I don't need my coaches spending a majority of their time recruiting now.

That should be the GM's job going forward if $$$ is the be all end all.

You can always still have the traditional recruiting for those kids that aren't all about the $$$ but there is no reason for Kirby to recruit a kid from the 8th grade once it becomes apparent $$$ is what matters.

Let the GM figure that side of it out. Kirby shouldn't have to worry about how his NIL money is being allocated.

Just Coach.

Sadly this is the way of CFB until they cap this NIL. Gotta adapt or die.

I understand everyone wanting UGA to play the game and if they don't play the game then the few years of dominance is over, but where do you draw the line? If you keep giving and the giving keeps going up like it is sure to do at some point the $$$ will run out. People (donors/boosters) can't just keep giving and giving can they? How far are we willing to go to sign players? Just not sure this is best for the longevity of the sport.

We haven't done all 3 this year...

My friend said he heard it was likely on ATL sports radio. Any truth to this?

Sure feels like it with all the recruiting hot takes. Get a grip DVers. It's one recruit. Yes it sucked. No we aren't shutting the football program down.

While he proceeds to skullf*ck texas tommorrow, and then when hes finished, makes Terry clean up the mess

World and recruiting. Relationships just don't mean as much as it used to when staggering some of money is involved. While relationships with people matter, for many people their relationship with money matters more.

I gave it 1 more year after the Downs news. I like our class and think we will be ok but hate NSD & the behind the scenes of today’s recruiting. Thanks to the staff for working to bring info to this site. Unfortunately today’s landscape is out of your control and driving me away from this board. I’m sure I’m not alone

315. Want to sell all 3 at once. $160 each.

Lord willing, we will be on top late in the game, and hopefully, on top comfortably. And if that's the case, we better not see Kirby taking a f-ing knee to run out the clock. Score every damn point we possibly can on those sumbitches. This is actually good for me as a fan....my bitterness over the AD Mitchell poaching was waning to almost nil, but now I once again have plenty of reason to want to mash them without mercy - like they would never think was possible.

They can have the high school kid. I want the SEC crown, and I want us all to piss down their oil wells.

Interesting article in the Daily Beast about Michigan flipping 5-star QB Bryce Underwood from LSU: article link

It just took the common law wife of Oracle founder Larry Ellison to bankroll the NIL. She is a Michigan alum.

From the article:

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Billionaire Larry Ellison’s new wife was revealed to be the missing link behind his investments in college football at the University of Michigan.

Football boosters thanked Ellison, 80—the world’s fourth-richest man and founder of the Oracle cloud software firm—as a deciding monetary force in poaching top-rated high-school quarterback Bryce Underwood from Louisiana State University. The boosters also thanked Ellison’s wife, a 33-year-old woman named Jolin who also goes by Keren Zhu, reported The Wall Street Journal.

“I want to personally thank Larry and his wife Jolin who were instrumental in making this happen,” said Champions Circle booster collective chairman Nate Forbes.

The Journal reported that Zhu is an alum of the University of Michigan, with a 2012 bachelor of arts degree in International Studies. The outlet also reported that Zhu’s name appears on property owned by Octopus Holdings, which is owned by Ellison.

Although Ellison has not publicly confirmed that he has married for a fifth time, several sports officials have confirmed Jolin’s influence on Ellison’s decision-making.

Jolin and Ellison reportedly personally lobbied for Underwood on a Zoom call with Bryce and his father, Jay. Ellison recounted his upbringing on the South Side of Chicago, and Jolin reportedly expressed her interest in seeing the Michigan Wolverines back on top in the football world.

“It wasn’t really a pitch,” said Jay.

He added, “I guess happy wife, happy life.”

I was told mid season by a trusted person from Manchester that Terry and his people had decided to essentially pass on playing in regular season and save him for playoffs - I know their was an injury early in year - but this guy said family had decided to essentially pass on regular season pretty much once he was cleared - fire away

I don’t blame the kids, I’d take millions to go to a certain college. I blame the stupid NCAA for not having their sh*t together before they let the Genie out of the bottle. Someone needs to step up and make some changes or BIG $$$ schools will make or already have made CFB just for have or have nots and the TX oil $$$ going to make this an all TX playoff soon.

To more rational topics like is Buster Faulkner going to be our OC and Bobo going to take a role as a analyst 😂

Damn you 502 gateway error.

God forbid this site work on game day, signing day, or Justus Terry day. Thankfully could get the news on Twitter.

@ugarivalsstaff yall work too hard and are great at what you do. This technology platform is failing you miserably.

