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UGA Football Recruiting Daily Thread
Today’s Featured Recruits
Tadarrius Patterson
Class of 2017 – OLB
Carver HS, Birmingham, AL
Evan Reese
Class of 2017 – OLB
Savannah Christian School, Savannah, GA
Donovan Georges
Class of 2018 – LB
Champagnat Catholic School, Hialeah, FL
Quin Williams
Class of 2018 – OLB
Morgan County HS, Madison, GA
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BahitsDawg MMCSDAWG Bulldawg36 Those almanacs are bonkers
Brooklyndawg We don’t see anything other than warmups and running
Brooklyndawg No, there isn’t. I doubt we know much on that until the other guys arrive this summer. We never see the kicker doing anything at practice.
MMCSDAWG Bulldawg36 How about years? lol
Brooklyndawg AlphaDawg
Bulldawg36
Unfortunately I don’t trust a weather forecast more than 4 hours in advance. No way I would trust one weeks away!
AlphaDawg Brooklyndawg Yes, but I guess I didn’t phrase my question properly, which should have been, have there been any on-field observations in practices to indicate how the various contestants are performing?
I seen the weather will be good for G-day. Hope it stays in the mid 70’s and sunny!!!!!!
Brooklyndawg last thing I read mentioned Hamm, Blank, and the new kid we just signed will be all competing on a clean slate.
For EC or anyone else with some observations: Ramsey may be the current default punter, but I’ve heard nothing about Blankenship or other candidates to handle kickoffs and especially field goals. Is there a current status?
Lmao! It sure did seem like it!
Man I hope it’s Eason. It’s been very quite about his progress. If he is learning the playbook at a good rate…then he has a good shot at starting sooner than later I would think. Smart and Chaney know who has the edge at qb right now.
AlphaDawg
http://www.hudl.com/athlete/5214511/max-wray
Bulltoad Bulldawg36
Agree that Ramsey is the Wild Card!
Bulldawg36 BD#36- You could very well be right, but I for one believe we will see Eason, sooner rather than later. In the article posted earlier by Greg about how Kirby ended up hiring Chaney, one of his direct comments talked about Chaney’s ability to tailor his offenses around the players he had available vice the other way around. From that sentence, I take that Chaney is a very flexible and multidimensional OC. Sure they all have their tendencies and preferences, but based on that part of why he hired Chaney, I believe we will see Eason starting game 1 or at a minimum by game 3. I believe Ramsey is the wild card, as I’ve said before. I just see Eason as the best available QB and the one that gives us the chance to win the most games. We know what Lambert can do and he isn’t going to miraculously develop into something he hasn’t become in his 5 years of CFB. Eason on the other hand, his ceiling and potential are unknown and believed to be much higher. Who do you want behind the center when we are down 4 to UTk, less than 2 minutes left in the 4th qtr and we are out of timeouts, needing a touchdown?? For me, I want the guy that can make all the throws and when necessary can zip one to the sideline in tight coverages to stop the clock!
Bulldawg36 I heard there was a general order issued to wreck the bulldawg36mobile.
Bulltoad We will know more after these scrimmages (this Saturday and the next). I predicted that Eason would start the season and I’m sticking to it…but not feeling to confident.
Bulldawg36 I don’t see Lambert playing this year. I think it will be Ramsey to start and eventually Eason when he is ready. This could be wishful thinking on my part 🙂
CLTDawg MMCSDAWG Considering we will have such a long time between G-day and start of the season, I’m pretty sure I will have watched every single position group and player in slow motion at least a dozen times by the time fall camp rolls around! lol I am old school and still believe the game of football is won or lost at the LOS, so again, the OL and DL will be my first focal points!
Also we need to teach those Nashville people how to drive! Lol
He looks like Johnny Manziel
I predict that Lambert will be our starting qb for the better half of the 2016 season. Because he has the experience and leadership capabilities. I think Chaney is gonna give lambert every opportunity to prove himself. Chaney seems to work well with veteran QBs like he did with John Crompton… Remember the high praise he had for Chaney. I think Eason might take the job from lambert at some point but I wouldn’t bet on it. It’s been a long time ago since we had a true freshman starting at qb. As far as Ramsey goes, he throws a high ball and lacks accuracy. Chaney can correct it but he still lacks leadership. Sure would like to see Eason. Hope he can take over at some point in the season like Stafford and Zeier did.
