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I’m still willing to give BN a pass this year knowing the situation. Even though the schedule is brutal next year, this program should take a significant jump. You’ll be on your 3rd wave of recruits/transfers. Mertz will be a second year starter in the system. Young guys have another year to develop. The leash officially gets tighter next year and the expectation is this team is competing with every team on their schedule. No more blowouts, no more L’s to UK like programs etc.

I agree. He's made some rookie mistakes, but seems to be building a solid foundation off-field. But those foundational moves need to start paying dividends. Tough schedule, but if he's really moving in the right direction, he needs to start beating the Kentucky-type programs and not have the embarrassing blow out losses next year.

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Posted by Partha

Member since Jan 2022

6145 posts

Posted on 10/29/23 at 1:20 pm to Partha

247 poster wrote this about our OL recruiting:

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Given all the discussion of both poor OL performance and recruiting, thought I'd go back and calculate up the OL recruiting over the past decade. And this is what you get, starting with McElwain's first class back in 2015.

Note: I opted not to include transfer grades officially into the calculations as the ranking systems are just arbitrarily throwing random grades on a lot of the guys. As well, I only listed the positions that 247 labeled them as in HS; I know some are listed at one position but played a different position at UF.

2015:

Martez Ivey (T): 100
Brandon Sandifer (G): 87
Tyler Jordan (C): 87
Fred Johnson (T): 85
Richard Desir (G)-Jones: 83
Nick Buchanan (T): 80

Average Grade: 87
5-star: 1
4-star: 0
3-star: 5

2016:

Brett Heggie (C): 87
Jaawon Taylor (T): 84
Stone Forsyrhe (T): 83

Average Grade: 84.66
5-star: 0
4-star: 0
3-star: 3

2017:

[Tedarrel Slaton (T): 95] removed as he never played OL at UF
TJ Moore (T): 91
Kadeem Telfort (T): 90

Average Grade: 90.5
5-star: 0
4-star: 2
3-star: 0

2018:

Richard Gouraige [T]: 93
Chris Bleich (T): 88
Noah Banks (T): 88
Griffin McDowell (C): 81

Average Grade: 87.5
5-star: 0
4-star: 1
3-star: 3

2019:

Riley Simonds (G): 89
Kingsley Eguakun (G): 87
Michael Tarquin (T): 87
William Harrod (T): 86
Ethan White (T): 85

Average Grade: 86.8
5-star: 0
4-star: 0
3-star: 5

2020:

[Isaiah Walker (T): 93] removed as he never played at UF
Joshua Braun (T): 91
Gerald Mincey (T): 88
Richard Leonard (G): 85

Average Grade: 88
5-star: 0
4-star: 1
3-star: 2

2021:

Austin Barber (T): 90
Ypusef Mugharbil (IOL): 88
Jake Slaughter (IOL): 85

Average Grade: 87.66

5-star: 0
4-star: 1
3-star: 2

Transfer:
Kaleb Boateng: 86 in HS

Note: this is the class the systems starting classifying them at IOL rather than G/C

2022:

[Tony Livingston (T): 87]: removed as he has never played OL for UF
Jalen Farmer (IOL): 87
Christian Williams (IOL): 86
David Conner (T): 84

Average Grade: 85.66
5-star: 0
4-star: 0
3-star: 3

Transfers:

O’Cyrus Torrence (IOL): 92 portal grade
Kamryn Waites (T): 91 portal grade
Jordan Herman (T): NA via JUCO

2023:

Roderick Kearney (T): 94
Caden Jones (T): 90
Knijeah Harris (T): 88
Bryce Lovett (IOL): 87

Average Grade: 89.75
5-star: 0
4-star: 2
3-star: 2

Transfers:

[Kiyaunta Goodwin (T): 91 portal grade]: removed as he transferred out prior to playing at UF
Micah Mazzccua (IOL): 90 portal grade
Dameion George (T): 88 portal grade
Lindell Hudson (T): 86 portal grade

2024 (currently)

Fletcher Westphal (T): 93
Mike Williams (T): 89
Marcus Mascoll (T): 87
Noel Portnjagin (IOL): 86

Average Grade: 88.75
5-star: 0
4-star: 1
3-star: 3

Final
Total Average over the last 10 classes: 87.6
Total 5-star: 1
Total 4-star: 8
Total 3-star: 28

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Posted by SailorGator

Member since Sep 2014

1395 posts

Posted on 11/3/23 at 12:51 pm to ChiGator

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The leash officially gets tighter next year and the expectation is this team is competing with every team on their schedule. No more blowouts, no more L’s to UK like programs etc.

you're right about not getting blown out. i expect us to win 7 or 8 games next year because of the schedule, but we need to be competitive in every game. beat teams we're supposed to beat.

This post was edited on 11/3/23 at 1:01 pm

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