UGA Recruiting Daily 03-June-2016

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UGA Recruiting Daily 03-June-2016

UGA football recruit Leonard Warner with head coach Kirby Smart
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Greg is closing in on 15 years writing about and photographing UGA sports. While often wrong and/or out of focus, it has been a long, strange trip full of fun and new friends.

210 responses on “UGA Recruiting Daily 03-June-2016”

  1. dawgmum

    Bulldawg36 Don’t worry; that baby wouldn’t dare be born before end of game, unless she chooses to arrive on Sept. 2nd.

  4. MMCSDAWG

    Bulldawg36 Good to hear!  Hopefully everything will continue along nicely!  When’s the due date again?

  5. Bulldawg36

    Thank you MMCS! She has been struggling the last couple of days with some headaches. Other than that is doing pretty well.

  6. DawgDaddy

    Greg Poole Yep, swap AU and Mizzou and let Mizzou be our cross rival.  To absolute heyall with the UT/Bama rivalry, it ain’t that good anyway.  Easy peasy.

  9. Greg Poole

    DawgDaddy He is getting a lot of attention from the UGA coaches and his high school coach is one of the guest coaches.

    Look at his physical maturity and muscular development – he is a rising junior.

  11. Greg Poole

    MMCSDAWG  Speaking of grown men, there is a brief shot of Daquan Hawkins in the video I posted a little while ago, today. He has really changed his body and looks ready to show out in ’16

  13. DawgDaddy

    Greg Poole I really want him in Athens, he needs to stay out of Tallahassee and Tuscaloosa.

  15. MMCSDAWG

    Bulldawg36 They are playing ball on grass BD36!  Real football is not that far away now!   How’s the Mrs doing with the pregnancy?  Lord help her with this heat!

  16. MMCSDAWG

    Greg Poole Looks like a grown dang man to me…  This kid could be a sleeper that explodes on the scene late this season and next!

  22. AlphaDawg

    https://www.dawgnation.com/football/recruiting/what-we-learned-when-michigans-satellite-camp-came-down-to-georgia WHAT WE LEARNED: 10 things to know about Michigan’s satellite campThis was a Michigan camp. No doubt. There were 20-plus coaches from Ann Arbor in Atlanta on Thursday. UGA had six of its coaches or support personnel sprinkled in, but the on-field coaching was dominated by the maize and blue.The elite players were not there. The only major SEC prospects who took part in the camp were Johnson and fellow UGA commit Justin Shaffer and a few other highly-regarded teammates at Cedar Grove. Cedar Grove High School was another co-branded host of the camp. That resulted in a few other UGA commits and other major Metro Atlanta area prospects showing up to support them.The numbers tally stretched to about 275 campers. There were 42 college coaches on hand that worked the drills at the camp. There were another 18 college coaches who showed up to watch. The longest road trip came from an assistant from Oklahoma State.Don’t expect Michigan and UGA offers to come out of this camp, if any. The campers and players in attendance felt this was more of an initial “get noticed” camp which might lead to offers from lesser programs than a Georgia or a Michigan. There have already been a few offers from smaller schools that were extended at the camp. A few Cedar Grove players picked up offers out of Thursday’s camp.The media was thirsty for sound bites and any Harbaugh and Smart drama. If the nature of an event is to see great young football talent on display, this was not it. Media members dwarfed the number of future SEC talents working out.The coaches put the players through some work. The campers told DawgNation the actual drills and work they were asked to do was much tougher than a Rivals, a Nike Opening or another major camp. “We wanted this to be a true skills camp and not just an evaluation camp,” Smith said. “That was the focus all along. The boys were going to work.”Michigan planned to get those 20 coaches down to South Georgia for another camp less than four hours later.  The AJC learned that Harbaugh had a jet at his disposal to accomplish that task.Harbaugh held an impromptu press briefing at the close of the camp and posed for pictures. That just doesn’t happen anywhere elseLet’s keep these two points in the proper perspective: 1) The campers (even the UGA commits) got better as they were exposed to top-tier coaching. That’s the intent of any camp: 2) This was also a three-hour commercial in the heart of Atlanta for Michigan football.Johnson can really run at 338 pounds.

  23. AlphaDawg

    Greg Poole DawgByte Netori Johnson was amazed.
    “I like my future head coach now (Smart) but you can’t help but notice how Harbaugh comes to work,” he said. “That man comes out on the field and takes it over with some real force. You know who he is and where he is. I liked that about him.”

  24. AlphaDawg

    Greg Poole DawgByte That was what I was worried about. Put two Alpha males in front of a bunch of kids. I don’t need them thinking Harbaugh is the bigger alpha because he’s intolerable

  26. Bansai buckeroo

    The quality of those videos are impressive. Looks like they were professionally done.

  27. Greg Poole

    Doc R Well see if the KirbyKrew gets involved with any of the Baylor potentials. I expect them to positionally if they have room.

  28. Doc R

    Greg Poole Doc R I looked at his profile, he is 5’11”, so not big stature, but looked decent as a player

  29. Greg Poole

    Doc R  I’m sure they are well aware of the goings on with Baylor and their wandering recruits. I’d be shocked to find that this group is asleep at the switch on any recruiting opportunity.

    That is correct about the NLI screw-up.

  31. Greg Poole

    DawgByte  I talked to Jake Reuse about it. He said that Harbaugh took it over and was the star of the show.

  33. Doc R

    I read where this Duvernay kid sent his NLI to Baylor, but Baylor never processed it.  Now is null and void, if what I read is correct.  He was like the #4 WR in current class, but now he is on the market.  Looking at the Horns, but someone should put a bug in Kirby’s ear—could be a current big WR pick up

  38. Greg Poole

    UGADAWGII Bansai buckeroo  Just talked a Mike Holliday, my photographer buddy, who is in OKC for the softball tourney. He said it is 74 there right now.

  40. UGADAWGII

    Bansai buckeroo We are supposed to have a high of 72 degrees today here in Bigfork, Montana…. warming up!  LOL

  42. ZippyMorocco

    MMCSDAWG 
    The Massacre on the Plains. Tra Battle was Brandon Cox’s go to guy. LOL.

  44. MMCSDAWG

    godawgs678 From everything I’ve seen and read it appears that everyone is on campus now and all the players except Catalina are currently listed in the Student Directory!  Looking good from what I’ve seen!

  45. godawgs678

    so did all the freshman make it on Wednesday? Any surprises? Sorry, I haven’t been keeping up like I used to. Dang work….

  48. BahitsAgain

    Reddawg13 I think the reason we have the best football players is because the kids can be outside year round.  You can’t do that in the frozen tundra….. so, why, once you have made so much progress with your body and athleticism, would you head north to the frozen tundra for 3 to 5 years of set back?

    Stay in the South young football warriors!!!

  49. godawgs678

    Greg Poole Looks like he’s ready to go now! The kid in the far back of the picture with the red shirt on, not so much. poor fella.

  50. MMCSDAWG

    Not sure exactly how I stumbled onto it, but I’m now watching the 2006 UGA vs #5 Auburn game…  When we get to 43 days to go, the player mentioned better be #43 Tony Taylor, that kid could play some defense back in the day.  Him and T. Battle were hell on Auburn this game!