How would you grade UGA’s 2013 recruiting class so far?
How do you feel about UGA’s 2013 recruiting class so far?
Loading ...The Bulldogs are off to a fast start with 17 commitments, including the last two at their biggest position of need – offensive line.
UGA could sign around 30 in February.
How would you grade this class so far? Which prospects do you like the most? Which are the ones that UGA needs to keep an eye on due to attention from competing colleges?
What are the biggest remaining needs for this class? Which positions? Which players?
Please post below.
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
- OL Brandon Kublanow, 6-3, 290, Walton HS
OVER THE WEEKEND
- Georgia 4-star tight end commits to Auburn
- Package Deal! Two teammates are headed to Georgia Tech
- Did UGA hire Robert Nkemdiche’s coach to get No. 1 prospect??
LATEST RECRUITING HEADLINES
- How do FSU/Big 12 rumors affect ACC recruiting?
- Will Alabama flip the commitment of UGA’s top recruit??
- UGA QB’s younger brother ready to commit
- REWIND: DT was lifelong Tech fan, almost picked UGA
- The secret is OUT … OL goes public with commitment to UGA
- Mark Richt and Paul Johnson discuss Facebook and Twitter
- How big of a role does Social Media play in recruiting?
- Is Alabama’s serious flirtation with UGA’s prized QB recruit … over?
- REWIND: Alabama DB signee on UGA rumors, relationship with Richt
- UGA offers top prospect after initially saying he was … “too weak”
- Mark Richt has a little secret
- Will Alabama sign BOTH of Georgia’s top football prospects?
WHEN DOES FOOTBALL SEASON START?
- Robert Nkemdiche: No. 1 prospect officially delays his college decision
- Nick Saban on his Georgia recruiting success: “Well, I still have a home in Georgia”
- Mark Richt on his transfer policy: “Life is too short”
- Nick Saban FINALLY addresses Justin Taylor controversy, his Michael Jackson ball marker
- College football’s biggest names (Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, Jimbo Fisher) give their opinions on the impending four-team playoffs
- Who is the state’s best prospect at QB? (And Georgia is LOADED this year)
– By Michael Carvell, AJC Recruiting Blog
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268 comments Add your comment
Crimson Crush
May 28th, 2012
8:06 pm
Lakedawg … have you been peeping in peoples windows again or … are you just using the mental pictures from your last solo fantasy session ?
Either way … you obviously can’t grasp the two links above . The “cuties” in question want someone who can get the job done on the financial front … not a “man” who drops his rust buckets muffler when it hangs on the entrance of the Burger King parking lot LOL
Lakedawg
May 28th, 2012
8:06 pm
Sorry bout that kingdaddy was reading real fast should have known better, however it is a holiday and you have been known to lift a couple.
bitter f__ bamma fans
May 28th, 2012
8:08 pm
bla—hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah—trailer tramps
GOD BLESS YAAAW AND TO ALL U.S TROOPS—-EVEN TECHIE A PERSON SO—-SMart
and bamma boy;s—————-THAT WAS HARD TO SAY—THE SMART NOT DUMB PART
Brainiac
May 28th, 2012
8:08 pm
@ Smart:
They don’t give out Black Bones for being SMART(Pun intended)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You should know that but……………………………………….I still love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lakedawg
May 28th, 2012
8:09 pm
Crusher–Well the rusty muffler definitely eliminares you from driving on those dirt roads on Bammer.
Brainiac
May 28th, 2012
8:25 pm
@ C Crush:
“how do you think you lost to UCF”
My initial guess is say maybe they scored more points than UGA ?????
I thought at one time you and me were sorta, kinda like maybe Blog Buddies. Am I wrong??? (You, me and Kingdaddy makes three.)
I used to be Blog Buddies with Blackout but when he got a new doublewide and a 99 inch big screen TV(weren’t actually a new DW MH. Just a hand-me-down from Saban) he just sorta kinda drifted away. I miss him sorta kinda but would like to stay on good terms with you. Most Bammies are okay dudes and my BS is strictly all in fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brainiac
May 28th, 2012
8:34 pm
@ Smart:
You know darn well who makes it to the Dome “Locker Rooms” because you spend a heck of a lot of time in the MEN’S Locker Rooms”.
