Mark Richt inefficient recruiting on OL with Miami follows pattern at UGA

The Miami offensive line hasn’t lived up to the four-star billing that a few of the recruits received when they signed with the Hurricanes over the last couple of years. Penny wondered about Richt’s recruiting prowess on the offensive line and if the Hurricanes boss was able to compete with Dabo Swinney and Clemson.

"“If you are going to beat Clemson, you need an offensive line…We won 9-10 games every year and then got destroyed whenever we played an elite team and also lost one game we shouldn’t every season…It’s awesome for 95% of schools, but if you want to challenge for the CFP, he’s not the guy. Look at his final 3-4 recruiting classes (at Georgia)…They were just bad from the line perspective and we paid for it when (former Georgia Offensive Coordinator) Mike Bobo left (to become the Head Coach at Colorado State).”"

Georgia had the ninth, 12th, eighth and sixth-ranked recruiting classes in his last four seasons at Georgia. The Bulldogs top offensive lineman in each class ranked second, sixth, 10th and 11th among the Georgia signees from 2012-15.

The offensive lineman that was the second best player in Georgia’s 2012 signing class was offensive tackle, John Theus. Theus played only the 2016 season with the San Francisco 49ers in the NFL. When you are that highly ranked of a recruit at Georgia you should have a much longer NFL Career.

It’s hard to say if this was a case of miscalculating Theus’ talent or he wasn’t developed enough at Georgia.