
@bfromeast
Muschamp never said he was against a change, he is quoted that it would be hard for a SEC game not to matter, but all games matter, just not factored regarding division champ.
The only coach in the U.S. regarding any level of football that would make such a statement as a game not mattering or ” not a must win game “, Mark Richt, UGA HEAD COACH FOOTBALL
Dawg48
May 20th, 2012
9:56 pm
I see Thomas Brown is still beating that dead horse.
Walker, Texas Ranger
May 20th, 2012
10:08 pm
Buford = Soft
bitter's dawgs fan
May 20th, 2012
10:25 pm
bamma trolls love trailers——–dawgs rule
Cdpridg
May 20th, 2012
10:43 pm
Changer..changer…changer…son..if you are going to continue to post here u are going to have to step your game up….Richt 1…ya boy champ..0….LMFAO….U!
A person SMART enough to know......
May 20th, 2012
11:36 pm
Cdpridg………talking SMACK? HAHHAHAHA…………His wife has a Bigger B.O.B the he has a Ding Dong.
Crimson Crush
May 20th, 2012
11:47 pm
Enter your comments here
TROLL PATROLL
May 20th, 2012
11:58 pm
Guys are amazing>>>Vasoline 18 wheeler bout to arrive.
kingdaddy
May 20th, 2012
11:58 pm
Wet Willies on Tybee only sales frozen drinks and has a dress-code! What has the world come to…
marmaduke from madison
May 21st, 2012
12:08 am
Big boy..beef him up a little…few days at Prince Ave. Baptist and some wranglin with #1 D in the country and he’ll be ready to help block for the best RB corp in the USA!!!
Columbus
May 21st, 2012
12:50 am
@TampaGator….you can look at stars about one of your linemen from GA but WE will look at the BIG PICTURE…..Florida wanted him….. but UGA got him! You cant twist that fact around. BTW Florids is going to the SEC Championship for a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG TIME!
Another fact that you cannot twist around. Because it will play out and when it does Florida will be watching UGA or South Carolina in the East for the next few years and it will be a race between Tenn, Vandy and UF for 3rd. Maybe even 2nd.
It is the decade of the UGA Bulldogs. Might as well go ahead and accept it and make your peace with it. Or you can jump on the bandwagon and be a UGA fan like you really want to be deep down…..GO GEORGIA BULLDOGS AND THE CLASS OF 2013!
Cant stop UGA right now. Last year was a year ahead of schedule to get to the SEC and that experience will be the reason UGA wins the SEC in 2012. UGA has ALL the momentum and unless the coaches leave, get used to seeing Red and Black in the GA dome in the championship game the next 5 years minimum…..
DGD
May 21st, 2012
1:24 am
GC you are dead wrong. The Presidents do not vote on what the head coaches want. If that was the case then the SEC wouldn’t have the 25 signing rule. The overwhelming of SEC coaches were against that rule change from 28 to 25. The Presidents look at things differently and they will not make that moronic change to division game determining who makes it into the title game.
DGD
May 21st, 2012
1:26 am
I love the fact some gators are still believing that jhc committed to the gators first.. lol
Thomas Brown
May 21st, 2012
2:41 am
You just can’t write this stuff, us in here talking about a mediocre football program for years – and, it not being about mediocre us but about South Carolina – as here we sit bragging about what we did in 2005 last winning The SEC Championship when that was eight (8) seasons ago now this up-coming 2012 season with us The # 6 SEC team 2012 in won/lost after 2005. Us with 1 win after 2005 against teams who achieved a top 10 poll and The SEC with 15 wins over teams who achieved top 10 by the 6 teams in a row since winning the BCS NC. How much more mediocre can any team actually be than # 6 in their conference in won/lost record after 2005 ?
