re: "Recruiting Season" 2023 Class

While there is a long long way to go its becoming pretty clear our ceiling for the 2023 class is probably about #10. Just don't see any way for us to do better than about a #10 class with all the buying of these top 100 recruits with NIL promises at other schools. To do better than that I think we would have to load up with quite a few 3 stars with a class of over 25 players.

The state of Florida has 22 players now in the composite top 100 and we have signed none of them and only appear to be in serious play for one of them - 5 star Cormani McClain. McClain will have to be a rare player for us to sign him imo if Bama or Miami were to present him a nice NIL offer.


* I do see John Walker is in the top 100 now so maybe we will land a top 100 player finally.

Of the 22 state of Florida recruits in the top 100 fourteen have committed to the following schools:

Miami - 5
Georgia - 3
OSU - 2
LSU - 1
ND - 1
Penn St - 1
FSU - 1

* Alabama hasn't signed a top 100 recruit out of FL as of now and looks to only be in the mix on 2 of the remaining 8. Zero chance of that being the case pre-NIL.

Its actually really good on Napier's part that he is signing all these recruits just below that area where they are insisting on NIL to sign. From what I have read Michigan has been taking the same approach as us and telling the kids how they will be taken care of once they are playing etc. and they are struggling a lot more than us so far recruiting. We would have probably ended up with like a #20 or worse class in this NIL environment had lazy Mullen stayed on another year.