This is remarkable.
Chalk it up to recruiting, player development, whatever. The man can friggin’ coach.
It sure would be nice to see Kirby putting up similar numbers a few years down the road, wouldn’t it?
This is remarkable.
Alabama first-round picks:
1970-2009… 24
2010-2017… 21With two drafts left, a chance for more first-rounders this decade than the previous four decades combined.
— Matt Brown (@MattBrownCFB) April 26, 2018
Chalk it up to recruiting, player development, whatever. The man can friggin’ coach.
It sure would be nice to see Kirby putting up similar numbers a few years down the road, wouldn’t it?
Filed under Nick Saban Rules
“We remember the Sugar Bowl, I think it my junior year of high school, we let Alabama beat us twice,” Brinson said of a team that also lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. “We’re not letting Alabama beat us twice. In the Sugar Bowl in 2018, they… thought they should have been in the playoffs and lost to Texas.” -- AB-H, 12/27/23
Most of the 21 were top 100 or 5 stars, so ‘crootin rule. However, there are a few: Ryan Kelly, Chance Warmack, Donta Hightower who were not. Of note, none of those three went to HS in Alabama. That’s pretty impressive to take a less than elite prospect from Ohio, Georgia and Tennessee away from their in state schools and they end up being 1st rounders.
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His discipline that allows him to achieve consistency is remarkable to me. It’s like someone on a hot streak at the blackjack table that just keeps playing 5 dollar bets. The moment you lay down a 10 dollar bet is the moment it begins to wane.
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There’s no secret sauce to the major reason Saban will go down as the best CFB coach of all time. Simply stated – he’s got dudes.
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Yes, and if the dudes don’t see the field very much because another player is in front of them, they continue to be the dudes that the NFL is interested in except they may be taken in the later rounds.
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It would be amazing to see UGA put 21 1st round guys in the NFL over the next 7 years.
That is an average of 3 1st round players on every team for 7 years.
Last UGA team with 2 1st rounders was 2012 team with Olgetree and Jones.
Having 2 1st rounders on a team almost always meant a good season for UGA.
Draft year
2013
2009
2005
2003
2001 Seymour(1) Stroud(1) Kendrell Bell(2) Quincy Carter(2) Jonas Jennings(3) and Jamie Henderson(4) all in the first 4 rounds.
But that is an all timer for a UGA draft class and Bama is pumping out better classes year after year. It is so incredible.
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Saban+REC = global super power but…
Here comes Kirby and the sleeping giant that is the great state of Georgia. Shits Getting real for those that play the Dawgs because the days of a soft team from Athens is over.
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At least one mock has dawgs getting 3 1st rounders this draft.
Smith, Sony, and Wynn.
that would be great.
https://www.ajc.com/sports/mike-maylock-predicts-bulldogs-drafted-first-round-2018-nfl-draft/7bmz3yth8R1GAHzrMaHpHL/
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Are you mocking me?
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They’ve got a projected 4 first-rounders this year to our 1. And it took a blown coverage in OT for them to beat us. We comin’ baby!
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pretty damn impressive, no matter what the reason is.
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4 first rounders last night.. I bet they have less than half of the collective starts of the 4 decades worth of players too.
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