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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.
At Florida, recruiting is a family affair
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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