A lot of you folks will read this elsewhere. Going to start this thread because it really goes along with some of the conversations that all of us have been having on recruiting.
Allen discusses his UGA choice
By Carter Strickland
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/04/08
Dwayne Allen made it clear to his coach, Wayne Inman, that he was going to Clemson on Saturday night when the two talked.
Allen, a four-star tight end, continued that line of thinking the next day. “Clemson. Clemson. Clemson. That is where I am going,” he told himself.
All morning Monday, “it was Clemson,” Allen said.
Then something changed at 1 p.m.
“I didn’t even know until I picked up the Clemson hat, threw it over to my coach and it was Georgia,” said the Terry Sanford (Fayetteville, N.C.) product. “Georgia is where I wanted to be.”
So Georgia is where he is going. Finally. Allen, 6-4, 245 pounds, has been at the center of really the only drama involving the 2008 class. He was one of Georgia’s first commitments in December of 2006. But then he reopened his recruitment process. The door was open even wider when Georgia tight end coach Dave Johnson left for West Virginia.
Then he took an official visit to Clemson and things started to change.
“I am glad I took that visit,” he said. “There were a lot of wonderful people at Clemson.”
People Georgia had to go up against. And people who had ironically already convinced Georgia coach Mark Richt’s son, Jon, to sign with Clemson.
“(Georgia) didn’t push too hard,” Allen said. “They didn’t say anything negative (about Clemson). When it came down to it, it was just Georgia.”
The last paragraph means as much or more to me than anything else this young man could say. I think that I had said that if these young men don't feel right, go where your heart leads you. No animosity in that statement. Again, just really proud of the University of Georgia and the direction that \"our school\" is going.
