Georgia Football: Dealing with the new ‘negative recruiting’

Georgia Football has become one of the recruiting powerhouses since Kirby Smart arrived but as always happens, teams will find negative narratives in an attempt to slow them down.

With Georgia Football once again sitting top of the recruiting rankings, some very clear storylines are becoming clear before the season starts. The first is that the Dawgs class is probably 85% finished, with only 4 or 5 spots left available. The second is the narratives that are being put out there throughout the college football landscape.

Inside Athens, there is a belief that the Dawgs can get any player they really want. They accept that they will miss sometimes, but they continue to believe that they’ll win a lot more battles than they will lose. But negative recruiting is always going to exist and there’s not much the staff can do about that. These sorts of storylines will always be put out there by coaches desperate to sign a player.

This negativity comes in a variety of different forms, some from rival fans and others by their coaches. The fans seem to believe that the only possible way that Georgia could be doing so well on the trail is because they are somehow cheating. Because being the second best team in the nation last year, putting a lot of players into the NFL, having one of the best coaching staffs in the business and being in gorgeous Athens Georgia isn’t a good enough reason for players to go to UGA apparently.

But fan conspiracy theories aside, there are a couple of real storylines that rival schools are actually trying to sell kids on. Here are a couple of narratives that seem to have cropped up recently as schools try to find a new way to negatively recruit against the powerhouse that Kirby Smart is building.