(02-08-2018 07:46 PM)OsageJ Wrote:  

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

(02-08-2018 12:06 PM)GSUALUM17 Wrote:  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 getting the #1 recruiting class really helps both of your schools. Neither of you are competing in any with Georgia and that allows some higher rated (by SBC standards) recruits to land at your schools. The same is true when Alabama and Auburn are good. We don't have to compete with them for players like we do when they're bad.

As bad as we dont want to admit it, that's the trend in Arkansas too. Thats why we were so sad to see Bielema go. Mediocrity was perfect. They werent good and we didnt have to fight so hard for in-state talent.

I think you have that backwards. When they are good they tend to look out of state more. I have loved the blow ups over there recently though.

We have not even touched the potential of instate and metro talent yet.

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