2024 Recruiting Thread (offers, visits, highlights, etc)

I wish I could find it, but someone on Reddit a while back did an analysis of the ranking bias of Georgia high school recruits and UGA's targets before/after Chad Simmons was promoted to his previous position (before he moved to ON3) and the huge jumps they received in those rankings as a result of his bias.

 

It looks like he was right.
Back-to-back National Champs.

 

This was from classes 2016-2017ish early in Kirby's tenure. Most of those kids weren't even with the program for natty's.

The TLDR version was he was pumping up instate GA kids that were going to UGA, so that the final class rankings were elevated. Eventually, UGA started pulling more out of state kids and studs, but he was pumping rankings hard for kids who committed to them.

 

Wow

 

Soooo...do you start working with him to change that odd side arm throwing motion or leave him alone ala Tebow? My preference would be the latter, since he appears to be quite accurate.

 

He doesn’t do it all the time - seems to do it when he has to

 

You're right on the longer throws he seems to go with a much more overhead delivery. He throws a very tebow-esque ball and that hopefully portends good things!

 

All this from a 5 min clip? Maybe he throws sidearm because at that height the flatter throws can be controlled…I wouldn’t rush to judgement here

 

Anybody remember our sidearm thrower from the Doug Dickey years - David Bowden?

 

Much like a good infielder in baseball, but different throwing angles are sometimes helpful

 

Who said he didn’t look good in the camp?

 

Mainly remember his throwing it out of bounds on 4th down vs Ole Miss lol

 

That was Bowden? I thought it was Jimmy Fisher