This thread probably due for an "update"--ESPECIALLY after the last few days...First with once-upon-a-time 2025 Commit Austin Simmins suddenly flipping to Ol' Miss (after teasing us all with public murmerings about moving to qualify and begin playing here at UF for the 2023 seaon!), quickly followed by Napier and Co. "flipping the script" and signing FOUR TOP PROSPECTS the same week! Now there appear to be at least three more on the "imminent watch" list.
ON3 already now has us with the number three class in '23; Don't know what to make of the whole Simmons thing and our general hassle at QB (with the exception of Lagway, the best of them all, of course).
I swear: if it weren't for the subsequent "huge rally" on the recruiting trail, this post would have likely been another hand-wringing session about the overall decay of college football in the age of the "transfer portal" and "NIL". Fortunately, all the rest arriving on its heels has dampened the disappointment.
I had already come to accept the idea that we'd be depending on a steady Mertz, a strong RB room, and a much-improved defense to perhaps surprise the so-called experts (and maybe a lot of pessimistic Gator fans too!) in 2023--dire schedule and all. Then we'd be entering the "D J Lagway Era", and with one more strong recruiting cycle the following year be fully back.
More than ever we could be excused for going with that outlook now...Not exactly "without doubts", but at least now with a certain amount of nascent HOPE.
ON3 already now has us with the number three class in '23; Don't know what to make of the whole Simmons thing and our general hassle at QB (with the exception of Lagway, the best of them all, of course).
I swear: if it weren't for the subsequent "huge rally" on the recruiting trail, this post would have likely been another hand-wringing session about the overall decay of college football in the age of the "transfer portal" and "NIL". Fortunately, all the rest arriving on its heels has dampened the disappointment.
I had already come to accept the idea that we'd be depending on a steady Mertz, a strong RB room, and a much-improved defense to perhaps surprise the so-called experts (and maybe a lot of pessimistic Gator fans too!) in 2023--dire schedule and all. Then we'd be entering the "D J Lagway Era", and with one more strong recruiting cycle the following year be fully back.
More than ever we could be excused for going with that outlook now...Not exactly "without doubts", but at least now with a certain amount of nascent HOPE.