I'm trying to understand this narrative that Kirby is building a fence around Georgia. Alabama even with Saban at the helm had had a tough time when Richt was there. Nothing has changed.
I mentioned before that its not going to be easy to recruit Georgia , it never was, but UGA is not going to be able to keep all their TOP players from leaving including the 2018 cycle. In fact Alabama has done quite well in Georgia for 2018 than quite some time. Currently we have Walker, possibly Peterson and hopefully Emory Jones and Cox. All are in the Top 15. What's interesting is that Auburn is killing it this cycle with 6 Top 26 players from Georgia. Auburn has and always will for the unforeseeable future heavily relied on the state of Georgia to fill their roster unlike Alabama who recruits nation wide. BTW, Bama just picked up the #5 rated player from Georgia , King Mkiwuta for the 2019 class.
https://247sports.com/Season/2018-Football/RecruitRankings?InstitutionGroup=highschool&State=GA