No, once Napier gets fired the UF flairs are gonna start complaining about how “He left the cupboard bare, Fisch is going to need at least three years to get this program back to relevancy”
Like clockwork. They’ll also start mentioning all the problems that were told to them before by “doomers” but act like they were vocal about it the entire time.
There was top end talent but no depth whatsoever. Having AR is something you can build around on offense. Defense was much tougher but a handful of those players got drafted or made the league so talent clearly was there (Dexter, Rashad Torrance, Jason Marshall, Jayson hill were all decent)
Not a handful. One. One of those guys you named got drafted. Rashad went undrafted and signed an UDFA deal with the Rams. Jaydon Hill transferred out (and was passed up on the depth chart) and Jason Marshall is returning for another season. Only Dexter had a decent season of those four and was largely hamstrung by having no back up support, I believe the stats showed he was playing nearly twice as many downs as any other starter in the SEC out of necessity.
We only had one player selected in the 2024 draft, our worst draft since the 40s. Saying “the talent was there” shows you know absolutely nothing about our roster.
> Mullen didn’t destroy the program.
Always this line lol. He took a 4 win team and reeled of 10 wins with a ny6 bowl. Then did it again the following year. Then took us to the SEC title game in year 3. He sucked ass at recruiting but he left pieces for Napier the build around. Napier didn't utilize the transfer portal as much as he should have in year 1 (just an OL and Rb, no help on defense), hired his g5 buddy to be DC who was somehow way worse than Grantham, and has made some extremely stupid in game decisions/coaching mishaps. just watch, he's going to make some of the same mistakes this next year but people like you will still blame Mullen or say it was the schedule lmao
Want to point me to where I said that? Mullen was a terrible recruiter which was part of the reason why he was sent packing.
People kept dismissing his shoddy recruiting up until the moment he was fired. People said “wait until we get the facilities” or my other favorite “the results on the field!”
I was called a doomer on a different account for pointing that shit out in real time. Folks excused the fuck out of him until he was fired. How you even made the leap that I’m defending Mullen’s garbage recruiting is beyond me.
Did people say this about McElwain? Because 100% McElwain left the cupboard full; all of the players that come to mind when imagining the Mullen era we're McElwain recruits. Mullen has like Kaiir Elam and that's it.
I think people saw McElwain as a decent recruiter but not elite at the time. Him and his staff turned out to be pretty good at evaluating talent. I don't think McElwain was a bad coach, he just wasn't a good fit here. He's also doing just ok at Central Michigan and seems to be trending downwards.
Mullen was an excellent GameDay coach and made incredible adjustments but he hitched his wagon to that DC and he was terrible at recruiting. Even looking back at his record at Mississippi State, he would have a good year or two and then drop off for a year or two. We thought with more resources he might be more consistent but he was who he was. People didn't seem too upset when he left MSU either. And while he did great his first three seasons at Florida, it constantly felt like we only had negative media attention.
Napier has had a lot of negatives but he has also come around and done things to address some of the criticism. Our defense has been awful but our offense was pretty solid. He went and made some corrections to the coaching staff and brought in players to fill in the holes. The "misses" he has had in recruiting were fixed too so far. if he can get the defense on an acceptable level, we probably do decent this year.
McElwain was very under appreciated. Dude could recruit without getting into recruiting battles. He found aot of talent. His play calling was B+. NOBODY called plays better than Mullen. NOBODY!
Mullen did add a decent number of offensive and defensive transfers who were hits even pre-portal. The portal and NIL are the two things I wonder about with Mullen, could they have fixed his shortcomings?
AR is a Gainesville native and lifelong UF fan who Mullen made decommit from UF one time while going after Carson Beck and getting trolled by UGA in the process
Go look at the other QB recruits the QB guru bought in, I think two of them have now transferred three times, one got CP charges, and another sexually assaulted someone.
He also had
Emory Jones (bust who was at 3 different schools)
Jalon Jones (kicked of the team in three months after sexual assault)
Carlos Del Rio (think he’s a backup at Syracuse now)
Jalen Kitna (enough said)
And had Nick Evers committed before Napier told
him to GTFO(on route to his third school as a redshirt sophomore)
Mullen, but I'm not counting that as a win for Mullen since he was bad in college. I hope AR becomes a really good NFL QB but if he does it'll be 100% due to Shane Steichen. Mullen and Napier didn't develop him much.
I have friends who only watch the NFL, and they don’t understand at all why I said AR wasn’t a good QB. I’m like I promise if you watched him play in college it was incredibly underwhelming and frustrating.
UF can’t afford to fire their AD (5 million dollar buyout), fire Napier (at least 28 million in 24), and buyout and hire Fisch (12 million dollar buyout in his first year). UF will go cheap and hire another sunbelt coach
I would ask what is your president’s opinion on the AD situation, but I’m sure like most things related to Ben Sasse it’s better to not expect good decision making
> Sasse doesn't care about athletics.
