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Well thats pretty kewl if you asked me
CENSORED BY OTHER BOARDS: A recruiting story that should make you all warm and cozy
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*sigh* 
The story has too many details to not be true. And it is not really that surprising to me at all. It does seem to fit the pattern of how things seem to operate at The University of Florida these days.
Aside from the poor organization of our recruiting by the coaches, I just don't think that the administration is as interested in football as the folks at places like Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and most other SEC schools. They have taken it for granted as they've worked to raise the academic standards of UF and during that time the rest of the country has caught up and eaten their lunch. While we've been trying to be more like Vanderbilt, Alabama has been trying to be more like the Dallas Cowboys. Certainly college should be about academics but that doesn't mean it has to be to the detriment of football.
Everything seems have gotten pretty PC at UF where as some of the other SEC schools still do things the old fashioned way. Remember Gator Getters? Seemed pretty chauvinistic to the PC administrative crowd to have pretty girls in skirts and cowboy hats acting as athlete escorts so now we have dudes with man buns showing recruits around. You think that happens at LSU, Alabama or Clemson? Football is a manly sport played by men who like man things. Pretty girls, parties, cool swag, etc. are man things. Alabama has twice yearly BMI checks on their twirlers and dancers, for cryin' out loud. Is it right? No. Can it be considered a bit misogynist? Sure. But it is what it is and it's all part of the bigger package that is put on display to impress. Of course I'm not suggesting that these schools are killing us in recruiting because our twirlers have love handles. What I'm getting at is that it's a lot of the little things that impress a 17 year old kid that other schools are doing that we don't seem to be doing. Those little things add up.
I used to be of the mind that only pussies would need to have stuff like a f**king smoothy bar running 24/7 in the locker room to convince them where to play football. Apparently I was wrong.
The story has too many details to not be true. And it is not really that surprising to me at all. It does seem to fit the pattern of how things seem to operate at The University of Florida these days.
Aside from the poor organization of our recruiting by the coaches, I just don't think that the administration is as interested in football as the folks at places like Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and most other SEC schools. They have taken it for granted as they've worked to raise the academic standards of UF and during that time the rest of the country has caught up and eaten their lunch. While we've been trying to be more like Vanderbilt, Alabama has been trying to be more like the Dallas Cowboys. Certainly college should be about academics but that doesn't mean it has to be to the detriment of football.
Everything seems have gotten pretty PC at UF where as some of the other SEC schools still do things the old fashioned way. Remember Gator Getters? Seemed pretty chauvinistic to the PC administrative crowd to have pretty girls in skirts and cowboy hats acting as athlete escorts so now we have dudes with man buns showing recruits around. You think that happens at LSU, Alabama or Clemson? Football is a manly sport played by men who like man things. Pretty girls, parties, cool swag, etc. are man things. Alabama has twice yearly BMI checks on their twirlers and dancers, for cryin' out loud. Is it right? No. Can it be considered a bit misogynist? Sure. But it is what it is and it's all part of the bigger package that is put on display to impress. Of course I'm not suggesting that these schools are killing us in recruiting because our twirlers have love handles. What I'm getting at is that it's a lot of the little things that impress a 17 year old kid that other schools are doing that we don't seem to be doing. Those little things add up.
I used to be of the mind that only pussies would need to have stuff like a f**king smoothy bar running 24/7 in the locker room to convince them where to play football. Apparently I was wrong.
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As we repeatedly are showing up at the last minute, a year or two late, in a panic trying to recruit or flip bluechippers, I really have zero trouble believing our staff didnt even know who the kid was.
I think you guys might be looking at this the wrong way. Everyone knows that we gave a scholly last year to a hs backup. This has been met by jeers from the rest of the div1 teams but think about another aspect. Imagine if we charged $40-100 to a few thousand other hs backups and/or div 3 players to come to our camps for the chance to win a scholly. We could take a large chunk out of the amount we are going to have to pay Butters to get on his donkey and ride out of town.
