That is particially true, AU gets more, Bama got top kids, but what hurt UGA with instate kids was Richt's refusal to give them early offers. His feeling was if we offered a Ga kid, we would have to honor it or create issues with instate schools, meanwhile the schools surrounding the state offered months, or even years before UGA was offering the kids. Richt/Bobo, didn't offer Deshawn Watson, 40 miles up the road from Athens until 6 months before he entered when everyone else in the country was recruiting him and he was committed to Clemson. Clemson caught lightening in a bottle with Watson, they always recruited great, but never quite got over the hump. They are spending money like its water over there on facilities too. But he loses his coordinators they will really drop off, Dabo has never even been a coordinator, he is a great recruiter and cheerleader on the sideline, but I don't think he has any input into gameplans or calls. But thats part of being a good coach.
But lots of Georgia kids go to Clemson, kids wanting engineering degrees who can't get into GT. AU is the option for kids falling below that. GT has a 25% acceptance rate, many of those are foreign students. Clemson is at 52% and AU is at 77%; Georgia is full of kids who cant get accepted as frosh students and head to one of the border schools which makes them fans of that border school, plus all the ones from those schools moving to Atlanta for the job market. The acceptance office would fall out of their chairs laughing if I sent my test scores and GPA in today, but I was a welcome addition 45 years ago.
