More SEC signees from Georgia than any other state, by far
MrSEC.com has done some numbers-crunching that quantifies this state’s status as a football recruiting hotbed.
The website counted 65 recruits from Georgia who signed with SEC schools last week, including the 14 Georgians among UGA’s 19 signees. Every SEC school except Mississippi State signed players from Georgia.
No other state came close in terms of the number of players signing with SEC schools. The next largest number was from the state of Florida: 46. Then 37 from Mississippi and 36 from Alabama.
In all, SEC schools signed 305 players from 23 different states, MrSEC calculated, with 21.3 percent of the league’s total signees coming from Georgia. UGA signed players from only three states: Georgia (14), Florida (4) and South Carolina (1).
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Ray Charles(UGA on my mind)
February 8th, 2010
7:07 pm
Florida has twice the population of Georgia, Yet we produce the best talent in the country!!!ALWAYS HAVE!
The Gaytors should always remember the Arkansas Game….. A perfect example of the level OF cheating that allowed your success, Not to mention the BCS Joke of a fair system. I want Urban to stay at the Gaytors so he can be exposed for the Scumbag Loser that he is…..that is if Games are officiated fairly, and ESPN and CBS will get their lips off his tiny tootsie roll.
UGA HAS MORE PLAYERS IN PROS, THREE SUPER BOWL MVP’S, AND OH YEA WE STILL HAVE 46-39 EDGE. WE HAVE BEEN KICKIN YOUR NO TRADITION UNIVERSITY’S ASS……..IN EVERY SPORT…….. FOR A VERY LONG TIME…..AND JUST LOOK AT YOUR STUDS FROM OUR STATE….PLEASE DON’T CHEAT ANYMORE (BRANDON SPIKES ETC..) AND STAY AWAY FROM OUR GREAT STATE…..YOU NO CLASS S.O.B.s……….
Meyer Doesn't Like to Play Top 10 Teams
February 8th, 2010
7:10 pm
Meyer’s strategy is scheduling. He tries to never schedule against a great team. Or he plays in a conference like Bowl Green or Utah does where the competition is vastly inferior to the SEC.
Then he figures he’ll win almost all of the games.
He wins a lot—against non-top 10 teams.
patrick
February 8th, 2010
7:11 pm
Fla was not lucky USC lost? Really? Had USC won the last game where USC was favored by 30 points would Fla have been invited???? No.
Hardly impressive to have to back into a NC because of someone elses misstep.
ReptilesRule
February 8th, 2010
7:11 pm
Ray Charles…you need to take off the red and black glasses. You can’t see what’s in front of you…and that will always be the Gators!
GaGator
February 8th, 2010
7:12 pm
Richt’s first 4 years in the SEC, he was 42-10 (80.8%) and 24-8 in the SEC (75%).
after Meyer, Miles and Saban arrived, he is 48-17 (73.8%) and 26-14 ( 65%) in the SEC-
I hope you notice the decline, meanwhile, Meyer is 57-10 (85%) 32-9 (78%) in the SEC.
I think I’ll take Florida’s record. Patrick try looking at facts.
patrick
February 8th, 2010
7:13 pm
even with USC losing and Fla backing into the NC. UGA and Fla have identical 90 wins in 9 years and Identical SEC titles and UGA has been ranked more time top ten. UGA also has more bowl wins and has won 8 or more games 13 years in a row (better than ANY team)
Yeah Richt really does suk
GaGator
February 8th, 2010
7:14 pm
Meyer Doesn’t Like to Play Top 10 Teams
Your right, that why he keeps Georgia on the schedule.
patrick
February 8th, 2010
7:15 pm
4 years????
meyers has been in the SEC 5 years.
put up UGAs 5 year record compared to Meyers.
Now lets see if you will.
gatorfan46.3
February 8th, 2010
7:16 pm
Gator Nation was pretty ticked when Meyer lost out on Aaron Murray, a Florida guy. Meyer went after him hard but he got away to Georgia. I don’t think he wanted to QB in the spread, not too NFL friendly. Also lost out on other guys in the state of Florida like Georgia’s TE–who I think broke the Natl Championship trophy, and lost out on top speedster from state of Florida Branden Smith. Don’t know how or why Meyer lost all 3 of those big-time guys–hopefully the new coaches will start winning some of these battles. Maybe Florida will move away from the spread offense, maybe go Pro-Style and get some better QB’s.
patrick
February 8th, 2010
7:16 pm
Meyers first 5 and Richts first 5
again………UGA 6 times top ten under Richt. More than any other SEC team. Lets get your facts right please.
