The Solid Verbal: Georgia’s 2018 Signing Day dominance, USC’s surge, and secretly decent classes
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On the latest episode of The Solid Verbal, Dan and Ty are joined by SB Nation recruiting director Bud Elliott and 247 Sports national recruiting editor Brandon Huffman to talk all things 2018 National Signing Day, including the following topics:
• Where does Georgia’s historic class, highlighted by five-star QB Justin Fields, rank among modern classes with above-and-beyond levels of talent in one year?
• Just how strong was USC’s close, which included five-star CB Olaijah Griffin (Warren G’s kid!) and reclassified 2019 five-star QB JT Daniels?
• Where is Ohio State’s near-perfect class strongest?
• What did Clemson do in 2018 to separate itself from Florida State and Miami, both of whom had very strong classes?
• Speaking of Florida State, how did new coach and noted recruiter Willie Taggart do with a limited amount of time in Tallahassee to build a top-10ish class? How did five-star DB Jaiden Woodbey get initially overlooked and have his situation rectified?
• How did Texas and Oklahoma go beyond the rest of the Big 12? Is it a sign that the conference is finally catching up to other conferences, talent wise?
• Thanks to commitments from perhaps the country’s best DE in Micah Parsons and best WR in Justin Shorter, is Penn State quietly building a B1G monster?
• Thanks to the early signing period stacking things against them, how did new coaches like Chip Kelly at UCLA, Jimbo Fisher at Texas A&M, Mario Cristobal at Oregon, Herm Edwards at Arizona State, Jeremy Pruitt at Tennessee, Dan Mullen at Florida, and Joe Moorhead at Mississippi State do?
... and much more!
