3* RB Malik Davis commits

[Swamp Donkey]

I have to admit it's pretty unusual for a coach to gush about one of his own players.

Hell, some coaches even gush about their backups!!!!

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Welcome back from our station break. We have with us Law98gator. Law, please share with the group how you truly feel about this situation?

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Producer: he hung up and said something about calling Dubs instead.

I don't dislike the kid, just like I don't dislike smurfs, but I greatly dislike having so many 2.5 star reaches (or lottery tickets as Cover calls them) or having a whole team full of smurfs and undersized guys.

 

[Concrete Helmet]

Listening to the radio today they said Davis was closer to 4.4 than 4.5 and that he is the all-time leading rusher in Hillsborough County.

Don't let Clemson find out about that...they may change their minds.

 

[Marianna-FL_Gator]

I know this may seem foreign to some posters here but there are actually 220-230# RB's with 4.5 speed......I swear I'm not just making it up.....So unless this guy packs on 30# to go with his 4.5 speed color me unimpressed.

I agree...I'm not sold on this kid and was pissed soon as I saw we took him! Dude is 185...slow...and plays against sh*t competition! I doubt he ever contributes and if he does he'll need to gain at least 35 lbs before he's ready to play in the SEC. In my opinion (with us taking this kid) Mac doesn't feel confident they are going to close strong so now he's just filling the class up by any means necessary. I'm not surprised but it Looks like the staff isn't "building the relationships" with the elite players we've been told they have been building. Smh!!!!

 

[Durty South Swamp]

I greatly dislike having so many 2.5 star reaches (or lottery tickets as Cover calls them) or having a hole team full of smurfs and undersized guys.

I hate the holes in our team as well

 

[Swamp Donkey]

The biggest failure of last year's class was the lack of plan b at DT, in my opinion. Maybe this is a sign, they are learning from that. We shall see.

How is signing a 5th string RB a sign that they learned from needing 4-6 DTs and they've signed 1(who was hurt at the time he signed)?

That makes zero sense.

 

[ChattanooGATOR]

When does the recruitment period for 4-stars begin?

 

[TN G8tr]

I guess this guy is to take Herndon's spot.

 

[Gator Fever]

Mac has things under control.

 

[rogdochar]

Well, Trask is champion at the bench press.

 

[deuce]

https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2010/aug/06/bc-fbn-hall-smithft-_-sports-750-words/


Not saying this kid is another Emmitt or Percy but he has potential.

 

[ATXGator]

Agree. I'd love to know why there wasn't a Plan B (or C, or Z) last year at DT.

I think we have beat the lack of a plan B... at DT horse enough at this point. We all agree the staff screwed that up, but nobody can go back in time and change it.

 

[TheDouglas78]

How is signing a 5th string RB a sign that they learned from needing 4-6 DTs and they've signed 1(who was hurt at the time he signed)?

That makes zero sense.

Law, you are making are turning two different arguments into one, and they are not the same argument. We have both agreed that their was a failure of this staff in the 2016 recruiting cycle in not picking up a big body DT and multiple at that. They chased a DT and lost, then did not have a backup plan. The staff decided we needed a running back, that running back appears not to be coming to UF. They picked up a lower tier guy as a plan B. It's the backup plan I'm referring to, not the fact that we still need multiple DT's that have the ability to play in 2017 or we are in for a long year.

 

[Concrete Helmet]

I agree...I'm not sold on this kid and was pissed soon as I saw we took him! Dude is 185...slow...and plays against sh*t competition! I doubt he ever contributes and if he does he'll need to gain at least 35 lbs before he's ready to play in the SEC. In my opinion (with us taking this kid) Mac doesn't feel confident they are going to close strong so now he's just filling the class up by any means necessary. I'm not surprised but it Looks like the staff isn't "building the relationships" with the elite players we've been told they have been building. Smh!!!!

The only way we finish in the top 10 in recruiting is to win out or go 5-1 including a good bowl game. Tall order.
Otherwise we are headed for a 15-25 rating which is cellar dweller for an SEC program....ain't nobody keeping their job if this continues....

 

[Gator Fever]

The only way we finish in the top 10 in recruiting is to win out or go 5-1 including a good bowl game. Tall order.
Otherwise we are headed for a 15-25 rating which is cellar dweller for an SEC program....ain't nobody keeping their job if this continues....

Yep if he isn't top 10 recruiting and we have 3 straight 4 loss seasons Mac is gone after what keeping Muschamp around for a 4th year did.

 

[Marianna-FL_Gator]

The only way we finish in the top 10 in recruiting is to win out or go 5-1 including a good bowl game. Tall order.
Otherwise we are headed for a 15-25 rating which is cellar dweller for an SEC program....ain't nobody keeping their job if this continues....

I agree!

 

[BMF]

I think we have beat the lack of a plan B... at DT horse enough at this point. We all agree the staff screwed that up, but nobody can go back in time and change it.

I disagree. Let's keep beating it.

 

[ATXGator]

That better?

 

[Swamp Donkey]

When does the recruitment period for 4-stars begin?

2018