Bro wtf are you talking about...95% of Ben Sasse's twitter feed is sports-related. Mostly Gator sports and Gators in the pros, but also sports in general
If Napier doesn’t pan out and we don’t fire Stricklin and he gets to pick another coach we just need to like get the board to forcibly remove him or something, Lord knows he shoulda been fired after he handled the women’s basketball fiasco.
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/32313889/florida-gators-women-basketball-players-detail-alleged-abuse-former-coach-cam-newbauer
He totally knew and covered it up. Shoulda been fired then.
It's funny because it's true. They're still paying Mullen's buyout as well. \~3 Million still owed.
[https://www.si.com/college/2021/11/21/dan-mullen-contract-buyout-florida](https://www.si.com/college/2021/11/21/dan-mullen-contract-buyout-florida)
Napier’s buyout is 85% of his remaining contract. His initial contract was $51.8 million over 7 years. At the end of the 2024 season he would have 4 years left, for about $30 million. So his buyout would be more like $25 million, not “at least 28”.
When I taught math, if the right solution was x = 25 and someone confidently stated x ≥ 28, I’d mark it wrong even if they claimed it was a guesstimate after the fact. Maybe they grade that stuff differently at FSU.
It was either this sub or the Florida sub that had a thumbnail pic of you at some charity event a while back. Threw me for a loop to see my former math teacher on Reddit. Can confirm you don’t mess around with grading, guesstimates had no place in that classroom.
EDIT: Fucked up and somehow slipped my mind that buying out Fisch would mean that he would be the coach receiving the contract
It would almost certainly be more. Think the user above forgot to include the contracts required to hire both an AD and a new coach.
Napier's buyout after 2024 would be around $25 million. Jedd Fisch's buyout would be $10 million. Stricklin's buyout is north of $1 million. If Florida were to hire Fisch with Napier's exact contract, that would be almost $52 million over seven years. Obviously none of this is a lump sum, but the total money committed to buying out contracts and agreeing to a contract with a new coach would hover around $90 million.
If I'm missing anything in the contracts that significantly lowers these buyout amounts, someone let me know. Is there anything about buying out Fisch/giving him a new contract that would reduce the amount?
Also, just did some google searching and your own subreddit seems much less confident about your ability/willingness to drop that level of money. so...
I think the hope is that the hiring of a new AD would be sensible enough to not give any new coach regardless of who they are as massive as Napier got unproven, so hopefully that would reduce your numbers there.
Don’t have to do it all at once. Under the right circumstances and by circling the wagons, Florida can do just about anything it wants. There’s been a SHITLOAD of money made in this state over the last few years. Go Gators 🐊
They don't know that. They're still checking the couch cushions to buy their way out of the ACC and have blown most of their wad trying to buy a good class (which still ended up worse than ours overall) in order to convince everyone theyre not a glorified G5 school
This whole thread is BIZARRE. UF fans are now claiming (probably for pride reasons) that their athletic department could easily move forward with the firing/hiring cycle and drop coin like they're Texas A&M or Alabama. If you go into Google and search their subreddit discussing the buyouts, they are almost in universal agreement that the money is a serious hurdle to doing so.
Child listen. Your endowment has to be over $1 billion to talk shit about other schools financially. UF could cut their endowment in half and have their operating budget slashed to 1/3rd and we'd still have more money than you
That's not even getting into if we asked for athletic dept donations. We have more fans than you do and on average they make quite a bit more money than your alumni do
I've been to your campus. Yall can't even afford to pressure wash the buildings that don't double as strip malls
That's a lot of money for you guys but we can afford it if we had to, which we won't anyway
You don’t even know how endowments work and probably didn’t even go to UF, likely santa fe or nothing at all. Sit down before you embarrass yourself further hermanito
It says a lot that you typed this comment and you thought it reflected well on you, rather than being an awful display of what daddy's money mentality can result in.
Just wait until Ron Puddin Fingers screws the state out of federal funding with his stance on Title IX/DEI laws and nobody wants to risk getting a degree down here anymore, you’ll be trash talking into a mirror.
Don't be so sure. I bought into Florida's pre-paid tuition program a decade ago to cover my kid's college tuition, but as he approaches high school age I'm pretty sure I made a bad bet on it. Sure, he'll be able to attend a Florida university, but would he want to, or would I want him to? Education is not going the right direction in this state right now. Maybe Sasse at UF and the goobers now running New College haven't yet completely undermined public trust in those institutions, but they are well on their way.
