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The National Signing Day Thread
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Keene-Flint
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What’s in Grapevine, Texas?
- Sep 8, 2014
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(Take this for what it's worth....it's from Zach A)
Florida recruiting: Gators can sign 9 more prospects in class
https://www.seccountry.com/florida/florida-recruiting-2018-class-size-2
Florida can sign a maximum of 24 players in the Class of 2018, and that’s before factoring in attrition and available scholarships.
With the addition of nine mid-year enrollees this week, including wide receiver transfers Trevon Grimes and Van Jefferson, the Gators currently have 78 scholarship players on their roster.
Florida has five additional commits who signed early, which leaves the coaches with potentially nine spots to fill between now and National Signing Day.
However, the 85-player scholarship limit means the Gators can add only seven more recruits right now. They need two spots to open up through attrition to sign 24.
Florida will likely have a couple more transfers before the fall. The future of Gators running back Jordan Scarlett and the remaining suspended players is still to be determined.
UF early enrollee Randy Russell was diagnosed with a career-ending heart condition Thursday. Russell counts against Florida’s 25-man signing limit in 2018, but will not count against the scholarship numbers with a medical hardship.
Here’s a breakdown of how the 24 spots could shake out by position:
^ transfer
# medical hardship
Florida recruiting: Gators can sign 9 more prospects in class
https://www.seccountry.com/florida/florida-recruiting-2018-class-size-2
Florida can sign a maximum of 24 players in the Class of 2018, and that’s before factoring in attrition and available scholarships.
With the addition of nine mid-year enrollees this week, including wide receiver transfers Trevon Grimes and Van Jefferson, the Gators currently have 78 scholarship players on their roster.
Florida has five additional commits who signed early, which leaves the coaches with potentially nine spots to fill between now and National Signing Day.
However, the 85-player scholarship limit means the Gators can add only seven more recruits right now. They need two spots to open up through attrition to sign 24.
Florida will likely have a couple more transfers before the fall. The future of Gators running back Jordan Scarlett and the remaining suspended players is still to be determined.
UF early enrollee Randy Russell was diagnosed with a career-ending heart condition Thursday. Russell counts against Florida’s 25-man signing limit in 2018, but will not count against the scholarship numbers with a medical hardship.
Here’s a breakdown of how the 24 spots could shake out by position:
- QB: 1/1 (Emory Jones*)
- RB: 2/2 (Iverson Clement*, Dameon Pierce*)
- TE: 2/2 (Dante Lang, Kyle Pitts)
- WR: 2/4 (Trevon Grimes*^, Van Jefferson*^)
- OL: 3/5 (Noah Banks*, Chris Bleich*, Richard Gouraige)
- DL: 0/3
- LB: 1/2 (David Reese)
- DB: 3/4 (Trey Dean*, John Huggins, Randy Russell#)
- ATH: 1/1 (Amari Burney*)
- K: 1/1 (Evan McPherson)
^ transfer
# medical hardship
Acecustis
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I’ll take him. Or we can keep trotting out Mac “stars” like Dre Massey, Josh Hammon, and Freddie Swain.
GatorShea
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Anyone in their right mind would take him. I want him here but he sure is not doing anything to endear himself to what could be his potential fan base.
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I’m concerned too. It’s hard to make up ground with guys that weren’t connected to this staff (wherever they were before) or UF as a school. They may get some inroads from others’ transitions.
And every year I get sucked into reading the Internet tea leaves to guess what these guys will actually do.
- Jun 13, 2014
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Good news and bad news. Barnes is visiting but quay walker isn't.
https://www.seccountry.com/florida/...gets-take-trips/amp?__twitter_impression=true
https://www.seccountry.com/florida/...gets-take-trips/amp?__twitter_impression=true
- Jun 9, 2014
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Uggh need Walker.
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Don’t count your chickens before they arrive on campus. Walker was visiting... until he wasn’t. Until Barnes, etc arrive on campus, I’m assuming it might not work out. As exciting as those first few weeks were, the news lately has been just about the opposite.
Hurrig8r
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Although I don't feel social media has any impact on "real life"...It is safe to say that anyone out there in Gator Nation that has tendencies to have "Trump moments" on such medias, should think about who they may inflame. Unless I was watching a different Gator team than some of you were...WE NEED EVERY PLAYER WE CAN SMOOZE TO COME HERE...SO smooze them
Hurrig8r
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Jacob Copeland is an amazing talent, and from what i have read, not a bad human being...Unlike our last star WR or two
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We're going to lose out on far more than we will land this next signing day. We have 8-9 slots max and they are trying to bring in a bunch of kids for visits the next 3 weekends. We'll be lucky to fill out the class and Mullen even said that we may not and he wouldn't sign kids just to sign them and get a full class put together. This is a weird year with both a transition and early signing day...there's not a lot going on right now compared to how this month would normally be
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Recruiting roundup
- Florida made a round of offers to Class of 2019 prospects from Hawaii. Maninoa Tufono, a 4-star linebacker from Honolulu, announced that he received a scholarship offer from the Gators. Tufono is ranked the No. 4 inside linebacker in next year’s class by the 247Sports composite.
- Also from Honolulu, 5-star Class of 2019 defensive tackle Faatui Tuitele tweeted that he received an offer from the Gators. Tuitele is ranked the No. 2 DT in next year’s class by the 247Sports composite.
- Enokk Vimahi, a 4-star offensive tackle from Kahuku, Hawaii, also received an offer from the Gators. He’s ranked the No. 14 OT in the Class of 2019, by the 247Sports composite.
- Xavier Truss, a Class of 2019 offensive tackle, announced he has received a scholarship offer from Florida as well. Truss, from Warwick, R.I., is listed at 6-foot-7, 325 pounds on his 247Sports recruiting profile.
- And Jammal Abrams, a Class of 2019 inside linebacker, tweeted that Florida is the first SEC school to offer him.
