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Aidan Mizell: "Parental Perspective: Legacy’s path to Florida began with an apolog"

Discussion in 'Awesome Recruiting' started by Gatorrick22, Jan 18, 2023.

  1. finorman

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    You are correct….. kid looks and sounds like a winner from a great Gator family. I’m glad we were able to get our Pooh together to get him on board. I’m definitely a fan.
     
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  2. gator10

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    A little early for that comparison.
     
  3. Claygator

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    Boy, are you wrong. It is entirely about Mullen's recruiting ineptitude.
     
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  4. antny1

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    Nah it's not. He didn't compare performance. He responded to your criticism about his weight and simply pointed out that smith did fine with a similar build. Sometimes people just see the glass half full while others just make negative comment after the other...
     
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  5. apkgator

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    I agree it's important to have a quality hit rate due to the roster turnover.....not sure I agree that any class of 20 is "very small". And that's just the high school kids, we will have another handful from the portal so there are a lot of new faces
     
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  6. Gatorrick22

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    Son, you better check that attitude on MY THREAD. ;)

    Feel free to start a hate Mullen thread if you want, and I have no problem with that. You are NOT alone in your disgust of Mullen and the clown that he was.

    Now you are okay to post another feel good story here about a recent recruit if you like. But stop with the Mullen stuff, please.
     
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  7. SuperMOM

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  8. Bazza

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    Thanks, Rick.....really good article! :emoji_thumbsup:
     
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  9. Wanne15

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    Nope, he’s skinny right now
     
  10. Wanne15

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    20 Tony Gwynn’s and our hit rate will be just fine.
     
  11. gator10

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    Yeah but the inference was he’s going to be another devonte smith. That is too early to say by a mile. I hope he is though.
     
  12. antny1

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    Nope. Almost the exact same builds out of highschool. Smith is still listed at 170 in the NFL. It was a simple comparison of weights with no implications Wilson is going to be a Heisman winning reciever....
     

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  13. g8rtrucker

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    glad you posted this. If I hadn't seen someone mention that ancillary article , I was going to do it myself. Eye opening to say the least.
     
  14. spike718

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    For those who don’t read the article, the biggest take home and not surprising line from Aidens parents via our track coach regarding Mullens staff…

    “Coach Holloway was just really surprised nobody looked at him, especially with the numbers he had put up,” Wil said. “[Holloway] said that it was a known thing that the staff didn’t recruit during the season, and Coach Holloway, he’s a world-class coach. He’s like, ‘I coached in the Olympics. I recruit every day. There is no offseason for recruiting.’”


    best thing- the video of the living space…what an upgrade from the prior dorm type rooms the players had. Amazing really.
     
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  17. tommyuf21

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    Great article and must reading for everyone, especially those who still believe Mullen could have been salvaged.
     
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  18. Wanne15

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    Nope, I used devonte because skinny isn’t always a problem. People get caught up in prototypical size, speed, height all the time. Some guys can just play football. It’s not always measured at camps.
     
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  19. grant1

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    Start your own thread instead of hijacking another thread
     
  20. Gatorrick22

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    That is what makes Aidan Mizell's story so much more interesting. Many stories has an antagonist if you will, lol. But that is not what I would like to talk about that dude on this thread. I want to keep this theme going in a positive Light.

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