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Rough week: UGA loses second football recruit in three days (UPDATED)

12:53 pm June 15, 2012, by Michael Carvell



It has been a rough week for UGA.

UGA lost its second recruit of the week when WR Kyrin Priester backed off his commitment to the Bulldogs on Friday.

Earlier in the week, UGA’s top-rated recruit, 5-star tailback Derrick Henry, also decided to “re-open” his recruiting after being committed to the Bulldogs since last summer. He made a statement that you can read here, saying he rushed his decision — but claims he is still considering the Bulldogs.

What about Priester? He’s a Florida native who recently transferred from the Orlando area to Brookwood High School. A couple of months ago, the 6-foot-2, 185-pounder committed to UGA over Vanderbilt and TCU, citing UGA’s needs for wide receivers and his appeal to Mark Richt’s Christian beliefs (click to read story).

On Friday after playing with his Brookwood teammates in a 7-on-7 tournament. Priester confirmed that he was backing off his decision.

“I just want to see all my other options before I make a serious decision,” Priester told the AJC.

UGA, which was on a tremendous roll in recruiting with 20 commitments for 2013 at the beginning of the week, now is at 18. However, the Bulldogs could add more commitments as early as this weekend, with Saturday’s Mark Richt Football Camp.

Despite the loss of Priester, UGA still has the commitments of three other wide receivers, including Tramel Terry and Uriah LeMay (younger brother of UGA QB Christian LeMay).

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Wet Willie...keep on smiling

June 15th, 2012
4:01 pm

UGA insider is still at the fax machine waiting on Dalvin and Green’s NSD doucuments to arrive. That guy full of the fail no doubt.

tell me again

June 15th, 2012
4:02 pm

why do you people get so bent over recruiting. The Dawgs will get what thet need. All will be well. Let the season begin.

Jacket Man

June 15th, 2012
4:08 pm

I’m sure there’s more to this story than has come out; the Bulldogs will be just fine with this outstanding class. There’s still plenty of time to fill additional slots.

Beast from the East

June 15th, 2012
4:13 pm

No big deal. UGA will still sign a top 10 class. Biggest area of need is linemen and DB’s. Losing one WR commit isn’t the end of the world.

The Tide is tRolling and nothing can stop it.....

June 15th, 2012
4:15 pm

look at me! look at me!

Dawgville

June 15th, 2012
4:16 pm

KMAC is an FSU fan? Talking smack about the Dawgs trending down? I guess I would too if I was a fan of the nation’s most underperforming team? You must really be hurting if you are trying to talk down to us, go noles… what a joke pal.

kingdaddy

June 15th, 2012
4:19 pm

Win some, lose some. Gonna do the 3 Sss and fix a good drink. Stepin out 2night…

Troup Co. Dawg

June 15th, 2012
4:20 pm

@ dawg in truck
I feel you bro, i drive a truck as well, it sure is a shame that the state of Alabama has taken over 2 decades to rebuild the I-20 corridor from ATL to BRGM, take a drive anywhere near B-ham and you’ll see what i am talking about. I wonder if most of the state’s tax revenues go towards the two big football programs. BaHaHaha !

DawginLex

June 15th, 2012
4:20 pm

kmac

Wake Forest

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Troup Co. Dawg

June 15th, 2012
4:23 pm

The Dawgs are on the UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP_______________________SWING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

currentUGAstudent

June 15th, 2012
4:27 pm

Can’t blame the kid, honestly. We have 3 WRs committed for 2013 currently, all being 4 stars in the Rivals250 rankings. If anything, the kid is making a good life decision for himself. I wish him luck wherever he ends up committing!

Dawg Haus

June 15th, 2012
4:29 pm

Sounds good, kingdaddy. Happy merrymaking!

oakisland

June 15th, 2012
4:31 pm

kmac—you have said in two different posts “Georgia is soft”. Would love for Jarvis Jones or Ogletree to hit you head on and see just how soft they are.

Ole Big Dawg

June 15th, 2012
4:33 pm

Get’em Dawgs! Sic’em!!!

Ole Big Dawg

June 15th, 2012
4:36 pm

Kmac is Dawg envy as well…..FSU….lol…they have barely been top 25 in the weakest conference in america going on a decade plus now….fsu is shameful

Hines Word

June 15th, 2012
4:38 pm

GOOD. Now go get to more O Linemen!

Chi Town

June 15th, 2012
4:40 pm

Puppies are getting owned on here today.

Looks as if I dont even need to get involved.

