'20 GA ATH Arik Gilbert (LSU commit)

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If it was any other Ga fan I would think he was hinting
"Recruited over, scared of competition, too soft to block."

If it was Graysondawg, I would swear to it.
I’ve just said he needs to figure out what he wants to do/be. He was first a DE then he was set on TE because he wanted the ball in his hands, now WR. I was saying this when everyone was saying he was all UGA and I was saying he wasn’t.

All the blocking talk, has come from him, not innuendo. He runs Very smooth routes for a TE like Gronk, but Gronk will block his (butt) off. Even if he settles on WR, UT, Bama, and Ga require their WR to block, a Lot. At UGA, if you aren’t willing to block, you aren’t playing. Ask any Ga fan, media, or player like former #1 WR Drob. Maybe that is why he visited Clemson??? Think he changes his tune.
 
I’ve just said he needs to figure out what he wants to do/be. He was first a DE then he was set on TE because he wanted the ball in his hands, now WR.

All the blocking talk, has come from him, not innuendo. He runs Very smooth routes for a TE like Gronk, but Gronk will block his (butt) off. Even if he settles on WR, UT, Bama, and Ga require their WR to block, a Lot. At UGA, if you aren’t willing to block, you aren’t playing. Ask any Ga fan, media, or player like former #1 WR Drob. Maybe that is why he visited Clemson??? Think he changes his tune.
Don't worry about it, like I said "if it wasn't" you.
But anyway, I have to wonder if he's meaning he's concerned about blocking or concerned about playing for a team AS a blocker. We did that with some receivers in the past, especially TE's.
It's one thing to expect some blocking, it's another when you're kinda known for it.
 
I am saying what I was told that Rusty said. If it was said earlier in the thread it’s simply because I didn’t go back and look that I missed it. Usually a lot to sort through in an effort to go back on this message board lol.
I was just messing with ya. I said it a couple times back to late spring. Headed out to Cades Cove but as I said if today was NSD, I’d pick Washington to UGA, I’d pick UT for Gilbert today......

Wish me luck finding a bear in there, it’s like finding a polar bear in a snowstorm. Off to find Waldo.

Edit: forgot to add, tomorrow starts training camp, we made it. Enjoy the season, took forever to get here, now will be gone in a flash.
 
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I’ve just said he needs to figure out what he wants to do/be. He was first a DE then he was set on TE because he wanted the ball in his hands, now WR. I was saying this when everyone was saying he was all UGA and I was saying he wasn’t.

All the blocking talk, has come from him, not innuendo. He runs Very smooth routes for a TE like Gronk, but Gronk will block his (butt) off. Even if he settles on WR, UT, Bama, and Ga require their WR to block, a Lot. At UGA, if you aren’t willing to block, you aren’t playing. Ask any Ga fan, media, or player like former #1 WR Drob. Maybe that is why he visited Clemson??? Think he changes his tune.

I don’t think people are understanding what he is trying to say. It’s not that he don’t want to block because he can move people around. It’s that he wants to be targeted more than 2 times a game like he would be in a run heavy offense. Arik has a great skill set and he works very hard at it. He just wants to catch some balls.
 
I don’t think people are understanding what he is trying to say. It’s not that he don’t want to block because he can move people around. It’s that he wants to be targeted more than 2 times a game like he would be in a run heavy offense. Arik has a great skill set and he works very hard at it. He just wants to catch some balls.
That's what I'm suggesting. I doubt he would have ever been looking in the SEC if he were worried about doing some blocking but kids want to be known for reeling it in.
Sounds (to me) like he just wants to make that clear.
 
I don’t think people are understanding what he is trying to say. It’s not that he don’t want to block because he can move people around. It’s that he wants to be targeted more than 2 times a game like he would be in a run heavy offense. Arik has a great skill set and he works very hard at it. He just wants to catch some balls.

Coach Morgan has done a great job of using Arik in a ton of different ways as well. It’s a role he can easily transition to. Arik blocks well. The buck sweep and zone that Marietta runs with Kimani that is effective is in large part because of receiver blocking
 
I was just messing with ya. I said it a couple times back to late spring. Headed out to Cades Cove but as I said if today was NSD, I’d pick Washington to UGA, I’d pick UT for Gilbert today......

Wish me luck finding a bear in there, it’s like finding a polar bear in a snowstorm. Off to find Waldo.

