Jaden Rashada joins powerhouse Arizona State; named starting QB as true freshman

[williston_gator]

Hope y'all know that Billy has nothing to do with NIL negotiating. Just keep that in mind.

 

[Ironhead]

I think you've made your opinion of that clear on every post you've made in the past six months, when in fact the overall program is currently in the best shape it's been in at least ten years.

You really don’t believe that do you???

You’re just being sarcastic here for effect…right?

I’m thinking , right now, we are in pretty big trouble as a program.

To say we’re the best we’ve been in 10 years is the definition of Orange and blue glasses.

Maybe next year at this time, we can all agree that the program has turned a corner and we are on that long road “back”.

Right now, we had a decent early signing class.
That alone doesn’t get us to even sniff being “on the road” back.

Let’s start with beating Vandy and Kentucky.

 

[B52G8rAC]

If it takes paying 18 year olds to come to an elite academic institution to play a game, then end it. The NFL can do their d league on their dime. Pay a promising engineer to come here.

 

[oxrageous]

You really don’t believe that do you???

You’re just being sarcastic here for effect…right?

I’m thinking , right now, we are in pretty big trouble as a program.

To say we’re the best we’ve been in 10 years is the definition of Orange and blue glasses.

Maybe next year at this time, we can all agree that the program has turned a corner and we are on that long road “back”.

Right now, we had a decent early signing class.
That alone doesn’t get us to even sniff being “on the road” back.

Let’s start with beating Vandy and Kentucky.

You continue to get to be a bigger clown of the highest order by the day, you keep topping yourself.

You're obviously looking at everything completely through the lens of wins and losses, when of course we haven't won a damn thing of consequence in the past ten years. As of right now, our facilities, dorms, relationships with high school coaches, etc, are the best they have been in the past ten years. If you think I'm wrong, then tell me when in the past ten years we were in better overall shape as a program. MAKE AN ARGUMENT other than "Vandy and Kentucky!! I just owned juuuuuuu!"

 

[Bait'n Gator]

According to Mark Long the Rashada camp signed and agreed to a $1,000,000 nil deal then at the last minute reneged and wanted $3,500,000. Evidently after we picked up Mertz and not a quality transfer they realized how ****ty our QB room was gonna be come next year and believed they had UF over a barrel and took advantage of it. If that's true Napier should have a press conference and publicly rip Rashada's national letter of intent up after wiping his ass with it.

 

[Thick&ThinG8r]

If it takes paying 18 year olds to come to an elite academic institution to play a game, then end it. The NFL can do their d league on their dime. Pay a promising engineer to come here.

Um, we did, unfortunately he is a Chinese national and won't give a single cent back to UF when he becomes a successful industrialist back in China. Of course that's a whole different problem UF has.

 

[CGgater]

We're probably after someone else. I sifted through the portal and found a couple kids near the bottom that looked intriguing. One was a pickleball player from Wales who has never played but seems to have some arm talent and by all accounts is a stand up young man from a great family. The other is a 3rd stringer from Midwestern valley state of Minnesota-Ohio A&T. Word on the street is that he's looking for a soft spot to land and is willing to come for free rent and a Denny's $50 gift card. Considering what we know about the collective, I'm guessing he's our guy!

You still get a like for this post, but putting two different states in the school name was an obvious tell that you made this all up. You were SO CLOSE to having me convinced until that huge error.

 

[B52G8rAC]

Um, we did, unfortunately he is a Chinese national and won't give a single cent back to UF when he becomes a successful industrialist back in China. Of course that's a whole different problem UF has.

Yep. Another long-term rant I have is the issue of our elite university not fulfilling its mission of educating Florida high school graduates in Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine and military arts. The very core of a land grant institution.

 

[oxrageous]

According to Mark Long the Rashada camp signed and agreed to a $1,000,000 nil deal then at the last minute reneged and wanted $3,500,000. Evidently after we picked up Mertz and not a quality transfer they realized how ****ty our QB room was gonna be come next year and believed they had UF over a barrel and took advantage of it. If that's true Napier should have a press conference and publicly rip Rashada's national letter of intent up after wiping his ass with it.

