UGA Recruiting Daily 06-July-2016

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UGA Recruiting Daily 06-July-2016

UGA football recruiting prospect Jacoby Stevens
JaCoby Stevens, Kirby Smart and Mel Tucker
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JACOBY STEVENS

#7 Senior WR FS
Oakland High School
Murfreesboro, TN
http://www.hudl.com/video/3/3894548/5721d94c4df6124b70279419
 
 

CHRISTOPHER HINTON

#82 Sophomore DT T
Greater Atlanta Christian High School
Norcross, GA
http://www.hudl.com/video/3/6301481/5721cdb764e96b6380183744
 
 

Cam Akers

Running Back
Clinton, MS (Clinton)

 
 

EVAN NEAL

#73 Sophomore T DT
Okeechobee High School
Okeechobee, FL
http://www.hudl.com/video/3/5474881/5721d636c124573b547e4b86

 
 

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265 responses on “UGA Recruiting Daily 06-July-2016”

  1. dsw61

    BahitsDawg I hope Kirby and Mel can figure out a way to defend Tennessee with Georgia’s roster; the way they did at Bama in last year’s game. Their defense held Tennessee to 7 points until the 5 or 6 minute mark of the 4th quarter. They pretty much shut down Dobbs from running and took away the little dump passes to Kamara. They forced Dobbs to throw down field. Bama should have had four INTs…they just dropped them.  Bama did all that even though they were playing their 8th straight game; while Tennessee was coming off their bye week and were well rested.

  3. MMCSDAWG

    BahitsDawg Doesn’t say a whole lot about the quality of QB’s in the SEC currently does it…

  4. BahitsDawg

    Also, Ole Miss lost several big time players from last year.   Robert Nkemdiche, Laremy Tunsil and Laquon Treadwell

  5. BahitsDawg

    I just read through the Top 5 QBs in the SEC list.  Some notables.

    Lambert at 5 is humorous.

    Ole Miss having put up 341 against Bama last year is surprising to me.   I know several long passes were wild toss up plays and I vaguely remember a RPO where the lineman was 10 yards down field, still it is a little concerning.  The good thing is 1). Kirby and Mel has faced the kid before  2). Bama plays them the week before and it will provide game film to study and plan on  3) they play Bama the week before and will likely be beaten up and tired

    The next QB of concern on the list is Dobbs.  The good thing is that the Vols play the Gators the week before us so we get good game film and the vols should be beaten up and tired.

    GO DAWGS!!!!  Bigger, Badder, Smarter!!!!

  7. RumRunnerDoogie

    BahitsDawg RumRunnerDoogie Dawgnation89 didnt really follow football much until we moved to FL, sec football isnt big out there and i wasnt going to get up before the sun to watch one. i think the first game i actually watched was staffords freshman year

  8. RumRunnerDoogie

    BahitsDawg RumRunnerDoogie Dawgnation89 in middle school inHawai’i i started wearing georgia shirts to school and out a lot and my dad asked why and i said “u always said not to forget where i came from”  he just face palmed

  9. MMCSDAWG

    BahitsDawg AlphaDawg As long as he is sporting the “G” come commitment day, That’s all that matters in my book.  Good looking OT!

  13. RumRunnerDoogie

    Dawgnation89 for me it was accidental haha. Grew up with my dad always saying not to forget where i  came from (navy brat born in brunswick) not knowing at the time he meant Hawai’i

  15. BahitsDawg

    Dawgnation89 I have a ticket from the opening game at Sanford where my granddad attended.  He wrote his prediction before the game and the actual score after the game.

    He graduated from UGA.  My Dad went to GSC (Georgia State College – now GSUn), but was a huge fan and we would listen to Munson while cutting wood and other farm work.  The rare time – in those days – when they were on TV (once or twice a year?) we were glued to it.  My dad would jump up and shout at a great play and scare the whole house.

  18. nolabigdawg

    Dawgnation89 As soon as I was old enough to really understand the game of football, I have always been a Dawg fan. As I was growing up in Savannah in the 70’s, the first time I heard Larry on the radio, that cemented my love for the Dawgs.

  19. jwp1983

    Dawgnation89 I remember being 6 and living in South Carolina and seeing the Augusta Chronicle on the table. There was a big article about UGA. I liked the look of Uga (loved dogs) and asked my dad about them. He said “That’s the Georgia Bulldawgs. I like them way better than anything here in South Carolina.” So I followed my dad’s lead. We ended up moving to Georgia a few years later so it was more indoctrination. I really started following UGA closely in high school (99 or 00) and haven’t looked back.

  20. MMCSDAWG

    Dawgnation89 Born in the Early 60’s,  raised in suburbs of Atlanta, well, except for one 3 year stint in California.  Grew up a football, baseball, and basketball playing youngster, but football was always king!  My parents, grand parents and most of my family were all Dawgs!  Except for that lone sheep uncle who went to Tech and was a yellow jacket…   Anyway, I went to my first UGA game in 1968.  Mike Cavan was our QB and we finished 8-1-2 that year including a tie against Tenn in which Jake Scott saved the day with an incredible play.  So I was pretty much a Dawg from birth, but my true life long addiction started in 1968 with my first actual game between the hedges as a young boy!

