Recruiting 2020 Recruiting Thread: Gervon Dexter gets 5th Star on Rivals

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Most of us knew they were elite all along. Rivals did too, they just don't change their ratings every single week for click bait purposes or to raise the stars for Clowntown and Ugly.

I just saw a tweet by alderman saying that 247 is about to update the rankings again. This is honestly like the fourth or fifth time in the last 6 to 8 weeks. It’s utterly ridiculous.
 

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I just saw a tweet by alderman saying that 247 is about to update the rankings again. This is honestly like the fourth or fifth time in the last 6 to 8 weeks. It’s utterly ridiculous.
Or utterly genius. The more they do it, the more clicks they’ll get. The key is not overdoing it. Any more they may lose all clicks.
 

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This kills me. Is it too late? What the actual........We were 10-2 then 11-2, recruiting had gotten better every year. No not where it should be but with who we should finish with and portal we are a fringe top 5 class. Unless you are getting Urban, Dabo or Saban who exactly do you want? My gracious maybe we are as bad as Dooley says sometimes. We honestly couldn’t have had a bette first two years realistically, and the recruiting trend is legitimately going up and 21 looks even better. This is why Spurrier left. And if we go 11-1 next year and lose to UGA some of you knuckleheads will say “see can’t ever beat Georgia time to make a
Change”. I don’t know why I post no one will change their mind i guess I’m venting because it just gets SOOOO old. I’m up in Ohio so message boards are my Gator news outlet but man.

Rant over Go Gators

Beat UGA, win the division, don't get blown out in the SECCG, or maybe *gasp* actually win the SEC?

We could easily win 10 next year, although I doubt UT and FSUcks maintain cupcake status for too long. The issue is winning 10 means nothing when you can't when win your own division. Don't take it from me, the guy who won two NCs will tell you the same thing, and he is a Mullen pumper.

 

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That makes two 5* HS recruits for 2020, with a shot at a third (Evans) per Rivals. Add Cox, Lingard and possibly Shorter (all 5*s) and two or three strong 4* types on NSD, and only the most inveterate whiny babies will have anything to piss and moan about. Of course that won't keep them from doing so, but I really don't GAF anymore.
It’s Rivals though, we all know ESPN is the go to:shark:
 

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Next year......next year is the year we get all the good guys...….

I know this has become the go to running joke since Mullen's '18 class. But the argument then from some of us was that it would take some time to right the ship, change the perception and get back in with some of the Florida high schools. That's turned out to be very accurate based on several reports from HS coaches and recruits themselves. In addition, that initial class was ranked 17th. The classes since have been ranked 8th, and currently 7th. Not to mention the blue chip ratio posted above which further supports that.

The other argument from some of us then was that we shouldn't just load up on fillers to help rankings. The fact that we not only have room for a large class this year, but also have been able to take guys like Shuler, Grimes, Jefferson, Greenard, Lingard, and possibly more this year, says that was absolutely the right move at that time.

No one then, or now, is saying we can't improve the recruiting front. But I'm not sure why some are acting as if we're not getting any "good guys" right now, or haven't in the last few classes.
 

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I know this has become the go to running joke since Mullen's '18 class. But the argument then from some of us was that it would take some time to right the ship, change the perception and get back in with some of the Florida high schools. That's turned out to be very accurate based on several reports from HS coaches and recruits themselves. In addition, that initial class was ranked 17th. The classes since have been ranked 8th, and currently 7th. Not to mention the blue chip ratio posted above which further supports that.

The other argument from some of us then was that we shouldn't just load up on fillers to help rankings. The fact that we not only have room for a large class this year, but also have been able to take guys like Shuler, Grimes, Jefferson, Greenard, Lingard, and possibly more this year, says that was absolutely the right move at that time.

No one then, or now, is saying we can't improve the recruiting front. But I'm not sure why some are acting as if we're not getting any "good guys" right now, or haven't in the last few classes.
Shhhhh. You're challenging orthodoxy.
 

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I know this has become the go to running joke since Mullen's '18 class. But the argument then from some of us was that it would take some time to right the ship, change the perception and get back in with some of the Florida high schools. That's turned out to be very accurate based on several reports from HS coaches and recruits themselves. In addition, that initial class was ranked 17th. The classes since have been ranked 8th, and currently 7th. Not to mention the blue chip ratio posted above which further supports that.

The other argument from some of us then was that we shouldn't just load up on fillers to help rankings. The fact that we not only have room for a large class this year, but also have been able to take guys like Shuler, Grimes, Jefferson, Greenard, Lingard, and possibly more this year, says that was absolutely the right move at that time.

