Asking for opinions comparing UF in May 2023 to May 2022

"If ifs and buts are candies and nuts..."

That isn't often easy to achieve. BN could develop it, but I think that may take some time...

 

A couple more years till I expect much

 

I was using efficiency and advanced stats. Total stats aren’t ideal for a variety of reasons. For example if your D stinks your O won’t be on the field as much.

 

No. It’s a math thing. We’d be closer to 15th. For example last year Clemson was 8th in D and nearly 50th in O.

 

And they weren’t very good. You need to be top 20 in both and preferably top 10 to be a legit team.

 

They finished top 15

 

With a number eight defense you can do something. We weren’t 30 in anything

 

This is quite a bad result for them.

 

Well, if you look at the defenses of Arizona, Oklahoma and Kansas, one doesn't need efficiency and advanced stats. Their defenses were worse than ours...

 

We were top 25 in offense using advanced metrics.

If we were merely ok on defense (50th) we would have been a top 25 team

 

It’s not about Clemson in particular. I was refuting the point you need a top 25 offense and defense to be a top 25 team. You don’t. If you are top 25 in both you are likely a top 10 team. That’s why I brought Clemson up. They had a top 10 D and an ok (to be kind) offense…yet still finished top 15

The problem with our team was 99.99% defensive last year

 

That’s a stretch and still bad.

 

Worst Gator defense i can remember. The fact that CBN knew we couldn't get a stop when we needed it changed our game plan and also changed the ability for us to play field position. We had to go whenever we could..

 

There’s been a couple to rival them the last few years though.

 

I’m not sure how six wins would translate to a top-5 class. Even I would cry foul that we had bought them under those circumstances. Eight regular season wins and a bowl win (where all of the players honor their scholarships and show up this time) might translate to the kind of recruiting bump you’re looking for. But I think your instinct is correct, and a 7-6 final record should be on the high end of expectations. My hope for recruiting is to land a consensus top-10 class this time around. There’s just no excuse for this program to land consistently outside of the top 10 as we have been for years.