A New Recruiting Year Begins

Now that National Signing Day has come and past we can do two things:

1. Look at our recruiting class and not be happy with who we landed. While, we dwell on the fact that we missed on this guy and we missed on that guy.

2. We can be happy with the class that we have which is full of guys that wanted to play for the Dawgs and will give their all everyday.

Personally I would prefer to do the latter. Everyone needs to remember that the day after National Signing Day 2010 is the first day of major recruiting for our 2011 class. Georgia already has two commitments from two recruits in the state of UGA. As of right now these two recruits are 3 Star guys but it would not surprise me if at least one of them., Chis Sanders, is a 4 Star by the fall. UGA has put out more offers to in-state recruits at this point then ever before. This is the reason why we have these two recruits already committed, I can not remember the last time we had two guys committed this early in the recruiting period. Coach Todd Grantham has stated:

"Over the last 11 years, I’ve evaluated a lot of players from this state, and I’ve always believed that if we took the best players in the state of Georgia and within a five-hour radius of our school, if they come to the University of Georgia, we can win the SEC championship and compete for a national title, I think you can be better than Florida, you can be better than Texas, and you can be better than Southern Cal if those players come to Georgia.”

Grantham truly believes this statement, which is one of the reason why UGA has offered so many recruits already. You can quote me on this, UGA will have a top 5 class next year with the majority of our recruits coming in state. ESPN showed a map last night of where the ESPN 150 recruits come from, Georgia was #4 on this list behind California, Texas and Florida. University of Texas every year fields a majority of their team from in-state players. Their is no reason why UGA should not be able to this. All we have to do is keep these kids in the state they grew up in and know so well. From looking at all the juniors right now in the state of Georgia this will be one of the best classes to ever come out of UGA.

Hopefully this year though we will not a any certain rich father, he will remain nameless for now,  trying to get his 3rd string QB son a scholarship and steal a player from UGA. Personally, I think it was for the best that we lost Rogers. The more research I do it sounds like he had no work ethis and some character issues. I will have a full writeup when I complete my research

The Florida Gators are having to search for a defensive coordinator for the second time in the last 30 days. George Edwards who was hired on Jan. 8th to replace Charlie Strong has decided to take the open DC position with the Buffalo Bills. So now one has to wonder if Urban Meyer will take this "leave of absence" he keeps talking about or if he will work until they find a replacement.

Lonnie Outlaw signed

Georgia has just received a LOI from Lonnie Outlaw. Outlaw is 6'7" 200 lb WR from Wilcox HS. Their is not a lot of information about him. His statistics his senior year are 22 receptions for 417 yards. He did catch 10 TD's though. Outlaw will be a work in progress but could provide major matchup problems in the redzone.

Signed Letter's of Intent

Here is the most current list of recruits that have signed LOI.


Demetre Baker LB 6-0/200 25
Michael Bennett WR 6-3/186 55
Brandon Burrows DE 6-3/240 28
Marc Deas DB 6-0/185 51
Jalen Fields DE 6-5/250 14
Kenarious Gates OL 6-5/300 NR
Jakar Hamilton DB 6-2/196 NR
Kolton Houston OL 6-5/270 23
Ken Malcome RB 6-0/213 24
Hutson Mason QB 6-2/190 NR
Alec Ogletree DB 6-3/210 3
Alexander Ogletree RB 5-9/205 NR
T.J. Stripling DE 6-6/215 4
Mike Thornton DT 6-2/280 15
Brent Benedict OL 6-4/278 12

Garrison Smith DT 6-4/250 6

Dexter Morant DE 6-7/240 15


Committed/Not Yet Signed

Name Pos Ht/Wt Rank
Derek Owens DB 5-11/180 27

Not Committed/Not Yet Signed

Name Pos Ht/Wt Rank
Christian Green WR 6-2/200 7
Adrian Coxson WR 6-2/194 11

Kip Adams from Rivals.com is reporting from a source in Calhoun that Da'Rick Rogers informed
Mark Richt and the Georgia coaching staff that he will be signing with Tennessee tomorrow morning.

The Bulldogs have just received a verbal commitment from Kenarious Gates, 3 star OT, out of Greenville. Gates had previously given a verbal commitment to Kentucky but was offered by UGA last night. This comes at a good time with the Bulldogs finding out yesterday that two of their potential commitments decided on other schools yesterday

Telvin Smith has decided to stick with his original commitment and will be enrolling at FSU.

Telvin Smith to Announce Today

Telvin Smith has moved up the time he will make his announcement to between 7:30pm and 8:00pm EST today. The announcement will be at Locos Bar and Grill in Valdosta. From what I have heard this bar is decked out in UGA gear hopefully this is sign. Right now it is 50/50.

Jeffrey Whitaker Announcement

Whitaker has just announced that he will be playing for Auburn next year. The Bulldogs had their hopes up but Whitaker seemed pretty sold on Auburn through much of the recruiting process.

Announcement Times

Here is the most updated list of annoucnement times for all the potential recruits that Georgia is still waiting on:

Kardone Boone: Monday Afternoon

Jeffrey Whitaker: Monday 2pm

Telvin Smith: Wednesday 9am

Mike Thornton: Wednesday 9am

Da'Rick Rogers: Wednesday 9:45am

Christian Green: Wednesday 3:30pm

Jordan Akins: TBA

Adrian Coxson: Wednesday 5pm