Recruiting Under Butters, a "black cloud" was over the program

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Interesting piece demonstrating what a $h1t show sharkhumper recruiting was. After reading this it is actually amazing we are able to recruit at the current level after all that bad blood with 2019 parents.

And when Rosemary White left, she was still a bit in shock. After attending last year’s Friday Night Lights, she told Ethan they’d never go back to University of Florida. He asked her for another shot with the new staff at a Junior Day that went well enough to lead to a Friday Night Lights trip. And that trip this past weekend changed everything for the mom.

“I went to the one last year when there was the old staff and comparatively speaking last year, I walked out of there thinking that I would never come back to that school again. It was disorganized, it was dirty, the staff was just not friendly. I really felt like—and I’ll be frank—I felt like there was a black cloud over the school. I was just not happy at all. That’s the one thing I said to my son was ‘we are not coming back here again. This is not what I expected. I really feel like you need to take this school off of your list.’ And it’s a complete change. I said this to the new staff, that it really is like night and day, like there’s been a black cloud lifted from the school. It was bright, the staff was friendly, everybody’s smiling and said hello. It’s organized, the place is clean. It’s like a completely different atmosphere.

“It’s a good thing honestly that no parent spoke to me after last year because I would’ve been the first to say there’s no way my son’s going there and you shouldn’t send yours there either. And now I’m like a Gator advocate, like come to UF. I don’t know what they did. I don’t know if the other staff just had a bad aura or, it’s just really night and day.”

At Florida, recruiting is a family affair
 
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Interesting piece demonstrating what a $h1t show sharkhumper recruiting was. After reading this it is actually amazing we are able to recruit at the current level after all that bad blood with parents
It is somewhat amazing.

Its also amazing that giant man came from that small, tiny, fine woman.
 

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This was definitely worthy of its own thread. We need to be constantly reminded just how bad it was under Butters, and what Mullen had to inherit.
 

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Butters is almost like that scene in Excalibur , when everything was dark and grey then Authur ( Mullen) rides in on the horse and everything becomes alive and colorful .... and worth living for again
 

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Any article that slams that useless, lazy, inept, scam artist, will get a Like from me

and this one deserves another Like for showing Mullens turning it around not just on the field!
 

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Absolutely pathetic that a grown man, being paid millions stoops so low when failing that he makes up fake internet death threats as a way to worm his way out of the job and deflect from his putrid performance. If you think urban was low for the health thing, as much as we laugh at him over it, it was an actual issue, and he didnt trash the school and entire fan base when doing it. This man ought to be charged with grand theft larceny for what he did.
 
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Mac is like that beer truck driver who wins the lottery and immediately quits his job.

He couldn't believe someone was Fool enough to pay him millions.
 

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What really pi$$es me off about Mac, is how she described the program as dirty. Not like, corrupt or bad attitude, literally cluttered like there’s crap laying around and it needs a good scrubbing.

Recruiting is like dating. And guys, we all know when a Girl might visit your place, you scrub the heck out of it. Not Mac & Co: they were too lazy to even pick up after themselves.

No wonder Mac couldn’t recruit the 5*’s (date the dime pieces) when he couldn’t wipe the skid marks off the toilet.

I can quasi-tolerate incompetence if you work hard (Muschamp), but laziness is the easiest thing to correct. If you fail because you are lazy, I have no respect for you.
 

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Muschamp just doesn't have it as an HC. Hes not particularly bright and is incapable of growing and adapting, but it's not for lack of effort or dedication. He's not a lazy guy, not by a long shot. Mac, on the other hand, is as lazy and useless as they come, he's also suffering from some type of mental condition. Autism, asbergers (sp), or something. Definitely on the spectrum. He's a complete bafoon and total weirdo.
 

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Wow, dirty??? Surely they have maintenance staff to keep the facilities clean, even if not so organized.
 

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Muschamp just doesn't have it as an HC. Hes not particularly bright and is incapable of growing and adapting, but it's not for lack of effort or dedication. He's not a lazy guy, not by a long shot. Mac, on the other hand, is as lazy and useless as they come, he's also suffering from some type of mental condition. Autism, asbergers (sp), or something. Definitely on the spectrum. He's a complete bafoon and total weirdo.
Could be. I’ve never seen anything like it. You get a job of a life time and on day one you belittle it, trash it, tear it down, and then lie your way into getting fired. Why he keeps getting jobs is beyond me.
 

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Wow, dirty??? Surely they have maintenance staff to keep the facilities clean, even if not so organized.
Stuff that hasn't been painted for a while always looks dirty. And sparkling new stuff always looks cleaner.

Just another example of us having trash facilities. Players and parents visiting even USF and UCF are going to be surprised how terrible our facilities are.

No offense, but maintaining the stadium and facilities isn't the job of the HBC. It is the role of the AD's office.

Being a total azzhole to the recruits is on Butters though. I guess he was trying that "act like Saban" Wizard of Oz thing, but it only works if you are a winner, not a buffoon who loses by 30 in all your big games.
 

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