Probably the prime reason you live in Atlanta
A person SMART enough to know......
May 28th, 2012
8:35 pm
Crimson…………So who didn’t KNOW UGa girls want to turn tricks to make tuition & beer money? They are making their daddy’s so proud. You can get UGa girls on Craig’s Lists all the time.
A person SMART enough to know......
May 28th, 2012
8:37 pm
Brainiac…………Yes the BLACK BONES are for Academic accomplishments………..What do you think the Black Bones are for?
kingdaddy
May 28th, 2012
8:40 pm
Crimson C.
Who’s arguing, oh yeah, Smart…techies are a little sensitive about their babes (or lack of) lol…
A person SMART enough to know......
May 28th, 2012
8:40 pm
http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/display.aspx?p=10391277
Read and EDUCATE yourself Brainiac. For a dWag fan you don’t know much about UGa football.
Brainiac
May 28th, 2012
8:40 pm
@ Smart:
Do you know what they call an attractive female on the GT campus???
A VISITOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A person SMART enough to know......
May 28th, 2012
8:46 pm
They call Smart Sober girls the same thing at UGa.
Brainiac
May 28th, 2012
8:48 pm
@ Wet Willie:
If Blammer had a decent field goal kicker they would not have lost at home to LSU!!!!!!!!
UGA had the same problem. Cost us at least 3 games!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A person SMART enough to know......
May 28th, 2012
9:15 pm
09/03/11 vs. Boise State Atlanta, Ga. L, 35-21
09/10/11 vs. South Carolina * Athens, Ga. L, 45-42
12/03/11 vs. LSU Atlanta, Ga. L, 42-10
01/02/12 vs. Michigan State Tampa, Fla. L, 33-30 (3OT)
Now which 3 games exactly did a field goal kicker cost UGa?
chazzo
May 28th, 2012
9:18 pm
Derrick Henry! 6′3″ 241pds.! Finally a big RB. Hope he stays loyal…. Hope it’s a new trend….
chazzo
May 28th, 2012
9:20 pm
Troll Tide!
BKbroila
May 28th, 2012
9:47 pm
SmartAssed enough to know….being that the FG kicker missed multiple FGs in each game, it is safe to say all of them…especially SC and MSU!!!
A person SMART enough to know......
May 28th, 2012
10:00 pm
But not the BSU or LSU game so MAYBE it cost the dWags 2 games not 3.
I would say a missed FG didn’t cost the USC game. UGa was LUCKY to even get back in that game. UGa was never in the lead.
1 2 3 4 T
#12 SCAR 0 14 14 17 45
UGA 6 7 7 22 42
A person SMART enough to know......
May 28th, 2012
10:02 pm
Well UGA was back and forth in the lead until the 4th USC got the lead and UGa couldn’t come back enough.
bubba4dawgs
May 28th, 2012
10:09 pm
The success or failure of the DAWGS recruiting seems to parallel with the success of Nick Sabin convincing players to drop their commitment to UGA and go with the Tide. Sabin is hot on the tails of all the top players in Georgia and doing pretty well at beating the DAWGS to the punch. Gee, I hate seeing this!! There is no honor among thieves! Word is not sacred anymore! The University of Alabama can’t offer a player anything that the University of Georgia doesn’t have including a gateway to the NFL. Oh, I’m sorry, I suppose they can offer a championship or two!! I guess winning isn’t everything……it’s the only thing!! DAWGS, pulleeze GO!!
Lakedawg
May 28th, 2012
10:53 pm
Smarty person—Not sure if you are a Techhiee or a Bammer, but Dawgs finish higher in recruiting and BCS rating both this year than the other two.
Blackoutanyone?
May 28th, 2012
11:08 pm
Somewhere Saban is looking over this list of UGA commits and asking him self… Which of these young men will I bless with a commitable offer?
Brainiac… The 99″ didn’t fit in the trailer so I still have 73 inches of High Definition bliss. I’m not on here as much as in the past but your still good with me.