DawginLex

June 15th, 2012
4:42 pm

chi town

Best for you to leave

i will just abuse you again like every other day with your single digit IQ, GED candidate brain.

cdpridg

June 15th, 2012
4:47 pm

Chi town…..your best served to put your head down and shuffle back to your corner and keep it low

Hines Word

June 15th, 2012
4:50 pm

Seriously, take a look at our post spring depth chart. It lists us only three deep at offensive line, and some of those are duplicates. (Dallas Lee is starting guard AND third string center.) Meanwhile we are six and seven deep at the skill positions!!! There is only one ball! And a solid line makes a good running back great, not the other way around! This has been an ongoing issue since Richt has been here. Enough with the ‘window dressing’ recruits! Its time to start hemming up the states linemen and make recruiting translate to wins, not just recruiting rankings!!!

Thomas Brown

June 15th, 2012
5:01 pm

NOT ROUGH WEEK.

1st we did not need another running back. We have plenty of running backs. It made sense he un-committed, as I said he would do all along.

2nd, can we be hones here ? We have

Tramel Terry with 4.38 speed ranked # 16 WR nationally committed for 2013 already.
Uriah LeMay ranked # 45 WR nationally committed for 2013 already with 4.54 speed.
Reggie Davis # 87 WR nationally committed for 2013 already.

How many WR is Mark Richt going to start out of 1 recruiting class ?
Go ahead, how many ? 2. Is this gentleman going to be 1 of the 2 ?

Vandie gave him an offer. He would be a good fit for Vandie. TCU too. Those are his 2 offers.

Withdraw the offer to Kyrin Priester # 68 WR please Mark Richt and Bryan McClendon. You have to have some class in recruiting. Been too many times in years past where Mark Richt signed too many players at 1 position. And, what have we had as a result ?

ATTRITION.

Best of luck Kyrin Priester, don’t kill us too badly at Vandie. Doubt we face TCU. You are in fine shape with 2 excellent schools with good teams to choose from; pick 1 who doesn’t sign 2 of the best WR in the nation in the same recruiting class Kyrin. I am with you on this. Again, best of luck.

Thomas Brown

June 15th, 2012
5:03 pm

exactly Word.

kingdaddy

June 15th, 2012
5:05 pm

These trolls are like a dumba$$ crumpled-up in the middle of the road, bleeding from every orifice, hollering for the bus that just steam-rolled him to come back and fight like a man, right before another bus hits and drags him down the road,lol. Boy , that was a long sentence. I’m sure one of my ol English teachers would get me. Troll on while I go get another bus token, lmaoff…

cdpridg

June 15th, 2012
5:09 pm

Thomas brown….not going to eaither of these schools silly

Tough week

June 15th, 2012
5:10 pm

Might as well make that plural because it’s not over.

crimson1

June 15th, 2012
5:12 pm

Living in Fort Worth I am sure he would love this area. The women are prettier. The opportunities are greater. The football team is…..did I mention the pretty women?

kingdaddy

June 15th, 2012
5:12 pm

What’s up Dawg Haus, man I feel better. What a beautiful day.
K. Priester made a good move. Now lets go get some OLs, DBs, LBs and DLs this weekend! Go Doggies…

@kingdaddy

June 15th, 2012
5:13 pm

kingdaddy, that’s not a sentence but a ramble. It usually indicates nervousness or poor education.

LOSER IN LOOSA

June 15th, 2012
5:15 pm

I love my Crimson Tide they the best team in the world and coach Saban ia gay.

kingdaddy

June 15th, 2012
5:23 pm

Tuff weak
Most programs hate us because our bad luck is still better than most of their luck on their best days, lol. UGA is rolling, rolling, rolling! Wait until this weekend…

crimson1

June 15th, 2012
5:27 pm

The only thing Georgia got going for itself is Atlanta. The poor man’s New York City. It smells of strong urine and gun powder. Other than that, there is no difference between Georgia and Alabama.

Brown Dog

June 15th, 2012
5:27 pm

Loser, homophobic tones in every post, huh? Come on, bud. Let the world see the real you. You’ll be happier in the long run.

kingdaddy

June 15th, 2012
5:31 pm

I see I have a new fan. Better call out the grammar po-pos on kingdaddy! OMG,WHAT AM I GOING TO DO? You mean I should give up and stay at home because I’m not very smart? To late, I’m already at one of my homes. Guess I’ll fix another V&OJ…

Wet Willie...keep on smiling

June 15th, 2012
5:32 pm

They still passing out the Atlanat free housing applications downtown…it looked great on TV. I mean elite folks.

kingdaddy

June 15th, 2012
5:35 pm

@kingdaddy from kingdaddy,
your name is very unoriginal, lol…you’re just another troll I spanked in another blog…

B'dawg

June 15th, 2012
5:49 pm

I would imagine he wont be the last to decommit. We are stacked at WR and will be for years to come. Better to have them move on now than later. I wish the kid the best.