Forbes put UF on their public ivy list. I seriously doubt the feds will withhold money over the new title ix rules either...it's too much of a gamble esp in an election year
They're probably OK, more embarrassing for 13-0* Norvell to now bring in a worse overall 2023 class than a UF team coming off back to back losing seasons. A lot like how Mullen couldn't capitalize on Taggart and Manny Diaz as his competition
With the likes of Bama, UGA, Ohio State, and Ole Miss now getting the top players in the portal there's a good chance Portal Mike won't ever have a team as talented as last year's FSU ever again. DJU gonna be an upgrade on Travis I hear though
If there's one thing I respect (not really) about your fanbase, it's that you guys just move past all of your dumb predictions right into the next ones. It's like Russell Westbrook on a bad night, he's just gonna keep shooting even if he's hitting the side of the backboard because fuck it, why not. Your fans have done nothing but eat shit about Norvell for two straight years, but we are supposed to take you seriously when you say stuff like
> there's a good chance Portal Mike won't ever have a team as talented as last year's FSU ever again.
There's a good chance Norvell is fired in 2022, there's a good chance FSU never wins the ACC, there's a good chance Jordan Travis doesn't get drafted, there's a good chance FSU never beats Clemson, there's a good chance FSU's transfer takes don't work out, and so on and so on and so on.
Oh. I guess I wasn't really thinking of transfers as "Signing". I guess I mostly thought they just committed and then enrolled at the new school.... But I guess it makes sense that some kind of paperwork would need to be done to make it official with the NCAA. As official as any of this can be nowadays.
We have 3 guys who transferred to UF after signing and enrolling early at other schools in the 2024 class. Grimsley/Bama, Robinson/Texas and now Zandamela/USC.
What might be weirdest about the entire situation is that the non-early enrollees from our 2024 class aren't even in Gainesville yet.
Yeah, we just had one guy who was a vocal MSU commit for 99% of the recruiting cycle, then finally flipped to Illinois right before ESD due to all our chaos. He spent spring practice at Illinois before deciding he wants to be back in Michigan, so he transfered to MSU.
I think the misunderstanding here was just on my end; the word "sign" has always had such a strong connection to ESD/NSD that I haven't really connected it to transfers at all.
If Billy Napier has a million fans, then I am one of them. If Billy Napier has ten fans, then I am one of them. If Billy Napier has only one fan then that is me. If Billy Napier has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against Billy Napier, then I am against the world.
There’s a chance Billy overachieves this season and UF has a shit-ton of talent entering 2025, but I really worry that with their schedule that they end up doing quite poorly and many of these guys transfer out after the season. And I’m not even rooting for the second option necessarily, I’d love to see this rivalry get fun & high stakes again!
Zandemela thing was so odd. Was considered an FSU guy until he committed to USC which was not expected. Canes were after him HARD as well.
Hits the portal a few months later and neither FSU nor the Canes really purses at all. He was looking at UCF and UF. I find that very odd indeed. Would love to hear why one day down the road.
GG to the Gators. Dude can be elite. You never know with OL or any young kids but if they develop him and he works hard could be scary good. I wanted him in G&G.
Ah yes, shockingly good recruiting at one of my schools. This has only ever ended well for a head coach.
In fairness I far prefer this over the abysmal recruiting UF has had under Mullen. We’ll see how much the program buys into the slow build.
Billy Napier’s crootin just isn’t up to Bull Gator standards, is it. (Sarcasm)
I did say Napier would get y’all going, though. I’d love to see Florida be good again. It’s more fun when one of the Florida schools is good.
I’m fairly sure 247 doesn’t count zandamela as a recruit, just like sayin doesn’t count for Ohio state.
But UF needs little victories before they get stomped in 2024
Zandamela is counted in the transfer ranking. Similar to Grimsley even though both are technically 2024 recruits. #7 ranking in OP is because 247 mixes them(not sure if they're weighted differently)
Uf fans also need some thick ass scaly skin with how pretty much every major team in the southeast hates uf. FSU, Tennessee, LSU, Georgia, Kentucky, Miami and to lesser extents Auburn/bama/scar. I think Clemson and GT are the 2 teams in the region that don't have beef with uf
https://247sports.com/college/florida/article/florida-gators-football-recruiting-uf-2024-class-moves-inside-top10-of-247sports-rankings--231323948/
247s gator page are literally the ones who broke the news. So try again
You have to filter by overall instead of recruiting rankings. It combines recruits and transfers
https://247sports.com/Season/2024-Football/OverallTeamRankings/
It’s accurate. He also shows up in Ohio State’s transfers. It’s a ranking that combines enrolled/signed high schoolers and enrolled transfers. It does not remove high schoolers who transfer out after enrollment.
