There's a story on the Athletic site (which is mostly paid articles) discussing a US college tour by a group of European HS football players. Says they came to UF - had planned to stay 2 days - but UVA wanted to offer a QB a scholarship...so they stayed in Gainesville for 6 hours and headed to UVA. Then it says we offered one of their OL kids, but he chose UVA. Here's a few blurbs the article that mention UF:
......they had planned on spending two days at the University of Florida. However, when word got back to Collier that the University of Virginia was considering offering a scholarship to one of his players — a quarterback from Germany — he scrambled. The group only spent about six or seven hours at UF, although the prospects did get to see live alligators in the water.
Wentz will be joined at Virginia by another teammate from the Dolphins, Kariem Al Soufi, a 6-4, 340-pound guard who turned down an offer from Florida that came earlier on the trip. Al Soufi’s father is a dentist who once was a pro basketball player in Syria.
The way Al Soufi’s UF scholarship offer materialized illustrates the unique dynamic of the PPI tour. According to Daletzki, Al Soufi had a workout with Georgia coaches and Bulldogs offensive line coach Sam Pittman for an hour, and after some footage of that session was posted on Twitter, the Gators offered the massive lineman before he and the tour group even made it to Gainesville.
Al Soufi wasn’t the only PPI O-lineman to land a UF offer. The Gators, Nebraska and Virginia, among others, are in pursuit of towering Martin Veinberg, a 6-9, 325-pounder who excelled in one-on-one pass-protection drills along the camp tour.