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4-star Texas cornerback Chace Calicut shows that official visits still matter.
“Before I got to the OV, I was committed to Texas,” Calicut told DawgNation. “Silently committed. I was definitely committed there. I had my mind made up that I was going there. But the presentation at the meetings [at UGA] that coach Kirby Smart and coach Donte’ [Williams] showed me on the visit, it really changed my mind.”
“It just showed me that this is Georgia football and if you want to go to the league and be a first-rounder at DB, then this is where you want to go.”
If he didn’t take that official to UGA, is there any chance he would have chosen the Dawgs?
“No way,” he said. “Honestly, no way. If I didn’t take that OV and if I didn’t take that OV down there just to visit, I definitely wouldn’t be going to Georgia.”
That would have meant he would have told the world the name of a different program than the Georgia football program from the OT7 football playoffs down here in South Florida.
The choice would have been Texas or Michigan. Those were his other two finalists.
That made a crucial difference for the Dawgs here as the program just picked up a commitment for their 2026 recruiting class for the sixth straight day. Calicut’s commitment does push Georgia past Texas A&M for the nation’s No. 3 recruiting class at this time on the 247Sports Team Composite scale.--BOOM!
-Jeff Sentell, Dawgnation
“Before I got to the OV, I was committed to Texas,” Calicut told DawgNation. “Silently committed. I was definitely committed there. I had my mind made up that I was going there. But the presentation at the meetings [at UGA] that coach Kirby Smart and coach Donte’ [Williams] showed me on the visit, it really changed my mind.”
“It just showed me that this is Georgia football and if you want to go to the league and be a first-rounder at DB, then this is where you want to go.”
If he didn’t take that official to UGA, is there any chance he would have chosen the Dawgs?
“No way,” he said. “Honestly, no way. If I didn’t take that OV and if I didn’t take that OV down there just to visit, I definitely wouldn’t be going to Georgia.”
That would have meant he would have told the world the name of a different program than the Georgia football program from the OT7 football playoffs down here in South Florida.
The choice would have been Texas or Michigan. Those were his other two finalists.
That made a crucial difference for the Dawgs here as the program just picked up a commitment for their 2026 recruiting class for the sixth straight day. Calicut’s commitment does push Georgia past Texas A&M for the nation’s No. 3 recruiting class at this time on the 247Sports Team Composite scale.--BOOM!
-Jeff Sentell, Dawgnation
