re: **2017 Football Recruiting Thread**

I kept telling you guys that Carter was ours....he has always liked the Gators. We have some defensive help in depth on the way and more to come.

I really like the position we are in this preseason...laying in the bushes and nobody giving us a chance to do much. Im confident we will strike hard and raise eyebrows. UT may finally beat us in Neyland but I would not bet against us. Beat them and we have Vandy, Arkansas & the girls school to deal with on the road.

Our defense will be better than most expect and keep us in games...should attract more defensive recruits for 2018.

Not really a surprise. It looked like Swain, Massey, and Hammond had already passed him up this spring.

Once Powell came back from injury, and Callaway came off suspension, that depth chart couldn't look to favorable.

And that doesn't even count guys like Cleveland who just got there, and Fulwood and Worton who are still fighting for a depth chart spot, or Chris Thompson who had more speed than Bailey and was already a fixture on special teams.

Honestly, the WR depth chart looks so much better than it did a year ago it's just silly.

I hope AU stays the frick away from Toney now that they missed on Mond. Toney would be perfect in Gus' HS run based spread. I hope Toney realizes if he wants to play at the next level, it won't be because he developed as a QB in Malzahns system.

Yeah missing on Herbert was bad. Gotta get on Summers for that one.

UF still has a chance with Leatherwood.

Calvin Ashley transferred to his 3rd or 4th school and is going to struggle to qualify.

FNL is this Friday.

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5-star OL Alex Leatherwood (Bama commit)
4-star S Devon Hunter
4-star S Hamsah Nasirildeen
4-star DT Fred Hansard
4-star DE LaBryan Ray
4-star CB Chris Henderson (Miami commit)
4-star OL Navaughn Donaldson (Miami commit)
4-star ATH Tray Bishop -- July 18
4-star LB Anthony Hines -- July 19
4-star WR Daquon Green (Florida commit)
4-star QB Jake Allen (Florida commit)
4-star DE Zach Carter (Florida commit)
4-star CB Marco Wilson
4-star CB Brad Stewart
4-star CB Latavious Brini (Georgia commit)
3-star CB Shawn Davis
3-star LB Ventrell Miller (Florida commit)
3-star DT Jordon Scott (Florida commit)
4-star WR Jacob Copeland (2018)
4-star WR Mark Pope (2018)
4-star RB James Cook (2018 FSU commit)
4-star QB Casey Thompson (2018)
4-star ATH Justin Watkins (2018 FSU commit)
4-star ATH Amari Burney (2018)
4-star DT Rick Sandidge (2018)
4-star CB Josh Jobe (2018 Miami commit)
3-star DT Timaje Porter (2018)
CB Jaleel McRae (2019 Florida commit)
S Brendan Gant (2019) -- Soph. Night on Thurs

Possible
5-star CB Shaun Wade
5-star DB Deangelo Gibbs

Come on guys... OL are hard to recruit when you have THREE true frosh OL last year start games and also played a lot of snaps.Recruits are told by rivals that PT will be hard to come by early on. Most kids dont want to fight on the practice field to win starts and expect for the yellow school bus to drop them off at the stadium and by showing up they are annointed AAs.

Will be hard to sway top OL recruits and if a certain OL who is a Bama committ decides to join us, then hats off to our staff on that feat.

I know one thing...too many ex rival high school coaches in Fla swaying talent away from us. We need more Gator high school coaches. We used to own the panhandle years ago but AU, Bama, girls school have feasted lately. AU is a lot closer to the panhandle and a lot of alums live in the area. We had to fight AU for Emmitt.

Yeah And the other site posted that our average committs on whole are higher rated overall per committ than a few top ten rated schools recruiting wise.

We have low numbers of committs and will end up with smaller class numbers wise...but a lot of top kids wanna see how teams do during the upcoming season...if the Univ of NJ @ Coral Gables or the dawgs falter...could see a couple good ones look our way ( I always assume we will be very good of course ). One thing in our favor in Fla recruiting is that we can sell SEC over ACC and that should be a huge asset. Whats the value of an ACC championship ring vs SEC ring? Not even close.

Sharpe hasn't shown anything to make anyone believe he is going to the draft. No OT's in this class are starting year 1 either, and if they were, it'd be a shitty situation.

I agree, we need OL in a bad way. Hopefully a transfer for some depth would be amazing.

Wow horsey...I like OT Johnson a LOT....he is huge and was only a freaking true frosh last year....no true frosh OL do anything in the tough SEC including Ivey and Jordan. Its a tough position and the only two true frosh I ever saw play decent was Odom and Green ...pressed into service in 1992 after we lost a lot of talent and hadnt gotten a good start in recruiting by Spurrier's staff and I say "staff" because thats who did the recruiting when Spurrier was out on the links. And Odom and Green took their early beatdowns...we lost early to UT & Moo State and they ripped us a new one.

People make fun of Zook but it was HIS recruiting and energy level as an asst coach that helped make champions.

I am one of the biggest believers in recruiting OL and I feel its necessary to win....I was screaming on another site for several years predicting the inevitable lack of depth we were going to encounter just as Muschamp took over....Urban started it with his 2 OL signed and it continued...he had only one good year recruiting OL. I can kind of understand what Muschamp was doing, he was a DC coach and had to shore up the defense and he did in one year...2012....what a difference from 2011....but the offense suffered ...but again if you have only two choices, a stout hard nose defense or a potent offense...its a no brainer....defense wins every time.

Fast forward and Im more concerned about the defense than offense. The offense only needs to not have our defense on the field too long. Muschamps defense is leaving us and we need to keep pace. We held Fournette in check last year until midway 3rd qt when our defense wore out...then his talent took over. Look at the girls school and even the Bama game and our defense kept us in those games through the half...but our offense couldnt sustain anything and the roof fell in.

Our offense will be fine this year and again...its hard to recruit top OL when you have had THREE true frosh start & play games. Sharp will be fine...he is only a freaking junior this year and some dont realize the time it takes for a lot of OL to develop into a top tier player. Patience brothers.