(02-08-2018 12:17 PM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote:  

(02-08-2018 12:06 PM)GSUALUM17 Wrote:  

(02-08-2018 10:38 AM)eaglewraith Wrote:  Lunsford is a pretty impressive recruiter himself. Not to mention Vic Cabral who was Lunsford's first hire.

Ga State did a good job as well. I'm curious about why there's so few Georgia players though.

honestly..my guess is that we need to sustain some success for 5+ years to change the perception of Georgia kids about Georgia State football. I believe Florida, Alabama, and Carolina kids are easier to recruit since they're looking for reasons to get out of town and visit places like Atlanta. They look happy enough after touring the shiny new stadium and the locker room.

I'm just glad that Georgia Southern and soon Georgia State will be able to siphon off the talent that can be found in Georgia. Georgia is a lot like Texas and Florida in that it has an overabundance of talent that can support multiple FBS teams. For decades, there have only been 2 FBS teams in the state and several other schools in country recruit Georgia hard because they know there is high talent with low competition in the area. If Georgia Southern and Georgia State can close that pipeline and get the kids that would otherwise go to a P5 across the country to stay in state, we would be golden.

Georgia, Georgia Tech, Georgia State, and Georgia Southern should all push the narrative of staying and playing for your state and for your home to lock in all the in state talent we have. It would only help all four of us moving forward.

Georgia State and Georgia Southern have a unique opportunity compared to other Universities. The recruits in this state continues to increase as well as produce at a higher level.

Should be interesting to see where these 2 programs are in the next 5-10 yrs. Unfortunately I have seen failure of a state University keeping its recruits in state. New Jersey had that opportunity for the past 40+ years with Rutgers and continued to fail. 50-20 yrs ago NJ was a top 10 state easily in producing football recruits with population higher than states like Georgia and Florida. Unfortunately the University never marketed correctly and were plagued by underwhelming HC's over the years. The state now continues its decline from Football recruits as townships who once had 50 kids play on a youth team now barely have 11 kids. African American population also continues to decrease while being replaced with immigration from Asian, Middle East, Latin American, and Eastern European countries!