Georgia and Florida Allowed to Host Recruits At Annual Matchup

Since taking the top teaching job in Athens, Kirby Sensible has had one constant take and opinion on the sport between Georgia and Florida in Jacksonville, Florida, it should not be performed in Jacksonville. It ought to be performed in Athens and Gainseville. Why? 

As a result of At all times, Be, ‘Cruiting. It is all the time about recruiting for Georgia and for Kirby Sensible, and with no house recreation, you were not allowed to host recruits. 

Effectively, that is topic to alter shifting ahead, sources have confirmed. As was allowed for Georgia’s impartial website recreation a 12 months in the past in opposition to Clemson in Charlotte, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida will now have the ability to host recruits for the annual matchup. The story was first reported by Palmer Tholmes of On3.com. 

Courting again to 1933, the town of Jacksonville, Florida, has hosted the rivalry recreation; on all however two events, the sport has not been held in Jacksonville. In 1994 and 1995, video games have been held in a home-and-home format earlier than being moved again to Jacksonville in 1996.

Coming off his speech on the podium in Atlanta, Ga., as a part of the SEC Media Days, Sensible was part of the SEC Now protection of the occasion, the place he sparred with former Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow concerning the location of the sport.

So why does Sensible need to break custom and transfer the rivalry recreation? “I am competing in opposition to guys all throughout the SEC who host children at their largest recreation,” Sensible mentioned on the SEC Community.

“When Auburn performs Alabama, guess the place the recruits are. They’re at Auburn. When LSU and Alabama play, guess the place the largest recruits need to go. It is a possibility for us to carry these children who fly in from all around the nation. What recreation do they need to see? They’d wish to see Georgia play Florida, however they cannot do this.”

Sensible’s tackle shifting to a home-and-home sequence like they carried out briefly in ’94 and ’95 all dates again to feeling like each packages are at an obstacle as a result of impartial standing of the sport. The Georgia head coach, who’s not solely coached within the rivalry but in addition performed within the recreation in his personal proper at Georgia, does not take a look at the impartial website recreation as a historic custom; fairly, he sees the sport as a lack of a house recreation.

“It’s essential. Recruiting is essential. … I simply can’t get a Florida coach to agree with me,”

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