Under head coach Kirby Smart, UGA football has become a recruiting juggernaut. In four seasons, Georgia has signed 19 five-star and 39 top-100 recruits. This kind of prolonged success on the recruiting trail is unprecedented at Georgia and shows no signs of slowing down any time soon.
Why couldn’t this success come sooner, during Mark Richt’s tenure? Richt had some outstanding recruiting classes here and there, most notably in 2006 and 2009. But while Richt’s classes rarely dropped out of the top 10, that’s not saying much in the SEC where four or five schools crack the top 10 each year.