Thomas Brown
May 21st, 2012
5:03 am
vs teams achieving Top 10 after 2005 :
Auburn :
Lost to # 2 Georgia 2007
Lost to # 10 Coaches’ # 13 AP Georgia 2008
Won over # 3 LSU 2006
Won over # 8 LSU 2010
Lost to # 2 LSU 2011
Lost to # 5 Arkansas 2011
Lost to # 6 Alabama 2008
Lost to # 1 Alabama 2009
Won over # 10 Alabama 2010
Lost to # 1 Alabama 2011
Won over # 9 South Carolina 2011
Won over # 3 Oregon 2010
Won over # 1 Florida 2006
6-7 Auburn after 2005 vs teams achieving top 10
LSU :
Lost to # 1 Florida 2006
Lost to # 1 Florida 2008
Lost to # 3 Florida 2009
Lost to # 6 Alabama 2008
Lost to # 1 Alabama 2009
Won over # 10 Alabama 2010
Lost to # 1 Alabama 2011
Won over # 1 Alabama 2011
Won over # 5 Arkansas 2011
Lost to # 9 Auburn 2006
Lost to # 1 Auburn 2010
Lost to # 10 Coaches’ # 13 AP Georgia 2008
Lost to # 9 Penn State 2009
Won over # 9 Virginia Tech 2009
Won over # 4 Oregon 2011
Won over # 5 Ohio State 2007
6-10 LSU after 2005 vs teams achieving top 10
Alabama :
Lost to # 3 LSU 2006
Lost to # 1 LSU 2007
Lost to # 8 LSU 2010
Lost to # 2 LSU 2011
Won over # 2 LSU 2011
Lost to # 9 Auburn 2006
Lost to # 1 Auburn 2010
Lost to # 1 Florida 2006
Lost to # 1 Florida 2008
Won over # 3 Florida 2009
Won over # 5 Arkansas 2011
Lost to # 2 Georgia 2007
Won over # 10 Coaches’ # 13 AP Georgia 2008
Lost to # 2 Utah 2008
Won over # 10 Virginia Tech 2009
Won over # 2 Texas 2009
6-10 Alabama after 2005 vs teams achieving top 10
Florida :
Win over # 3 LSU 2006
Lost to # 1 LSU 2007
Lost to # 8 LSU 2010
Lost to # 2 LSU 2011
Win over # 8 Alabama 2008
Lost to # 1 Alabama 2009
Lost to # 10 Alabama 2010
Lost to # 1 Alabama 2011
Lost to # 9 Auburn 2006
Lost to # 9 South Carolina 2011
Lost to # 2 Georgia 2007
Win over # 10 Coaches’ # 13 AP Georgia 2008
Win over # 5 Oklahoma 2008
Win over # 2 Ohio State 2006
5-9 Florida after 2005 vs teams achieving top 10
Even Arkansas 4 wins after 2005 vs teams achieving top 10
Arkansas beat # 9 Auburn 2006
Arkansas beat # 1 LSU 2007
Arkansas beat # 8 LSU 2010
Arkansas beat # 9 South Carolina 2011
Even Arkansas 4 wins after 2005 vs teams achieving top 10
Even South Carolina 2 wins after 2005 vs teams achieving top 10
South Carolina beat # 2 Georgia 2007
South Carolina beat # 10 Alabama 2010
Even South Carolina 2 wins after 2005 vs teams achieving top 10
vols :
vols match our 1 Win after 2005 vs teams achieving top 10
Won over # 2 Georgia 2007
Kentucky :
KY match our 1 Win after 2005 vs teams achieving top 10
Won over # 1 LSU 2007
Ole Miss :
Ole Miss match our 1 Win after 2005 vs teams achieving top 10
Won over # 1 Florida 2008
Georgia :
Won over # 9 Auburn 2006
Lost to # 1 Auburn 2010
Lost to # 1 Florida 2006
Lost to # 1 Florida 2008
Lost to # 3 Florida 2009
Lost to # 9 South Carolina 2011
Lost to # 2 LSU 2011
Lost to # 8 Boise State 2011
Lost to # 6 Alabama 2008
1-8 Georgia after 2005 vs teams achieving top 10
Thomas Brown
May 21st, 2012
5:09 am
Vandie & Missy State are the only 2 SEC teams with fewer wins after 2005 than Georgia over teams achieving top 10.