GaGator
February 8th, 2010
7:18 pm
Ray Charles(UGA on my mind)
Did you forget about 3 National Championships. And Patrick you little nerd, Sure,Meyer is a terrible coach, that’s why he was voted COACH OF THE DECADE.
ReptilesRule
February 8th, 2010
7:19 pm
patrick, come on down to our football complex and take a look at our most recent NC trophies. That’s ok, we’ll let you admire them. You won’t see anything about USC on them. That’s the way the cookie crumbles in sports son. If you want to call it “luck” then fine, but you have to put yourself in position of good fortune, which obviously Richt has not. I can’t believe I’m actually having a “discussion” about which coach is better!! And by the way, would you consider Meyer’s 2004 undefeated Utah team “unlucky” because they didn’t win the NC??? Just trying to understand your delusional dawg logic.
patrick
February 8th, 2010
7:19 pm
GaGator…..I OWNED you LOL. See ya later loser
GoDOGS
February 8th, 2010
7:20 pm
Sic’ ‘em Patrick….woof woof!
patrick
February 8th, 2010
7:21 pm
Reptilesrule…………….So UGA at 12-1 was not in a good position but Fla at 12-1 was in a good position? Yep your logic is sound. LOL
GaGator
February 8th, 2010
7:21 pm
patrick
“Meyers first 5 and Richts first 5
again………UGA 6 times top ten under Richt”
You really are stupid, how can Richt get 6 top 10’s in 5 years fool?
Meyer's 1st 5 years
February 8th, 2010
7:22 pm
Umm, wern’t Meyer’s 1st 5 years at Bowling Green and Utah?
Did he have a lot of top 10 finishes there?
Any conference Championships?
patrick
February 8th, 2010
7:22 pm
I never said Meyers sucks. I said Richt does not. I think Meyers is a good gimmick coach and now that his gimmick QB is gone things will be a lot different
GaGator
February 8th, 2010
7:23 pm
ReptilesRule
Little Patrick had to get back to the mental hospital.
patrick
February 8th, 2010
7:24 pm
patrick
“Meyers first 5 and Richts first 5
again………UGA 6 times top ten under Richt”
You really are stupid, how can Richt get 6 top 10’s in 5 years fool?
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1. I said compare the two coaches records in their first 5 years in the SEC
2. I said UGA was top ten 6 times in 9 years not 5.
perhaps It would help if you learned to read
Meyer goes 17-6 1st 2 years
February 8th, 2010
7:24 pm
Meyer had a .740 winning % his 1st two years, in a really bad conference, against really bad teams.
ReptilesRule
February 8th, 2010
7:25 pm
Typical Dawgs…Should’ve (USC should have won), Could’ve (could be that Fla doesnt win NC), Would’ve (If Richt would have had that kind of luck, HE would have won NC). Ypu know, there are alot of people in life that think EXACTLY that way…they’re called LOSERS!
patrick
February 8th, 2010
7:26 pm
“6 times top ten under Richt”……Richt has been at UGA 9 years….hence 6 times top ten in 9 years….not that hard to understand
patrick
February 8th, 2010
7:28 pm
ReptilesRule
February 8th, 2010
7:25 pm
Typical Dawgs…Should’ve (USC should have won), Could’ve (could be that Fla doesnt win NC), Would’ve (If Richt would have had that kind of luck, HE would have won NC). Ypu know, there are alot of people in life that think EXACTLY that way…they’re called LOSERS!
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nope ……thats why there are playoffs for EVERY other NCAA team sport. Luck (and Fla was “lucky”) is kept at a minimum. But congrats on backing into the 2 NCs Fla has. Send your letters of thanks to USC.
patrick
February 8th, 2010
7:31 pm
Richt has put them in a position to be in the SEC title hunt every year. How many other programs in the SEC can say that? That’s the problem with a lot of UGA fans (and you), you only see what UGA hasn’t done. You don’t see what they HAVE done.
All Richt needs is one lucky year.
Its interesting to note that UF and LSU have won national titles with the same record UGA had when it won its two SEC titles. Its not that UGA is not as good of a program as either of the two, they have just been luckier than UGA. And that’s the truth.
ReptilesRule
February 8th, 2010
7:33 pm
patric…ultimate question but very simple…how many times have Richt and Meyer faced each other and what is the record when they did?? You remind me of a player who makes a play and then high fives and dances around but the scoreboard shows he’s down 40-10. Like the old cheer says “Look at the scoreboard , see who’s behind!”
Urban Meyer 3-5 Against Good Teams
February 8th, 2010
7:34 pm
In his 1st 3 years at Florida, Meyer tried really hard not to schedule any good teams.