Not sure how any of us could believe anything we hear right now.

 

[Bernardo de la Paz]

Napier should have a press conference and publicly rip Rashada's national letter of intent up after wiping his ass with it

Hopefully he'll be wearing gloves

 

[gatormandan]

Not sure how any of us could believe anything we hear right now.

Totally agree but I must say I have never believed the 13 million crap. Not here.

 

[B52G8rAC]

I know its FOX, but here is the national story: Florida could lose top recruit after massive NIL deal creates controversy

 

[Gatorbait25]

Put me also in the camp that would like to see him move on. I wonder what kind of interest he would get as a "free agent" around the rest of the nation, especially now knowing his 8-figure price tag.

He will crawl back to the bums in Coral Gables

 

[Bait'n Gator]

Not sure how any of us could believe anything we hear right now.

I do know it makes much more sense for an 18 year old and his family to ask for more money at the last minute then a whole dept of professionals with multi millionaires included to have pulled some stupid shyt like running out of money at the last minute. I'm gonna believe Long is pretty accurate with his statement and Napier and UF are staying silent with hopes of still getting Rashada at the agreed amount or either just flat out chosing to take the high road and not throw Rashada and his people under the bus.

 

[G8trwood]

Fox article says nothing new, but you can watch comments roll in

 

[AuggieDosta]

According to Mark Long the Rashada camp signed and agreed to a $1,000,000 nil deal then at the last minute reneged and wanted $3,500,000. Evidently after we picked up Mertz and not a quality transfer they realized how ****ty our QB room was gonna be come next year and believed they had UF over a barrel and took advantage of it. If that's true Napier should have a press conference and publicly rip Rashada's national letter of intent up after wiping his ass with it.

This, with one exception...do NOT rip up the NIL contract. Make him burn a year.

Also, I don't want to see his ass.hole on stage. We already got the POTUS.

 

[GatorKen714]

Edgar can’t communicate worth a shyyt. When discussing where the screw up stemmed from, he first said it’s a case of “they” (presumably the Gator NIL people) over promised and under delivered but then he immediately said Rashada tried to renegotiate and asked for more money when he saw how thin we are at QB.

Well which one is it? If the kid tried to renegotiate and Florida said no, that’s not over promising/undelivering. He needs to get his head out of his azz. Is this guy deliberately trying to make us look bad? That interview doesn’t shed any light on where the problem lies.

I listened to 2 minutes of this and when Hedger started talking and mumbling, couldn't put a sentence together. I was positive he was just making sh!t up and repeating all the tweeter, internet bs and had nothing new or original.

 

[GatorJ]

This, with one exception...do NOT rip up the NIL contract. Make him burn a year.

Also, I don't want to see his ass.hole on stage. We already got the POTUS.

Seriously?

 

[Gator By Marriage]

According to Mark Long the Rashada camp signed and agreed to a $1,000,000 nil deal then at the last minute reneged and wanted $3,500,000. Evidently after we picked up Mertz and not a quality transfer they realized how ****ty our QB room was gonna be come next year and believed they had UF over a barrel and took advantage of it. If that's true Napier should have a press conference and publicly rip Rashada's national letter of intent up after wiping his ass with it.

Of course, who the hell (in the media) really knows the truth - and if this is accurate it’s easy to see where the $13+M number is coming from - but at least this makes some sense. What doesn’t make sense in this scenario is what’s going on now. So Rashada had a set deal in place and at the last minute wanted to drastically raise the value. Why wouldn’t both the collective and CBN immediately say “sayonara?” Entertaining any discussion at this point will cause a lot of problems in the future; both with current players and recruits.

 

[Double Gator Dad]

Totally agree but I must say I have never believed the 13 million crap. Not here.

You never believed it because it was never accurate.
A Miami beat writer started the exaggeration game a couple of months ago after Rashada committed to Florida and the fish just keeps getting bigger.
Does anyone really believe that anyone associated with UF would throw around that kind of money?


By Spring it will probably be $20 million.