Thomas Brown
May 21st, 2012
5:11 am
And, we’ve Lost to both of them, too, since then.
Spike
May 21st, 2012
8:57 am
No interest in Tech, huh? Imagine that.
AltamahaDawg
May 21st, 2012
9:35 am
I am sure that all the bulldog fans are trying to deal with new revelation this morning that they all must be either a total whining gasbag or a completely fabricated strawman.
Leaving the other 4,385 988 of us wondering how to square that in the confines of living in the real world.
Rip Van Winkle
May 21st, 2012
10:10 am
Another NC for the L E G H U M P E R S!
UGA is Vandy without the education.
May 21st, 2012
10:11 am
Vandy will beat UGA in Athens this year; book it.
Cdpridg
May 21st, 2012
10:37 am
‘book it’…….strong wording from a program with an overall record of 18-52…BWAHAHAHA!!
Game Changer
May 21st, 2012
11:02 am
@All: UGA has been a below avg football program for a very long time. If you are not first, you are last. Every family member knows the name of the winning horse from Saturdays race, no one knows the name of any other horses in the race. Facts are: When SEC football is discussed UGA does not get mentioned.
The university of GA needs money money money, it is desperate to raise tuition more and more on the backs of our children. Why UGA is so short on funds and revenue is a huge question but Pres. Adams is jumping ship asap. Just how much money is owed by the flagship University in the State of GA. Would love to see the AJC business reporters do a complete examination of books and records during the Pres Adams period. The Athletic Department is not making the money it once did and 2008 was the high side, ever since the bottom has fallen out, UGA Athletic Department needs money, just where did all this money go?
AltamahaDawg
May 21st, 2012
11:53 am
Speaking on behalf of my family members, they might not can name the second place horse, but they are smart enough to realize that there was one. And the difference between that and being last.
harold
May 21st, 2012
12:04 pm
HE WILL NEVER PLAY. HE ISN’T STRONG. CERTAINLY NOT BAMA OR LSU CALIBUR. PLUS MARK RICT IS 9-30 AGAINST RANKED TEAMS AT UGA. RICHT IS 24-16 HIS LAST 3 YEARS.
UGA HAS THE WAEKEST SCHEDULE EVER THIS YEAR. GEORGIA STATE WOULD GO 11-0 WITH THIS WEAK SECHEDULE!
GatorNation19
May 21st, 2012
1:26 pm
@Columbus you’re a funny story teller. You don’t know how it will play out in East. UGA can have injuries or suspensions like SC last season. Cariello is a solid recruit but UF had 3 other C higher on the board. He couldn’t commit even if he wanted too. It’s the nature of the game but he should be solid in Athens. What are your other targets at OT? Because Tusil will be a Gator.
G-Dawg
May 21st, 2012
1:28 pm
Regarding Lattimore…ACL injuries, surgery, and rehab have shown increased success in recent years due to advances in medicine. Doctors can almost make the ligament even stronger than before!! Including Tommy Jones surgery.
Game Changer
May 21st, 2012
1:52 pm
@gatornation19″
Tunsil is a definite Gator lean but a very close relationship to D Henry exist throwing it up in the air. Tunsil will not attend UGA and D Henry is all but de-committed.
Kamara from Norcross is running back in play currently. South Carolina, Tennessee and Vandy offer great opportunities for both Kamara and or Henry although I dont think Henry would go to Vandy. Alot of players left that are top shelf. Tunsil is a top five lineman for 2013. Both Henry and Kamara are top 10 running backs for 2013. I still look for South Carolina to play a big part of Derrick Henry choice.
AltamahaDawg
May 21st, 2012
2:03 pm
Wasn’t SC last in the SECe?
GtDawg
May 21st, 2012
2:37 pm
Tunsil stated he will commit on Signing Day. Leave it alone.
