Recruiting Class 2010, 2 year projections…

If you recruit for next season you are in deep kimchi. Urban Meyer has to battle a lot of negative recruiting. To battle it he’s said no one redshirts, everyone plays. The recruits look at the depth chart, if they can find one, to see who will be there if they pick the Gators.

You can be sure if they can’t find a depth chart then some rival of the Gators will be happy to provide them with one along with player bios and star rankings.

No one looks at a recruit to come right in and start. It happens, but not that often.

To really look at needs for 2010 it seems you’d want take out the seniors and juniors, the chart on the bottom of this page will be whats left after the 2010 class has bean at Florida a season.

(Matt Elam to the left is a very hard hitting safety from South Florida, he was Florida’s third commitment.)

	Pos	Ht/Wt	Name
5.8	OT	6-6, 280	Ian Silberman
5.8	QB	6-3, 220	Trey Burton
5r	S	6-1, 205	Matt Elam
5.8	CB	6-0, 175	Demar Dorsey
58r	CB	511, 175	Victor Hampton
47r	S	6-4, 185	Jonathan Dowling
3*	TE	6-6, 220	Michael McFarland
3*	OG	6-4, 295	Leon Orr
5.8	LB	6-2, 195	Gideon Ajagbe
27r	WR	6-0, 175	Jaylen Watkins

……..De’Joshua Johnson above in 7on7.

(Above: r - is Rivals top 100 list, we have four commitments from it. The 5.8 is a Rivals rating, a 6.1 is the highest, a few reach that rating. McFarland and Orr are each rated 3-stars by Scout. Recruits are in order of when they committed to Florida.)

We have balance so far with the first 10 to verbally commit, five on defense and five on offense.

It’s been an excellent start for Florida, Demar Dorsey is the freak of this class hope we can hold onto him. Ian Silberman is the beast of the class, he will be a Gator. Trey Burton is the recruiter, he’s gone above and beyond. Now if he has a good arm he’ll get in line to be one of the next signal callers. He might do some running plays for John Brantley like Tim Tebow did for Chris Leak.

You wish the coaches could talk most of the recruits into looking at what is going to be there after one year at Florida. It makes sense but waiting is not something very many young men are good at, a year at that age just seems forever. (Above is Christian Green, 6-2, 196, 4.46 forty, an excellent dual threat QB who might end up there or at WR or safety in college.)

The chart below shows grade level for fall of 2009, it’s what will be left after 2010. In 2011 all freshmen and sophomores will be juniors and seniors. It seems a while from now but I’ve been told in the past this is what the coaches looked at and what they recruited for.

To me it’s interesting looking at the DL, it is jammed up if you look at it now but down the road just a bit. Same with safety on defense. There will be some LBs but it’s wide open, Bostic and Jenkins will be tough guys to beat out but you never know.

The OL has a large group but someone like Silberman won’t be worried about who is on campus. TE is pretty wide open, depending on how long Addazio is here you can look for the TEs role to expand in the future of Florida football.

QB, in 2011 Brantley will be a senior, you hope his replacement has been on campus a year or two. At RB if Gillislee can get it done we should be OK if he struggles we will have two scatback types so getting a midsized RB like Mack Brown is pretty important.

You can see some very nice talent at WR, this is the group Brantley will go to war with his senior season. I’d like to see him do well. For that to happen some of these guys will help be a major part of that.

Defense
DE		Soph		Fresh		Commitment	recruit
							BJ Butler, Garrison Smith
	W	Green	E	Okine			W Gholston, Dexter Morant
							Lynden Trail
DT
	J	Howard	O	Hunter			Louis Nix
			G	Brown			Richard Ash



LB
	L	McCray	B	Beal		Gideon Ajagbe	Jef Luc
			J	Bostic			T Cornileus
			J	Jenkins
CB
	J	Jenkins	J	Brown	D	Dorsey
			A	Bushell	V	Hampton
			J	Evans
S
	W	Hill	D	Finley	M	Elam
					J	Dowling

		5		10		5	20
Offense
OL		Soph		Fresh		Commitment	recruit
	M	Patchan	S	Robey	I	Silberman	Brent Benedict
	J	Wilson	D	Young	L	Orr	Travadis Glenn
			N	Alajajian			Chaz Green
			J	Harrison			Brandon Linder
			J	Halapio			Eric Mack
			K	Kohne			Stephen Morris
			X	Nixon			Eric Mack
QB							Chris Green
	J	Brantley	J	Reed	T	Burton	Jff Godfrey
RB							Roy Finch, Mack Brown
	C	Rainey	M	Gillislee			M Brown, R Finch, B Gainer
	J	Demps					D Hall, C Turner, D Wright
WR
	D	Thompson	A	Debose	J	Watkins	Chris Dunkley
	P	Wilson	F	Hammond			Kadron Boone
			T	Lawrence			Nickell Robey
			A	Debose
TE
			D	Parks	M	McFarland	Gerald Christian
FB
	S	Wilks
	T	Pridemore
		9		14		5	28
		19		24		10	53

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The RH Factor 11 months ago 1 point
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I think Meyer may be the best in college football in the way he handles his players. He is a master at determining what each player does best and finding a way for that player to get on the field in a game and contribute to a win.

He has the program built up to the point where the team sees itself as a big family. Tebow came back part in his loyalty to the school and to the team and Spikes followed suit. Players will do things so they don't let the team down and you often hear this from players coming off the bench and having great performances.

Another thing Meyer has done is get players who are not concerned about the depth chart. Other schools can point to both their and our depth charts to get players to go to their school, but Meyer is looking for players willing to compete. This was seen the past season when Meyer started talking about having a team that loves to practice, which is almost unheard of in football.

As you may remember, I'm a fan of former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden. His teams often felt like their practices were harder than the games and that when they walked on the court, the game was won. His famous Pyramid of Success had 25 blocks and the block at the top was entitled "Compeitive Greatness". This is the attitude Meyer has instilled in the Gator football team when it walks on the field.

The players he recruits can either decide to be a part of it or have to play against it somewhere down the road.

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Steve Spurrier 2 months ago 1 point
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Meyer might be the best there is at lying to kids about what position he is recruiting them and other kids for. He is awesome at manipulating kids. He must laugh about how he convinced other top QBs that he was recruiting Tebow as a fullback.

Gosh, it sure would be terrible if he had a major heart attack after junking the idea of walking away to enjoy time with his family. Maybe karmic in a way, but terrible nonetheless.

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