Coach working this guy and his father hard. They are setting up a visit now. Some very positive comments from them about Florida.
We haven’t locked that in yet but we will hopefully in a matter of days.
I think from a football standpoint, just watching what he did at Louisiana from quarterback development and just winning, I mean the guy is a winner. I mean, he’s got a little grit to him. He shadows the quarterbacks, coaches the position and we’ve been talking to him a little bit and quarterbacks analyst Ryan O’Hara and they’re just in line with quarterback development which is huge.
I know with Jaden, he’s pretty aware of how that effects your ability to assimilate the offensive culture of the team. It’s one thing to have a coordinator who coaches the quarterbacks but to have a head coach that actually coaches the quarterback position, I think that’s about as intimate and as in-depth of a connection with the coach and a quarterback that you could have. That’s pretty unique and I haven’t seen that anywhere else.
With Jaden, we talk about those kinds of things but I think his outlook on everything is he knows no matter where he goes, he has to compete. I know they’ve got some good quarterbacks in the room at Florida and a lot of the schools he’s looking at do and I think he’d be one of them. The bottom line is really where the development is and hopefully, you get lined up where you’re development peaks with opportunity and whether that’s right away or two years down the line, it just depends. There’s some thought to it but he’s got to compete wherever he goes.
With the top-six, it’s a little interesting because I know some of that was already in the works before Florida got in with us. They’ll definitely have the potential to have some dark-horse efforts in that top six.
I think Florida has the potential to be in his top-two. We need to get down there and we’re still building a great relationship but the relationship part with Florida is pretty new but it’s pretty good. I anticipate Florida will move to the top of his situation.
Just in general, there’s been a lot of information that I’ve gotten about Florida. Now, we haven’t been there but, of course, Jaden had a brief stint at IMG, so he’s familiar with the state but we haven’t been to Florida. From what I hear, it’s a great campus, big-time football in the SEC and even academically, they’re one of the better academic institutions in the country. I’m pretty excited about the energy they have around that program and where they’re going. I think they’re going to be one of the programs to watch in the SEC.
We made his top 6...err 7. He was going to release a top 6 today but they stretched it to 7 to put Florida in there.