Rating UF's Best Football Recruiters

Who was UF's best recruiter?

  • Ray Graves

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Who was UF's best head coach recruiter? While there can be a tendency to turn this into a lifetime achievement award, I think you have to respect what someone like Pell did in a limited period and how it impacted the program. The guy could recruit even if he did arrive in living rooms with wads of cash.

Another factor: Who coached 'em up. Hall recruited Shane Matthews. Spurrier made him who he was, although in fairness to Hall, who was quite good with quarterbacks (witness: Kerwin Bell), we'll never know what he could have done.

Yet another factor: Unless you're old as dirt and have the memory of an elephant, who's going to remember much about recruiting back in the days of Bob Woodruff or even Ray Graves? It's difficult to even determine all the people who played for them.

Forgive me those I have unintentionally overlooked and, bear in mind, there isn't enough broadband to list everyone.

Some talent to consider.

RAY GRAVES (1960-1969)
Steve Spurrier
Jack Youngblood
John Reaves
Larry Smith
Carlos Alvarez
Larry Gagner
Steve Tannen
Richard Trapp

DOUG DICKEY (1970-1978)
Nat Moore
Cris Collinsworth
David Little
Scot Brantley
Wes Chandler
Ralph Ortega
David Galloway
Jimmy DuBose
Sammy Green
Burton Lawless

CHARLEY PELL (1979-1983)
Wilber Marshall
Lomas Brown
John L. Williams
Tim Newton
Tony Lilly
Neal Anderson
Rickey Nattiel
James Jones
Alonzo Johnson
Jeff Zimmerman
Kerwin Bell

GALEN HALL (1983-1989)
Louis Oliver
Richard Fain
Emmitt Smith
Huey Richardson
Jarvis Williams
David Williams
Errict Rhett
Cal Dixon
Shane Matthews
Clifford Charlton

STEVE SPURRIER (1990-2001)
Fred Taylor
Danny Wuerffel
Jevon Kearse
Jack Jackson
Kevin Carter
Ellis Johnson
Ike Hilliard
Keiwan Ratliff
Lito Sheppard
Lawence Wright
Mike Peterson
Chris Doering
Mo Collins
Jacquez Green
Travis Taylor
Gerard Warren
Jabar Gaffney
Reche Caldwell
Alex Brown
Shannon Snell
Rex Grossman
Taylor Jacobs
Kenyatta Walker
Fred Weary
Reidell Anthony
Jason Odom
Brad Culpepper
Mike Pearson

URBAN MEYER (2005-2010)
Reggie Nelson
Derrick Harvey
Tim Tebow
Maurkice Pouncey
Mike Pouncey
Percy Harvin
Joe Haden
Janoris Jenkins
Brandon James
Caleb Sturgis
Jermain Cunningham
Brandon Spikes
Carlos Dunlap
Aaron Hernandez
Marcus Gilbert
Dominique Easley
Sharrif Floyd
Ahmad Black
 

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I thought you were being sarcastic. Apparently you’re not. I didn’t give you the opportunity to change your vote.
 

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I thought you were being sarcastic. Apparently you’re not.
Alabama and others have done so since then, but we were the first.
 

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I thought you were being sarcastic. Apparently you’re not. I didn’t give you the opportunity to change your vote.
Pell obviously did good things in his day, he may have arguably increased our roster more than any other.

Under SOS and Pell we were a team that had 1/3- 1/2 of the HS All Florida team.

Meyer made us the first HS All American. Meyer landed more 5 star or Top 250 types in 2006 class than McMullenChimp did in a decade.
 

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Urban Meyer without a doubt.

However, Spurrier wasn't the terrible recruiter that the 3 star lovers around here try to make him out to be.
 

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Alabama and others have done so since then, but we were the first.

Total BS but I do realize you were in grade school in the ‘70s. Bama was a super team before the internet piled on.
 

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Pell for Florida Recruits in a short time (particularly the big uglies).

