Another commit! **** DL Amaris Williams

I can understand your sentiment regarding my post above.
All I am saying is that winning and losing in life all comes down to percentages.
And when it comes down to this insistent negativity...it is not a good look for our program.
Bottomline, we want to have every percentage point in our favor...
And this excessive negativity and wringing of hands does no one any good.

 

Why not? Are you suggesting that a 17 or 18 year old can't make that determination of their own accord? It's honestly insulting that you would believe he is incapable of that thought process on his own.

 

I taught 17 and 18 year olds for 41 years. It’s not insulting at all.
This is the easiest negative recruiting there is, don’t be so naive.

 

You are telling me, in 41 years of HS teaching, not 1 of your students was capable of critical thinking?

 

Dude, you’re reaching now.

Kids that are being recruited aren’t coming up with this on their own. They may have thoughts but you better believe they are hit hard with this by opposing coaches. Your (collectively) whining just adds fuel to the fire. Fire might already be there but y’all are stoking it. In the end, what will be, will be.

I’ve taught D1 athletes many times, one is on the team right now.

 

How do you know this? Have you asked Amaris personally? Or do you have telepathic abilities?

Lets be clear, I'm not arguing that negativity has no impact or even pretend to know the degree of the impact on recruits thought processes. I am arguing that Amaris and other recruits are fully capable of making these determinations on their own and your assertion that they are not is BS.

 

Have you asked him? Do you have telepathic abilities?

I'm just saying that this is a VERY EASY way to negatively recruit and don’t think it’s just with this one recruit. Pretty sure that they’re all getting it in their ears.

 

Of course, and it's been used for decades against every program in the country at some point regardless of merit or the fans

 

if you think other schools are not using this to negative recruit against us you are kidding yourself Imagine being a top ranked recruit yes this is not the only thing they use but it hurts us when a rival can say look how stable we are me and my staff have been here X amount of years we are solid we will be here for your entire college career ( begins to list the coaching changes and players leaving blown leads in games all those hurt) but as icing on the cake he throws out even the fan base has turned on Billy it's only a matter of time reads off some of the endless negative comments, "just go look at THEIR own fan site go ahead just read it they have given up on Billy and are trying to push him out but you go ahead commit to UF and watch the fans turn on you too. I can hear it now . not sure if that is how it would go down but if I was a rival recruiter you bet your ass that is what I would be telling recruits. so my statement is 100% true fans bitching will not get Napier fired it loads the gun for negative recruiting our fanbase all it does is hurt us with recruits.

 

This is a thread about a recruit visiting Auburn. Auburn. Everything you just typed could just as easily be used against them. That is the part ya'll that want to blame fans seem to be missing. To act as though UF has exclusive rights to negativity around their football program is laughable.

 

Drama much? All fanbases have whiners and bitchers when things aren't going well. And as @gatorwalrus pointed out I'm sure all schools have been negatively recruited against based on "hostile fanbase." We aren't any worse or better than any other set of fans.

 

Take a lap

 

Again, you're overstating it. The impact is negligible. Every fanbase in the SEC bitches when things don't go their way. It isn't a differentiating factor across programs.

Billy Bob posting about the lack of downfield passing isn't going to impact the track record in the portal or the W-L column, both of which are far more potent tools to negative recruit against us now.

 

Mediocrity is being kind.

 

Are you really that insulted for a stranger over a post of someone's opinion? Surely your not that invested in 17 year old kids feelings that you let it affect you.

 

Yep, we just execute the negative ones or at least cane em at halftime

 

5-6, 6-5. That’s about as close to mediocrity as you can get

 

When did we have those records? Last I checked, we lost 7 each of the last 3 years.

 

Nobody is without their village idiot that is for sure.