This staff is shaping up to be incredible. We are going to have elite recruiters, but also big developers. I'm excited to see where we go with recruits starting in '23 for sure.

With that being said, who would you like the remaining 3 coaches to be?

HC : Billy Napier

OL : Rob Sale *tentatively

OL : ???

RB – Juluke

TE – Seider *tentatively / ???

WR – Seider *tentatively / ???



DL : Chris Rumph *tentatively

DL Co-DC : Tosh Lupoi *tentatively

LB – Christian Robinson *tentatively

CB – Corey Raymond

S Co-DC : Patrick Toney

This is a great insights on Raymond hire means to us and lsu. The fear is real fellas

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Sorry for making so many posts.

Coach Wise has a record of 920 - 125 in 31 years - OMG thats dominant, but is she ever gonna get that title? I cant believe she hasnt won 1 or even 5 by this point - thats some serious bad luck

WTF is the difference? I see people post and some have gold under the name, some have silver.....does silver mean you are a cheap skate? asking for a friend

Heisman

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Good luck to the kid

We are living in one sick country where everything is racist. So lets keep dumbing down the education system "for equity". Lets keep disbanding advanced placement classes for exceptional students. How does that help minorities. How does this help us compete with China? It doesn't. But I am damn sure we are light years ahead of China when it comes to pronouns. We'll show them.

I wonder if say the Tuskegee airmen thought math was racist. They were fighting real racism. Recently a celebrated black woman mathematician died. Her name is Katherine Johnson and she helped NASA and our space program tremendously in the 1960's with her brillance. I doubt she thought math was racist. FAILING to teach math would be even more racist if the reason is a feeling that there is a segment of the population not equipped to understand it. Talk about the racism of low expectations.
This is a sick country.

Right here:

…very amusing if you haven’t seen…

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Seider, a big time decommit heading our way?

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I have talked to multiple coaches across the country tonight regarding the hire of Corey Raymond. All of them were stunned that Naiper was able to get that dude out of LSU. Every single one of them in their own words told me the same thing. Raymond is that dude. I can't tell you how impressed all these guys are with this hire...I get it, its only one hire BUT its a pretty big one.....

Let's be honest, all that really matters today:

Where will His Assistant be recruiting today and who will he be seeing?

The People need this info

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What’s the possibility that Elam stays another year to get some elite coaching from Raymond, seeing what he’s done with other great talent in the NFL?

They are up in the air. Have been told all week Willis was coming, but now it appears he will be at Miss State this weekend instead of UF. He is also signing early. Devin Moore and his entire family are coming. Nick and Jayden were scheduled to attend but Nick is out now and they were not sold on Gibson so now he bounced. Keep an eye on Shone Washington for this weekend and David Conner. Again, I hate to sound like a broken record but this Gibson deal is not the last of the bad news....It will continue to get worse before it gets better just so everyone knows and no one should be shocked at what happens next......All we can do at this point is wait and see who actually shows up this weekend....

I know this is long, so save the “TLDR” responses. LOL I’m sitting up at the hospital unable to sleep, so I thought I’d write about my thinking about transition classes from almost 25 years of following recruiting pretty closely and being active on these Gator boards for that same amount of time. I think it also explains why some people (myself included) were a little frustrated by what we saw today. I’d love some interaction on this as I’m just throwing out some thoughts, even if they are long thoughts.


Transition classes are hard. Even harder in 2021. It’s so hard for new staffs to get on players and get them to commit in 1 month. Usually a transition class is made up of previous staff’s commits (group A) and the ones already leaning to the school (group B). If you supplement that with a few guys that have previous relationships with staff (group C), you are fortunate. It is really hard to pull guys out of thin air, the leftovers with baggage or at least no prior relationship (group D).

The fact that recent years has seen the majority of top players sign on ESD and not NSD has made transition classes even harder. New coaches have a week or 2 before ESD. That’s hard. Your talent pool after ESD is severely diminished. It is very hard to build a class from scratch after ESD.

I understand that Napier has a plan. But the situation is pretty rough. Assuming he wants to sign some players in this class (and of course he does, if even not a full class), you have diminishing returns as you move from group A down to group D. Meaning: your best bet is with group A, not group D. This is why I was alarmed with the approach to ditch virtually all of group A for this transition class. I’m gonna trust Napier has a plan - but as I said, returns are diminished as you move from group A to D.

Now, to be fair, Mullen really put us behind the 8-ball in group A. It was a small group, and it was lacking in several positions. It’s strengths were at QB, WR, and DL. The weaknesses were at OL, IMO. The best bet at success in this transition class was to hold those guys, maybe cutting a few (I would’ve guessed at OL). In a transition class, you aren’t expecting a top 10 class, but a school like UF should be high teens even in transition years. The idea isn’t that this class sets the world on fire, but that you ”hold serve” so to speak. You can’t let roster holes develop. You can’t let your class balances get too out of whack. You try and upgrade where you can and fill holes. Don’t let everyone pass you up by too much, and make it up the next year (the fabled “bump class”).

In this transition class, our pool of group A is mediocre (thanks Mullen), and what was there is now gone. Group B is likely shrinking too. Having to depend on groups C and D is a fool’s errand. This is why people were frustrated today. It isn’t that any of those players individually are irreplaceable, it is that you can’t find comparable players in group B or C, and D is a crap shoot. It’s all about being able to replace the guys you lose with comparable replacements. I’m not sure those exist within our realm of possibility.

So, in the end, this transition class will be really really rough. It seems many on this site are cool with that, because they’re looking to the future. I think the future is bright too, somI can see why people think that way. BUT. But I come back to my stated desire for a transition class: to hold serve. Not excel. Not be ranked high. Just don’t fall too far behind. Meet a few needs, get some talent in the building, and don’t lose an entire class. I think we might be closer to that losing an entire class rather than holding serve. BUT. But there is still some time. I’m willing to see what happens. But people need to temper their expectations. No matter how good the recruiters we bring in, it is hard to get a class, even a mediocre one, when you have very few in group A, few in group B, and are trying to cobble it together from groups C and D.

Remember, this has no bearing on future classes. I think Napier is gonna have us in great position with future classes. No worries at all. But this class is gonna be bad, folks. Some are ready for that, some are not. Some were more hopeful than for that to be true. Just be prepared. There is not enough time and there are not enough prospects at this point. Napier seems ok with that - and I guess I need to be ok with it as well.

So, I’ve come full circle on this transition class. It’s gonna be tough, this will be a poorly ranked class barring some miracle, maybe the worst in UF history. Lets just hope enough guys can be signed and the transfer portal can be worked just right so as to mitigate not holding serve. The good news is that Napier seems to be the right guy to set things up for success moving forward. We can just focus on that and look forward to a good “bump class.”

Everyone is super excited about these guys and their recruiting capabilities. I am very excited about their coaching capabilities because they have developed some outstanding units in their time (DL and DB).

My only concern is they don’t seem to have any coaching or playing experience in Florida or Georgia. They also were recruiting at schools that have a reputation of recruiting themselves.

Can we truly expect them to be stud recruiters for us right off the bat? If so why?

What do you all think will happen with these two DB's once Ramond is on board? I say go after both with full court press, to see if it rattles the cage.

Recruiting is totally changing in front of us. The programs that allow a solid NIL program develop, ensuring a revenue stream for kids who need it — which is all of them — are going to dominate. The transfer portal allows a total rebuild of high quality players. Knowing that NIL opportunities are present only enhances the portal.

Football will look like basketball very soon. A championship can be won through the portal, and the quality of a team will never be known on ESD.