That must be an odd converaation to have, that “you will always be a gator but....
Most are encouraged. Not ETN.
That is so stupid and totally limits the options of HS kids and transfers. Most teams are full.
I know it's hard to say this about a 20-22 year old player but I get the feeling a good number of our pre 2022 players were/are at their ceiling either physically or ability to understand their positions on a P5 level. The variables that we're not sure of is proper P5 coaching.....
I believe we have enough evidence which says our guys portal bound may not have been properly coached
I think there are ceiling issues too beyond just the coaching. Many of these kids were low 4* precisely because of that, some whole in their game or their physical capabilities. We get wrapped up in 4* but remember that in 2006 or so 4* meant top 250 or so. One year the Pouncey twins were like 248 and 250 (more or less, from memory) and one was a 4* and one was a 3*. Alabama and Georgia (and a few others) still live in that top 100 mostly and some top 250 zone, and we are grabbing MOSTLY "4 star" kids who would have been 3* a decade ago. It shows.
9 times out of 10 from the years 1990 to 2010 UF was visibly bigger, stronger and faster than the whatever team lined up across from them.....that has slipped away to the point where it is obvious even watching from TV....in fact I've noticed outside of a few guys in the last 3 to 4 years we look small and I rarely see our players manhandle their guys in one on one matchups.... Yeah I agree the last 3 or 4 staffs haven't had a good handle on the X's and O's but despite our recruiting rankings looking decent we just aren't getting the right bodies for the right positions either.
Is ETN gone gone? Did not see that he committed elsewhere.
