Your Daily Gator doesn’t like sloppy seconds.

Dan Mullen just got a commitment from a kid who tried to commit to Georgia without getting the staff’s blessing and the peanut gallery ain’t thrilled about it.  The comment thread’s been up less than a day and there are already 18 pages of comments about it.

The winner so far:

Recruiting is just like picking up girls at a bar, according to this #Florida fan with very high standards. pic.twitter.com/gN5RdGM4en

— Message Board Geniuses (@BoardGeniuses) June 25, 2021

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UPDATE:  I would love to think Kirby timed this on purpose.

Orlando (Fla.) Boone four-star athlete JaCorey Thomas was scheduled to take an official visit to UCF this weekend, but he decided he had seen enough. On Friday, the 6-foot-1, 188-pound rising senior announced he had committed to Georgia. Thomas chose the Dawgs over 29 others, including Florida, Florida State, Miami, and UCF.

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… ‘above board cheating.’

Shot.

University of Florida athletics department has issued its own set of NIL rules. Among them: UF boosters "may not compensate or arrange compensation to a current or prospective intercollegiate athlete for her or his name, image, likeness"https://t.co/zpgiGYQMcm

— Steve Berkowitz (@ByBerkowitz) June 24, 2021

Chaser.

"…and that's why a lot of AD's have described NIL to me as 'above board cheating.'"

–@RossDellenger says compliance with the new NIL rules will be up to schools themselves instead of the NCAA pic.twitter.com/UHpBVLPTSC

— Paul Finebaum (@finebaum) June 24, 2021

I love the smell of sausage being made in the morning.

Taking the year off, then

So much for 2021.