Recruiting 2024 Recruiting Thread: 4* 315 pound DL D'antre Robinson commits

[CGgater]

I sure do miss me some donkey.

No you don’t. You wish the donkey who speaks through the ox was here. The donkey you “miss” was a broken record who didn’t sound nearly as knowledgeable as the emails he sends now.

 

[Theologator]

I would say that Billy Latsko was the last Buchholz player with an impact.

And he was a walk-on.

 

[Theologator]

“Florida's staff certainly made sure to feel Jackson wanted, but also did the same with his mom and step dad throughout the process. While on his official visit to Florida in June, it fell during the same weekend as their anniversary. Florida's parents made sure to set their hotel room up with decorations and a spread to help the two celebrate. While it's a small gesture, it helped back up the feeling of knowing the Gators cared for both Jackson and his family away from football.”

The first sentence sounds a little Kevin Spacey, but I digress…

Some of us cringed at the rose petals strewn around his parents’ hotel room. But now we know IT WORKED. Hats off to Katie Turner’s team on that.

 

[Durty South Swamp]

“Florida's staff certainly made sure to feel Jackson wanted, but also did the same with his mom and step dad throughout the process. While on his official visit to Florida in June, it fell during the same weekend as their anniversary. Florida's parents made sure to set their hotel room up with decorations and a spread to help the two celebrate. While it's a small gesture, it helped back up the feeling of knowing the Gators cared for both Jackson and his family away from football.”

The first sentence sounds a little Kevin Spacey, but I digress…

Some of us cringed at the rose petals strewn around his parents’ hotel room. But now we know IT WORKED. Hats off to Katie Turner’s team on that.

its still super cringe and embarrassing. make some reservations for them at a nice restaurant. hell foot the bill, send them a private cadi to pick them up, but decorating their room and BED with rose petals? thats just freaking cringe. might as well have had billy in there to give them each a reach around.

 

[g8r.tom]

its still super cringe and embarrassing. make some reservations for them at a nice restaurant. hell foot the bill, send them a private cadi to pick them up, but decorating their room and BED with rose petals? thats just freaking cringe. might as well have had billy in there to give them each a reach around.

I disagree. It seemed to have helped some.

ymmv

 

[Silverback Gator]

its still super cringe…. might as well have had billy in there to give them each a reach around.

Would be imposible to give a reach around, unless…. oh no you di’unt!

 

[alcoholica]

this was a layup recruitment. Unless Billy slapped KJ’s mom with his pecker this was UF’s to lose

 

[GatorJ]

This is hilarious.

 

[oxrageous]

This is hilarious.

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Strange how silent the "Cristobal can recruit" guys have gone.

 

[jbaker07]

Strange how silent the "Cristobal can recruit" guys have gone.

Funny what happens when UM's billion dollar NLI sugar daddy John Ruiz appears to have been running a massive fraud? Ruiz's company Sh!ts the bed. I am willing to bet Ruiz doesn't have millions of dollars to "help" them get to the Final Four again this year. Or to try to steal more of our football recruits this year, like they did last year.

For those of you who wanted a pictorial representation of how well Ruiz's SPAC is doing:

 

[TN G8tr]

Strange how silent the "Cristobal can recruit" guys have gone.

Yeah, I thought Cristobalz was a recruiting guru mofo machine. Goes to show you what scUM is. No matter how you paint a turd, it's still a turd.

 

[aka]

 

[abefroman]

More from Donkey:

I'd take a 3 star Florida kid who plays known competition over a 4 star out of state kid. We really need to establish that

The staff must be happy with his potential to grow larger and/or play a true Buck, which for Billy at ULL usually meant something like "just as likely to blitz as drop into pass coverage and definitely capable of setting the edge" vs. the Grantham "flyweight speed rusher dude who somehow all seemed terrible in pass coverage despite their speed".

