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  1. Stampeder
    We need the couple silents to pop... anything imminent?
  2. Stampeder
    Good news for us is recruiting is so cutthroat in the SEC there's 0% chance that article isn't being routed directly to kids A$M is recruiting. Any of those kids serious about education or culture will take notice, as will the adults in their lives.
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    On the RB front, was there ever any legit interest from our side in Tavien Feaster? He hasn't made a decision yet, although it looks like he's down to VaTech or the other USC. Just curious if we showed no interest or if he wasn't interested.
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    I would tend to agree, but on-field results matter. If we take the next step, win the B12 and we're squarely in the hunt for the CFP it'll be hard to fault TH for those decisions. If we don't take the next step it'll be hard for him to justify standing pat. One way or the other things should shake out by the end of the year. Good news is, unless we completely crap the bed this season we're going to sleep walk to another top 10 class. That'll be three consecutive top 5-10 classes and we'll be setup nicely for the ensuing years even if some coaching changes end up being made.
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    Ideally, you do both at a very high level. There are only two teams doing that right now--Bama/Clemson. UGA is recruiting at a high level, but I wouldn't concede they're developing or coaching at the same level as Bama/Clemson. TH clearly feels the Clemson approach of staff continuity is the best one and he's shown very clearly he's going to do it his way, right or wrong. It's going to lead to some very frustrating days, but it's his program. So far, the trajectory is headed in the right direction. Having said that, we need to win the B12 this year or his argument for keeping some of the coaches on staff loses all credibility.
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    I didn't say anything about tossing money around and I'm aware of the rep UGA has at this point. Just saying I think most would prefer recruiting ability first and foremost and that's clearly not Herman's priority.
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    It's not unique to Saban. We've used the same pitch to recruits as well (i.e. Forever Texas program)
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    Pretty obvious Herman has decided his plan to win (the program itself) and the culture he's working to establish trumps everything else, to include individual recruitments. If he has to choose, he's more comfortable with keeping good coaches on staff he believes support the culture 100%. If that costs us a recruit here and there, so be it. I think most on this recruiting board want to see more of a UGA approach with recruiting wizards all over the staff and more reliance on talent acquisition as opposed to pure coaching. Ideally, we'd have both but very few outside of Bama (and now Clemson) are pulling that off. While TH is an Urban disciple, it would appear he's modeling the program more along the lines of Clemson. Program, culture, stability, stability, stability. It's a longer path. We'll see if TH can stay the course for the long haul and deliver on a similar trajectory.
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    We already have help on the staff in the form of BC and Samples. Giles can coach. If we're going to make a change we need to find a DL coach who can do both. Where we need an additional coach on D is at LB given TOs larger responsibilities and his own recruiting challenges.
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    Roughly what we have right now as well, believe it or not. T. Graham, Coburn, Ossai, M. Warren and J. Jones all composite 4-stars.
  11. Stampeder
    Dabo took over in 2008. It was 2015 before they started really nailing the DL/DE position in recruiting with Christian Wilkins and Clelin Ferrell. They had the occasional highly rated DL before that, but they've only started taking off on their recruiting in the last 4 years or so.
  12. Stampeder
    Collin Johnson, Brandon Jones, D. Duvernay and Shackleford all should go much earlier than anyone this past year. Collin has an outside shot at day 1. I think all the others are day 2 types. Nowhere near where we need to be, but a definite improvement over the last several years.
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    Not sure if this was meant to be an indictment of the current regime or the two previous. In my view, we'll fare quite a bit better on draft day next year and definitely the ensuing years. We're on the right track on that front.
  14. Stampeder
    Agreed. We'll see what happens with Day (and Riley) 3-4 years down the road when it's their recruits and their culture. We're already seeing the chinks in Riley's program. Two years in he's hiring a non-Stoops to run the D. We'll see if he made the right call and if that program can show some physicality on D.
  15. Stampeder
    Spot on.
  16. Stampeder
    Pretty sure Texas is the only common thread amongst the three players
  17. Stampeder
    Is there really any legitimacy to the FWK negativity with Texas? He seems fairly equal opportunity to me.
  18. Stampeder
    Players can initiate the contact. Coaches can't.
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    Wouldn't support Bijan being the latest "shhh"
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    Yep, just responding to a previous poster that supposedly our offers are all committable. I'm sure that's not in perpetuity, but as PDM points out we're not full up at that position as yet, so the offer should be committable. We'll find out soon enough as things are definitely heating up over the next 6 weeks or so.
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    I think it's already been stated it's a 2020 prospect. Supposedly we don't do non-committable offers. Hoping it's Bijan for a million reasons... desperate need at the position and can only help with Ransom.
  22. Stampeder
    He has his style/philosophy about pretty much everything and doesn't deviate. Positives and negatives to being that locked in on an approach. Looks like he realized offers needed to go out sooner and a little more broad. We'll see if this kind of feedback re: Foster leads to some changes because I do believe someone on staff monitors the various boards for intel. On the Bryce Foster recruitment itself, I'll chalk it up to the staff wanting to be upfront about how they see it. Whether that's a good strategy or not depends on individual. Some would appreciate the honesty and others would be turned off. Might make sense for Bryce to talk to Burt about it and get his thoughts. (i.e. Is it workable, how supportive is the staff, etc.)
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    He's from Whitehouse, which is basically a suburb of Tyler. Not sure if they're actually related, but it stands to reason he'd know him given the proximity.
  24. Stampeder
    He usually sends the "shh" only for silents, but it does seem like this one was for Crawford.
  25. Stampeder
    Is the consensus his offer was a message to Stone or was it simply keeping options open along with positive vibes for his teammate?

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