More grist for the recruiting mill

What to make of this?

Carver of Columbus coach Dell McGee has banned the University of Georgia from recruiting his players because quarterback Devin Burns had his scholarship offer pulled on a visit last weekend, just as he was about to make a commitment.

“To protect our kids and my program, Georgia won’t be welcome on my campus,” McGee told GHSF Daily late Monday evening. “They’re not going to recruit anybody.”

I understand the coach being peeved.  I even understand (although I don’t approve because it’s counterproductive to his kids) his ban.  What I don’t get is why elevate this into a public spat – especially when he’s  gotten what he seems to accept as a sincere apology from Coach Richt?

“I told him how I felt, and he said he supported my decision and said he didn’t blame me,” McGee said. “He apologized. He admitted that they screwed up and didn’t handle the situation correctly.”

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“I respect Coach Richt; I know he’s a Christian guy,” McGee said. “He’s a model coach and father. It’s just a big breakdown in their communication within the coaching staff at Georgia, and that’s kind of sad. I’m sure they’ll get it corrected.”

Again, if Richt apologized, I can only assume somebody on the staff erred in communicating to the kid.  But what’s gained by airing the dirty laundry here?

I imagine there’s more to come out on this.

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UPDATE: On the other hand, things could be worse.

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UPDATE #2: Groo adds a few point on this, including one I think is particularly cogent.

… McGee for his part did a bit of overreaching in his assessment of Georgia’s recruiting. He assumes that “Georgia still has scholarships left. It isn’t like they ran out of scholarships. That wasn’t the case.” While we’ve all done the math and figured out that Georgia still has a few slots left without public commitments in the 2010 class, it’s also reasonable at this stage that Georgia knows exactly whom they’d like to take those remaining scholarships, and those few know who they are. Georgia wouldn’t rescind a scholarship if it didn’t have a firm grasp on the numbers and how the last few commitments will go. “They ran out of scholarships” is exactly what’s going on, and at least Georgia is dealing with the cleanup now instead of oversigning and cutting the kid down the road.