Ulizio to Michigan
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Its amazing how year after year a particular school cant recruit a certain position. UGA can't recruit elite WR, just don't interest them for some reason, and the qb who finished up in 13 holds pratically every passing record in the SEC, but elite WR avoid us like we have the plague. Elite LT are just hard to find, only a handful every year and everyone is on them like white on rice, you just have to get lucky and get one.
Come on man, UK has had good players in the past, just not enough of them at one time. Some guys you have had have been the best in the conference.
You are probably right for now about left tackle, likely wrong about right tackle. Left tackle is the 2nd most important position on the offense. I agree Swindle will get 1st crack at the left tackle job in April, out of respect for being a senior and a team leader. Swindle has earned 1st crack at the open job. But I don't think he has the feet to be a successful SEC left tackle. If Swindle plays on the left side, I'm just afraid Towles or whoever wins the quarterback job takes a beating again. But let's give Swindle the benefit of the doubt until he has a chance to nail down the job or lose it. Krok is our left tackle of the future, just a question of how soon that future arrives. Be that as it may, Kyle Meadows is our new starting right tackle, and will be a good 1. There will be several candidates to back up Meadows on the right side.
Grumpy, u guys did pretty good with that A.J. Green fellow also Massoqui (sp.?) pretty darn good. 
Thanks, problem solved-----well, maybe not for some.
Many on here think Krok could have played as a true freshman, and with a redshirt he has a much better chance, if he can handle LT it leaves Swindle at the position he is trained for AND as you and others have stated we have quite a bit of help on the way. Just this year alone that includes a four star and two 5.7s and a very big two star a lot are impressed with, all with a redshirt added to this years roster. And some very young starters and backups already proven, when we only lose ONE 5.7 from the starters and ONE 5.4 from the backups I don't think we have a crisis.
I don't see all the gloom and doom on the OL, our great offense in 07 had a starting OL that averaged about a 5.2 according to Rivals-----with very little depth. That fact always amazed me, UK's problem has always been the inability to get a whole team with enough talent to compete in the SEC, we are FINALLY getting it.
And actually he is only a 5.3 two star. But of course an offer from UK's staff seems to be giving recruits instant credibility nowadays, LOL.
He does seem a bit out of place on their commit list (like our de-commit on Bama's) since their next lowest is a 5.6 OL AND their whole class (Only 7 others minus U and a 5.3 kicker) averages a near four star at a 5.786. Without the 5.6 they would be over a four star average. Kickers and punters are almost always rated very low, Masthay with Green Bay was a 5.2 at UK.
And yes, the recruiting services OFTEN miss------both high and low.
I was gonna say, I kinda wish UK had UGA's WR problem at LT!Originally posted by BengalWACO:
Grumpy, u guys did pretty good with that A.J. Green fellow also Massoqui (sp.?) pretty darn good.
We've got some good youth on this team so I'm not worried about Ulizio in particular. We are also in on some really good prospects next yr....but at this point we have to show the world that we can register a winning season.
Originally posted by BengalWACO:
Grumpy, u guys did pretty good with that A.J. Green fellow also Massoqui (sp.?) pretty darn good.
Of course I liked AJ, but its been almost 10 years since AJ signed with us and near the same for Massoqui. 2 weeks ago we had 5 WR committed, all 4 pretty good kids, since then one has decommitted, 3 others are taking looks at AU, Bama and UF. I think there are a couple of reasons elite WR pass on us, 1 is our WR never put up huge numbers, Richt likes to play 6-8 guys and the top guy usually has around 50 catches, even AJ was in the mid 60 range. Another thing is our offense last season was heavy run and coaches are using that against us, telling WT do they want to go to UGA and block for Chubb and catch WR screens. Recruiting is a dirty business and when you go head to head against AU for kids as much as we do you soon learn just how dirty it gets.
Landon Young is going to be an elite level OT and there is another kid Jedrick Wills (2017) at Lexington Lafayette that has offers from Florida and South Carolina already. We are going to be rock solid on the inside and gave guys in Richardson and Stenberg that are talented enough to move outside with some very good instate tackles down the road. We are going to have the best OL unit that maybe we've ever had. It's hard not to get excited about the future of that unit
"We are going to have the best OL unit that maybe we've ever had."
I don't understand that sentence at all, why do you have the "maybe" in there.
One of or the best offense we have ever had was in 07 with a starting OL that averaged about a 5.2 as recruits, Warford was a phenomenal exception for us at a 5.6 but didn't have that much help, I like our chances with our present recruiting.
Of course the best plans of mice and men oft go astray, but with all the 5.6s, 5.7s, AND 5.8s we have lined up I think that "maybe" should be a "very likely".
Would agree gloom and doom uncalled for. Be that as it may, our offensive line was a significant problem last fall, and must improve. That's why people remain justifiably skeptical. The good news is that Stoops has signed a bunch of talented young offensive linemen. Depth there is the best in a long time, but our fans haven't had a chance yet to see Krok, Richardson, Haynes, LaRubbio, Stallings.
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