re: John Emery on LSU

When I was 16-17 years old, I could toe to toe with him as far a spouting dumb crap. A couple of years from now, he will be a much different kid, probably more mature, but no guarantees; maybe even worst, if that's possible. For us onlookers, it is the uncertainty that gets to us; like the uncertainty that led up to the Auburn game.

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Well.. I've heard older people say the same thing about recruits back then.

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“Back then”, recruiting was more regional and players were more loyal to their state or school that their family attended. Colleges didn’t have the money or resources to recruit nationally. Scholarships were unlimited. Some schools had had more than 150 players on scholarship. Nowadays HS kids transfer to football factories and their college choices are “business decisions”. You never heard a FOOTBALL PLAYER use the expression “showing me love” until the last few years.

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Nope. All these attention whores coincide with social media, recruiting websites and ESPN coverage of college football recruiting in this millennium.

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Right, do your history and you'll find that Eric Dickerson was basically the lowest maintenance recruit and in just about every category of recruiting was no attention whore... Yea thats the ticket

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He's got double digit carries once in 3 games. He had FOUR carries on Saturday.

Ridiculously underutilized.

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He's got more carries than any other UGA RB.

I really wish when they commit, they'd just shut it down entirely. You want to go to UGA, and you say you're locked in with them, but anything could happen? That's not committed and locked in, chief.

With Emery, you got to get to the dad. Yes, the dad makes all the visits with his son and his prolific on social media about the trips. But, what I mean is Emery Sr. is of the grass is greener mindset. Goes back to when he was recruited and ended up in Knoxville. You have to work that aspect. Telling that the Dad ended back up in Louisiana after Knoxville didn't work out. But clearly he is feeding that mindset to the son. That's the hurdle.

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Right, do your history and you'll find that Eric Dickerson was basically the lowest maintenance recruit and in just about every category of recruiting was no attention whore... Yea thats the ticket

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Uh dude, I don't need to "do my history". I was a student athlete at LSU when Dickerson was at SMU and remember the whole SMU-Texas A&M Trans-Am saga. I read about it in a now defunct weekly magazine called The Sporting News. First of all, Dickerson was a can't-miss player and the best RB in the nation and ranked as the best overall player in the nation ahead of players like John Elway and Dan Marino. I had a college teammate that played with Marino in high school that told me that Terry Donahue told Marino he changed his offense if he committed to UCLA. Colleges violating every NCAA bylaw trying to lure recruits was absolutely much worse back then. Back then you rarely had a "commitment announcement", kids rarely flipped or announced decison dates. This bullshite with recruits tweeting their top 5, playing the hat game, posting photos of cash and talking about "the love" that schools show, parachuting out of airplanes or my favorite - Jimmy Clausen showing up in a limousine at the College Football Hall of Fame to announce his committment to Notre Dame - is unquestionably a product of today's technology and media.

None of the top backs at Georgia are going to get a ton of carries if Georgia keeps blowing teams out. It would have been basically unsportsmanlike to run any of our top 3 in the 4th quarter in any of our games so far.