Recruiting Simmons’ father explains flip: The schedule was too hard

[GatorJ]

It’s embarrassing that this kid flipped. Mom wanted UF. Dad wanted Ole Miss.

 

[soflagator]

It’s clear that’s where we’re headed and no one gives two effs. We’ve decided that academic excellence and athletic excellence are mutually exclusive and our quest is to become Vandy.

Money will dry up and SS is beyond toast if this doesn’t somehow take a miraculous turn. I’ve said before, either way this will be his last football hire. He’s without question the worst AD we’ve had in my lifetime. I have some hope that Sasse has a better understanding of things and gets the economics. That is about the only hope we have left. I’m damn close to sitting out this season all together, something I’ve never done. It needs to bottom.

 

[Durty South Swamp]

In before Ox tells us that mertz is way better anyway.

 

[oxrageous]

It’s embarrassing that this kid flipped. Mom wanted UF. Dad wanted Ole Miss.

I wonder if NIL crap came into play, too. Doesn't matter now.

 

[URGatorBait]

It’s embarrassing that this kid flipped. Mom wanted UF. Dad wanted Ole Miss.

if he just pissed off his momma, he's gonna regret it

 

[Gatorraid81]

Didn't Ole Miss already get some transfer in from the portal that was supposed to be good?

 

[soflagator]

It’s embarrassing that this kid flipped. Mom wanted UF. Dad wanted Ole Miss.

No offense to anyone here, but moms often think emotionally. Distance and the feel probably sold her. Dad is looking at economics and taking emotion out. Napier has given our rivals the ammo to recruit against us at the position with some of his decisions.

 

[soflagator]

Didn't Ole Miss already get some transfer in from the portal that was supposed to be good?

Two.

 

[Durty South Swamp]

Didn't Ole Miss already get some transfer in from the portal that was supposed to be good?

Yes. I know I know, makes zero sense bc we all know that kids only go where there's no depth and if they don't sign with us it's bc they're scared of competition and can't handle the pressure of UF and we didn't want them anyway and, well, whatever other sht we can throw against the wall.

 

[Mr2Bits]

Money will dry up and SS is beyond toast if this doesn’t somehow take a miraculous turn. I’ve said before, either way this will be his last football hire. He’s without question the worst AD we’ve had in my lifetime. I have some hope that Sasse has a better understanding of things and gets the economics. That is about the only hope we have left. I’m damn close to sitting out this season all together, something I’ve never done. It needs to bottom.

Bottom is 5.5 wins this year and 3.5 next year, it’s only going to continue getting worse

 

[GatorJ]

I wonder if NIL crap came into play, too. Doesn't matter now.

It did. Dad started shopping about a month ago.

Supposedly the leak by On3 then pissed them off.

 

[GatorJ]

It pissing them off is weird. It was a rival troll in Newberg. Wasn’t even our guys.

 

[GatorJ]

 

[Concrete Helmet]

There's too much smoke around this for it not to be true at this point.

I'm not sure if you've been paying attention for the last 5 or 6 years but we've become the Bill Buckner of CFB recruiting when it comes to getting high level recruit/commits to campus....

 

[URGatorBait]

It pissing them off is weird. It was a rival troll in Newberg. Wasn’t even our guys.

Yea I don't believe that. Too quick a turn around for that to have been the trigger point. This was already in the works

 

[Sec14Gator]

Senior prom is a big thing and shouldn’t be dismissed just so a kid can get a jump on his college career.

Senior prom? This kid is sticking around for the sophomore ring dance.

 

[MertzJay26]

Sooooo who do we turn to now? Who’s our stopgap transfer QB for ‘24?

 

[NavetG8r]

So if I understand this correctly, that's 2 elite 2024 "commits" in 2 weeks Billy's had flipped on him. It's going to get tougher and tougher to garner fan support if this continues.

 

[GatorInKnox]

It pissing them off is weird. It was a rival troll in Newberg. Wasn’t even our guys.

This happens far too frequently to us to just be one offs. It’s a systemic issue.

 

[gatorev12]

I say this without the slightest hint of sarcasm as I’ve sadly become mentally numb: this program has become a f****** embarrassment. I think it’s very clear that Simmons wanted to reclassify from the get-go but admissions is blocking it as they’ve done many times before. Napier, or any coach, doesn’t stand a chance of bringing us back.

If that's the case, Napier needs to go straight to the AD and say "we will never become competitive in the current college football landscape if you don't have my back on this."

By all accounts, this kid is a gifted student and not a basketcase with a 0.8 GPA.