Gabe Wright, Golf Carts, and Getting carried away

This weekend, Gabe Wright and his mother went to Athens for Dawg Night.

By some accounts, like the AJC, it was a great visit for Gabe, and vaulted UGA into his top two schools with Auburn.

However, some members of the recruiting world feel that UGA dropped to 4th behind Alabama, Auburn, and Tennessee.

Most of the reasoning behind this comes from one line in a Scout article, in which Gabe commented something to the effect that Bama's camp was organized better than UGA's, specifically harping on the fact that Alabama's staff gave him (and his mother, who has diabetes) a golf cart to go around in, while UGA did not.

First off, I think fans are paying a little too much attention to this line, he didn't say it'd be a factor in his decision. From following recruiting, it seems to be a law that the most obscure lines can and WILL be stretched to the opposite ends of perception by fans. And after this happens, they take to the message boards to trash the recruits with message board cliches like "so-and-so is just the type of player we DON'T need on this team, etc."

It's funny when a bunch of grown men whose livelihoods don't depend on football recruiting accuse these players of being prima-donnas. There are some prospects who take the recruiting game a bit too far, but c'mon. Its been said time and time again, that this is the most important decision in these kids' lives, and that's true. You really should question yourself when you want to rush these kids into their decision. If a kid rushes into an early decision on a college, not entirely sure of where he wants to play, he'll sit on the doubt for the length of the recruiting calendar, and most likely change his mind by National Signing Day. Signing Day switches hurt the program much more than missing out on a kid in the middle of the process. It leaves virtually no time to fill in the depth chart. Consider the lack in production at Tight End after Dwayne Allen's switch to Clemson in 2008.

The bottom line is, Gabe said what he felt. He wasn't unnecessarily keeping things confusing for the public, or spreading propaganda about UGA. If this actually happened over the weekend, it happened, and there's nothing a message board poster can do to change it. However, bashing the guy on the net definitely won't help.