re: Bigger sleeping giant (NCAA FB)

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Georgia must go no farther than its own backyard for the nation's top talent, has minimal in-state competition for recruits,

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I absolutely despise this incredibly LAZY mindset when it comes to recruiting in GA. As has been mentioned several times just because a school doesn't have a GA mailing address doesn't mean they aren't a threat. It's a 45 minute drive from Athens to Clemson, does that mean they aren't a threat to GA recruits? It's stupid.

Not directed at you specifically either kaizen, I just always see that posted (UGA only has ga tech in state, recruiting should be a breeze!) and it's completely illogical.

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If you scroll down the Sooners and OkSt's rosters its pretty nuts how heavy they are with Texas guys.

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Yeah, well the state of Oklahoma has a population of 3.8 million. I'm not so sure it's filled with a lot of football talent as well.

Compare that to the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex which is hovering around 7 million.

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I'd much rather be tasked with trying to lock down Ga

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So you'd rather attempt to lock down a lesser populated state with more premier, national programs well within a 4 hour driving distance? Doesn't sound logical...

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Georgia must go no farther than its own backyard for the nation's top talent, has minimal in-state competition for recruits,

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Sure, but check this out. This is the number of Georgia players on neighboring opponent's rosters:

Georgia Tech - 78 (no surprise)
*Auburn - 37
Tennessee - 25
South Carolina - 25
Clemson - 19
North Carolina - 15
*Alabama - 11
*Florida - 9
*Florida State - 8

That's 227 kids from your state going to some big-name, elite schools (4 recent national champions* and Clemson making a national championship appearance). I'm not saying all of these schools are coming into the state and cherry-picking the cream of the crop, but I also can't imagine that all of these kids or 2 and 3 stars that Georgia didn't want...

As I mentioned in my previous post, excluding Chapel Hill, Atlanta is really no more than a 4 hour drive from these other, blue-blood schools.

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I absolutely despise this incredibly LAZY mindset when it comes to recruiting in GA. As has been mentioned several times just because a school doesn't have a GA mailing address doesn't mean they aren't a threat. It's a 45 minute drive from Athens to Clemson, does that mean they aren't a threat to GA recruits? It's stupid.

Not directed at you specifically either kaizen, I just always see that posted (UGA only has ga tech in state, recruiting should be a breeze!) and it's completely illogical.

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Yeah, I always see it posted as well about Georgia not having serious in-state competition.

I don't even follow recruiting that closely but just knowing the area one can see that:

1. There are so many top programs a short drive from Atlanta and Atalanta recruits don't seem to really favor (identify with) UGA by the overwhelming percentage you see in smaller cities around the south for their in-state schools.

2. Giant programs like Clemson, Auburn, FSU are all actually closer to many recruits' hometowns and Alabama, Tennessee and Florida are not much further.



Georgia certainly has a very good recruiting area and usually recruits quite well but there also doesn't seem to be as many "100% if UGA offers" type kids as many seem to think.

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Weather, geography, level of competition, girls... shitty stadium, shitty academics, shitty fan support.

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There stadium is quite nice now. Its gotten some good upgrades lately.

And Arizona State is in the top 10 in the country for graduates who are employed.

Tempe is a really awesome college city, and Scottsdale is just 15 mins away.

If it hasn't happened in the 100+ years they've been playing, i doubt it will. Those schools just don't have the desire or fan support to be great in football.

The only reason ppl say this is because hot girls there. Tucson kind of sucks also.

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I do not think either of them is a sleeping giant. I think the Sleeping Giant is Arizona or Arizona State. You get the right guy into those places and the sky is the limit.

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What the frick are you laughing about stupid? This exact same thing happened to lsu except it was way worse.

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LSU has won 44 games since the 2012 BCSNCG. Texas has won 46 since 2010.

Don't be fricking dumb.

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Its Texas and this isn't close.

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Until the current crop of boosters die out, they will not come anywhere close to their 2009 season again.

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Arizona St has in the past shown it can have success, especially in the 70's. So, it is to me is the sleeping giant

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ASU is a program to me that has the potential to do better than they are. I can see ASU winning 10 games every few years being their ceiling. I think the sake of this discussion of "sleepign giants" is referring to teams that can be nationally elite and compete for national titles. Just my opinion but I don't ever see Arizona State being in that category outside of a random year or 2.

Yeah, I don't think people realize how close AU is to south Atlanta.

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Yeah, I don't think people realize how close AU is to south Atlanta.

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That's another thing about recruiting GA..although to be fair you can say the same thing about any of the major schools in FL/TX/CA as well.

Sure the state of GA as a whole is predominantly pro-UGA which is no surprise. But a kid who was born and raised in Columbus his whole life is 35 miles from Auburn and 180 miles from Athens. A kid in Valdosta is 75 miles from Florida STate and 250 from athens. Just because a kid is in the borders of GA doesn't mean UGA should automatically be at the top of his list by default.