This will make you sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BulldogShannon wrote:

wlayton, hope you weren't thinking I was trying to argue. Sometimes posts are hard to discern.

I can promise you, I am just a pissed off Ga fan tired of seeing the program become Ole Miss

With you my friend.......also know you aren't argumentative....no worries.

Here's something else to make you sick--

from yahoo.com

I wasn't the only one this week writing an obituary for Stanford's sudden emergence as a top-10 power, with both of the key figures in that run – head coach Jim Harbaugh and quarterback Andrew Luck – likely to move on to greener pastures (figuratively and financially) in the NFL. Since putting the cap on the Cardinal's best season in 70 years with a 40-12 Orange Bowl rout over Virginia Tech on Monday night, Harbaugh has already fielded overtures from at least three teams, not including his alma mater, which happens to have a fresh vacancy with Harbaugh's name written all over it. Luck is such a sure bet to go with the No. 1 overall pick in April's draft that the owners of the pick, the Carolina Panthers, effectively put the Denver Broncos on the clock in the No. 2 slot earlier this week.


The only hitch: Luck has decided to return to Stanford in the fall as a fourth-year junior, to continue his pursuit of both a Pac-12 championship and a degree in architectural design.

The NFL is mulling a major change in the rookie pay scale after the '11 season (assuming there is a season, with a looming labor dispute threatening to put the league on ice), which could ultimately cost Luck more than $40 million, and possibly as much as $60 million, even if he's the first player off the board next year. That is one expensive architecture degree.

Sad that we can't ever convince any of our top underclassmen to come back and compete for a conference championship.

What is to be said on this topic. Maybe one of the reasons that Richt is sucking up at this point, not willing to talk about things is because he knows that this recruiting year may ALSO turn out to be a BUST.

Can't score a TD on UCF. Can't sign a young fellow from Griffin, Georgia that grew up a UGA fan. Keep Murray in the pocket. Finish the year 6-7. Richt had better come on strong between now and February signing date. Say again, as some others have said, cut your losses now. Didn't take Jeremy Foley long to lure another head coach, one that played football at UGA. Sorry folks, Richt is just a figure head at this point.

Thanks for the information BulldogShannon. Hard for folks to hide when stories such as this hit the internet. Sad.

sadlerdawg, my wife called me short time ago and passed the Luck information along. Three cheers for that dude. Might not get 40-60 million, but rest assured he will get enough to "buy his Mother" a home. Tongue in cheek.

Written by ecdawg | 06 January 2011

Oversigning is part of the program at Alabama. This year the Tide has 8 seniors and, of course will lose a few juniors to the NFL. How many? I have no idea but for the sake of argument let's say 10. By my math that would give them 18 available scholarships to offers. Here we are a month away from signing day and Alabama has 22 commitments.

They had 22 commitments yesterday, got another from Xzavier Dickson last night and still have 22? Yep. Amazingly Shannon Brown was discovered to have academic deficiencies that will require he become an early enrollee (next week) in a junior college. He will finish high school at the juco and prepare to enroll in Alabama in 2012. At that time he will have 4 years to play 3.

Of course, Alabama has not folded their recruiting machinery for 2011. On the contrary, they are scouring the nation for talent. How, you may ask can they continue to recruit when they have already received commitments from more players than they have scholarships to actually admit. It's simple - they will triage the roster and provide assistance to those deemed to have the greatest chance of contributing - discarding the others.

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It cannot be stressed enough how much of an advantage it is for Saban to not have to work withing a projected recruiting budget like he would if he were recruiting in the Big 10 conference. With a senior class of roughly 8-10 players and no more than 4 Juniors jumping to the NFL early, the reasonable recruiting budget for Alabama should be somewhere around 14-15 players, which is what you would expect when a school has such a small senior class. If you go back and look at schools such as Ohio State, you will occasionally see a small class of 15 or so recruits. That is the normal cycle of recruiting when you are not allowed to oversign.

Ohio State signed 16 recruits in 2003, 15 in 2007, and 19 in 2010. See the pattern there; every three or four years you have a small class if you are not oversigning every year.

Alabama on the other hand going back to 2005 has had 32, 23, 25, 32, 27, 29, and is at 22 this year.

The new target in the SEC is SUPPOSED to be 28

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if ya'll haven't read

blogs.ajc.com/uga-sports-blog/2011/01/06...logs_uga_sports_blog

under a new defensive scheme without the right players to run it, and and a frosh qb(who is still too new to SEC defenses to let him loose), i can't wait to see year two UNDER RICHT. as much as Damon Evans apparently was not handling, i respect Richt for taking on all the challenges even more knowing it. AD mcG is probably a politician just like the rest of them, but if what he said is mostly accurate, then simply Go DAWGS in 2011, and i personally still support Richt and the majority of the staff...