CLTDawg MMCSDAWG offensive line…
Sure hope we start cherry picking Tennessee just to piss of those hills have eye’s folks.
This kid is 6’6 265 in the 2018 class
https://twitter.com/RadiNabulsi/status/715215974895656960
CLTDawg MMCSDAWG Would be lying if I didn’t say I’ll be watching every snap with Eason under center, Looking forward to seeing which WRs seem to get the most playing time, and OL.
CLTDawg MMCSDAWG I will be watching the OL.
Receivers. To see if they can create separation. If not I fear we will be in the same situation as last year
CLTDawg
Offensive line on both teams. Es[pecially how the OTs match against the 1 unit OLBs.
MMCSDAWG For me, it’s the linebackers. Heart and soul of what Kirby’s defense does, and what we have on campus right now is just about all we’ll have going into the year.
MMCSDAWG’s comment below made me think of a question for everyone: What position/position group will you be watching closest in the G Day game?
1mandawgpack Work? You work here with us my friend.
1mandawgpack Yes, I reluctantly made that decision a couple of weeks ago and switched Sunday night.
1mandawgpack What? We switched? ##
The new commenting section is much improved. It appears that a decision was made to abandon burnzone and go back to livefyre (sorry if I missed this discussion earlier as I’ve been working a ton of hours and can only pop in here periodically).
dsw61 It’s the “squish the bug” technique that is taught at an early age in most rec. leagues that results I most poor hitting mechanics later in life. I tell my daughter all the time that there’s a huge difference between “twisting/turning” on the balls of her feet (i.e., squish the bug) and exploding through the ball with her hips and the knob of the bat leading that results in the weight shift necessary to generate power and torque (and an appropriate flight of the barrel over the strike zone). If the swing mechanics are appropriate, there should rarely be a “check swing strike” as, while the hips are exploding through the ball, it’s easy to lay the bat on the back shoulder to avoid a check swing.
CLTDawg Not really but I have met a few and tend to read what they say. To me, at UGA right now, Jake Rowe and Dash are probably the best two beat writer. No agenda and good nuts and bolts stuff.
haws1178 Which article?
Greg Poole CLTDawg Out of curiousity, do you have a go to writer/reporter that you look to for news for each SEC school?
CLTDawg Yeah, I hear that but I think most journalists who attended bigtime sports schools get that criticism – especially within their leagues.
ZippyMorocco MMCSDAWG I saw that! Even better.
CLTDawg MMCSDAWG Definitely, Get the community involved! I would look at doing something like that early in the spring. It’s not like your doing any type of detailed game planning at that time or spring practices. Our local Jaguars have always had open practices and invited the local Pop Warner associations out to their facilities for a practice session every year. It is a Great experience for the kids and they get to do 15-20 minutes of drills and practice on the NFL teams practice fields. I would like to see kirby do something like that with local youth football associations as well.
Greg Poole CLTDawg I like Schlabach most of the time. Got to meet him through a few of my classes at UGA, and worked with him on a couple of my senior year projects in the PR program. You’re right, he does a good job of removing his personal feelings from his work, for better or for worse. (Although, there are some fans of other programs, specifically at a school a bit west of the Georgia Alabama border who might disagree with that and say that he’s got an axe to grind).
MMCSDAWG They weren’t just local.
Big-time college football and men’s basketball coaches whose teams meet a minimum threshold for academic success, as measured by the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Academic Progress Rate, are far less likely to be fired at the end of a season, according to http://papers.nber.org/tmp/9251-w22120.pdf published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/03/29/teams-academic-success-not-likely-advance-coachs-career-study-finds?utm_content=buffer7a9c0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=IHEbuffer
I loved that article by the AJC I read it just to get a good grasp on how butt hurt they were
MMCSDAWG Makes sense to me. He should do it with other interest groups too.
One example, for instance, some teams (like Tennessee I believe) have an open practice for fans. Is it a productive practice? From a football standpoint, probably not. From a publicity, recruiting, and excitement standpoint, I’d say probably.
They still make excellent fish wrap but if I want actually fan based opinions I jump on here and ask ? Or just read statements
CLTDawg That is exactly right. The opposite side of that is well represented by Schlabach.
AlphaDawg Greg Poole CLTDawg I’m a Grady grad, so I can see “not caring” as a good thing, serving one of Journalism’s key functions. However, many beat writers have stepped over the line of “not caring” into active vitriol. That’s a problem. These aren’t Muckrakers. They are opportunists.