Spurrier for Florida Recruits for the long haul who also WANTED TO BE GATORS.

Meyer for several of the best, most complete classes ever (mercenaries). (D recruiting was outrageous).

Hall/Zook were pretty good too.
 

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Total BS but I do realize you were in grade school in the ‘70s. Bama was a super team before the internet piled on.
Im not talking about running to Texas to grab an AA RB and DL, or how super the roster was (strength speed whatever) relatively speaking vs the rest of college football, as several.teams.moved away from the pack through the years.

Im talking about the first team that when the All American bowl is roster is called out that most of the starters are Gators. Obviously now they are Bammers but that was never the case before Meyer. Trailerbammer got the memo and wasnt about to go through another decade of licking our boots no matter how many 100s of milkions it took.

Hell we took Notre Dames best player (Trattou) just to be roster filler late in the class. We didnt steal from ND in the 80s or 90s even, as much as I loved SOS and dislike most things about Meyer.
 

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Meyer and it ain’t even close.
Not even a debate. The facts are clear.

Nor is it really debatable that SOS is second, bringing home several #1 classes (according to the magazines back then) which Pell never did.

Pell brought us out of the 70s, away from Mississippi type rosters, and Butters and Mullinz have returned us to there.
 
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Due to the changes in time and structure it's a hard thing to compare.. but as a Nationwide recruiter it's Meyer without question.

It's similar to the NFL the drafting of players started out as a regional think for the NFL, until Gil Brandt started spreading how who the Cowboys scouted. Which was the first national scouting done.
 

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Urban Meyer without a doubt.

However, Spurrier wasn't the terrible recruiter that the 3 star lovers around here try to make him out to be.
94 I think was our first (magazine ranked) #1 class in a decade long string of top 5 classes.
 

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Im not talking about running to Texas to grab an AA RB and DL, or how super the roster was (strength speed whatever) relatively speaking vs the rest of college football, as several.teams.moved away from the pack through the years.

Im talking about the first team that when the All American bowl is roster is called out that most of the starters are Gators. Obviously now they are Bammers but that was never the case before Meyer. Trailerbammer got the memo and wasnt about to go through another decade of licking our boots no matter how many 100s of milkions it took.

Hell we took Notre Dames best player (Trattou) just to be roster filler late in the class. We didnt steal from ND in the 80s or 90s even, as much as I loved SOS and dislike most things about Meyer.

Which is the opposite of the criteria I used for listing names beneath each coach’s name in this thread. I based it on collegiate achievements — All-SEC, All-America — not high school.
 

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Which is the opposite of the criteria I used for listing names beneath each coach’s name in this thread. I based it on collegiate achievements — All-SEC, All-America — not high school.
that's player development, not recruiting.

it could be player development and recruiting.
 

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This thread would be a perfect reason to truly show the depths that we have dropped to since its an offseason type question started right during the middle of a season. We are so freaking sad that we are now doing off season question posts in early to mid October. However, 78 started it and he starts dumb question threads all the time.
 

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that's player development, not recruiting.

it could be player development and recruiting.

Player ratings, at least as we’ve come to know them, simply didn’t exist in the ‘90s. I also didn’t want to embarrass SOS by revealing how much he coveted Sabelhaus.
 

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This thread would be a perfect reason to truly show the depths that we have dropped to since its an offseason type question started right during the middle of a season. We are so freaking sad that we are now doing off season question posts in early to mid October. However, 78 started it and he starts dumb question threads all the time.

Your mother was dumb before I plugged the hole between her ears.
 

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Player ratings, at least as we’ve come to know them, simply didn’t exist in the ‘90s. I also didn’t want to embarrass SOS by revealing how much he coveted Sabelhaus.
Maybe not "as we've come to know them" but yes there were ratings, mostly out of the recruiting magazines.

Yes, Sabelhaus was considered the #1 QB. As was Ohlmstead.

whehhhhhhh..............................................................................
 

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