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I thought Truesdale was our target and most likely commit. did that change?

I haven't seen or heard anything about Truesdale for a while. I don't think anybody would be upset if we take 5, but Slaton seems to be trending our way and if the staff is recruiting both Gaddy's then that puts us at 4. Truesdale may not want to compete... who knows. We need the depth so if we take 4 or 5 and these kids can rotate in and out it will help us.
 

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More good news on the Recruiting Front..

2017 WR Jordan Pouncey 'doesn't trust' Florida's coaching staff
One of Florida's former 2017 targets has his reasons for looking elsewhere.

Uncommitted 2017 wideout Jordan Pouncey (Winter Park, Fla.), who recently dropped the Gators from his schools of interest, has his reasons for looking elsewhere during the final stretch before National Signing Day.

“I just don’t put a lot of trust into that coaching staff,” Pouncey told The Orlando Sentinel in reference to Florida. “I have my own reasons.”

Though he's never met them, Pouncey's a cousin of twin NFL offensive linemen Mike and Maurkice, two former first-round picks who each starred at Florida as top-flight prospects. He did not go into detail with The Orlando Sentinel as to why he lost trust with Gators coaches.

Florida's 2017 class is currently ranked 20th nationally — No. 8 in the SEC — with 15 players, including five early enrollees.

Pouncey, the 104th-best wide receiver in the 2017 class according to the 247Sports Composite, decommitted from Notre Dame in December and is currently trending to Miami. He has official visits scheduled to Texas and Tennessee before making his final decision.

I saw this also and it really doesn't say anything. He says he doesn't trust the staff... "I have my own reasons"... it seems to me something happened and it could be as much his fault as ours... we just don't know.
 

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I haven't seen or heard anything about Truesdale for a while. I don't think anybody would be upset if we take 5, but Slaton seems to be trending our way and if the staff is recruiting both Gaddy's then that puts us at 4. Truesdale may not want to compete... who knows. We need the depth so if we take 4 or 5 and these kids can rotate in and out it will help us.

If we take five, I believe the fifth will be a JUCO.
 

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I saw this also and it really doesn't say anything. He says he doesn't trust the staff... "I have my own reasons"... it seems to me something happened and it could be as much his fault as ours... we just don't know.

It may be as simple as him not receiving the firm offer that he wants.
 

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Seems like our whole staff is going to see Hunter... assuming this tweet is accurate...which is a guess. Hope we land this kid. Hunter would be a huge get for us.

 

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I'm sure the pumpers will dismiss this as well. Send in the clowns please.

Read the posts above... this one is pretty easy to dismiss... nobody knows what the details are so we don't know if this is a staff issue or a kid issue.
 

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It may be as simple as him not receiving the firm offer that he wants.

Recruits talking smack. Coaches getting banned. Short coaches during the final recruiting stretch. The last two classes are in the bottom three of rankings since they have recorded them. AT what point do the pumpers actually go...this is not acceptable.
 

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Recruits talking smack. Coaches getting banned. Short coaches during the final recruiting stretch. The last two classes are in the bottom three of rankings since they have recorded them. AT what point do the pumpers actually go...this is not acceptable.
Im a pumper and I've openly flipped my **** these last few weeks. wether you are glass half full/empty doesn't matter. What's obvious is that what's going on isn't going to cut it
 

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Recruits talking smack. Coaches getting banned. Short coaches during the final recruiting stretch. The last two classes are in the bottom three of rankings since they have recorded them. AT what point do the pumpers actually go...this is not acceptable.

Find me one place where any of the "pumpers" have said this is acceptable? Just because we don't jump to conclusions on every piece of information and bash the staff based on guesses doesn't mean we are happy with the performance, we are just smart enough to recognize there is a lot we don't know.
 

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More good news on the Recruiting Front..

2017 WR Jordan Pouncey 'doesn't trust' Florida's coaching staff
One of Florida's former 2017 targets has his reasons for looking elsewhere.

Uncommitted 2017 wideout Jordan Pouncey (Winter Park, Fla.), who recently dropped the Gators from his schools of interest, has his reasons for looking elsewhere during the final stretch before National Signing Day.

“I just don’t put a lot of trust into that coaching staff,” Pouncey told The Orlando Sentinel in reference to Florida. “I have my own reasons.”

Though he's never met them, Pouncey's a cousin of twin NFL offensive linemen Mike and Maurkice, two former first-round picks who each starred at Florida as top-flight prospects. He did not go into detail with The Orlando Sentinel as to why he lost trust with Gators coaches.

Florida's 2017 class is currently ranked 20th nationally — No. 8 in the SEC — with 15 players, including five early enrollees.

Pouncey, the 104th-best wide receiver in the 2017 class according to the 247Sports Composite, decommitted from Notre Dame in December and is currently trending to Miami. He has official visits scheduled to Texas and Tennessee before making his final decision.
Pouncey sucks though and we haven't given him anything commitable. Sorry you suck bruh and sorry your cousins are murderer loving period blood stains on gator history.
 

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Recruits talking smack. Coaches getting banned. Short coaches during the final recruiting stretch. The last two classes are in the bottom three of rankings since they have recorded them. AT what point do the pumpers actually go...this is not acceptable.
Seems like a few days AFTER NSD would be a reasonable time for individuals to form some reasonable conclusions for YEAR TWO. But, that's just me.
 

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Find me one place where any of the "pumpers" have said this is acceptable? Just because we don't jump to conclusions on every piece of information and bash the staff based on guesses doesn't mean we are happy with the performance, we are just smart enough to recognize there is a lot we don't know.

