How Georgia football is getting creative in its recruitment of crucial 2021 prospects
Welcome to Good Day, UGA, your one-stop shop for Georgia football news and takes. Check us out every weekday morning for everything you need to know about Georgia football, recruiting, basketball and more.
Why current Georgia football players will be pivotal to building 2021 recruiting class
Kirby Smart had a pretty good idea that eventually, 2021 prospects would grow tired of hearing from the same coaches over and over again during the dead period that has been mandated due to COVID-19.
Smart made it clear that there was only so much to talk about with recruits and little of it was centered around football.
“There’s only so much time in the day that you can recruit and you can turn a kid off if you’re talking too much recruiting,” Smart said in a radio interview with 680 The Fan back in April.
So in this past week, we’ve seen a different sort of tactic for Georgia to pitch to prospective players.
First, there are the 2021 commits tweeting out various graphics, publicly imploring them to pledge their services to Georgia. A number of Georgia’s 2021 recruits tweeted out graphics of prospects like 5-star offensive tackle Amarius Mims and 5-star linebacker Smael Mondon.
Next man up. Mims monsta! Just reloading the Great Wall of Georgia. 🐶🌊 @amarius_mims pic.twitter.com/zCxDWhC0Cw
— brock 🌊 (@BrockVandagriff) May 5, 2020
Dawg fans… get at him! We need this man. Big piece of the puzzle! @SmaelJr #GoDawgs pic.twitter.com/xoH8oqsjfY
— brock 🌊 (@BrockVandagriff) May 6, 2020
But the involvement with regards to players extends to even current members of the team. Maason Smith and Korey Foreman, two 5-star defensive line prospects and major targets for the 2021 recruiting cycle, put out the idea that they would be playing their college football together. Smith and Foreman wondered where that would be and who would team up with them.
Related: Georgia football podcast: Mekhail Sherman pushes five-star recruits to join him at UGA
A number of current Georgia players — Mekhail Sherman, Travon Walker, Monty Rice and Malik Herring — all responded and let them know that Georgia should be the place for their talents.
Y’all kno Wasssup https://t.co/02CFK9Ae51
— Monty Rice (@RiceMonty) May 5, 2020
Both of yall can come to Athens fr. 🤷🏾♂️ https://t.co/5VBE3y8XzC
— Mekhail Sherman🌹 (@JuicedUpK9) May 5, 2020
Need him‼️👀 https://t.co/q1kcgEBDKV
— YTW_44 (@44Ytw) May 5, 2020
As we explain in the video below, current players have always played a key role in recruiting future prospects. But rarely have seen a program get this creative and open about the link between current and future players.
And thanks to some new legislation passed by the NCAA that allows current players to get on recruiting calls with coaches, players are going to play an even larger role in shaping the 2021 recruiting class for the Bulldogs.
More Georgia football stories from around DawgNation
- College football return update: NCAA president raises questions of uniformity
- Speedy Georgia WR signee posts picture of wrist in cast, summer status uncertain
- ESPN: Georgia offense No. 6 in ‘future offense power rankings’
- WATCH: Matthew Boling uses long jump abilities and Red Solo Cups to create epic video
- WATCH: Kirby Smart has hearty laugh at expense of technologically challenged Nick Saban
- Georgia football podcast: 3 UGA assistants that could be coaching stars on the rise
- Lovasea’ Carroll: DawgNation goes 1-on-1 with the elite RB commitment
- Dylan Fairchild: Elite in-state OL includes UGA among his top six schools
Dawgs on Twitter
Happy Mothers Day to all the Moms out there! #GoDawgs pic.twitter.com/obr3WUxPi4
— Charlton Warren (@CoachCwarren) May 10, 2020
Happy Mother's Day to all the beautiful moms 💕❤️
— Justin Shaffer (@ShafferJustin54) May 10, 2020
Happy mother’s day to the best mom out there! Thank you for everything you do! Love you❤️ pic.twitter.com/GXEd8gGu3n
— Tate Ratledge (@tateratledge22) May 10, 2020
Happy FIRST Mother’s Day to the best mother that Bryson could EVER have asked for !! You amaze me more and more every day with all the love you have to give and with the incredible job you do raising our son… I have no idea how you do it all and we are so thankful for u!! pic.twitter.com/XpV23bgqo2
— Glenn Schumann (@CoachSchuUGA) May 10, 2020
. @LilEasy_35: "…no matter what you doin', just give it your all. And that's something that I learned from her."
To our first Coach — on and off the field, Happy Mother's Day 🌷 pic.twitter.com/JXB1Wu2TlV
— Georgia Football (@GeorgiaFootball) May 10, 2020
Good Dawg of the Day
This is Archie. He may be a smol boy, but he’s got legendary hops. 14/10 elevator didn’t stand a chance pic.twitter.com/F5UYTWargj
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) May 10, 2020