Recruiting the 2023 football class.

Still a long way to go and a lot of good players weighing their options

 

Though Only 20% of the best (top 50) have signed.

 

And we have how many? Not worried but not getting comfy either

 

I think you know the answer to that.

 

He looked good in February.

 

We do not know the answer, right? How good are his assistants? To me CBN seems laid back so I don't know. We will see, right?

 

Napier softens them up for Chaos & Turner.

 

I think you mean December, but YES -- he did!

 

I’ll have a glass

 

Tell us something we don’t know.

 

And some speculated that "scared money don't make money" tweets meant just that.

 

I think it may have changed to "money, money, money, where da money?"

 

I'm going to wait until signing day until I feel one way or another.

Here's what I know.

1. One of the biggest reasons we hired Billy Napier was to fix our recruiting issues.
2. Based on the track records of coaches like Saban, Smart, Meyer, etc. the first full cycle is more than enough time to make a splash on the recruiting trail. We should have a good idea of how good at recruiting Napier will be by the end of this cycle.
3. I was one of the last guys to jump off the Mullen train. I eventually accepted that 2021 Mullen was just not the same as 2018-2020 Mullen, and he just seemed to "check out," so we had to move on. I don't think Napier is nearly as good of an offensive mind or an offensive fit for Florida as Mullen was, but I don't think he needs to be. Napier can win championships if he hires a good staff, recruits well, and runs a stable program that builds upon itself. I'm just worried because this is the time to make a splash, if you wait too long to recruit at an elite level, you just probably won't be able to.

I don't know what happened to Mullen, I just wish we had the same guy we had from 2018-2020... and that he fired Grantham after 1-2 years, and he played the best guys in the best situations as opposed to the veteran guys, just because they've been here a while. The fact that Mullen got away with all of that for 3 years is crazy to me, but it speaks to how good of an offensive mind he is.

 

How much money does he have to work with?