  23. AlphaDawg

    Dawgnation89 Started dating a girl (now wife) when I was 17 and she lived in Athens. I went down to visit her and feel in love with the city, the school, and the lifestyle. I wanted to move there as soon as possible. When I did it was all over. I became a Dawg fan in 2007 and a UGA grad in 2012 (5 year plan! haha). I didn’t follow football much as a kid. I never had the patience to watch the games. My dad is a huge UT fan (family from the Chattanooga area), still to this day he never once changed with me being a student there. In fact it became a fun way for us to bond.

  26. Dawgnation89

    OK, so I know this is a great week to a be a Dawg fan with all the commits coming. So I want to know why did everyone choose to be a dawg fan?

    I grew up in Nashville, TN and naturally as a kid rooted for UT because that what all my family did. It wasn’t until I moved to Albany, and met a red hair girl at the age of 12 that I fell in love with the Dawgs. Her family were big UGA fans, and I started wathcing UGA games with them. I noticed David Pollack and his relentlessness to get to the passer and I was sold. The way he played the game is the reason I am a dawg fan today! Hence the profile picture.

  28. dawgmum

    Dawgs sure had a happy 4th, commitment wise! Who’s committing today? I expect at least one or two highly rated commits each day for the next week or two. ##

  29. Greg Poole

    1mandawgpack  Kids can be invited on unofficial visits but I’m not sure that coaches can work them out during those visits – I think not. 
    There have been a number of prospects who came to CKS camps this summer who did not participate – Robert Beal was one. 
    I really think they want to use these camps to evaluate 2 and 3-stars. Everyone knows about the 4 and 5-stars. One example from an early camp is Caleb Chandler. Pittman spent a lot of time with him and got a close look.

  31. BahitsDawg

    Greg Poole It is funny that we all were led to believe that MTV started music videos in the 80s.

  32. 1mandawgpack

    Greg Poole 1mandawgpack  Thanks EC.  I know that $250 pays for accommodations, food, etc. for 3 days, but that price is really steep for a lot of families that live on pretty tight budgets.  It’ll be interesting to see how many kids actually show, but that fee will certainly significantly decrease the numbers when compared with a free event.

    I knew that the athletic dept./university could not pay for anything other than official visits, but thought that the coaches could invite whomever they wanted to campus whenever they wanted.  Certainly in today’s connected world, word would spread and I’m sure that there would be a few young men who got their feelings hurt for not being invited, but it seems to me that such an event would give coaches lots of time to connect with top targets and top targets lots of time to connect with each other.  However, I see both the risks and rewards of such an event.

    Thanks again for the info.

  33. BahitsDawg

    Greg Poole Is this another Darwin awards clip?

    Actually, Les could be a funny support actor.  His rambling, bumbling talk could be a hoot.

  38. BahitsDawg

    dsw61 Greg Poole but Spurrier would pull him, then try Lambert, pull him and try Brice, then try the walk ons.   All in the first half.

  39. 1mandawgpack

    BahitsDawg Greg Poole  In theory, I would agree with you.  However, the TN athletic department isn’t doing so great financially given that they over-expanded the football stadium (running up tons of debt in the process) and then had a number of average to bad years that caused the locals to tighten the purse strings on donations and ticket prices.  In addition, I think that they are currently paying or have paid a number of very large head coaches salaries (Fulmer, Dooly, not sure on Kiffin and now Butch – maybe even Pearl in the men’s BB program but not sure since he was dismissed “with cause”), so as upset as they’d be at losing 4 games (or said differently, winning 8 games), I’m not sure that they can actually afford to fire Butch, particularly when adding in the payouts for these lawsuits.

  41. Greg Poole

    1mandawgpack They have a CKS Camp for July 15,16 and 17 scheduled. It is going to fun to see how they manage it but it is being advertised as open to all and there is a fee ($250/camper for the 3 days – I think). 
    I’m not sure that UGA can invite a “select few” and certainly, the University can not pay for accommodations.
    The DN camps were free and high schools brought busloads of kids.

  46. 1mandawgpack

    AlphaDawg 1mandawgpack Greg Poole  Why wouldn’t he?  He has to be financially sound at this point in his life and there are countless teams that would hire him in a heartbeat after firing their coach.  He’s been on the top of the hill with a NC and really has nothing else to prove in life.  I wouldn’t change “who I am” if I were him.

  47. AlphaDawg

    1mandawgpack Greg Poole was also in Cuba not too long ago. It seems he continues being Les regardless.

  48. 1mandawgpack

    Greg Poole 1mandawgpack  I suppose my description wasn’t great, but what I’d like to see is our top 50 or so (pick a number that the coaches can handle) recruits, targets, and commits coming in and spending time for the weekend in a DawgNight type format (since it is only the top 50 or so recruits, I labeled it a “more prestigious” event as only a select few are invited).  It sounds as if that’s planned – if so, what’s the date?  It has to be relatively soon as I would imagine that many HS in Georgia will begin Fall camps in the next few weeks.

  49. BahitsDawg

    Greg Poole I bet Butch will be on the hot seat, if he loses 4 games.  The vols will eventually come out of their moonshine drunken stupor.

  50. Greg Poole

    1mandawgpack
    “Does that mean that we won’t have a single, more prestigious event in which the top recruits/targets come in for the weekend? ”

    Yes. But I might argue with the “more prestigious” part. Dawg Night had grown (in attendance) to the point that it was not accomplishing much. Many of the attendees complained of not being able to see the coaches. The last thing you want at a recruiting camp is the campers voicing complaints.