Recruiting 2025 Recruiting Thread- 3* DL Riser Jeramiah McCloud commits

[AuggieDosta]

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So, if they're 8-4 this year and better next year, you'll turn them off and not watch?

 

[Swamp Donkey]

See, what I don’t know is, can the AD command his HC to make changes, hire a competent OC?

Well a competent AD would know to ask the right questions during the interview process.

Im not sure how you "save the guy from himself". The problem isnt just one thing:

It is DC

And STC

And OC.

And Recruiting Coordinator.

And S&T

There isnt a single part of the football program going well. What are you "saving" exactly?

 

[oxrageous]

If so that would mean he is winning right?

Winning enough to return in 2025, yes. His bosses desperately don't want to fire him.

 

[Silverback Gator]

Well a competent AD would know to ask the right questions during the interview process.

Im not sure how you "save the guy from himself". The problem isnt just one thing:

It is DC

And STC

And OC.

And Recruiting Coordinator.

And S&T

There isnt a single part of the football program going well. What are you "saving" exactly?

So his boss doesn’t ask, WTH are you thinking, teams that win don’t look like yours?

 

[gatormandan]

Winning enough to return in 2025, yes. His bosses desperately don't want to fire him.

Whats enough?

 

[oxrageous]

At least if you drank, you would have excuses for making comments like these.

Your wishful thinking isn't going to make anything true.

 

[oxrageous]

Whats enough?

Enough for Stricklin. I don't have an answer to that.

 

[B52G8rAC]

I’ve read somewhere those guys were actually decent people. Plus their slaves got free OJ all day. That’s practically a health plan.

My peeps.

 

[Silverback Gator]

Enough for Stricklin. I don't have an answer to that.

That might be a pretty low bar Ox.

 

[jdh5484]

So his boss doesn’t ask, WTH are you thinking, teams that win don’t look like yours?

And BNs reply is "What do they look like, specifically?".

Or, "Analytics say ...." or "That's just perception...".

 

[t-gator]

He won’t transfer if we bring in the right guy. We need to stop bringing in these midtier coaches.

I agree. He came here for a lame duck coach. And there's probably a nice nil deal here for him. I imagine he'll atleast give a new coach a chance

 

[oxrageous]

That might be a pretty low bar Ox.

Exactly.

 

[Altitude Gator]

I would say, yes. The AD does have that power. But in college athletics they rarely exercise it. In that position, they have a lot of duties beyond just football. They have every other sport. All the coaches under those sports. Fundraising. And now NIL.

We need one just over football. Call him what you want. GM or AD. But there needs to be somebody just over football.

The head coach in the NFL does not handle salary cap or the contracts. And neither should he in CFB.

This is the guy they brought in to do just that. They call him the Chief of Staff, but I recall the talk being he would oversee the football stuff Stricklin doesn't have time for doing other AD stuff.

Mark Robinson - Chief of Staff - Football Support Staff - Florida Gators

Mark Robinson enters his first season with the Gators football program after being hired as Florida’s chief of staff in January, 2024. Robinson arrived in Gainesville

floridagators.com

FTR, there is nothing about the times he was anywhere in the past that inspires confidence that he is remotely competent.

 

[GatorJ]

Jeremiah McLeod has decommitted from Mississippi State. This has been in the works for a while. We are the prohibitive favorite.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

That might be a pretty low bar Ox.

Well, Stricklin extended Mullen after he lost to Alabama.

South Alabama.

Then hired him at UF, giving him generational wealth, and extended him.

 

[Yankeetown]

But finding the "right" guy is much more complicated now imo. How is that even defined?

This isn't the thread for it, but imo, the UAA needs to set up a position of GM for football. That person hires the HC. They could do that NOW. The GM needs to set up the talent aquisition system (recruiting and portal), NIL and quantatative and quantifiable requirements for the next HC. The GM also needs to do or oversee marketing to attract NIL and recruits.

AD needs to do the other, non revenue sports.

Just hiring a new HC won't change anything long term.

Q1: How many top tier proven head coaches do you think would agree to this arrangement?

Q2: Can you point to ANY P5 programs that have this setup? Napier gets beat up a lot because of his unconventional approach in not having a dedicated ST coach ... and this proposal is even more unconventional.

if Napier isn't up to the job, the answer is Replace Napier. The answer is NOT Build New Bureacracy and Handcuffs for the Next 4 head coaches,

 

[Gator By Marriage]

Jeremiah McLeod has decommitted from Mississippi State. This has been in the works for a while. We are the prohibitive favorite.

In case no one else had a clue who Gator J was referring to…….

 

[soflagator]

If we can collect $40 million a year in donations for facilities upgrades, why does this number seem unsustainable?

Even that is tangible and something you can look at years from now knowing you contributed. Watching a kid like Etienne play for a rival after you helped get him a million dollar NIL deal? Quite different. Thats just my take.

 

[Gator98MD]

Fellas, Ox is correct. Stricks would rather be gang banged in prison than fire Napier. He just wont do it unless hes forced to. I also would not be surprised to see napier here in '25 irrespective of record

 

[GatorTruth133]

Fellas, Ox is correct. Stricks would rather be gang banged in prison than fire Napier. He just wont do it unless hes forced to. I also would not be surprised to see napier here in '25 irrespective of record

True, but I'm curious to the accuracy of the rumors that Sasse very straightforward told Nape that this year is 7 wins or he's out. I know it was hinted at by several people after the season. IAKOW being one fwiw.