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Amarius Mims Elite 2021 OT

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AUcane said:
Good stuff, Leeds. Question, though, if we were THE primary school outside of UGA, how come we couldn't get him to visit over FSU?
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He may have been telling more than one "girl" that she is "the one"...
 
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LeedsCane said:
Uh, yeah, I am not convinced he keeps his name out of the portal for long. Talking to alum who know him, with that happened with his high school teammate and his mother’s desire for him to be close to home, it sounds like for now his family more than he decided to stay at UGA and tough it out. I have been given no reason to believe this is permanent but frustratingly enough it now gives other schools more time to keep working on him, Miami too admittedly but I don’t think we keep pressing and prioritising him like we did.

So here we go; Mims was promised (or at very least heavily suggested) that he would be a starter by the previous OL coach who he has a great relationship with… When he stepped away, Mims started to reach out to teams and gauge their interest in him because he was unsure about the vacancy. Kirby himself had to convince him not to put his name in the portal in January and to have faith that the replacement OL coach would be just as good. Mims agreed to this and decided to try and give Searles a chance. By March it was pretty clear that Mims and Searles did not get along and Mims had lost what little faith he still had in his head coach sticking by the promise of him starting so he once again started reaching out and really only one school caught his interest; Miami. Players are wonderful recruiters and I will just leave it at that.

From all I can gather, Mims always only had one alternative destination and the tipping point that, for now, has convinced him to stay at UGA was there pressure of his family and his mother in particular to remain nearby. I will not get into the speculation that this is related to his teammate’s passing, as was suggested by who I talk to at UGA but rather I think this was a combination of many things and those things outweighed his own desires to play immediately, for now. I highly doubt this is over because talking to someone else, he said there is ‘about a 2% chance Mims starts this year’ and this was after he put his name in so after UGA did everything they could to convince him to stay. Miami beat them on every front, no other school who he was interested in came close. I’ll keep an eye on this for sure because as I said, Miami put a lot of effort into this and there is a reason UGA sources heard Miami from the jump, it was the plan for months.
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LeedsCane said:
Uh, yeah, I am not convinced he keeps his name out of the portal for long.
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This right here is why this thread needs to remain open and not locked. Less than one week ago, a huge number of people made the mistake of trusting multiple FSU sauces that this recruitment was over.

Could we be making the same mistake again with the UGA sauces? Albeit Rusty is a legit source.

Could Mims change his mind again before May 1st? I'm thinking it's a percentage > 0.00%.
 
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