I think you guys might be looking at this the wrong way. Everyone knows that we gave a scholly last year to a hs backup. This has been met by jeers from the rest of the div1 teams but think about another aspect. Imagine if we charged $40-100 to a few thousand other hs backups and/or div 3 players to come to our camps for the chance to win a scholly. We could take a large chunk out of the amount we are going to have to pay Butters to get on his donkey and ride out of town.
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Yeah where was Mac 14 years ago? Coulda been my chance to wear the O&B and get a free edumucation for it.
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As stated, the OP got this from the forum on Rivals. The OP on the Rivals forum is a user with the screen name 46885 who starts the post with "If any of this is remotely true, my God...". Another poster states that they saw this information on another site as well. So this is a story floating around on the internet and no one is really sure where it originally came from.
That definitely sounds legit. If this were a story about pretty much anything else it would be treated with a lot of skepticism by most reasonable people.
Confirmation bias - the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses, while giving disproportionately less consideration to alternative possibilities. It is a type of cognitive bias and a systematic error of inductive reasoning. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs.
That definitely sounds legit. If this were a story about pretty much anything else it would be treated with a lot of skepticism by most reasonable people.
Confirmation bias - the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses, while giving disproportionately less consideration to alternative possibilities. It is a type of cognitive bias and a systematic error of inductive reasoning. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs.
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That is the worst story I have heard. I hope it's a complete lie but it would seem to explain things. What a train wreck. I wish I hadn't read it.
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Don't be so sure he won't be he in '18. They extended the 4th year to the Chump. We don't know anything about this new AD and isn't Fooley still lurking around, assisting the president, who himself is a Fuchs?
- Jun 14, 2014
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I've stated this before and think it will definitely happen. Stricklin is new and Mac has just (backed into) two consecutive SECCG's. Don't think Stricklin will have his balz back to give him the "expectation talk" until the end of next season. I am relegated to the fact that Mac will be here in '18. Now if Stricklin or anyone on the AD staff has seen this story and confirmed its authenticity had better get on it. If not this whole staff needs to go. Simply inexcusable. I went to UF camps as a kid and had to pay a fee. But this was a visit by a recruit. Get your head out of you azz Collins (enjoy Temple BTW) and someone needs to go up and Bytch slap Nussy. Sure you won the East the last two years, but you're living on borrowed time. What you're selling ain't working.
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I still hold out hope that next year is it, a 3-9/4-8 season (which I expect) and he's gone, the new AD will want his own guy.
Key thing to look for is a contract extension, if he gets one then yeah year 4 is guaranteed.
Key thing to look for is a contract extension, if he gets one then yeah year 4 is guaranteed.
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I don't know if it's true, but I know it's truly depressing.
- Jun 9, 2014
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Regarding that. Im pretty sure a few people here are the only ones that even noticed this staff cant recruit. Most others wouldnt have this bias.
- Jun 13, 2014
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It was posted here before 46885 posted it on Rivals open forum. I think he got it from here or it could have came from 24/7 or Gator Country originally possibly before it got to the subscription forum there though Gator Country would probably ban someone for posting that.
Maybe Slevin knows where it came from originally - the subscription forum at Rivals or one of the other places.
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Just heard this two weeks ago and I actually started to type it out. I thought about it and deleted it.
You people would have crucified me. THAT isn't fun at all. So, I kept it to myself. Seems pertinent now.
- Jun 11, 2014
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For what it's worth, 247 is the only site I could find 2019 info. They only had 6 QB's listed, and the only 1 who remotely close enough to drive was a dual threat QB from NE Alabama (near Chattanooga). He is also already listed as heavy Barn lean and Bama isn't listed. So I somewhat question the validity of the story, but I certainly can see this kind of thing happening. Probably not as egregious as the story says, but they are certainly doing something wrong in a major way.