Edit: forgot to add, tomorrow starts training camp, we made it. Enjoy the season, took forever to get here, now will be gone in a flash.
Wait, UGA fan in Cades Cove. I am wishing the bear luck in finding you.
 
I am saying what I was told that Rusty said. If it was said earlier in the thread it’s simply because I didn’t go back and look that I missed it. Usually a lot to sort through in an effort to go back on this message board lol.
Tell us whatever you hear! Doesn't matter if someone else has heard it somewhere else and reported it. The more that are hearing it the more reliable it may be.
 
I was just messing with ya. I said it a couple times back to late spring. Headed out to Cades Cove but as I said if today was NSD, I’d pick Washington to UGA, I’d pick UT for Gilbert today......

Wish me luck finding a bear in there, it’s like finding a polar bear in a snowstorm. Off to find Waldo.

Edit: forgot to add, tomorrow starts training camp, we made it. Enjoy the season, took forever to get here, now will be gone in a flash.
Fill your pockets with Twinkies. You'll be fine.
 
I was just messing with ya. I said it a couple times back to late spring. Headed out to Cades Cove but as I said if today was NSD, I’d pick Washington to UGA, I’d pick UT for Gilbert today......

Wish me luck finding a bear in there, it’s like finding a polar bear in a snowstorm. Off to find Waldo.

Edit: forgot to add, tomorrow starts training camp, we made it. Enjoy the season, took forever to get here, now will be gone in a flash.
You need to get there early if you want to see bears. They're most active in the morning before it gets hot.
 
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I don’t really care about crystal balls honestly. Yeah analysts hear a lot from players but kids these days are FOS some of the time. Follow the visits and what these kids do and you’ll be right most of the time.
Crystal balls only mean that they have a bunch of homers as football writers
 
I respect your info...or guesses. No one KNEW either was a lock and didn’t til they signed. I felt confident about Wright by the end of Summer, but nowhere near as much as hometown legacy Cade Mays the year before. After you unveiled would you say the VN masses embraced you and carried you on their shoulders in celebration?
I was just surprised that Cade Mays was that apparently enamored with Butch Jones.
 
Coach Morgan has done a great job of using Arik in a ton of different ways as well. It’s a role he can easily transition to. Arik blocks well. The buck sweep and zone that Marietta runs with Kimani that is effective is in large part because of receiver blocking

I am sure we said the same thing just in different terms.
 
I am saying what I was told that Rusty said. If it was said earlier in the thread it’s simply because I didn’t go back and look that I missed it. Usually a lot to sort through in an effort to go back on this message board lol.
We're just givin ya a hard time. Keep bringin that good info.
 
I was just surprised that Cade Mays was that apparently enamored with Butch Jones.

Idk if it was that as much as the way he felt cbj was treated on his way out by some of the base. I don't think he liked that at all, thus the singing video and going to a rival.
 
maybe misdirection. We do have some annoying fans....look how they are acting surrounding Solomons' eligibility.
AV has never operated in that fashion. I don't take his posts as absolutes, until he does. He said a few weeks ago that we need to take Gilbert off the list. That is absolute in AV speak. Then right after, rumors start swirling out of Georgia, and Hubbs says we aren't out of it. Now it sounds like maybe Clemson is getting in the pic. None of it makes sense when the two most definitive sources are pulling in opposite directions.
 
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AV has never operated in that fashion. I don't take his posts as absolutes, until he does. He said a few weeks ago that we need to take Gilbert off the list. That is absolute in AV speak. Then right after, rumors start swirling out of Georgia, and Hubbs says we aren't out of it. Now it sounds like maybe Clemson is getting in the pic. None of it makes sense when the two most definitive sources are pulling in opposite directions.
Maybe he said take Gilbert off of the list because we already got him...


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AV has never operated in that fashion. I don't take his posts as absolutes, until he does. He said a few weeks ago that we need to take Gilbert off the list. That is absolute in AV speak. Then right after, rumors start swirling out of Georgia, and Hubbs says we aren't out of it. Now it sounds like maybe Clemson is getting in the pic. None of it makes sense when the two most definitive sources are pulling in opposite directions.
Well I know for fact that other fan bases know of AV just like we do, UGA for sure does; whether they believe him or not is their judgment. When this first happened it made me think he was throwing out shade on purpose. Honestly, I hope he is. I don’t want anyone knowing what the staff doesn’t let out. At this point it’s traitorous to leak stuff that don’t need leaked. Maybe It’s just me 🤷‍♂️
 
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