But when he played a team with at least a .750 winning record, his record was 3 wins and 5 losses.
So, Meyer is great coach against horrible teams, and a bad coach against great teams.
Justin Janssen
February 8th, 2010
7:35 pm
What you have to understand is Florida has tons of players go to the ACC (Miami, FSU)
GaGator
February 8th, 2010
7:38 pm
Meyer’s 1st 5 years
Try this out and learn something
In 2001, Meyer took his first head coaching job at Bowling Green.[5] In his first season there, he engineered one of the greatest turnarounds in the NCAA football history, going 8–3 and capping off the season with a 56–21 victory over Bowling Green’s rival, the University of Toledo Rockets.[14] He also earned Mid-American Conference coach of the year honors. The next year, Bowling Green finished with a 9–3 record.[14] After a 17–6 overall record, Meyer left for the University of Utah.[15]
After two seasons at Bowling Green, he took the job at Utah in 2003.[16] In his first year there, Meyer was named the Mountain West Conference’s Coach of the Year with a 10–2 record, the best ever for a coach’s first season at Utah.[16] He also earned honors as The Sporting News National Coach of the Year, the first Utes coach to do soIn 2004, Meyer led the undefeated Utes to a Bowl Championship Series bid, something that had not been done by a team from a non-automatically qualifying BCS conference since the BCS’ creation in 1998.[20] He remained at Utah long enough to coach the team to a Fiesta Bowl win over Pittsburgh,[5] capping off the Utes’ first perfect season (12–0) since 1930.[21]
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SEC1
February 8th, 2010
7:39 pm
I hope Richt and company have a chip on their shoulder this year.
Take a look around the SEC and see what is going on. Flordia and Alabama have emerged as the powers of the SEC. Unfortunately , we look like a distant 3rd, 4th or 5th – really just struggling to keep pace with LSU, TN and perhaps Auburn. Consider this: Fla loses its DC and the head coach takes an “indefinite leave”. Translation on signing day: the consensus number one recruting class with mutiple 5 star players from across the country. UGA, well, we lose our DC and then go on to lose 4 recruits and have the most disappointing class in years.
I’m a dog fan all the way. But for the first time, I am seeing disparity in the recuting classes. Let’s hope this is just a proverbial bump in the road, but it hurts when you can’t even hold on to players in your own back yard…
Meyer with his Own Recruits?
February 8th, 2010
7:41 pm
Meyer has never beat a top 10 ranked team with his own recruits.
So 2010, if he doesn’t quit again, will be the 1st test to see if he’s any good with his own players.
It will be interesting to see how he holds up without Charlie Strong, Tebow, or Percy Harvin.
He’ll also have the #1 recruiting class, so if he has a bad year in 2010, it will all be his coaching.
patrick
February 8th, 2010
7:45 pm
The National Championship is a myth.
It doesn’t exist.
There is the BCS Championship, which is not the same thing.
Until there is a playoff system, Richt and the Georgia fans (all fans) shouldn’t worry about winning this mythical and meaningless National Championship.
Our goal every year should be to get to the SEC Championship game, and once we get there, hopefully win it.
Those are the trophies that mean something.
I still don’t understand why we are obsessed with the BCS national title?
It is not a real title.
When Auburn (2004) can go 14 -0 as an SEC team and not have a chance to play in the BCS title game, why should any team be worried about winning it all.
What are they winning? – the love of Sportswriters?
Until we have a playoff – all the BCS is about is luck and when you lost last.
patrick
February 8th, 2010
7:48 pm
I didnt ask what Meyers 1st 5 years at Claxton High school was moron. I asked to compare the two and their SEC 1st 5 years.
reptile rules….you are overlooking the majority of Richt overwhelming success and isolating one a single (albeit painful) failure of UGA/Fla head to head. Now I wonder how the record would be if they played every year in Georgia instead of Fla?
murray county mystic
February 8th, 2010
7:49 pm
patrick…it’s nerds like you who drive the metro minority players away from Athens…so put some Clay Aiken on the old IPOD and get back to watching the Queer Eye second season dvd you got for your birthday…leave the football talk to the UF, LSU, BAMA, and UT fans; you know, the fans of teams who have won a BCS title in the last 15 years or so…
Louie Jr.
February 8th, 2010
7:49 pm
More pressing is the whereabouts of Lippy Louie? I hope thr frail lil’ feller made home after the Super Bowl. Louie…Oh Louie…..where are you? Come out and play hey.
Terd Buster
February 8th, 2010
7:50 pm
Ga Gator
You consistently offer the same lame BS day in and day out.