No one then, or now, is saying we can't improve the recruiting front. But I'm not sure why some are acting as if we're not getting any "good guys" right now, or haven't in the last few classes.
People will whine about anything if they do not get instant gratification. Improvement has been incremental but it is definitely happening. Finish with a couple more 4* recruits and maybe Shorter and it would be really hard to have a valid complaint about the talent acquisition this year - unless you are Donk who believes transfers do not count.
 

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I know this has become the go to running joke since Mullen's '18 class. But the argument then from some of us was that it would take some time to right the ship, change the perception and get back in with some of the Florida high schools. That's turned out to be very accurate based on several reports from HS coaches and recruits themselves. In addition, that initial class was ranked 17th. The classes since have been ranked 8th, and currently 7th. Not to mention the blue chip ratio posted above which further supports that.

The other argument from some of us then was that we shouldn't just load up on fillers to help rankings. The fact that we not only have room for a large class this year, but also have been able to take guys like Shuler, Grimes, Jefferson, Greenard, Lingard, and possibly more this year, says that was absolutely the right move at that time.

No one then, or now, is saying we can't improve the recruiting front. But I'm not sure why some are acting as if we're not getting any "good guys" right now, or haven't in the last few classes.

That’s too realistic or “pumperish” for this place. If you don’t immediately win a championship and land all 5 stars you suck
 

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That’s too realistic or “pumperish” for this place. If you don’t immediately win a championship and land all 5 stars you suck

Yeah, I get the whole positive-slant/negative slant debate. And both sides have valid points. I just don't know if I'd repeatedly reference an argument from two years ago that we were going to be getting better players next year and in the years to follow, in kind of a mocking manner, as if that's not exactly what's played out.
 

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. The classes since have been ranked 8th, and currently 7th. Not to mention the blue chip ratio posted above which further supports that.
Its because we are fifth in the SEC and have less five stars than Uga has at any one position. Or Tinerc has at OL for that matter.

Is it better? Of course, we are getting fatter in the middle and not being forced to take FIU crap.

Of course we're still going to be playing FIU crap at inside LB, because our linebacker recruiting has been so good I'm told.

Florida should be fighting Alabama and Georgia for the top players, not fighting Kentucky, Cowbell and Georgia Tech for the quality leftovers. It is as simple as that.

We should at least be back to Muschamp level of recruiting.
 

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Beat UGA, win the division, don't get blown out in the SECCG, or maybe *gasp* actually win the SEC?

We could easily win 10 next year, although I doubt UT and FSUcks maintain cupcake status for too long. The issue is winning 10 means nothing when you can't when win your own division. Don't take it from me, the guy who won two NCs will tell you the same thing, and he is a Mullen pumper.



You are preaching to a choir that is already familiar with the message and has been, in many instances, for several decades. The "pumper/dumper dichotomy" is an ongoing narrative that has taken on a life beyond all reason and utility. One doesn't have to be one or the other to realize that genuine progress is being made but that much still remains to be done. If anyone who frequents this board truly believes that 11-2 without a win over UGA or an SEC championship is "good enough" as an ultimate program goal, I have not "heard" them say so. The simple fact is that the AD from hell virtually destroyed the FB program at UF with a series of disastrous hires and a refusal to update our facilities, while everyone else was doing so without hesitation.

Undoing the damage that was wrought over nearly a decade requires time, a great deal of hard work, and the patience and determination to see the process through. And as another UF coach of some note once said: "The other teams have coaches and give out scholarships too," as a reproach to the absolutist knuckleheads who insisted that any year without a championship was an abject failure. It's not just that DM deserves a real opportunity to rebuild the FB program, the program itself deserves it too. Criticize all you like, but don't throw the baby out with the friggin' bath water in the process. We've done that crap before and it didn't work out too well.
 
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Its because we are fifth in the SEC and have less five stars than Uga has at any one position. Or Tinerc has at OL for that matter.

Is it better? Of course, we are getting fatter in the middle and not being forced to take FIU crap.

Of course we're still going to be playing FIU crap at inside LB, because our linebacker recruiting has been so good I'm told.

Florida should be fighting Alabama and Georgia for the top players, not fighting Kentucky, Cowbell and Georgia Tech for the quality leftovers. It is as simple as that.

We should at least be back to Muschamp level of recruiting.

And we are. I've posted several examples of us doing just that. You really think those programs don't want 10 or more of our current class? You're focusing on the exception(s) because it fits your argument. But there are always Sr year surprises who become sought after late in the game by powers. For that matter, why is Alabama fighting for Gibbs suddenly?

We both know the reason we're fighting GT is because he's from Atlanta and they were the first to go after him. Did we shake our heads at the idea that Dunlap came down to us or the Gamecocks? In the same 2007 #1 class, we held off Indiana(actually flipped him from them), Iowa, Louisville and Kentucky for Finch. We also flipped Trattou from ND and kept BC and Maryland at bay in the process. There will always be some of that in ever class.
 
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