Albert
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The term you are looking for is “smoking mirrors””, if you don’t know, ask somebody.
Recruiting 2020 Recruiting Thread: Gervon Dexter gets 5th Star on Rivals
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- Jul 24, 2014
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Will Sammon released a recruiting article today (sub required).
1. We are recruiting an unranked runningback named Jalen White. He is visiting this week. We want to see his "size and build" in person. I like him and would have no problem if we offered him a scholly. He has good speed and is a tough, physical runner.
2. Also, Leonard Manuel said that he likes Mullen's offense because of the way they spread it around,
“No, sir,” Manuel said recently when asked if Florida would be more attractive if it had receivers closer to 1,000 yards over the past two seasons. “I love the way Dan Mullen is handling the offense. I would rather everyone eat. Dan is the man.”
3. As others have posted, Britt is indeed being recruited to play safety at UF. We are still in contact with Avantae Williams.
1. We are recruiting an unranked runningback named Jalen White. He is visiting this week. We want to see his "size and build" in person. I like him and would have no problem if we offered him a scholly. He has good speed and is a tough, physical runner.
2. Also, Leonard Manuel said that he likes Mullen's offense because of the way they spread it around,
“No, sir,” Manuel said recently when asked if Florida would be more attractive if it had receivers closer to 1,000 yards over the past two seasons. “I love the way Dan Mullen is handling the offense. I would rather everyone eat. Dan is the man.”
3. As others have posted, Britt is indeed being recruited to play safety at UF. We are still in contact with Avantae Williams.
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He is a north and south runner from looking at his highlight reel, which beats the hell out of watching a lot of high school backs that just try to out run everyone to the sideline.
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I hope we don't take White, no offense to him but the UF's of the CFB world shouldn't be signing kids like him. I'm perfectly fine w/ Knighton, hopefully he gets over 200lbs and can be a solid RB. He certainly has the ranking to become a star, but we know how that goes. He seems like he's ours if we want him.
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The visit list for the Alabama/LSU game is sickening. Not just the 2020 kids, but the 2021 and beyond. It's practically half the top 200. We had a great visitors list for the Auburn game, but this has to be the most star studded visit list I've ever seen.
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I would think we could find a RB at one of the Gainesville high schools as good as White.
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Joquavious (sp?) Marks is visiting this week and seems he’s got a higher chance of being in the class right now than the others.
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I believe that’s the rumor. Higdon said a few weeks back he’s got 4 edits made for kids that are supposed to commit soon. He targeted Vandy week but said that’s not 100% sure. 1 was Britt and he went earlier so down to 3.
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Too many people get caught up in 5* when there are just too few. Look for top 100 kids as the goal and top 300 next. There’s just too fine of a line between 5 and high 4. Too much team and regional bias as well.
Also looking at the top 50 Florida kids (not IMG) is another good gauge of how we’re doing
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Thanks and yes I was picking up on that - I am mainly coming to the realization that some of the negative posters in other sections of the forum have no clue and just repeat what they have heard from other clueless posters.
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Not sure what you mean here. Take a look at what The Dude is talking about....and you'll see that some of these so-called "clueless posters" are spot on. Our class is currently 6th best in the SEC, with 4 other SEC teams and Miami & FSU within 10 spots behind us. If finishing 6th in our own conference is good enough for you, then I guess "clueless" could be the word used....but not for other posters.
We currently only have 2 top 100 commits.
UGA has 7, LSU 8, Alabama 8, A&M 4, Auburn 3, Miami 2, SC 2....and Clemson has 10.
Bottom line: we need to recruit better.
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This is correct. Any debate of stars not mattering or other schools playing by different rules on the elite kids, is nonsense. For close to two decades it was us getting those kids over uga, Clemson and Alabama.
Where I do take a little bit of a different path in my criticism is that I think the ramifications of the last decade are being felt and there is only so much that can be done overnight. College football moves quickly, and if you aren't constantly keeping up, you're obviously getting left behind. Go back 10-15 years and nearly every big name had at least two of these three names in their "hat selection": UF, Usc and tenn. Now, it's almost a surprise if there's even one of those teams. And it's pretty simple. None of these kids have seen those teams in the national championship hunt in a decade or more. That puts them at 5-10 years of age.
So yes facilities matter. Great recruiters matter. We need to fix all of that. But the brand issue is a major problem that isn't getting fixed overnight. Kids like Easley and Floyd were committing to UF from 6-7 states away, without even knowing anything about their new DC, or to what degree their current head coach was even going to be involved moving forward. That's brand. There are examples of this all over, from Knoxville to Tallahassee to Coral Gables to LA. All those guys are known as relentless recruiters and yet none are setting the world on fire at schools that were routinely Top 3-5 for years.
That's why I'm not so quick to call the season "over" and scoff at 10-2 and a NY6 bowl. It matters and it's part of the rebuild we're in. Not making excuses for DM and staff, and again, he has to fix the parts he controls. But it's the reality we have right now.
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