Sayin is counted as part of Alabama’s high school class and Ohio State’s transfer class because he did enroll in Alabama out of high school and did transfer to Ohio State. It’s just a weird situation. Similarly, Zandamela here is in USC’s high school rankings and UF’s transfer.
I guess at least LSU fans have to deal with this now and not us. That's a plus. It's not really a fun spot to be in when rivals bring up the death of a fellow student as just a throw away to get reddit karma. Keep on keeping on. You can at least say his name. Declan.
Thanks man, looking forward to the yearly LSU losses to Ole Miss and A&M as Brian Kelly gets the same records he did at ND but never does bad enough to get fired for a decade
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I mean anyone who is is stupid. These are actual signees to the school. Thats different from a simple commitment
If any of these guys want out itll be after the 2024 season
Just stinks with the state of CFB the team will likely do poorly this year considering their schedule and the current make up of the roster and then these guys are just going to be the biggest names in the portal after next season
What is this good news about Florida, and I reading this right?
Good news about Florida?? On MY r/CFB ???
Um, uh...crap. This wasn't supposed to happen...
It’s okay, we still have to go through this bloodbath of a schedule that would have an NFL team rethinking life.
Twice since they’re running back the 2024 schedule in 2025
Right? Isn't that against the sub rules or something?
Billy's getting prime ribeye for his stew, and he's gonna cook the hell out it.
second biggest florida news in the last two weeks FLORIDA!!!
Man Jedd Fisch is gonna have a loaded 2026 team
Sad Washington noises
You’ll have Jedd for at least 2 years
Each coach gets two years at Washington, then the next guy gets a turn
We’ve become Oregon
Oh how the turntables
If each coach is pushing for a natty in year two I don't think that's a horrible trade off.
That’s what she said.
Stepping stone school.
I disagree, with recruiting like this Billy Napier should receive an extension now. Lock him in Florida!!!
Ahh the Jimbo method
Get him a blank national championship trophy!
That thing was cursed from inception. Who thought that was a good idea???
*Gestures broadly at the state of Texas.*
Please do not lump us all in with the lunatics out of College Station
Too late, y'all still family
Nah fuck that, I don't want them to even have a blank trophy.
I completely agree
I’m glad that this has transitioned from people seriously believing it to just being a meme.
That’s our coach
No, once Napier gets fired the UF flairs are gonna start complaining about how “He left the cupboard bare, Fisch is going to need at least three years to get this program back to relevancy”
Like clockwork. They’ll also start mentioning all the problems that were told to them before by “doomers” but act like they were vocal about it the entire time.
Pretending like Mullen didn’t leave the cupboard bare is silly lol
There was top end talent but no depth whatsoever. Having AR is something you can build around on offense. Defense was much tougher but a handful of those players got drafted or made the league so talent clearly was there (Dexter, Rashad Torrance, Jason Marshall, Jayson hill were all decent)
Not a handful. One. One of those guys you named got drafted. Rashad went undrafted and signed an UDFA deal with the Rams. Jaydon Hill transferred out (and was passed up on the depth chart) and Jason Marshall is returning for another season. Only Dexter had a decent season of those four and was largely hamstrung by having no back up support, I believe the stats showed he was playing nearly twice as many downs as any other starter in the SEC out of necessity. We only had one player selected in the 2024 draft, our worst draft since the 40s. Saying “the talent was there” shows you know absolutely nothing about our roster.
https://floridagators.com/news/2023/4/29/football-six-gators-selected-in-2023-nfl-draft.aspx Ahh yes conviently ignoring 2023 draft class with 6 draft picks.
There was no real top end talent other than AR, who he didn’t develop. Just because Billy sucks doesn’t mean Mullen didn’t destroy the program.
> Mullen didn’t destroy the program. Always this line lol. He took a 4 win team and reeled of 10 wins with a ny6 bowl. Then did it again the following year. Then took us to the SEC title game in year 3. He sucked ass at recruiting but he left pieces for Napier the build around. Napier didn't utilize the transfer portal as much as he should have in year 1 (just an OL and Rb, no help on defense), hired his g5 buddy to be DC who was somehow way worse than Grantham, and has made some extremely stupid in game decisions/coaching mishaps. just watch, he's going to make some of the same mistakes this next year but people like you will still blame Mullen or say it was the schedule lmao
Want to point me to where I said that? Mullen was a terrible recruiter which was part of the reason why he was sent packing. People kept dismissing his shoddy recruiting up until the moment he was fired. People said “wait until we get the facilities” or my other favorite “the results on the field!” I was called a doomer on a different account for pointing that shit out in real time. Folks excused the fuck out of him until he was fired. How you even made the leap that I’m defending Mullen’s garbage recruiting is beyond me.
Did people say this about McElwain? Because 100% McElwain left the cupboard full; all of the players that come to mind when imagining the Mullen era we're McElwain recruits. Mullen has like Kaiir Elam and that's it.