As for class rank, we aren't even close to being #1. I think we will end up in the 5-7 range. It's ok, but more than finishing strong with some 5 star out of state kids, I'd prefer to see us close the gap with the Florida top 25 type kids. So long as Georgia owns that, we are going to struggle. That has to be the next step we have to take IMO.

When you look at our 3 star takes though, a good method is to see what their ACTUAL visits are. Fletcher Westphal, 2024 Offensive Tackle, Florida These aren't just valentines "offers" Westphal got, he was being dined by almost every elite school in the east. In fact, I think he visited more than any person I've ever seen. Maybe that's why he didn't have time to camp or something which probably affect his rivals ranking.

Back to Rivals "losing everyone to ON3", I have a friend, now a small college DC, who did some moonlighting for Rivals. He said they lost all their "journalists" (if you consider Newburg and Bowlcut journalists, more like marginally employed former interns that at some point volunteered to be near Dooley) to ON3. They didn't lose any of their actual football scouts, former GAs, coaches etc. ON3 owns social media though, because that is their focus. Rivals still mostly sells data to schools with smaller budgets. Personally, Im not sure how I like that business model as most schools increase their scouting budgets. Plus Rivals data mostly covers their camps, and youd think those are mostly kids going to big schools. I don't know, but I know ON3 is garbage.

Bring him back already?

 

[Double Gator Dad]

This is hilarious.

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This still seems very familiar to me.

 

[GatorJ]

Here’s a comparison to the classes under Mullen and Butters.

Too 100 recruits

Napier
2024 - 6
2023 - 4 (Rashada didn’t enroll, Kelby, Ja’Keem, and Kamran)
2022 - 3 (Kamari Wilson and Shemar James)


Mullen
2021 - 2 (Marshall and Scooby)
2020 - 3 (Wingo, Hendo, Gervon)
2019 - 4 (Steele, K. Elam, Bogle, and Hopper - only 1 of these guys played significant minutes at UF)
2018 - 1 (Copeland)


Butters
2017 - 1 (Slaton)
2016 - 4 (Cleveland, Franks, Clayton, and Chauncey Gardner)
2015 - 2 (Ivey, Jefferson)

 

[Durty South Swamp]

Here’s a comparison to the classes under Mullen and Butters.

Too 100 recruits

Napier
2024 - 6
2023 - 4 (Rashada didn’t enroll, Kelby, Ja’Keem, and Kamran)
2022 - 3 (Kamari Wilson and Shemar James)


Mullen
2021 - 2 (Marshall and Scooby)
2020 - 3 (Wingo, Hendo, Gervon)
2019 - 4 (Steele, K. Elam, Bogle, and Hopper - only 1 of these guys played significant minutes at UF)
2018 - 1 (Copeland)


Butters
2017 - 1 (Slaton)
2016 - 4 (Cleveland, Franks, Clayton, and Chauncey Gardner)
2015 - 2 (Ivey, Jefferson)

I don't see much difference. 2023 for nap should only be 3 since the dude never came. 6 in 24 looks a bit better but none of them have signed or showed up yet either. I'm not being a downer when I say we should reserve applause until they sign and enroll.

 

[I Have No Friends :(]

I don't see much difference. 2023 for nap should only be 3 since the dude never came. 6 in 24 looks a bit better but none of them have signed or showed up yet either. I'm not being a downer when I say we should reserve applause until they sign and enroll.

The implication is that Napier is trending up. As always, it remains to be seen who actually shows up on campus enrolled in classes.

 

[B52G8rAC]

I don't see much difference. 2023 for nap should only be 3 since the dude never came. 6 in 24 looks a bit better but none of them have signed or showed up yet either. I'm not being a downer when I say we should reserve applause until they sign and enroll.

With NIL and the transfer portal, even signing and enrolling means nothing. Unless they stay and play for three years, its a failure.

 

[Ray Finkle]

I'm not being a downer when I say...

You may not mean to be but, let me assure you, you are.

 

[Durty South Swamp]

You may not mean to be but, let me assure you, you are.

yeah, i know basic facts can be offensive when they dont tell you what you want to hear.