Start your own site and we will follow

Best of luck J Terry. Also F%%% Texas and all their fans.

This is how recruiting is, and will be, until collective bargaining and salary caps are implemented.

Until then, the courts (all the way up to the US Supreme Court) have no interest in artificially capping the earning potential of citizens. As a devout capitalist and proponent of the free market, I am not interested in it either. But until collective bargaining happens, every recruit is a free agent who can go to the highest bidder.

Last time it was Caleb Downs. This time it was Justus Terry. There will always be a bigger fish, a bigger fool with deeper pockets willing to risk more. tOSU, Texas, USCw, Bama, AU, UTk and so on, and so on.

Big bank trumps little bank. Any rival program (or national brand program) can keep their NIL "powder dry", and then spend it at the last minute to sway a recruit and their family. Texas with Terry wasn't the first, and won't be the last.

So, how should UGA strategize to compete in this new landscape? Well, the portal is an answer. Whatever our "healthy" NIL offer was to Terry, it can now be reallocated to a "proven" player. And we could play the same game in recruiting, by rationing our NIL dollars to place a big bet at the last minute/day/week for an elite 2026 recruit. But make no mistake, the days of recruiting an elite player multiple years - all the while thinking they will be loyal and sign with you because of relationship - those days are long gone. I know how much we loved those good ole days, but they are gone forever.

At some point, we have to recognize that collectively speaking, big bank does trump little bank. I still trust Kirby 100% to get the equation right for UGA, given UGA's circumstances. Don't want to overpay for a particular player? I trust Kirby's evaluation. Don't want to sow turmoil in the locker room? Again, I trust Kirby with that. If Kirby is our general manager and capologist, I believe we are in good hands.

I never trusted the Justus Terry recruitment. We've seen all of the symptoms and characteristics of this type of recruitment before. "How much are you going to play me, and how much are you going to pay me."

What the are locker room dynamics like when this high profile freshman come in? Like do the existing guys with production at the same position say “Well I’m worth X more because I have the proven ability”

sold

Dear Lord,

Please let this jackass fail miserably at this game and have him come back to Georgia looking for a job. Please God, I ask you to let that search lead him into my office. Amen

Oh, and PS Lord, please help @Radi Nabulsi in his search for a platform with better servers. Amen. Again.

(So you dont have to ask, D'Prick and Downs)

If schools are paying insane money, then there has to be some type of contract. You can't make offers of millions of dollars and not put it in writing. If that's the case, then why wouldn't there be a stipulation that the player is required to stay for a certain number of years, meaning they can't hit the portal. Since college football is a professional league, then why is it that we are not hearing about the flip side of these big money deals, which is that the player is locked in for a certain number of years just like any other professional athlete? Imagine an NFL player accepting his millions up front and saying that he is going to leave for another team whenever he feels like it. We saw the issues Rashada had with broken (verbal) promises, and Proctor (Bama) took Iowa's money (at least some of it) and then just decided to go back to Alabama without playing a snap. How does all of this work without contracts?

Taking my 10 yr old son with me to the SECCG tomorrow. IT'S TIME TO EAT!

From somewhere.

This site's performance is a problem, on key days with heavy bandwidth. Let's admit it's a problem and do something about it and not just say we can't do anything about it. Sounds like some other problems that some don't admit they have and work towards fixing. Rivals doesn't seem to care. I'm seeing others here say they can't do anything about it. There are options...options to fix it so that the subscribers here have a pleasant and stable place to go, or watch them go elsewhere because attempts to fix aren't investigated and made.

But, anytime I've taken the bait and click on a Picture Gallery (most recently https://uga.rivals.com/news/photos-georgia-men-s-basketball-beats-notre-dame-69-48), the gallery opens and I can flip through all the pictures.....but then.....

The app stays on the picture gallery. There is absolutely no way to close it. And it's not like I haven't tried.

I close the app on my phone. But, when I open it again, I'm back on the picture gallery.

I power my phone off and back on. I open the app again and I'm still on the picture gallery.

It's happened previously, and I've tried to take Anthony Dasher's advise and open it up in a web browser or just do similar on my computer.

But, it's becoming a slight nuisance to have to delete the app from my phone, only to reinstall it, which appears to fix the issue.

Rivals, can someone please work to fix this?

This upsets me a bit more than the Dawgs loosing out to Texas for Justus Terry. But, I will say this about that. Word is going around about Texas stepping up with big $ and that's what led to his commitment. If someone is in it for the money, they won’t do great in Georgia’s program. Ask Bear Alexander how that worked for him.

Anyone else notice that orange teams are despicable and should not be discussed in polite society?