LakeDawg

June 15th, 2012
5:54 pm

I could give a rat’s a$$ about those two. We can replace them with some 3 stars. I want and UGA needs— O linemen! We have skill players coming out of our ears. Get some damn hawgs in here.

Let's face it

June 15th, 2012
6:04 pm

Every blog on the ajc is at least 90% trolls, 5% seriously deranged sociopaths like game changer, gt bob, smart enough, tide roll etc… and 5% people who want to talk sports.

If you go to other sports sites and mention the ajc it is considered a pathetic joke. Does this embarass anyone else?

zbulldawg

June 15th, 2012
6:07 pm

I’ll SAY IT AGAIN ” You can’t lose something that you never had. Verbal dosen’t mean SWAT until they sign the paper !!!!! ALL IT REALLY MEANS is they offered ! Speaking of UGA’s offer. Nothing is biding until THEY SIGN THE PAPER ! LET the big DAWG EAT

Game Changer

June 15th, 2012
6:13 pm

@ALL

McGarity fires the womens golf coach and before you know it a offer from one of the most prominent girls golf teams known as Furman University offer a job. I am beginning to think that McGarity is not only in over his head, but without a doubt the dumbest person in Butts Mehre.

You cannot make this stuff up, McGarity fires a head coach and they upgrade to a top 10 golf college as the head coach. Congratudamnlations McQuackity, you Fup again.

Todd Grantham

June 15th, 2012
6:21 pm

Dont worry dawg fans this will be a great weekend for recruiting. There just might be a HUGE wr that has already silently commited…….. Go Dawgs!

kingdaddy

June 15th, 2012
6:21 pm

Some high-school kids actually learned what the term “To Commit” means and they either “honor” their “commit”, or they don’t “commit”. For the ones who don’t seem to know what the word means, I say “Good Luck”…

Game Changer

June 15th, 2012
6:23 pm

You Cannot Make This Up

UGA AD McGarity demands excellance on female sports by firing the girls volleyball, gymnastics and golf head coaches. Maybe he does not realize he is the AD for mens sports team also?

heeldawg

June 15th, 2012
6:25 pm

Most of you people clearly don’t know anything.

First of all, anyone who thinks Richt won’t be back is on drugs. He’ll win at least 11 games in 2012, and at least 10 in 2013–bare minimum. No coach is going to get fired with that kind of record, especially not one with as clean a rep as CMR.

Second, Grantham just signed a three year extension. He’s already said that he wants to be in Athens for a while and has no interest in going back to the NFL right now. A head coaching gig at a major university is the only thing that might lure him away–but that is not likely to happen anytime soon.

This will be Georgia’s best recruiting class ever–and the nucleus for a nice half-decade run for Coach Richt. Spurrier will be drooling away in a nursing home with a feeding tube in his gut by the time CMR leaves Athens.

Dancing on high with the incomparable Ballina Sisters

June 15th, 2012
6:40 pm

It’s beginning to look like a mass exodus away from the Cesspool of the South.

Too many guys are wising up, aren’t they. :-)

Sarge

June 15th, 2012
6:45 pm

… especially not one with as clean a rep as CMR.

What BS. Richt is the dirtiest, sleaziest coach in the SEC.

daddo

June 15th, 2012
6:45 pm

Don’t worry, dog fans, there are plenty more three star recruits for u to add to the already growing list of three stars for 2013. Yeah, u can become elite with that. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….Half your recruits are three stars.

Game Changer

June 15th, 2012
6:45 pm

@heeldawg

Be careful, you read to many pay sites articles

First: Mark Richt appears to be finished with coaching after the 2013 season, all evidence points in that direction.

Second: Todd Grantham has not signed or agreed to the contract offer from McQuackity and is very unhappy with money offered and wants a new job for more money at the end of 2012

S Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Lsu are loaded
UGA, Auburn,Vandy, Arkansas have more talent but coaching will be the difference for 2 years
Texas A&M, Missouri ????
Ole Miss, Miss St, Tenn, Kentucky – improving but ????

kingdaddy

June 15th, 2012
6:47 pm

@ All
Please call your Dad if you can Sunday. I get to go “Spruce-up” my Pop’s grave This Sunday, but I’m looking forward to it. I hope my two son’s call me early because I’m a little depressed until I hear from them. If you can, call your Dad…

The Truth Shall Set You Free

June 15th, 2012
6:48 pm

Recruit white guys, they are committed to the word “committ”! So much for Priester and his strong beliefs with matching those of CMR’s!

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