Crimson Crush
May 29th, 2012
12:00 am
Somewhere Saban is looking over this list of UGA commits and asking him self… Which of these young men will I bless with a commitable offer?
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if you look at the post by tony at 9:53 am out of the eight players he named at least five of the players he named were already on the Tide list … some long before UGA was even twitching on them . That number might go to six (less likely now than it would have been earlier because of developments elsewhere in Tide recruiting )
It could also already be dropped to four because of the same reasons ( I would say definitely already dropped to four except the young man in question is one worth taking regardless ) There is another player tony did not name that you see other Dawgs putting in the “must get” category that is a very viable Tide target as well .
While I know you were just picking at the Dawgs about Saban looking over their list to select his next player … I did find what tony wrote interesting because of the above
Thomas Brown
May 29th, 2012
1:06 am
(1) How does it measure up to the 33 number you put on it, since we undersigned and have only 76 remaining of the 109 scholarships signed by Mark Richt to play this season. 9 count toward the 2012 class, we way woefully under-signed including only 1 defensive back. Then, the 25 for 2013.
(2) How does it measure up in terms of average recruit ranking. On this point, we aren’t even in the top 25, signing up anyone and everyone we can.
(3) Then, after both of these measures are applied to what we actually sign, since some of our commitments are not even going to sign with so many being thrown against the wall to see if they stick or not, we can measure it in terms of did we really need yet another running back, another quarterback, or whether once again, we have left great holes obvious to everyone – such as we went 6 consecutive recruiting signed scholarship classes without a fullback when there are 200 fullbacks signed to scholarships every single season.
(4) Attrition is the last measure. If, as you perceive it, we sign 9 against 2012 and 25 against 2013 – given that over 30 percent of the recruits signed to scholarships for 2012 are just gone, good riddance, missing from the roster, how many of the 33 based on previous 30 percent attrition, 10, will be just gone, good riddance, missing from the roster.
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I’d say the over-whelming measure will be how poor a recruit in the far right column compared to the other schools, have we had to settle on, to fill the numbers – given all this attrition.
dream team III
May 29th, 2012
1:28 am
Somewhere Saburn is looking over this list and wondering who else can I put a Shaq-move on and not return to lake Burton with my head between my legs…
dream team III
May 29th, 2012
1:32 am
we will live THE DREAM..you girls keep postin for 2 more yrs…and your names will change- ga roll, keep drinkin bama- koolaid- lake sludge-thomas demarious…lmao
uscwestcoaster
May 29th, 2012
1:53 am
thought you said it was Offenses fault…hmmm….or special teams…hmmm
LOVE
May 29th, 2012
1:58 am
how UGA “fans” will bash (their )own team! Go find another, traitors!
A person SMART enough to know......
May 29th, 2012
3:11 am
http://www.winecommonsewer.com/the_wine_commonsewer/2007/08/air-force-pin-u.html
For the VETS
Walker, Texas Ranger
May 29th, 2012
7:47 am
I’d give them a B+ Got to keep Harvey and make up for a reach with Cardello. How can UGA go after a soft, 280 lb lineman that runs a 5.6 40. Got to be a package deal in the future on that one.
Walker, Texas Ranger
May 29th, 2012
7:47 am
Henry not Harvey and they also need to keep Ramsey.
Wilson Pickett
May 29th, 2012
8:15 am
with the 25 limit in addition to 85 all the better schools in the SEC get good players. The difference is what they do with them once they arrive within the program. It appears a group of folks within the UGA AD complex isn’t happy with what they see. The buyout issue will have to be told once the contract is signed and that will be very interesting. Bama got stuck with 3 million for Mike Shula and we just finished the last payment of 500k last year since Mike went for the payment plan instead of the lump sum then again that might have been in his contract or he could have just helped Mal with the money situation. If so then hats off to the young guy.Dooley was a very good coach but I am not sure he was great but no far from that. I sure hope UGA doesn’t hire a great coach for that would make things difficult for Bama and also mess up this blog! We’re just having some fun…right.
