The Georgia Bulldogs scored a major victory Wednesday in head coach Kirby Smart’s first recruiting class.
Despite being hired on December 6, 2015, and not becoming the full-time boss in Athens until the second week of January, Smart was still able to haul in the seventh-ranked signing class in the country, according to 247Sports.
What makes this accomplishment greater is that it comes after Georgia fired longtime head coach Mark Richt, one of the SEC’s most successful coaches of the last decade. The class very well could have imploded, but Smart did an excellent job of keeping the group mostly intact.