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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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dlblack65 RumRunnerDoogie MMCSDAWG i have no scoops what so ever and if u are on a lot im sure u have noticed that hahaha. Yea we get a mix of our guru’s and posters always scoping out the next news before the paid sites
RumRunnerDoogie dlblack65 MMCSDAWG I know!! I learn a lot from all of you all, but don’t have the inside scoop like most of you do. I’m just grateful for this site!!
dlblack65 MMCSDAWG lol who cares what gender people on here are, its always fun and we do have quite a few female posters who get on here too. Just a bunch of dawg lovers
MMCSDAWG
I don’t post a lot, but I’m on this site every day. I’m not sure a bunch of guys want to hear a woman’s opinion. Anyway, I just had to comment on your post MMCSDAWG. I totally feel the same way. As a matter of fact, you are one of the posters that I always agree with and read every thing that you post!!
Greg Poole wow, i remember we wanted him badly
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http://collegespun.com/sec/alabama-sec/former-4-star-lb-adonis-thomas-transferring-from-alabama
dsw61 1mandawgpack RobDawg dsw – you’d be amazed at how it’s changed. The Vipers and Bullets used to be super elite, but now the folks that started those programs have turned them into businesses and it’s all about the almighty greenback as both organizations now field multiple teams, many of which are not elite. The travel team the my daughter was on last year probably had 1 major D-1 prospect and we absolutely demolished one of the Vipers teams in an invitation only tournament in Montgomery where many big time college head coaches (Tennessee, Auburn, and Alabama – UGA sent one of its scouts and I was disgusted with the effort) were in attendance.
My daughter is a catcher (but is also solid at 3rd base) and is a beast behind the plate. She hits for both average and power, but realizes that she’s not going to play major college ball and even if she could, likely still wouldn’t be interested (my wife and her brother were on full athletic scholarships at Kentucky and are friends with several other athletes, including major college football players, who have talked to her about the commitment and sacrifice that goes along with playing big time sports in college, and she’s not at all intrigued). My only counsel to her was this: if softball was the difference between, for example, getting accepting into an ivy league school or not, why wouldn’t you use it to get your foot in the door. Anyway, it’s her decision and I’m letting her have a fair amount of say in the way she wants her life to unfold. However, she’s got her head screwed on straight and is thinking about the right things in life, which I’m super proud of as a dad.
SEC East odds
https://www.seccountry.com/sec/bovada-releases-sec-division-and-conference-title-odds
Greg Poole if both webb and holloman want to go to UGA i just dont see a way smart could turn down one of them
Black will visit for CKS Camp
http://theladysportswriter.com/georgia-recruiting-bulldogs-will-soon-host-another-big-receiver/
Dawgnation89 Converts are often more committed than cradle Dawgs
I was thinking the same thing
They don’t play big boy football. They play ACC ball. Lol
Agreed as well. Murray was the glue
DGD
Very nice and intriguing info in there sir
@1mandawgpack
We saw the same thing while my daughter played travel softball. Amazing how many parents think that their child will get a full ride. Like you said scholarships for softball is on percentage of a full scholarship. Plus the kid has to be uber elite to get a D1 ship
small section on fromm http://247sports.com/Article/Davis-Mills-and-Hunter-Johnson-shine-at-Elite-11-Day-One-46120893
1mandawgpack RobDawg I coached fastpitch from age 12u to 16u; and unless you’re one of the established big named teams like the Atlanta Vipers; it gets really hard to field a competitive 16u team because so many girls in that age group quit the game cold turkey to focus on preparing to go to college, including working summer jobs. Finding good pitching and catching starts to become a real problem because the ones that stick with it into 16u are super serious and want to play for one of the top four or five teams in the state. Most girls are not going to get a full ride scholarship. In Georgia; most girls would likely be better off getting good grades and getting the Hope Scholarship. Then there’s the reality that very few fastpitch players will make a living playing fastpitch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdAZG4h3OAE
1mandawgpack RobDawg sounds like your daughter has some very good parents
MMCSDAWG I feel the same way
Frankly I m meant the competition not the learning curve.
1mandawgpack RumRunnerDoogie AlphaDawg oh i agree, i dont think leadership from players will be a issue this year like years past
RumRunnerDoogie AlphaDawg Don’t necessarily disagree, but some leaders are great vocal leaders and are more comfortable speaking in public, while others (Chubb and it appears Sony based upon CKS’ comments) lead by their actions rather than words. Great teams need both, in my opinion, and I think we’ll be fine. For some reason (maybe I’m really, really wrong here), it appears to me that we’ve missed a truly great leader ever since Murray graduated, and it’ll be interesting to see who can fill that role going forward with CKS as a strong mentor.
RobDawg My daughter plays travel softball because SHE wants to and enjoys the competition and camaraderie with her teammates. We pay for hitting lessons and some limited fielding lessons because it’s basically required to be good enough to make a decent travel team. However, my daughter has already concluded that she doesn’t want to play softball in college as she instead realizes that her future will be decided by her head and not her body. While she has some small colleges interested in her, she’s much more focused on getting accepted to the best academic institution that she can. Why do it, then, some may ask – my answer is simple: as a parent, I want my daughter to look back on her childhood with fond memories doing things that she enjoyed. and decided to do rather than things that my wife and I forced her to do.
We play in tournaments virtually every weekend and when considering team fees, uniforms, lessons, hotels, gas, meals, etc. it gets really, really expensive. While I make decent money and paying for it isn’t that big of a stretch for me, I don’t see how many of the families pay for their kids to play on travel teams. I hear so many of these parents rationalizing the cost based upon their great plans for their kid to play in college. However, many of these kids aren’t that great and won’t get scholarships, and for those who do, many softball programs are only partially funded and get “half” scholarships or similar benefits. I often times wonder if, instead of spending all the money on travel softball, many of these families would be much better served putting that same money in the bank and actually paying for their kid to attend collage a few years from now. However, as you noted above, it’s actually the parents forcing the issue in many cases and one couldn’t reason with them if you tried.