DawginLex
May 29th, 2012
8:23 am
Compared to last year, it’s an “A”
Overall, I’d give it a C+
Still need linemen in a big way on both sides of the ball. Would love to sign 2 more defensive backs and 2 more linebackers.
gbal
May 29th, 2012
8:25 am
at this point, given that no class really matters until signing day, you would have to give it at A+ or very good, which MC does not even give as a ranking.
MC – How about you report on the strenghth of the class as opposed to asking a question of armchairs. You are called a reporter and should be doing just that…. Not just writing a question of the day. Write news!
kingdaddy
May 29th, 2012
8:46 am
gbal
he’s looking for combative banter. Wish he would follow up on avalible non-commits…
kingdaddy
May 29th, 2012
9:05 am
I don’t believe all these young men will be here when the dust settles. I hope I’m wrong. This is already a very impressive looking group that should only get better as it grows. I am still not sold on the weak-commit of D. Henry, but maybe he won’t wait until the last minute to bail on us and we can replace him with a DGD!!!
Coach
May 29th, 2012
9:06 am
Score Check, You are a TURD. This is a thread about UGA recruiting & you make an AZZHOLE comment about CNS. This shows the WORST of UGA class. Thank GOD most UGA posters have the brains you do lack. Back to the point (you had no clue on) UGA will do fine this year.
Chris Mike
May 29th, 2012
9:28 am
I put it like this if we don’t get the kid from Grayson or Foster this is a averge class. Since the two top players are from Ga. Scout said if the these two kids came out the year before they would be the best two players. Wow! I seen Foster play and he is better than Tree right now. Tree is the MLB thqat starts at UGA.
Leo5150
May 29th, 2012
9:35 am
You mean MC writes something without Alabama in the article?? Amazing…
Thomas Brown
May 29th, 2012
9:38 am
Here we are in year 12 of the Mark Richt era, and once again, issues on the OL and issues in the Secondary. Both are the direct result of recruiting without a game plan. Just sign players and sit back and watch the attrition.
2012 :
TOP HALF IN THE NATION OL starts returning :
105 OL starts returning vols
104 OL starts returning LSU
102 OL starts returning Oklahoma
095 OL starts returning Alabama
095 OL starts returning Texas A&M
083 OL starts returning Georgia tek
079 OL starts returning crocodiles
068 OL starts returning Mizzou
065 OL starts returning Notre Shame
065 OL starts returning Arkansas
BOTTOM HALF OF NATION OL starts returning :
061 OL starts returning South Carolina
060 OL starts returning Vandie
057 OL starts returning Ole Miss
050 OL starts returning Kentucky
050 OL starts returning FSU
042 OL starts returning Ohio State # 100 in nation
037 OL starts returning Stanford # 101 in nation
035 OL starts returning Auburn # 106 in nation
031 OL starts returning Mark Richt # 110 in nation
017 OL starts returning Virginia Tech # 121 nation
017 OL starts returning Penn State # 121 nation
While the teams in the Top Half nationally are not going to run the football on our Defensive Front 2012, we ain’t going to run the ball 2012 on Top Defenses either; however, we will run up the stats against the 11 teams 2012 we play who none of them made any top 25 poll except for South Carolina.
Why this continues in year 12 of the Mark Richt era, as it has so many years during the 1st eleven years of his here, is that he specifically does not have a plan for recruiting 4 or 5 Top Offensive Linemen every year of the size bulk and height required for SEC competition, not that we have a typical SEC schedule, as we did not 2011 and do not 2012, with the dead last easiest schedule of all SEC teams both 2011 and now 2012 as well. When you recruit 255 lbs OL, you are giving a scholarship away to a guy who probably will never play on the OL. When you recruit 6’ and 6’ 1” OL, you are probably also recruiting those who will never play on the OL for us. When that is all you recruited on the OL, and maybe 1 top OL to go with them, this is what you get in year 12 of the Mark Richt era.