GtDawg
May 21st, 2012
2:44 pm
correction, make his DECISION on signing day
Game Changer
May 21st, 2012
2:50 pm
@altamaha: In 2011 football season South Carolina, UGA, Alabama and 8 other schools were last place:
Only one SEC FIRST PLACE TEAM: LSU
The Alabama vs LSU NC game should have never happened
Brainiac
May 21st, 2012
2:55 pm
@ Harold:
Back under your rock big fellow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brainiac
May 21st, 2012
2:58 pm
Dang!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wasn’t aware that SEC records were currently being kept games played since 2005!!!!
My bad……………………………………………………..my a$$.
kingdaddy
May 21st, 2012
3:03 pm
G Dawg
First let me say, HAROLD,WHAT TEAM DID YOU SAY YOU SUPPORT? If someone else knows please tell me! G Dawg, on the ACL, like a lot of athletes, I tore mine too. Yes they can heal back to 100%, but the athlete doesn’t always come back to 100%. There is a mental aspect to this issue that you missed in your 1:28 pm. A big power-back may be able to run on the knee, but may take a little while trusting his knee when he is making a hard cut. Especially, a Big power back. Its mental and some athletes are slow or never overcome this fear. If anyone says 100% of athletes recover from an ACL tear, they are FOS! A back like Lattimore only comes around every Blue-Moon, and even at 90% he wil be better than most RBs, but he may-not (MAY-not) be the same and we won’t know until he gets popped a few times in that knee by an SEC All-Star, and M.L. keeps poping up like toast. Then we’ll know, not until…
Brainiac
May 21st, 2012
3:14 pm
@ KINGDADDY:
Didn’t you read Harold’s post on the FACT that Georgia State would go 11-0 with UGA’s schedule. Only a Ga. State fan or a certified Knucklehead(possibly A Person Smart Enough To Know) would make that statement. Big Hal couldn’t find his rearend with both hands in his hip pockets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Scaley Dog
May 21st, 2012
3:19 pm
@ G-Dawg: What the heck is Tommy Jones surgery??
@ Game Changer: Where are you getting your info regarding Derrick Henry? He has stated multiple times that he is 100% solid to UGA, btw so did Da’Rick Rogers. He’s also our biggest recruiter this year.
kingdaddy
May 21st, 2012
3:26 pm
G Dawg
I do a lot of climbing and jumping, and always have that fear of knee failure! Its alway there, its mental, but its there nevertheless. Even though its been years, the fear remains and then there’s the arthritis and inflammation or the pain right before or during a rain. Most people I’ve talked to who’ve had the operation has had some discomfort or problems. I hope M.L.will be OK when we meet
kingdaddy
May 21st, 2012
3:30 pm
Brain
I know, I just want to remind that Ch*cken-sh*t what a hypocrite he is…
AltamahaDawg
May 21st, 2012
3:33 pm
The team I feel sorry for on that schedule is the one that Georgia State could make vanish.
AltamahaDawg
May 21st, 2012
3:35 pm
Hopefully, barametric is not the only pressure that Lattimore can feel dropping down on him this fall.
kingdaddy
May 21st, 2012
3:51 pm
Altamaha
I hope he feels like a busload of Bulldoggies has run slap over the top of him. I hope his knee is ok, but the rest of him belongs to CTG…
AltamahaDawg
May 21st, 2012
3:55 pm
Is that rain? No it’s a 700 lbs interior lineman.
harold
May 21st, 2012
4:23 pm
READ HAROLD’S COMMENTS @ 12:04!
Hey Hey Hey We're the Monkees
May 21st, 2012
4:34 pm
This gives the Dawgs 3 o lineman from Buford. How does a small school like that turn out that many SEC O linemen? They have had 7 or 8 in the last 6 or 7 years. They produce more SEC O linmen than some entire regions in AAAAA.
Lakedawg
May 21st, 2012
5:05 pm
Thomas=HAROLD=game changer
What’s this ‘WE” stuff you throw out there occassionally?
Who is WE ?