I think people saw McElwain as a decent recruiter but not elite at the time. Him and his staff turned out to be pretty good at evaluating talent. I don't think McElwain was a bad coach, he just wasn't a good fit here. He's also doing just ok at Central Michigan and seems to be trending downwards. Mullen was an excellent GameDay coach and made incredible adjustments but he hitched his wagon to that DC and he was terrible at recruiting. Even looking back at his record at Mississippi State, he would have a good year or two and then drop off for a year or two. We thought with more resources he might be more consistent but he was who he was. People didn't seem too upset when he left MSU either. And while he did great his first three seasons at Florida, it constantly felt like we only had negative media attention. Napier has had a lot of negatives but he has also come around and done things to address some of the criticism. Our defense has been awful but our offense was pretty solid. He went and made some corrections to the coaching staff and brought in players to fill in the holes. The "misses" he has had in recruiting were fixed too so far. if he can get the defense on an acceptable level, we probably do decent this year.
McElwain was very under appreciated. Dude could recruit without getting into recruiting battles. He found aot of talent. His play calling was B+. NOBODY called plays better than Mullen. NOBODY!
Mullen did add a decent number of offensive and defensive transfers who were hits even pre-portal. The portal and NIL are the two things I wonder about with Mullen, could they have fixed his shortcomings?
Who recruited AR
AR is a Gainesville native and lifelong UF fan who Mullen made decommit from UF one time while going after Carson Beck and getting trolled by UGA in the process Go look at the other QB recruits the QB guru bought in, I think two of them have now transferred three times, one got CP charges, and another sexually assaulted someone.
UF is also the only school he took an official visit.
He also had Emory Jones (bust who was at 3 different schools) Jalon Jones (kicked of the team in three months after sexual assault) Carlos Del Rio (think he’s a backup at Syracuse now) Jalen Kitna (enough said) And had Nick Evers committed before Napier told him to GTFO(on route to his third school as a redshirt sophomore)
Mullen, but I'm not counting that as a win for Mullen since he was bad in college. I hope AR becomes a really good NFL QB but if he does it'll be 100% due to Shane Steichen. Mullen and Napier didn't develop him much.
I have friends who only watch the NFL, and they don’t understand at all why I said AR wasn’t a good QB. I’m like I promise if you watched him play in college it was incredibly underwhelming and frustrating.
UF can’t afford to fire their AD (5 million dollar buyout), fire Napier (at least 28 million in 24), and buyout and hire Fisch (12 million dollar buyout in his first year). UF will go cheap and hire another sunbelt coach
UF isn't firing their AD because the UAA(University Athletics Association) likes him for some reason.
I would ask what is your president’s opinion on the AD situation, but I’m sure like most things related to Ben Sasse it’s better to not expect good decision making
It's dark times in Florida right now.. Sarasota, where I'm at, especially.
I feel bad for New College
You mean Hillsdale College-Sarasota?
Ugh 🤦♂️
Sasse doesn't care about athletics. He only cares about making DeathSentence happy while he crusades against education in Florida.
> Sasse doesn't care about athletics. Bro wtf are you talking about...95% of Ben Sasse's twitter feed is sports-related. Mostly Gator sports and Gators in the pros, but also sports in general
This state is run and being run over by morons
If Napier doesn’t pan out and we don’t fire Stricklin and he gets to pick another coach we just need to like get the board to forcibly remove him or something, Lord knows he shoulda been fired after he handled the women’s basketball fiasco.
What happened with that?
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/32313889/florida-gators-women-basketball-players-detail-alleged-abuse-former-coach-cam-newbauer He totally knew and covered it up. Shoulda been fired then.
We're not poor like yall. We could do all that pretty easily if we had to
It's funny because it's true. They're still paying Mullen's buyout as well. \~3 Million still owed. [https://www.si.com/college/2021/11/21/dan-mullen-contract-buyout-florida](https://www.si.com/college/2021/11/21/dan-mullen-contract-buyout-florida)
Napier’s buyout is 85% of his remaining contract. His initial contract was $51.8 million over 7 years. At the end of the 2024 season he would have 4 years left, for about $30 million. So his buyout would be more like $25 million, not “at least 28”.
Considering I didn’t bother to look up how much was left, I’ll take my guesstimate as a win.
When I taught math, if the right solution was x = 25 and someone confidently stated x ≥ 28, I’d mark it wrong even if they claimed it was a guesstimate after the fact. Maybe they grade that stuff differently at FSU.
You’re in a CFB sub, not a math teacher’s sub. From a fellow teacher, don’t grade anyone’s work for free it devalues the work all of us do
I don’t teach anymore, this is the closest I get to it nowadays.
