The House of Blue

Sounds like Georgia is the firm leader with Vandy the darkhorse. UK definitely has some ground to make up and is probably a long shot.

Vandy, Vandy, Vandy I am sick of Vandy already.

UGA is still looking to take 3 maybe even 4 more DL if they are the right 4. I expect Woods to be one of those.

We are going to be way over 25. Closer to 32ish is the goal for this class. We only signed 19 in the last class so we can back count up to 6 EEs towards the previous class. We are WAY behind in terms of numbers. With all the injuries, transfer etc we need to sign a boat load because we dont have very guys on scholarship right now.

Why the heck did you guys only sign 19 last year? that is crazy, i just looked at it.

I wish that was the reason. Part of it was because we saved a scholarships for guys who were announcing on NSD (AVery Young, Cordarrelle Patterson) and struck out with a few guys we were pretty confident on. Also the DC Grantham isnt willing to sign a guy he sees as a plan B or back up guy so when we missed on some guys late we didn't make a run at a lower ranked guy. There was some controversy over it amongst the fans. I think we made the right move because even though we only brought in 19 guys last year(we could have taken upwards of 24) we brought in some serious talent. Also we are doing pretty dang well in this class and are adding some serious depth. If we had taken more guys last class we may not have room for a guy like Jay Woods who I am extremely high on.

What are you using to draw this conclusion? I have looked around for official explanations but can't find them. The info is hard to come by. Can you provide a link to something other than speculation?

Thanks in advance

Like last recruiting year. UK signed 25 guys in February but Kory Brown enrolled in January, thus making 26 guys counting towards '12 recruiting class but only 25 counting towards the signing period.

Or, you can sign up to 25 and no more than 25 on NSD but you can fill out the remainder of available scholarships (out of the 85) in January.

I have yet to see anything other than claims without sourcing to justify. Just saying it is so doesn't make it so.

A quick search lef to this article outlining the rule changes that were enacted. It doesn't specify the "provision" for back-counting but from the way it's worded it implies a program can only sign 25 per class (it doesn't matter if some don't qualify they still count toward the 25, this is why it's considered a "hard cap") but can also back-count early enrollees to the previous class (not to exceed the class limit of 25 total).

-Reduced the permissible number of signees from 28 to 25 and moves the start date for the window for counting date back to Dec. 1. There would still a provision for "back-counting" signees if a school had less than 25 incoming initial counters in the preceding year.

For the record I am just passing along what I've learned from UGA mods and recruiting analysts. What I've been told by Rusty over at Georgia's site is that we can take up around 32-34 guys. Part of that is because we only took 19 last year and two didn't qualify. We have a bunch of guys who want to EE and can count towards last years class allowing us to pass the 25 commit limit for this class. I am by no means an expert when it comes to this rule, I don't think anyone completely understands it, nobody I've talke to a least. All I know for sure is that the UGA mods on each site are saying we can take around 32-34 this class and Richt himself said we are trying to sign 30+ guys.