Recruiting and Coaching Thoughts

Heard Tunsil visited Ole Miss this weekend and was "blown away"......he NOW says Ole Miss is in the mix with BAMA and UGA.

Also heard on the radio last week that one (can't remember which one)recruiting "guru" thought Tunsil was going to pick UGA over BAMA....but that it was close.

Tunsil may say Ole Miss is in the running now but I really doubt it....guess we'll see soon enough.

Post below was entered on this board almost 3 weeks ago.

Re: Thoughts on Year Four and Todd Grantham #11 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Mention was made on this board about the "possibilities" of a strained relatioship between Garner and Grantham. For those of us that aren't privy to much of the "inside talk" found the following article interesting.

Standing a player and his coach up does not really show a lot of class, especially when an invitation was rendered.

Some good thoughts come from the fact that our new defensive line coach was involved with this player some time back and showed a lot of moxy by staying in touch with Bellamy.


blogs.ajc.com/recruiting/2013/01/09/davi...fid=blogs_recruiting

Checking out post #6 in this thread, shows that there were definitely some problems between Grantham/Garner.

We can face off now with Garner's defensive lines. Looking forward to it, he is now the enemy and really don't like some of the things that I hear and read about Abuurn's defensive line coach. Know this, Mark Richt was not on his knees trying to keep Garner on the staff.

Garner and Willie out of the picture, have to be better days in Athens. Know that some will say and I cannot disagree totally that Garner was a heck of a recruiter. Maybe that was his strength, at one time, not in the case of Davin Bellamy. Understand that Davin is not yet commited to Georgia, but he is a hell of a lot closer under Grantham than he was with Garner.

With Wilson taking over the defensive line duties, and maybe involved more with special teams, has to be a plus. Wilson would not be in Athens if Todd Grantham had not wanted him on his side of the ball. I believe that. Nothing wrong with that. Good operations move by Mark Richt.

What sticks in my mind at this point 1/28/2013 are the remarks made by Davin Bellamy on the video interview . . . . he speaks loudly about Todd Grantham and TG wanting him in Athens. If he signs, this takes me back to Jordan Jenkins and the efforts made by Grantham to bring him to Athens. Maybe Todd Grantham is a good recruiter and possibly a very good defensive coordinator. Takes a very good recruiter to land a talent like Jenkins, especially when Saban/Smart want him. Truth.

Time to show a couple of these guys that UGA has always been a good program that is on the rise to be great and they need to be a part of it. GO DAWGS!!!

growl I agree with you 100 percent time to show everybody what the G stands for.

Buc wrote: Know that some will say and I cannot disagree totally that Garner was a heck of a recruiter.

Garner was a good recruiter, but people often fall into a trap with long tenured employees
that do a good job in that they think they are irreplaceable or the sky will fall if
they go..

So yeah... Garner did a good job, but it doesn't mean for one second that he can not be
replaced with someone equally or even more capable.

So I'm looking forward to the new blood that is taking his place... might be an even better recruiter, and might be a better position coach overall.

Just reading the DT Dee Liner of mussel shoals has set up an OV in Athens this weekend. Gentleman, we already have a top 10 class but there is a good chance we land 2 or 3 of these five 4 and 5 stars hanging around late. Better luck than that and it could be epic!