We're not going to out-recruit Kirby Smart in his honey spots no matter what - not for players he really craves. You know it and I know it. That would also be true if he were coaching someplace else. If we had gotten Smart to come here, he would have been recruiting Georgia hard and doing well at it.
We need to win this state and target our out-of-state recruiting more surgically, as we have recently done in the Mid-Atlantic states and Florida. Look, we didn't out-recruit Richt all those years he was underachieving.
Under Spurrier, we cleaned up in this state and had a great coach on the sideline, which enabled us to win a few games. Holtz used the same formula beating them in 2000 and 2001. Then Petty graduated and Lou went stupid in his offensive philosophy, emasculating his own son, and eventually blowing himself up.