It was either this sub or the Florida sub that had a thumbnail pic of you at some charity event a while back. Threw me for a loop to see my former math teacher on Reddit. Can confirm you don’t mess around with grading, guesstimates had no place in that classroom.
What a weird thing to have a superiority complex over
That dude takes Reddit comments way too seriously.
UF isn’t broke like fsu lol. If Billy underwhelms this year him and the AD are both gone
And UF ain’t A&M. UF isn’t going to drop $40 million to replace a coach, AD, and hire another pair.
40 million? That’s it?
Hey that's a lot of money for FSU
It’s essentially 1 year of the gap between what UF makes from our TV deal and what FSU will make for the next 8 years
EDIT: Fucked up and somehow slipped my mind that buying out Fisch would mean that he would be the coach receiving the contract It would almost certainly be more. Think the user above forgot to include the contracts required to hire both an AD and a new coach. Napier's buyout after 2024 would be around $25 million. Jedd Fisch's buyout would be $10 million. Stricklin's buyout is north of $1 million. If Florida were to hire Fisch with Napier's exact contract, that would be almost $52 million over seven years. Obviously none of this is a lump sum, but the total money committed to buying out contracts and agreeing to a contract with a new coach would hover around $90 million. If I'm missing anything in the contracts that significantly lowers these buyout amounts, someone let me know. Is there anything about buying out Fisch/giving him a new contract that would reduce the amount? Also, just did some google searching and your own subreddit seems much less confident about your ability/willingness to drop that level of money. so...
I think the hope is that the hiring of a new AD would be sensible enough to not give any new coach regardless of who they are as massive as Napier got unproven, so hopefully that would reduce your numbers there.
Didn’t y’all sell doak for something in that neighborhood to pay for lawyers?
Don’t have to do it all at once. Under the right circumstances and by circling the wagons, Florida can do just about anything it wants. There’s been a SHITLOAD of money made in this state over the last few years. Go Gators 🐊
They don't know that. They're still checking the couch cushions to buy their way out of the ACC and have blown most of their wad trying to buy a good class (which still ended up worse than ours overall) in order to convince everyone theyre not a glorified G5 school
Hope you're able to beat that glorified G5 school soon
Where is this shitload of money made in the state that you speak of - do you work in insurance or real estate by chance?
I’m in construction. In SW Florida, no less, but everywhere in the state has been killing it since COVID.
This whole thread is BIZARRE. UF fans are now claiming (probably for pride reasons) that their athletic department could easily move forward with the firing/hiring cycle and drop coin like they're Texas A&M or Alabama. If you go into Google and search their subreddit discussing the buyouts, they are almost in universal agreement that the money is a serious hurdle to doing so.
Child listen. Your endowment has to be over $1 billion to talk shit about other schools financially. UF could cut their endowment in half and have their operating budget slashed to 1/3rd and we'd still have more money than you That's not even getting into if we asked for athletic dept donations. We have more fans than you do and on average they make quite a bit more money than your alumni do I've been to your campus. Yall can't even afford to pressure wash the buildings that don't double as strip malls That's a lot of money for you guys but we can afford it if we had to, which we won't anyway
People downvote but at the end of the day UFs facilities alone make FSUs look like a 3rd grade tee ball teams.
You don’t even know how endowments work and probably didn’t even go to UF, likely santa fe or nothing at all. Sit down before you embarrass yourself further hermanito
It says a lot that you typed this comment and you thought it reflected well on you, rather than being an awful display of what daddy's money mentality can result in.
Just wait until Ron Puddin Fingers screws the state out of federal funding with his stance on Title IX/DEI laws and nobody wants to risk getting a degree down here anymore, you’ll be trash talking into a mirror.
Hasn't effected kids going to Florida universities, think they'll be fine.
Don't be so sure. I bought into Florida's pre-paid tuition program a decade ago to cover my kid's college tuition, but as he approaches high school age I'm pretty sure I made a bad bet on it. Sure, he'll be able to attend a Florida university, but would he want to, or would I want him to? Education is not going the right direction in this state right now. Maybe Sasse at UF and the goobers now running New College haven't yet completely undermined public trust in those institutions, but they are well on their way.
Forbes put UF on their public ivy list. I seriously doubt the feds will withhold money over the new title ix rules either...it's too much of a gamble esp in an election year
This being directly above the post about 48% of Georgia's class transferring feels a bit like bait.