When someone offers an argument you struggle to dispute you
just hurl insults as if that wins the argument.
I got news for you, that only works at home when you are
arguing positions with your boyfriend.
Meyer Has Never Won against Aubrun, New Mexico, or Air Force
February 8th, 2010
7:52 pm
Why can’t Urban Meyer beat these teams? Good question. I’m not sure why, especially when he’s had 2 chances at Auburn and New Mexico, he’s just not good enough to beat either team.
ReptilesRule
February 8th, 2010
7:53 pm
If UGA wins the BCS NC next year (not gonna happen) are you going to be calling it mythical, without meaning and claiming it doesnt exist??? I think not!! College football is SO exciting because EVERY game is so huge and every game counts. It’s not just the team that gets “hot” at the end of the season. The BCS IS flawed, but I can’t think of too many times that the BEST team didn’t win it, including Alabama this year. And believe me, it pains me to say that, but then again, I’m living in the REAL world.
patrick
February 8th, 2010
7:56 pm
I said it was mythical when UGA won it in 1980. Without a playoff it is just an opinion poll and nothing more. It takes VOTES to get into a BCSNC not wins.
12-1 winning SEC in 2002 didnt get in
12-1 winning SEC in 2006/8 and did get in.
looks like wins have nothing to do with it.
F1Gator
February 8th, 2010
8:00 pm
I’m pretty sure Meyer’s image around the Nation when it comes to program loyalty is right there with Saban. Meyer usually stay 2 or 3 years. He was at Bowling Green 2 years, and 3 years at Utah. So, this being his 6th year at Florida, everybody’s probably thinking he’s close to getting that itch to move on. He’s kind of been a turnaround guy. Starts fast, runs hard, and then moves on pretty fast to the next program. Not as bad as Petrino, but maybe more like Saban’s career arc. He seems tired, exhausted, and mentally and emotionally and physically drained. Don’t really know what’s gonna happen here.
jackhammer
February 8th, 2010
8:01 pm
Louie,
did they scare you off again?
GHow Many Natl Champ's Did Meyer Go To As An Asst Coach?
February 8th, 2010
8:03 pm
I know richt helped FSU get to 5 National Championships at FSU as offensive coordinator.
Any of you Gator fans know what Urban Meyer did, National Championship wise, as an assistant? I think he got one at Notre Dame with Lou Holtz, is that it?
ReptilesRule
February 8th, 2010
8:05 pm
patrick, so you’re saying that the great 1980 UGA team with Hershel Walker really didn’t win anything after all??!! I’ll bet the majority of your UGA fellow fans will disagree with you! I saw that team with my own two eyes and they were the Champs… no if and or buts. I would never dispute that they were deserving of the crown And every Gator that I know and that saw them play will tell you the same thing!! And besides, the BCS didn’t even exist back then…
Meyer's Heisman Trophy Winner(s) & #1 NFL Draft Picks?
February 8th, 2010
8:15 pm
Anyone know, besides Tebow, in his 24 years of coaching how many Heisman trophy winners has Meyer coached up?
I know Richt had 2 Heisman Trophy winning QB’s at FSU–Wienke and Ward.
I know Richt had Stafford go #1 in the NFL draft for a record $40 million contract.
patrick
February 8th, 2010
8:18 pm
UGA did NOT “win” anything. Your right. They were AWARDED a NC by votes, UGA most likely would have won a playoff in not only 1980 but at least once more in either 1981 or 82.. NOONE has ever WON a NC.
Mike T.
February 8th, 2010
8:19 pm
year GATORS STOMP some GA butt.
04 and 07? Check the scores. Georgia can beat florida 47-39-2
patrick
February 8th, 2010
8:20 pm
I never said UGA has a BCSNC.
ReptilesRule
February 8th, 2010
8:23 pm
Meyer wasn’t hired by Florida to produce Heisman Trophy winners. He was hired to produce competitive championship teams. And while I will cheer for all Gators in the NFL, I don’t follow the Gators and bleed orange and blue to see who and how many are gonna get drafted in the NFL.
patrick
February 8th, 2010
8:26 pm
competitive championship teams?
Meyers had 2 in his first five years (2 SEC titles)
Richt had 2 in his first five years (2 SEC titles)
Richt has 6 top ten teams in 9 years
Fla has 3 top ten teams in 9 yearss.
hmmm
termigator
February 8th, 2010
8:52 pm
Patrick bottom line is we want Meyer and Richt to stay in their jobs, Most UGA fans want Richt to stay and Meyer to quit or leave. Nuff said