Recruits will be allowed to attend Georgia-Florida rivalry game

Georgia has elected to provide tickets to recruits at this 12 months’s sport towards Florida in Jacksonville, or not less than have the choice to take action.

The 2 colleges had for years collectively agreed to not, partially for logistical causes. It’s not an SEC or NCAA rule. Internet hosting recruits at a impartial website isn’t like doing so at residence video games, with coaches not having as a lot face-to-face time with recruits.

However Georgia, as the house staff this 12 months, has opted to put aside a few of its ticket allotment to be given to recruits for the Oct. 29 sport. It’s not clear whether or not Georgia undoubtedly will achieve this, or what number of recruits it will host. However it’s now reserving the choice, and Florida would have the choice in 2023 as the house staff.

The principle impression could be on Jacksonville-area recruits.

Kirby Good has been vocal about his points with the recruiting impression of getting the sport in Jacksonville, and this doesn’t actually change that. Good’s principal objection with holding the sport in Jacksonville has been that he’s not capable of host recruits on his personal campus for Georgia’s greatest rivalry sport.

“All I’ll each say is the house environment we have now is unbelievable and the power to carry recruits in is huge,” Good mentioned earlier than final 12 months’s sport. “It’s a problem whenever you don’t have what is perhaps your greatest rivalry and also you don’t have the power to carry official visits in and recruits in each different 12 months since you wouldn’t have it yearly anyway. It actually is effective within the time when children are deciding within the early signing date in December and enrolling in January. These are essentially the most essential weekends you’ll be able to must get children on campus. I stand by the truth that we miss out on a kind of alternatives each different 12 months and all people else on the nation doesn’t.”

Georgia and Florida have performed yearly in Jacksonville since 1933, except for 1994-95, when the stadium was being renovated. (The listed capability is 82,917.) The sport is financially profitable to all events, with the 2 colleges sharing gate receipts and the town of Jacksonville getting the income from followers coming to the sport.

The contract with the town of Jacksonville runs by means of 2023 with an choice to renew by means of 2025, and the choice on that’s anticipated after the SEC decides on its future scheduling mannequin, in all probability someday this fall.

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