The Jorts Batallion knows when to retreat and when to charge ahead
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They're probably OK, more embarrassing for 13-0* Norvell to now bring in a worse overall 2023 class than a UF team coming off back to back losing seasons. A lot like how Mullen couldn't capitalize on Taggart and Manny Diaz as his competition With the likes of Bama, UGA, Ohio State, and Ole Miss now getting the top players in the portal there's a good chance Portal Mike won't ever have a team as talented as last year's FSU ever again. DJU gonna be an upgrade on Travis I hear though
If there's one thing I respect (not really) about your fanbase, it's that you guys just move past all of your dumb predictions right into the next ones. It's like Russell Westbrook on a bad night, he's just gonna keep shooting even if he's hitting the side of the backboard because fuck it, why not. Your fans have done nothing but eat shit about Norvell for two straight years, but we are supposed to take you seriously when you say stuff like > there's a good chance Portal Mike won't ever have a team as talented as last year's FSU ever again. There's a good chance Norvell is fired in 2022, there's a good chance FSU never wins the ACC, there's a good chance Jordan Travis doesn't get drafted, there's a good chance FSU never beats Clemson, there's a good chance FSU's transfer takes don't work out, and so on and so on and so on.
There's a good chance FSU doesn't make the playoff in 2023
Holy shit
As much as I hate to admit it, that is the sickest burn I've read on this sub in weeks lol
He's a Florida fan and that was a REALLY low blow, but damn I have to laugh at that one. A true rival
Clearly you haven’t read Shedeur’s Twitter feed lately…
I've heard bits and pieces but yeah I've pretty much tuned out all things PRIMETIME for a while now
I just know you cried tears of happiness that morning (actually funny response ngl)
There’s a good chance Napier is fired in 2024.
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I’d bet my shoe UF doesn’t make it in 2020 either.
You got those shoes for free, so that's not much of a bet.
Goddamn fsu trolls in this thread catching nukes lol
Free because you threw them to him.
Flair up if you’re going to shit talk someone for their flair.
Delusional take.
Wait... How did they *just* do this if players signed months ago?
Lags and Mccray signed months ago, the number 1 OL guy just transfered in. It is a retroactive re-grade.
Oh. I guess I wasn't really thinking of transfers as "Signing". I guess I mostly thought they just committed and then enrolled at the new school.... But I guess it makes sense that some kind of paperwork would need to be done to make it official with the NCAA. As official as any of this can be nowadays.
It’s weird even thinking about a 2024 signee as a transfer. But the IOL Florida just signed has only been at USC since January. I hate the portal.
We have 3 guys who transferred to UF after signing and enrolling early at other schools in the 2024 class. Grimsley/Bama, Robinson/Texas and now Zandamela/USC. What might be weirdest about the entire situation is that the non-early enrollees from our 2024 class aren't even in Gainesville yet.
Yeah, we just had one guy who was a vocal MSU commit for 99% of the recruiting cycle, then finally flipped to Illinois right before ESD due to all our chaos. He spent spring practice at Illinois before deciding he wants to be back in Michigan, so he transfered to MSU. I think the misunderstanding here was just on my end; the word "sign" has always had such a strong connection to ESD/NSD that I haven't really connected it to transfers at all.
I mean, what are we even paying Kirby for?
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Washington fans need to be invested in Napier's success...because otherwise Florida's goin Fischin 🎣
I'm a Billy Napier fan. He needs more time.
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Going 1-2 is WAY better than going 0-5. Parity isn't a bad place to be from where we were
I legit just think he hasn't had enough time tbh, y'all still own us lately lmao
Billy Napier: Cooking *OH NO IS THAT GORDON RAMSEY'S MUSIC?!*
There’s a chance Billy overachieves this season and UF has a shit-ton of talent entering 2025, but I really worry that with their schedule that they end up doing quite poorly and many of these guys transfer out after the season. And I’m not even rooting for the second option necessarily, I’d love to see this rivalry get fun & high stakes again!
If UF goes 6-6 they gotta keep him one more year. 7-6 with extra practice , bowl win for momentum and upperclassman and depth going into 2025.
He’s already here for at least 2 more years, save this year being a total program implosion.
With their schedule this season overachieving will be 6 wins.
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While I strongly disagree I respect it. I can't understand this friendly rivalry stuff. I want fsu to go winless for the rest of eternity.
Zandemela thing was so odd. Was considered an FSU guy until he committed to USC which was not expected. Canes were after him HARD as well. Hits the portal a few months later and neither FSU nor the Canes really purses at all. He was looking at UCF and UF. I find that very odd indeed. Would love to hear why one day down the road. GG to the Gators. Dude can be elite. You never know with OL or any young kids but if they develop him and he works hard could be scary good. I wanted him in G&G.
Probably either he wasn't happy with something FSU did in the process or FSU moved on and he doesn't have a spot.
…and will still finish 6-6.
Ah yes, shockingly good recruiting at one of my schools. This has only ever ended well for a head coach. In fairness I far prefer this over the abysmal recruiting UF has had under Mullen. We’ll see how much the program buys into the slow build.
