GAhurricane
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Coach Richt did recruit 5 star QB DJ Shockley from the same city as Cam Newton, won the SEC championship in 2005 with him starting. A lot of ppl thought it was "politics" involved as to why he ended up going with David Greene to start most of that era. They were a good team but couldve been championship contenders if DJ Shockley was the starter for more than 1 year. Probably the same reason Coach Richt didnt recruit another "dual threat" QB like Cam Newton and Deshaun Watson, it is Athens, Ga.
Thats ridiculous. DJ Shockley was thought of as one of the best back up QBs in the nation at the time. But the reason he didnt start over David Greene was because at the end of Greene's career, he had won more games than any other QB in college football history.
And on Watson, he was going to go to clemson anyway, b/c clemson was still close to home and they ran the spread which UGA didnt.