Again.
kingdaddy
May 29th, 2012
9:43 am
The last couple of years, UGA has had a disturbing trend with all of the suspensions, transfers and injuries. I want to believe CMR has addressed this but we could and will be effected by this very thing this year. Other than Missouri, we can thank the soft schedule for helping us through this. This leads me to everybodies favorite RB! This kid and immature kids like him are the reason UGA has had sad trend of attrition! Ask yourself what will happen to our recruiting needs if he decides to go somewhere else after we have turned down quite a few running backs because Coach Richt is counting on Derrick and here we are trusting someone who has indicated that HE WILL LET US DOWN! I’m not arguing with anyone about this. This has been a trend for us and it looks like it will repeat itself again. When will CMR learn? When Derrick H. indicated he was looking at Alabama, Richt should have said right then, that he was looking for a top tier RB. LOYALTY WORKS BOTH WAYS! Even if D.H. does come to UGA, he doesn’t have enough loyalty or maturity to contribute to the TEAM. You wonder why UGAhad a problem with attrition? THIS IS WHY…
Dekalb Fan
May 29th, 2012
9:46 am
Foster is not better than Tree right now!
True Dawg
May 29th, 2012
9:46 am
we need Nkemdiche and Foster for ability and state pride!!!!
Thomas Brown
May 29th, 2012
9:52 am
Mark Richt Signed Scholarships for 2012 to :
1.AJ Harmon SR # 10 OT nation 5-Star, academic failure Flunked-Out, transfer
2.Brent Benedict SO # 10 OT 4-Star, transfer over Strength & Conditioning
3.Johnathan Owens SR # 39 OT listed med disq
4.Chris Little SR # 10 OT 4-Star transfer, ruled ineligible – NCAA Violation
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Say these 4 were here for 2012, as they were signed to be here – looking at their national ranking of top 10 all 3 of the 4 and the 4th was injury issues that moved him down the rankings – where we would be on our OL for this start # 6 in the nation football program who has not beat a single top team in years and years and years ?
We’d be in very good shape on the OL. If a bullfrog had wings, he could fly instead of bumping his buns on the rocks.
We talk about signing recruits here, when only 1 other program does a better job of that than us nationally. What we should be talking about is the attrition, with 33 missing including these key 4 on the OL 2012 when we should be making a run at top teams and don’t have an OL, and including the 11 Secondary players, just gone, good riddance, transfers – kicked off – encouraged to leave – NCAA violations – flunked out – arrested – suspended -jerked around by the coaching staff without a plan in the world of what to do with our signed recruits – and with 150 % more attrition for Mark Richt 2012 than Alabama, and a higher percentage than that compared to LSU.
NOWHERE MORE OBVIOUS than on our OL and secondary
Thomas Brown
May 29th, 2012
10:07 am
kingdaddy May 29th, 2012 9:43 am
“The last couple of years, UGA has had a disturbing trend with all of the suspensions, transfers and injuries. I want to believe CMR has addressed this but we could and will be effected by this very thing this year. Other than Missouri, we can thank the soft schedule for helping us through this.”
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Of course, you are right kingdaddy. I am glad I did not say that, or you would have read me the riot act with all kinds of nasty comments to me – had I said this exactly.
Athens Tider
May 29th, 2012
10:13 am
@Wilson Pickett… intrigued about your moniker. I grew up in a small town in Alabama on the street as Wilson Pickett. BTW… Roll Tide.
Thomas Brown
May 29th, 2012
10:14 am
DawginLex May 29th, 2012 8:23 am
Overall, I’d give our recruiting class 2013 a C+
wreckmaniac
May 29th, 2012
10:15 am
We all know that a coach must do two things at UGA to keep the natives happy and only two things:
1. recruit top 10 every year
2. Beat Tech
nothing else matters. The rest is just talk.
Thomas Brown
May 29th, 2012
10:19 am
You don’t matter one iota to us. Should just remove you from our schedule. All you care about is beating us, at any cost. NCAA PROBATION back-to-back two 4-year NCAA PROBATION during Mark Richt era, during which you are 1-10 vs him, and yet; here we are in year 12, and Mark Richt is getting complaints from EVERY BULLDOG FOOTBALL FAN.
BAR NONE.