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

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LongTooth

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I just don't see where the bodies are gonna come from now. Mullen has got to make changes or watch a ceiling of competitive mediocrity solidify for the near and long term. Our board is a wreck right now. We are going to whiff on ILBs again.

Here are the likely remaining commits:

Issiah Walker 4 star OT
Kentron Poitier 3 star WR
Damien Alford 3 star WR
Tim Smith 4 star DT
Jeffrey Mba 3 Star DT
Mecose Todd 3 star RB
Damarcus Beckwith 3 star ATH

There may be some misses here and we may flip a couple but we'll struggle to get anywhere close to 25 commits.

This haul also screws our blue chip % with so many 3 stars.

There needs to be some serious reconsiderations about recruitment from top to bottom.
 

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Why do you let your feelings get so hurt and get pissy? I've never told you what you really mean, or what you should think is important.

If individual evals are most important then the talent composite and recruiting rankings shouldnt be so important.

How do you really know who the staff has rated higher? I get following the tea leaves but it never seemed we were all in on tennison.
 

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You all are out of your mind if you think we fire a coach that wins 9-11 games a season

I doubt we will be winning 9 regular season games next season with the player losses coming after this season and our talent level dropping by the year.
 

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I just don't see where the bodies are gonna come from now. Mullen has got to make changes or watch a ceiling of competitive mediocrity solidify for the near and long term. Our board is a wreck right now. We are going to whiff on ILBs again.

Here are the likely remaining commits:

Issiah Walker 4 star OT
Kentron Poitier 3 star WR
Damien Alford 3 star WR
Tim Smith 4 star DT
Jeffrey Mba 3 Star DT
Mecose Todd 3 star RB
Damarcus Beckwith 3 star ATH

There may be some misses here and we may flip a couple but we'll struggle to get anywhere close to 25 commits.

This haul also screws our blue chip % with so many 3 stars.

There needs to be some serious reconsiderations about recruitment from top to bottom.

Yeah, I don't see us signing 25. There are a few other possibilities to add to that list though; MLB Rueben Hyppolite, RB Jahmyr Gibbs - both are committed to Maryland & Ga Tech; S Avantae Williams - committed to Oregon; WR Bryan Robinson, visiting this weekend; WR Xzavier Henderson - us or Clemson; WR Damien Alford; OT Demarcus Dumervil - us or LSU; WR Arian Smith - likely UGA; RB EJ Smith - likely Stanford; SDE Zeke Walker - UF & UGA?; we could flip Jahquez Robinson (CB) from Alabama; Edge Donnell Harris; WR Marc Britt....and a few others.

The biggest concern is RB & Safety. I'm guessing we end up w/ 22-23 total in the class and ranked around 11 or 12.


So someone we didn't want is now someone we can't have. Hard to figure.

He was supposed to be on an OV, so the staff 'wanted' him. From TOS, the staff would take him but wasn't pushing hard for him. Also, UF told him he'd be a Safety and he says nobody else is recruiting him as a Safety so he may have wanted to play CB. If he truly runs a 4.8 40 he won't last long at CB.
 

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Gray no longer visiting apparently. English needs to be left on the side of a highway somewhere
After the manner of the Plains Indians - when the last fall finally came and granny couldn't make the trip down south one more time, everybody took their leave of her and left her behind as a gift to the wolves and the bears. So, let it be with English. No Gray is a bummer.
You left out a key word - consistently. Again, don’t be dense. This isn’t hard.

FTR, I like Mullen and his offense. I’m not like law or matrix. I’m just frustrated he’s not taking the steps to fix his biggest weakness - recruiting.

I'm not really sure that he isn't taking steps to rectify the situation, but the results to date are sketchy at best. The level of talent must be improved or we will not "average" around 9-11 wins, it simply isn't going to happen. I want DM and UF to succeed as much as anyone. But facts are facts and if we crap the bed on NSD (or fail to qualify several recruits again) we're going to be in an even deeper hole than we are now - and that ain't good.
 

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BMF,

Smith looks like a flip but he was the only one I listed and I just made casual reference to the other guys like Williams, etc. I’ll believe em when I see em.

Dumervil maybe but we’re not doing good head to head with the LSUs, and UGAs so I have doubts. They only have two OL in Orgeron’s class so far so they likely make room for him.

Emmitt’s kid is gone. And I don’t think we get any kids away from GA unless they fill up and tell kids to look elsewhere and they’re not even close right now. We’re chasing castoffs.

I think Henderson blows us off for Dabo. Can’t get all the legacies.
 

