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The only thing that really improves recruiting is WINNING. They need to concentrate on their next 5 games, game by game and win every one of them. They are all winnable including USC. Then they have to win the Conf Championship. That will really make a dent in recruiting.

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Not a surprise that the defense’s personnel deficiency was exposed. It takes more than just winning to draw top young recruits, it takes a coach with inspiration, personality, and some passion. From an old salesman… it’s a sales job.

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Joe, you hit the nail on the head - just like last year’s Oregon game, the Bruins didn’t play badly and mostly competed to the best of their abilities, but….the Ducks were simply bigger, faster and stronger, and that will win most football games. Throw in the home crowd and the revitalized Bo Nix, who was sort of the DTR of the SEC (great play followed by head-scratcher)….it could have been worse. Oregon has a big wallet to work from and doesn’t have the academic requirements of UCLA, but….Kelly’s insistence that he can take high character three stars and can consistently coach them up to compete with ultra athletic five stars has yet to pan out…and with SC sparing no expense to bring top recruits and transfers, it’s not getting any easier.

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Yesterday, I posted a link to a UGA/Rivals study going back over 20 years that showed the correlation between Rivals' team recruiting rankings and the performance of teams is around .787. The problem for us is that Chip apparently has at best, no interest in vigorous recruiting of high school players and makes little effort to hire assistant coaches who are known good recruiters; and at worse, just does not like the recruiting process. Our current year Rivals' rating is 89; 2022 62; 2021 33; 2020 21; with no five stars and eleven four stars over the last four years. Obviously the trend is getting worse. Chip may be a good offensive coach but a deficient recruiter as head coach. Even good coaching can not make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Winning is not enough as Grider55 so elegantly pointed out.

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