Kirby Smart, UGA must stave off Mario Cristobal to keep 5-star from flipping to Miami

In this day and age of college football, you always have to be recruiting. Whether they are uncommitted high school prospects, players committed to your school or somewhere else, or even your own players on scholarship, it never ends... It is why Kirby Smart and the rest of the Georgia Bulldogs coaching staff need to hone in on one of their own in 2027 five-star commit Donte Wright.

Greg Biggins and EJ Holland of Rivals/On3 mentioned that Miami is trying to flip Wright in this cycle.

According to the 247Sports Composite, Wright is the No. 2 player from California, the No. 3 cornerback prospect in the country, and the No. 31 overall player in the 2027 recruiting cycle. He has been committed to Georgia since June 30, but has 19 official offers. Outside of Georgia and Miami, Wright has offers from Arizona State, Michigan, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, UCLA, and USC, too.

Now is the time for Smart and his UGA staff to hold Mario Cristobal and his staff at bay over Wright.

Miami is trying to flip 5-star cornerback Donte Wright away from Georgia

There is a lot at play here if Wright does flip from Georgia to Miami. While Georgia is attempting to make great strides in the NIL game, Miami was an early adapter to it, and it shows. While Wright will be coached up well by either staff, him flipping to Miami would put his two primary UGA recruiters under a microscope in Donte Williams and Travaris Robinson. They are secondary coaches and recruiters.

Robinson was hired away from Alabama in the wake of the coaching regime change between Nick Saban and Kalen DeBoer to help bring some more of that secret sauce from Tuscaloosa to Alabama. Has it worked? That is debatable up to this point... As for Willliams, he has strong ties to Southern California from his days of working at USC. He was hired to help close on players like Wright in all this.

Simply put, it is not the end of the world for Georgia to lose a top-flight prospect to an extremely out-of-state player like Wright to another party. However, it would give legs to the emerging narrative that is beginning to grow about Georgia. One too many times have the Dawgs been used as leverage for a prospective recruit to get a better NIL deal out of somebody else. It is getting old and it has to stop.

For now, Georgia needs to hunker down to make sure this prized piece of its 2027 class stays put.