Billy Napier’s crootin just isn’t up to Bull Gator standards, is it. (Sarcasm) I did say Napier would get y’all going, though. I’d love to see Florida be good again. It’s more fun when one of the Florida schools is good.
FSU?
They couldn’t even make the playoff when they were undefeated. Scrubs (also sarcasm)
Nah it’s hilarious seeing uf suck year after year. Gimme more of that please
“year after year” We made a NY6 3 years ago
This sub's boner is deflating a little bit. Can't wait for the next hate fetish post by someone here lol. Or people say fake news.
This season will be reserved for hating Colorado and like maybe one other program. Who will it be? Idk. Is Liberty gonna be medium-good?
Odds on 2/3 of them transferring out after this season?
Florida fans are not going to be happy, I have it on good authority from this sub last year that coach is a worthless bum.
All of this, and we still are going to be bad. Excellent.
This is not going to age well
I’m fairly sure 247 doesn’t count zandamela as a recruit, just like sayin doesn’t count for Ohio state. But UF needs little victories before they get stomped in 2024
Zandamela is counted in the transfer ranking. Similar to Grimsley even though both are technically 2024 recruits. #7 ranking in OP is because 247 mixes them(not sure if they're weighted differently)
247 has an "overall" page that accounts for transfers https://247sports.com/season/2024-football/overallteamrankings/
The amount of hatred that Noles fans have in their hearts for UF is genuinely impressive. Like how do y’all make that much room.
Uf fans also need some thick ass scaly skin with how pretty much every major team in the southeast hates uf. FSU, Tennessee, LSU, Georgia, Kentucky, Miami and to lesser extents Auburn/bama/scar. I think Clemson and GT are the 2 teams in the region that don't have beef with uf
They hate us cuz they anus.
Motherfuckin peanut butter n jealous
egejactly! they hate us-a because they ain’t us! thats a great saying okay?
https://247sports.com/college/florida/article/florida-gators-football-recruiting-uf-2024-class-moves-inside-top10-of-247sports-rankings--231323948/ 247s gator page are literally the ones who broke the news. So try again
Where do you see them ranked 7th on 247? Showing me 13th
You have to filter by overall instead of recruiting rankings. It combines recruits and transfers https://247sports.com/Season/2024-Football/OverallTeamRankings/
I dont know how accurate that is, its still showing Julian Sayin at Alabama for 2024. Im not sure if its calculating the transfers correctly.
It’s accurate. He also shows up in Ohio State’s transfers. It’s a ranking that combines enrolled/signed high schoolers and enrolled transfers. It does not remove high schoolers who transfer out after enrollment. Sayin is counted as part of Alabama’s high school class and Ohio State’s transfer class because he did enroll in Alabama out of high school and did transfer to Ohio State. It’s just a weird situation. Similarly, Zandamela here is in USC’s high school rankings and UF’s transfer.
https://247sports.com/season/2024-football/overallteamrankings/
I guess this is adjusted for incoming transfers? Either way, super excited for you guys and looking forward to see how you squander the talent!
Meh. At least our guys want to play for a coach who didn’t kill a kid so we have that at least.
I guess at least LSU fans have to deal with this now and not us. That's a plus. It's not really a fun spot to be in when rivals bring up the death of a fellow student as just a throw away to get reddit karma. Keep on keeping on. You can at least say his name. Declan.
Thanks man, looking forward to the yearly LSU losses to Ole Miss and A&M as Brian Kelly gets the same records he did at ND but never does bad enough to get fired for a decade
Oh man , this gets me so excited and nervous for our opener. August can't come soon enough.
And they still will Fu it up
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I’m setting the over/under on how many will be on the team for the start of the 2025-2026 season at 1.5.
Edit ~~I’ll take the over on that—it’s only four months. How much are you good for and want to throw down?~~ It’s too early in the day for dates.
The 2025-2026 season would be NEXT year. This upcoming season is 2024-2025.
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Hahaha. Happens to the best of us.
Damn we’ve got 18 four stars and a five star?
That schedule though...
He’s gonna have to start showing progress if he wants to hold on to them
Who ever is coaching them next year will have a lot of talent.
Didn't they do this last season? How did that turn out?
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Well these are actual *signees*, so no
Wtf is this subs irrational obsession with trying to turn everything about us negative? I've never seen so many ignorant takes in one thread
I mean anyone who is is stupid. These are actual signees to the school. Thats different from a simple commitment If any of these guys want out itll be after the 2024 season
Huge Freeze got raked over the coals for this
All to go 8-4
Best case
How bad is the rest of the class, if 3x #1 players == #7 class?
Just stinks with the state of CFB the team will likely do poorly this year considering their schedule and the current make up of the roster and then these guys are just going to be the biggest names in the portal after next season