re: 2019 Recruiting Thread: Return of the Mullen. Updated 10/30.

This is basically right. Florida’s starters this year and comparable to Georgia’s starters. This will be true this year and in the next couple of years. The difference now, and for the next couple of years until Mullen gets elite classes in, is that Georgia has more depth.

Chris Henderson gets hurt, Marco Wilson gets hurt, and we were fricked against Georgia. When you recruit like Alabama and Georgia and Ohio state, you have a drop off naturally, but you have talented depth behind those guys. Not Chris McWilliams running around. We’re going to recruit well enough to have starters that can compete with anybody (maybe not Bama).

The key is recruiting at an elite enough level that we have depth that can compete for 4 quarters through a long season, so that an injury here and there doesn’t derail us and so we don’t fade down the stretch. That’s why decent to good recruiting has gotten us to where we’re at right now. Take the next step to consistently getting elite guys and top classes, and all of a sudden we have the depth to compete with anybody. That’s how you get Cam Newton backing up Tim Tebow, Riley Cooper and Louis Murphy playing special teams, etc. We have the coach that can scheme with Kirby, Saban, Meyer, and anybody else in the country. If he can get us the players here he can win championships.