This is almost the funniest thing I have ever read on a UF message board. We are where we are now because Ron Zook sold his soul and the UF program to the Leak family. Talk about non-SEC caliber QBs. I believe Leak was the only full time starting UF QB from Kyle Morris to now not to be drafted.
Of course Leak was highly rated by the star guys. UF had a head coach who some who don't understand that player evaluation is part of recruiting think was a great recruiter. So UF got stuck with the likes of Leak.
So sure hope for another repeat of the Zook/Leak fiasco. Maybe UF football can spend another decade in the wilderness. I guess that is what you want.
So the leading passer in UF history & an SEC/NC championship winner wasn't SEC caliber? You make him sound like Trent Dilfer or Buck Belue. He wasn't NFL caliber but he was an effective & accomplished college QB.
His acceptance of sharing time with Tebow showed great leadership and both were critical to the NC in 2006. His run vs. Bama was pivotal and his passing in the NC game was superb.
We could have an interesting "what if" debate about what might have been had Ingle Martin stuck around to be coached by Meyer. He struck me as an Alex Smith type.
Leak has gotten some disturbing accusations recently but I'm not sure how any of that panned out.
But you're way off pinning the Zooker's woes on Leak. SOS's last few classes were crappy, Zook tried to plug gaps with JuCo mediocrity & buddied up to players too much.
The program imploded when Meyer imploded & allowed freshman prima donnas to hold sway in the locker room, and he failed to recruit/develop Tebow's successors. And who knows what was really going on behind the scenes.