Demographics alone suggest that probably won’t last, but for now I’m gonna enjoy myself.
If gloating about Dan Mullen’s recruiting is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.
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Get The Picture · Bloviation for the Dawgnation
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Is it too late to re-recruit Justin Watkins?
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I’ve been trying to tell y’all that we’re gonna love Mullen at Florida.
Our favorite gator coach since Doug Dickey.
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Charley Pell was my favorite. He lost to UGA in heartbreaking and humiliating fashion to UGA at both Clemson and Florida, and left them both on probation. Pell was the Knute Rockne of UGA rival coaches.
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Who knows. Maybe Dan Mullen is the reverse Dale Carnegie. OTOH if the repulsive Corch could recruit well at Florida, anybody should be able to.
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Corch is repulsive, but he can woo recruits. He has shown that in Columbus as well.
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Not that I’m complaining, but what is going on down there? I can see how CMR and Thomas Brown are making it tough sledding in South Florida (if that isn’t reason enough to want the previous guy to be a success in Coral Gables, I don’t know what is) for Mullen, and the panhandle is Nole country. Mullen has to dominate Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville. In Jacksonville, he has to deal with Kirby and 42-7 can’t be selling well right now.
I hate it for him. //sarcasm
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In Orlando and Daytona, he’s having to deal with the publicity for the Orlando Sentinel national champions, UCF. Tampa and the 75 corridor through north Florida are probably the only places where UF has fertile recruiting ground.
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Don’t forget Charlie Strong at USF, he is a good recruiter and USF is on the rise.
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Charlie Strong’s defense was the reason fu won those 2 championships. No doubt he’s recruiting against fu with extra vigor.
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The problems started well before Richt moved down to Miami. It would be a mistake to pin it on that. Florida hasn’t beaten FSU or Miami since 2012.
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I agree with that. I’m saying Richt is doing some good keeping recruits away from UF currently.
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Sounds to me like a culture change has to take place: He is not in Miss. State. Anymore. So his every move is maginifed.
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If you have spent anytime at all on a UF Board; you know the natives are already restless. Let’s see what he does this fall. If he can get that bunch to have a successful season; then his numbers will jump as we get closer to signing day. If not, I’m going to have to rethink which team (UT or UF) would climb quicker back to a respectable standing. I’ve felt from day one that the Florida talent base gave him a huge advantage – but ‘again’ – if they struggle this fall – this could make it doubly tough to get that program moving – which is fine by me…
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Success on the field doesn’t have a notable correlation to recruiting success. Recruits aren’t going to suddenly take interest and commit to Florida because they win some football games. Tennessee’s woes go back further and are worse than Florida, yet even they are managing to out-recruit Florida. That said, if you read that article a commenter linked the other day, it’s clear that UT’s talent problem is a lot worse than Florida’s, so it’s not likely to change the reality which is that Tennessee is a lot farther off from success than Florida.
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“Success on the field doesn’t have a noteable correlation to recruiting success.”
You’re joking right?
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FWIW, weren’t we similarly very low rated about this time last year? And look where we ended up. Not saying they’re gonna end up with the best class in the country, just that it’s definitely a little early to gloat.
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Yes. At this time last year, people were saying that the sky was falling in recruiting and that we never should have fired Mark Richt because he had the #1 ranked class at the time at Miami. They also said that Jim Chaney had to be fired because he called that play in the Vandy game. They were saying that Sam Pittman was garbage because the offensive line didn’t get better as the 2016 season progressed. The takes were so bad and every was so morose that I didn’t the read comment sections of sites for several months.
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Yeah I remember people saying all that. Pittman was trash, Kirby was Boom 2/etc. People say a lot of things. My granny used to say, you’ll hear everything but money jingling, meat frying, and folks praying. An old fashioned way of saying most people just run their mouths and don’t know what they’re talking about. That said, I’m going to enjoy FU’s struggles and hope they last a long time.
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About Gator fans being restless, water is wet. As Meyer and Spurrier can attest, they’ve got a penchant for complaining about anything short of SEC titles or even NCs. The state of FL is stocked enough in talent that they don’t have a low ceiling like the Vols and Ole Miss – world has changed since the glory years and poaching talent from other states isn’t sustainable . But, as others have noted, UF has never faced this degree of competition for in-state talent: not just in-state schools but poaching from Bama, UGA, Clem and even OhioSt.
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Mullen was their third choice. Not so sure he is the coach they need to clean up the genuine mess they have there. He is cut from the Urban cloth of little to no discipline. UGA has a window of opportunity now in the SEC East of the magnitude I was beginning to think I would not live long enough to see. We need to put the pedal to the medal and rack up 5 or 6 in a row against the gators.
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Exactly. For us, these are the good old days. We need to hammer FU with everything we have and send them into the sort of football wilderness we were stuck in for so long.
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Too many big dogs in one state. Willie, Richt, Strong, Lane, even Butch Davis and Josh H. Not to mention everyone else trying to cherry pick in Florida. Mullen has a tough row to hoe right now.
Let me go play the world’s smallest violin.
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Speaking of recruiting, another cannon shot fired today with John Avery’s commitment.
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And 2 more … Dawgs are now #2. South Carolina, where are you again?
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