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This kid was already discussed, but he officially has an offer from UF now (Pitt commit):

 

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BMF,

Smith looks like a flip but he was the only one I listed and I just made casual reference to the other guys like Williams, etc. I’ll believe em when I see em.

Dumervil maybe but we’re not doing good head to head with the LSUs, and UGAs so I have doubts. They only have two OL in Orgeron’s class so far so they likely make room for him.

Emmitt’s kid is gone. And I don’t think we get any kids away from GA unless they fill up and tell kids to look elsewhere and they’re not even close right now. We’re chasing castoffs.

I think Henderson blows us off for Dabo. Can’t get all the legacies.

We can still have hope, right?
 

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This class is spiraling. Mullen needs a major shake up.

When things turn into a fishing expedition, you need to change it up.

This has gone from potential home run to horror show.

If CDM is serious about what he's trying to do he's gotta trim the fat from his staff and get all over Strick for some more support.

If I don't see heads rolling in the offseason after this showing, then my positive Dan vibes will seriously wane.

Ultimately, he may serve his purpose by leading us back to respectability while the infrastructure catches up and then make way for someone who could potentially make good on the rebuild. Or, he could go Dabo and see it click after four or five years, but that only happens if he gets recruiting sorted out. And he hasn't yet.
 

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Did you see the post from Threat that I quoted? It's exactly what he said. To be clear, I'm not generally confrontational, and wasn't calling him out, then or now. Nor do I think for a second he truly believes that, any more than I believed Mullen was done if he lost to miami(said it in the chatbox mid-2nd quarter, may have been drinking). But as I said, I think this thinking can be a little extreme, and the more it's thrown out there, the more it begins to take root, which isn't good.

I don't even know this Oscar the G character, but even he put it into perspective with his "6th place class, oh well, it's all over" comment. And as Law pointed out, ranking isn't the only gauge, just like winning x number of games is the only gauge(see 2015-16). I think we're in a better place both on the field and in recruiting than we were a few years ago. Not perfect, not where we need to be. But I see it getting there, and I don't think winning close games against P5 teams, away from home is the end of the world. For that matter "Doering's got a touchdown" was Spurrier's 4th season, and a year removed from a 17 point loss to ut, a 24 point loss to Msu, and a 21 point loss to the noles.

Again, my whole point is I think placing specific demands on things in the first two seasons, especially with well how they've gone overall, is wrong imo.
You should ignore oscar the g posts... dude is a certified troll. Didnt see threats statement but if he said winning 10 and getting a class ranked 6th is fireable hes lost his mind. Again, I dont think anyone else, even swonk feels that way. I certainly dont and im likely one of the bigger critics. As far as production on the field, its a little better than it has been, but not much. muschamp won 11 one season, mac won 10. I guess style points count to some extent and as such, some of the wins look a little better with a bit of offense vs completely stumbling offensively to wins under mac and chump. That said, weve stumbled to a number of them under mullen as well. As far as recruiting is concerned, I disagree. I dont think its getting better. I think its largely stagnant and hasnt moved much at all from mac. That is the real issue. With better players both our offense and defensive schemes will be much better. But we arent getting better players. The signing day smokescreens of grabbing kids with no chance of academic eligiblity or exceptionally high risk due to behavior issues may translate to a higher number on paper at NSD but nothing more. I know, I know... mullen has verbally addressed this and some of the other topics and you think he gets it. Well, words just dont matter to me in the slightest. I guess we will have to wait and see, but the resultant trend is not heading in the right direction in my opinion.
 
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I guess Mullen will be hitting that transfer portal pretty hard again, seems to be the only way he's been able to bring in contributing players.
 

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Exactly. No talented team does that. Not yet at least.
What in the hell are you blathering about. Your intial post stated that mullen has never been blown the f out by a talented team as our coach, the implication being that we are close to where we need to be or at least talented enought to compete with the big boys.

I provided an example of us getting toasted by a very untalented team with a poor coaching staff to boot, in the swamp, and your respose is basically, "yea, see, they werent talented, so just like I said, we dont lose badly to talented teams"

you are a complete troll.
 

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Wait do we want him or not? If 4.8 is true I say no way
Mullen does. Seems like others don’t. Bizarre that we just don’t seem to be interested in locking in safeties but are ok with trotting Stiner and Taylor out.

However seems like Florida is the front runner for Tae Williams if he decides to flip.
 

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Slevin keeps me on my toes for sure. In the game thread or box he's good with canning the entire staff, then i read the recruiting thread and its the opposite.

:lol:
 
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