My how times have changed! That would be awesome!
I think a lot more of us read it now with the dawg nation stuff lol. Great points. I too was a hardened CMR supporter and I didn’t like the way his release was handled. I was one of the many that believed CMR never received the support he needed and deserved from our admin. I blame Adams and his group for the lack of commitment to winning we deserved. When they hired Kirby I was skeptical at first and didn’t know if he was ready to take over as HC of such a big program. Well I’ll be the first to admit I was wrong and I believe we made a great hire. The first press conference was the beginning for me. The way he answered direct questions and his true love for uga was apparent. Ever since that press conference he has done nothing but impress me with all respects of being our head coach !
Greg Poole dawgnation article on Mark Webb says there is a “100% chance” he and Swift sign with the same program, followed by lots of good talk about the Dawgs. Would love to finish the WR class with Webb and Holloman.
Greg Poole Frankly
Coming from high school, where most teams will run a hand full of plays each week, its a mountain.
converted 1981 Greg Poole MMCSDAWG
He was about to be hit by three defenders. He was doing what a RB is coached to do.
Yes the parents are driving this dream for sure. We’ve all seen it.
RobDawg i mean at that age i just played every sport i could because i enjoyed it, not because i wanted to be the best and get a scholly. Who that age even thinks of that? Its just the parents and these coaches
Good group too
This happens a lot in the affluent area where I live. We were taking new puppy to a small park that has a dog area and tucked away in a corner I noticed a very young kid about 8-9 being drilled by a former athlete with impressive dreadlocks. I didn’t recognize the coach but he had the kid out there with the mom videoing every second on her phone. Did I mention that I like yoga pants? They had a whole set of drills and equipment out there and this kid was being taught to back peddle, move laterally, and move up again all while tripping and stepping over ropes and cushions before throwing a pass to the guru. He had a towel tucked into his waist band and top of the line clothing and really looked the part. Again the kid was very young and having coached many years of youth football could tell he is at the age where most kids can’t execute the routes that he is practicing his skills to deliver to. I told my wife that kid will not be able to put in use what he is being drilled on because the rest of his teammates in youth league aren’t on same plane. They will probably run a lot of wing T run offenses in our park and maybe a few passes but this kid is being taught fairly advanced footwork and reads. I watched for awhile and saw some talent but wondered just how long this family will chase the dream. Lots of parents around here do it for baseball too
Greg Poole can cross him off the list of july commits
Greg Poole to me this type of guys are like agents for the pros, just sharks
I just read the AJC piece (as I’m now ducking rotten fruit being thrown at me electronically by the BI faithful) regarding CKS being asked about the Sony injury. I will tell you this, I will always love CMR as both a fine, fine man and for everything he did making UGA relevant again as he followed 2 very average coaches in Goff and Donnan. That said, and although he’s different from CMR in many respects, we now have a very fine man as a coach as well and I am becoming a bigger fan of CKS by the day based upon the way he handles his affairs. He just really seems like a class act and always seems to say and do the right thing. In addition to the great things I’m expecting him to do as far as posting W’s in our schedule, I’m just as proud to call him our coach for the man that he appears to be and the values that he instills in the players through his leadership on a daily basis.
On when he will commit: “I think I’m going to do a video and release it in really late August or early September right before my first game. I’ll probably release it when I get to my hotel in California on August 31st or September 1st before our first game.”
https://n.rivals.com/news/rivals100-rb-d-andre-swift-plans-visits-commitment-date
Greg Poole already writing articles to take the pressure off eason#
Jake Fromm being compared to Aaron Murray
http://georgia.247sports.com/Bolt/Fromm-draws-early-comparisons-in-Oregon-46118362
RumRunnerDoogie AlphaDawg agreed
Someone copied and pasted insider information on the board. I’m not going to re-copy it, but if you want to see it: http://georgia.247sports.com/Board/19/Contents/Uncle-Kief-just-changed-is-Holloman-CB-46119306
Greg Poole Frankly I agree with Greg, Eason is smart enough to learn the Playbook and can throw the ball, so all he needs is a little experience in the first 2 games to give him the experience needed to go against other SEC teams. All teams have loss great players and new talented players will come forth and take their places. Eason can easily replay Lambert, even tho Lambert did his best last year Time for Eason to start, throw long passes to some great WR’s and TE’s and with our RB’s, UGA will do just great in 2016. Will they make mistakes? Sure they will and so have you and I at times, but let’s give those who practice hard and WANT to play for UGA get our 100% plus support. GO DAWGS
You guys will want to read this – Gurus or Frauds – private quarterback coaches:
http://www.campusrush.com/private-quarterback-coaches-george-whitfield-steve-clarkson-1906692703.html
converted 1981 Greg Poole MMCSDAWG Welcome on my train Converted… I have been arguing and lobbying since the arrival of the targeting call for there to be an Offensive targeting. As it stands today, the offensive player is given a pass when they obviously drop their heads. It drives me nuts! This penalty and ejection should go Both ways! If a RB drops his head, penalty. if a WR drops his head exposing the crown of the helmet, penalty.
AlphaDawg WR recruiting is literally the strangest thing ever year
Keith at Auburn has changed his CB of Holloman to UGA. Jake Rowe has also put in for Holloman, and Rusty put in a CB for Toneil Carter to UGA
https://twitter.com/EvilKirbySmart/status/750779953566941185
RumRunnerDoogie AlphaDawg Jeb really is a great rep. He’s got some wit and humor but very mature from every interview I’ve seen of him