This place is littered with excuses for Mac. A lot you don't know? WTF? You see the results for yourself. Getting ass rammed by Bammer and FSU on and off the field. You guys can't offer up the excuses fast enough.
 

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EVERYONE that is connected with the gator program knows we are having recruiting issues. The difference is not everybody projectile vomits over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over in every single thread posted. Puke puke puke puke....no substance.
 

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This place is littered with excuses for Mac. A lot you don't know? WTF? You see the results for yourself. Getting ass rammed by Bammer and FSU on and off the field. You guys can't offer up the excuses fast enough.

Nobody is offering up excuses... we are just saying in the situation of Pouncey... we don't know what happened. But keep with the same message over and over again with no content.

We get it TRex... you are upset. You are mad that we have been losing and recruiting is not where it should be... Guess what... I'm frustrated by it also, but I am also an adult and able to take an objective view and recognize that I don't know everything that is going on, so I am not going to sling mud if I don't know where to throw it.

You want to blame Mac for not pulling Del Rio against Arkansas... Yes... that one we all agree with.

You want to blame Mac for not getting Locksley... No... not that it isn't his fault... just that we DON'T KNOW. So why blame him for something that may have been Stricklin's fault or maybe Locksley just decided to stay at Bama and coach 5 stars (easy) vs. rebuilding at Florida. That is the fact of where we are... Mac didn't drag us down to this level... he just hasn't gotten us back up as quickly as we would like.
 

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Nobody is offering up excuses... we are just saying in the situation of Pouncey... we don't know what happened. But keep with the same message over and over again with no content.

We get it TRex... you are upset. You are mad that we have been losing and recruiting is not where it should be... Guess what... I'm frustrated by it also, but I am also an adult and able to take an objective view and recognize that I don't know everything that is going on, so I am not going to sling mud if I don't know where to throw it.

You want to blame Mac for not pulling Del Rio against Arkansas... Yes... that one we all agree with.

You want to blame Mac for not getting Locksley... No... not that it isn't his fault... just that we DON'T KNOW. So why blame him for something that may have been Stricklin's fault or maybe Locksley just decided to stay at Bama and coach 5 stars (easy) vs. rebuilding at Florida. That is the fact of where we are... Mac didn't drag us down to this level... he just hasn't gotten us back up as quickly as we would like.

It's called the lowest hanging fruit, it's there for everybody to grab plus it's easy. Plus, T Rex's have short arms so it's the only fruit he can grab :lol2:
 

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This place is littered with excuses for Mac. A lot you don't know? WTF? You see the results for yourself. Getting ass rammed by Bammer and FSU on and off the field. You guys can't offer up the excuses fast enough.
:jerkit:

Get some new material... or give posting a rest for awhile... Either one will be a win for the rest of us... For LITERALLY all of us...
 

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Nobody is offering up excuses... we are just saying in the situation of Pouncey... we don't know what happened. But keep with the same message over and over again with no content.

We get it TRex... you are upset. You are mad that we have been losing and recruiting is not where it should be... Guess what... I'm frustrated by it also, but I am also an adult and able to take an objective view and recognize that I don't know everything that is going on, so I am not going to sling mud if I don't know where to throw it.

You want to blame Mac for not pulling Del Rio against Arkansas... Yes... that one we all agree with.

You want to blame Mac for not getting Locksley... No... not that it isn't his fault... just that we DON'T KNOW. So why blame him for something that may have been Stricklin's fault or maybe Locksley just decided to stay at Bama and coach 5 stars (easy) vs. rebuilding at Florida. That is the fact of where we are... Mac didn't drag us down to this level... he just hasn't gotten us back up as quickly as we would like.

We don't know? This is the newest pumper deflection? I see others using it as well. We just don't know.

Hilarious.
 

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Nobody is offering up excuses... we are just saying in the situation of Pouncey... we don't know what happened. But keep with the same message over and over again with no content.

We get it TRex... you are upset. You are mad that we have been losing and recruiting is not where it should be... Guess what... I'm frustrated by it also, but I am also an adult and able to take an objective view and recognize that I don't know everything that is going on, so I am not going to sling mud if I don't know where to throw it.

Putting TRex on "ignore" was possibly the very best thing I did for myself in 2016. I highly recommend it.

Now I see a few postings that don't make complete sense until I realize there was something I didn't see that provoked/inspired the response. But once I recognize that, which means that TRex was involved, I am never curious enough to want to dig deeper.

It's like this:
* you're walking down the sidewalk
* you see a pile of dog poo right in the middle of the concrete, a few steps ahead
* what kind of a crazy person decides on purpose that he/she is going to deliberately step in that???
 
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We don't know? This is the newest pumper deflection? I see others using it as well. We just don't know.

Hilarious.

So why don't you tell us the reasons - that Pouncey is keeping to himself - as to why he crossed off the Gators (other than the boilerplate lazy, bad recruiters, too slow, too folksy and other unsubstantiated reasons).

What's more ludicrous is you blaming the staff for correctly slow playing a 3* who we are only discussing because of his last name. Look, it's fine If you want to make negative inferences ad nauseum based upon circumstantial evidence for each bit of perceived bad "news," but your credibility in doing so goes off the deep end when you do things like blame the staff for this Pouncey deal or try to compare kids who have never played a down in college to Perine.

Of course, the credibility thing matters only if your comments were worth a damn to begin with. I try to read them at face value for the most part, but that's just me....
 

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