DT Robinson to the portal

Hmm, played sparingly in 23 and rs in 24?

 

Dez and Cam are the big losses as they were the big uglies on the interior stuffing the run. We were hoping Robinson was going to step up in year 2. Hopefully Lyons comes back from his injury ready to play and the Baylor transfer can give us some meaningful snaps in year 3. Said he was ineligible to play last season due to grades/academic issues. Hopefully can get into UF. No immovable objects like Dez in short yardage this year

 

Or how bout not dogging on the Gators and the forum which many people love both like family. If you “hate it here” at Florida and GC as you said then GT#O! Based on the three things I’ve ever read from you which are above, I wish you would.

Furthermore, when I went to school here we never lost to UGA. So it goes, it’s a game you win and sometimes not but if you’re blood is O&B you know this. And fwiw, why don’t you get an opinion from a Bulldog watching over the last few decades in all if it’s always perfect there.

Sure I get upset but don’t watch sports if you can’t handle the lows. Plenty of fair weather fans. Don’t need or want em here.

Trust me, real Gators get more frustrated than you. <— feel free to read into that.

 

Sometimes you have to forget about the stars and look at the play.

“Bett has three years of eligibility remaining after he redshirted in 2024 after he had a strong 2023 freshman season.

During his freshman season, Bett graded out as the fourth-highest rated interior defensive lineman among freshman according to PFF.

Bett accounted for nine tackles, one sack, and two pass deflections during his freshman season at Baylor.” - Andrew Spivey

 

And that peckerwood that went to lsu was a clog in our front seven run support. Im concerned with short yardage for sho.

 

What it’s supposed to be and what it is are two entirely different things

 

Yay!

 

6’5” and 300 pounds

 

Very similar to Banks’s bio when we picked him up

 

And he will play for the fifth spot defensive tackle nil.

 

The UAA earned their reputation for being cheap over the years. UF was consistently one of the programs that finished year with positive balances (Savings). JF was well known for being fiscally conservative and slow to "keep up with the Jones's." Whether that is still true now is arguable.

The paradigm has changed (somewhat) on how players are now procured and no poster called out any donors by name. I donate yearly and I don't recall that anyone called me out by name and I'm not offended.

 

No one insulted any donor by name. Matter of fact, only you and another poster brought up donors by name.

As I replied to to @Wanne15, UF's reputation for being "less than extravagant" in its spending was deservedly earned. Perhaps that is no longer true, and certainly being fiscally responsible has always been important.

Certainly the paradigm in funding athletics has change 180 degrees since that rep was earned, but UF (and I guess if you all say so, that includes its donors and funders) is not above criticism. Of course some posters opinions are a bit unhinged and those opinions are also open to similar criticism.

 

Agreed in this case....I just think the efforts to criticize based on big donors being offended is a bit over the top.

Additionally, Napier has provided plenty of material to be critical about. Certainly the book is still out on his tenure, and his (or the administrations) efforts to manage player contracts will be at least a portion of how his UF career will be judged. The poster was certainly a bit hysterical, but the concern that we lose a young DT that saw considerable PT in 2024 is valid. Maybe Robinson is a diva and won't be a big loss going forward. I certainly hope so.

 

Slotting NIL (pay for play) payments to players based on their contributions and potential has to be difficult. Of course some mistakes will be made. Check the FSU and Bowl games...Robinson played a lot and was quite effective. I was looking forward to him being a Gator DT in the future.

As far as knowing who he was, that just demonstrates the ridiculousness of calling these payments "NIL." They aren't...its pure play for play and schools and NCAA have twisted logic in order the make what was basically ilicit recruiting inducements okay now. The NCAA reminds me of this guy:

 

Maybe injured?

 

I wasn’t implying that it wasn’t a loss. It was. My issue with his bellyaching was he claimed this was some sort of outlier among the top schools. Which of course, it’s not. Players switching schools left & right. Many of them had much larger roles on the teams they just left.

Point being, I thought the staff handled the portal season pretty well.

 

Did we just trade up?

 

Interestingly, the one unit I was concerned about and had hoped that the staff would be more active in the portal is at DL, where two effective guys with a ton of snaps ran out of eligibility and one left. I was assuming that they really like their young DT's when they didn't make any portal moves. It appears that they are getting a replacement from Baylor that is similarly young so maybe that will turn out to be a good trade.

 

I never said anyone insulted a donor by name.

I felt the same back then. The schools have always relied on donations, especially for facilities and big projects. The legislature and the courts put the full weight of NIL on the fan/booster system. That is expected to change, but we both know the third party deals will still be an integral part of the funding moving forward. If the fans/boosters wanted facilities to keep up with the joneses, JF would have been more than happy to accept money earmarked for that. He may not of thought it was necessary, and didn’t spend enough time fundraising for it, but he would have happily spent the money if the support system brought him the money for those projects.

As I’ve stated multiple times, everyone is free to post their criticisms, critiques, and complaints, but they’re not above reproach. I say put up or shut up. If you want more money to be spent, spend more money. You don’t have to agree, and you’re welcome to your opinion, but I’m also allowed to have one of my own. You’re not required to like mine anymore than I’m required to like yours.

 

No, but you and others set up the strawman that criticizing UF was equivalent to criticizing the big donors that were and are really driving the train. I believe the message to the poster was fair: If you don't like it, donate more and then we can pay more.

When you end up with a financial surplus every year and your facilities are getting long in tooth and not equivalent to your competition then, at least to me, that represents a problem somewhere. Whether it be with JF or his bosses, the criticism of the UAA was deserved. Stricklin, even with his faults, seems to have been able to solve the facilities problem (albeit 15 years late).

You bet, I agree everyone is entitled to their opinion and I've given mine many times (some most likely wildly wrong ).