baddnole
Well-Known Member
Re: UF recruiting
Even though they have only eight 3-star commits with less than 3 weeks to go before NSD, the gators still hold on to the hope they can rally and have the kind of recruiting class Muschamp was able to put together his first year in Gainesville. Meyer had only gone 8-5 in his final campaign, and Muschamp still was able to put together a class of 19, 11 of whom were 4-star athletes. The still have hope they can improve on their current ranking of 94th and finish, perhaps, as high as their 12th place finish in 2011.
And who knows? Maybe they can. After all, Muschamp's final season record of 7-5 wasn't so different from the 'success' Meyer had back then.
Except that it's not the immediate past season that most affects the decisions of high school seniors. It's the record of the year before, the prospective team's record in their junior years.
The situations--then versus now--couldn't be more different. In Muschamp's first recruiting season, he was visiting recruits who had seen the gators go 13-1 in their junior years. This year, McElwain is visiting recruits who saw the gators go 4-8 as juniors.
And Muschamp was the highly regarded coach-in-waiting that Florida had lured away from the mighty Texas Longhorns. A very sexy hire in the minds of the recruits he visited.
McElwain is the coach the gators managed to hire away from Mountain West (they still exist?) runnerup Colorado St, where he had gone 21-16 in 3 years. Yes, he did have a stint at Alabama on his resume but, these days, that's just not so very remarkable. A solid hire, perhaps, but not one to stir the imaginations of anybody but the gator faithful.
The gators need to sign another 20 recruits to fill out their 85-man roster, and they've got 20 days to do it. Are their coaches confident they can do it by signing 4-star athletes? Maybe not. Their most recent offers have been in the lower 3-star range, as they try to entice recruits away from UCF and Louisville (unsuccessfully, thus far). And they just reinstated Gerald Willis, a locker room cancer if there ever was one (but a cancer with 4 stars!). Desperation?
Every year since the Urban Meyer era began, the gators have had more 4 and 5 star athletes than any team in the SEC East. As things now stand, Georgia and Tennessee will go into next season with 45 athletes of this caliber on their rosters (the Noles now have 49). With the return of Willis, the gators have 32. How many more will they be able to add to this short handed roster?
ray: ray:
Even though they have only eight 3-star commits with less than 3 weeks to go before NSD, the gators still hold on to the hope they can rally and have the kind of recruiting class Muschamp was able to put together his first year in Gainesville. Meyer had only gone 8-5 in his final campaign, and Muschamp still was able to put together a class of 19, 11 of whom were 4-star athletes. The still have hope they can improve on their current ranking of 94th and finish, perhaps, as high as their 12th place finish in 2011.
And who knows? Maybe they can. After all, Muschamp's final season record of 7-5 wasn't so different from the 'success' Meyer had back then.
Except that it's not the immediate past season that most affects the decisions of high school seniors. It's the record of the year before, the prospective team's record in their junior years.
The situations--then versus now--couldn't be more different. In Muschamp's first recruiting season, he was visiting recruits who had seen the gators go 13-1 in their junior years. This year, McElwain is visiting recruits who saw the gators go 4-8 as juniors.
And Muschamp was the highly regarded coach-in-waiting that Florida had lured away from the mighty Texas Longhorns. A very sexy hire in the minds of the recruits he visited.
McElwain is the coach the gators managed to hire away from Mountain West (they still exist?) runnerup Colorado St, where he had gone 21-16 in 3 years. Yes, he did have a stint at Alabama on his resume but, these days, that's just not so very remarkable. A solid hire, perhaps, but not one to stir the imaginations of anybody but the gator faithful.
The gators need to sign another 20 recruits to fill out their 85-man roster, and they've got 20 days to do it. Are their coaches confident they can do it by signing 4-star athletes? Maybe not. Their most recent offers have been in the lower 3-star range, as they try to entice recruits away from UCF and Louisville (unsuccessfully, thus far). And they just reinstated Gerald Willis, a locker room cancer if there ever was one (but a cancer with 4 stars!). Desperation?
Every year since the Urban Meyer era began, the gators have had more 4 and 5 star athletes than any team in the SEC East. As things now stand, Georgia and Tennessee will go into next season with 45 athletes of this caliber on their rosters (the Noles now have 49). With the return of Willis, the gators have 32. How many more will they be able to add to this short handed roster?
ray: ray: