Honestly if I can give my two cents, it’s all about that mentality of staying home and putting on for the state school. I don’t know much about what it feels like to be a high school recruit, but I do know what the culture is like in these smaller GA counties that a lot of these guys are coming from. People here in GA, especially south GA, are life long GA fans, other schools do not exist. God and UGA football. I think what Richt missed was getting these “Down South Georgia Boys” to commit to that idea of being a “DSGB” and playing for the Dawgs. Kirby, however, is from Bainbridge, GA. He himself is a DSGB. He can sell that mentality to any of them because he comes from it. Now that he’s been able to sell it to a few of them those few have been able to sell it to a few more and so on and so forth. It basically sold itself, almost like shooting fish in a barrel. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying this is the case. I just know how these southern GA residents are. It’s UGA or nothing. To me as an Auburn fan I could care less about the appeal of this DSGB mentality, frankly I don’t understand it. However, it’s a HUGE thing that exist in south/middle GA.