After camping at UGA Park received a Georgia offer.
"[Georgia is] a place I can live and play for five more years." -Jacob Park on his #UGA offer. es.pn/13tCkpd twitter.com/RadiNabulsi/st…— Radi Nabulsi ESPN (@RadiNabulsi) June 9, 2013
It goes without saying, but the Hokies have much tougher competition for his services now.
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Uh oh. That was what Mason Rudolph offered, a backup plan in case we missed out on both Park and Cornwell.
Well they can't have him. We called dibs.
Well we have Andrew ford as a backup backup plan. He camped at VT over the weekend and looked good
247 updated their crystal ball, and UGA is now 72% and Vt is the remainder. Seems that we may be in trouble...
So how much of this is SEC worship? The media hear that a kid is offered by an SEC school, so they automatically think that the kid moves them to the top of his list. It's a corollary of the same theorem that recruits get more stars after an SEC school offers them. Hopefully Park (and a lot of the other top recruits we're after) sees the inherent advantages of being a Hokie.
Keep in mind that these kids are just that....kids. I have two in this general age range. Their minds change more times in a 24 hour span than most people change socks in a week. This is why you have all the commitment/decommitment/commit-to-somebody-else dramas. You have to wait (and the coaching staff has to keep working) for the signature on the line in February.
The media at Rudolph's announcement were certain he'd pick LSU.
I wouldn't call Georgia just another SEC school. They always seem to have a good QB at Georgia. They put their QBs in the NFL too. Look at the Lions. I can see why he would be interested. Lets hope that he still really wants to be coached by Leoffler.
If Park is as good as we think he is, other big time schools are going to come after him, too. I want Park to get offers from power programs and him to still pick VT over them.
Also, something to keep in mind, recruits say nice things about every school they are considering. They aren't going to bash the schools that just rolled out the red carpet for them.
This tweet doesn't make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside but it isn't the end of the world. Park had something nice to say about UGA. He's said plenty nice things about VT too.
274sports has Park on the frontpage with a note about him going to the SEC:
http://247sports.com/
Talk about SEC worship...
I hate how they say he's in the mix at Alabama, even though Tech was a clear favorite.
For what it's worth, in part he was a favorite for Tech because it was anticipated Alabama wouldn't extend a committable offer to him. Or at least that's how I understood it.