OT: why does U of G always get an early...

[fingerdisco]

season top 10 ranking, only to play some real competition and get shown to be the frauds they perennially are? It's like this year after year--even being an SEC team, I don't get why they get so much respect.

 

[chipdouglas]

season top 10 ranking, only to play some real competition and get shown to be the frauds they perennially are? It's like this year after year--even being an SEC team, I don't get why they get so much respect.

Richt is an average coach with 5-star players, but it takes a great coach to win championships. He is not that, but Georgia has enough juice to recruit a team that could run over 9-10 opponents every season. Richt has had so many studs at RB, QB and WR and on D - Matt Stafford, Todd Gurley, Knowshon Moreno, AJ Green, Geno Atkins, Justin Houston, Charles Johnson, Nick Chubb - but average coaching can only take you so far. It's the coaches who care about every second you spend on and off the field that get the rings. But they don't fire him because winning 10 games a year is likely better than what the next guy could do.

I still think they are legitimately a Top 10-15 team, but they are the Icarus of college football - can't fly too close to eliteness or you'll burn up (and lose). So they lose all the big games. By the way I think it's silly that Alabama was ranked #13 before this - they're not #1, maybe not Top 5, but not #13.

 

[achilles#]

Hmmm I'm one of the drop by posters, but there are very few schools in this country with better recruiting grounds than Georgia. The three Florida schools, the two Texas schools, Ohio State.. really that's about it. (I'd also add LSU, but that is because they recruit the Houston and Mississippi areas well). I know you Pac guys think Southern Cal (and maybe UCLA) have great situations, but those Cal kids go all over the country.

Georgia kids are homers at heart. And odds are if an instate kid get a UGA offer he is taking it.

Florida and Texas might be bigger and produce more prospects, but Georgia has around 10 million people. And per capita they are up there with anyone other than those statistical anomaly states like Mississippi and Louisiana.

That being said, they usually crap the bed early in the season. But that team is always loaded with talent whether they get much out of it or not.

If Saban or Meyer had gone to Georgia, the results would have been the same as Florida/Ohio State/Alabama over the past 10 years.