Comments on: Zach’s Mail Stack 10/4

By: Tim Kelleher

Tim Kelleher — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:57:00 +0000

Zach,

Sometime in the near future could you give us a brief overview of how some of the former players who have transferred are doing at their respective colleges. I.e. players like Dowling, Finley, Shaw.

By: Austin

Austin — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:31:55 +0000

Zack, I keep seeing on other sites that Florida is still pursuing Robert Nkemdiche. Do we ACTUALLY have a shot, or is this just Muschamp being stubborn again?? lol thanks!

By: GI-Gator

GI-Gator — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 01:11:03 +0000

@ Matt – Floyd is already projected to go in the 1st round. NFL teams have seen enough to want him! That being the case, Floyd will be gone after this year. The jury is out on Easley. He may come back for one reason – I see him as a DE in the NFL and it would serve him well to play another year, in college ball, at DE. He could, however, find his mojo between now and the end of the season.

By: Braxton

Braxton — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:54:06 +0000

Hi Zach,

I am sure your going to get as many football recruit reactions to the LSU game as soon as you can and I certainly can’t wait to hear what they thought. In addition, I also wanted to ask if you could find out about all of the 5 star basketball kids that Billy D had in town and what they thought about the overall UF sports atmosphere. Also their impression of their basketball tour etc…? I am copying and pasting below an excerpt from another site thanks:

“Down in Gainesvile, Fla., Billy Donovan and the Gators will be hosting a very talented group of visitors while the football team plays host to LSU. Just like Kentucky, the Gators have a pair of top-10 prospects committed, and both power forward Chris Walker and point guard Kasey Hill will be on hand for their official visits. Joining them in an official capacity will be the No. 1 player in the class of 2013, Julius Randle. From the class of 2014, big timer Dakarai Johnson will be on hand, as will arguably the top player in the class of 2015, Karl Towns.

He won’t visit this weekend, but Jabari Parker is going to trip to Gainesville as well. With the No. 2 player planning to visit, it looks as if only Florida will get official visits from the top two players in the class of 2013. It doesn’t mean that either Randle or Parker will sign with UF, but it’s impressive that Donovan and his staff were the only ones able to get them both on campus officially.”

Thanks….

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 16:06:06 +0000

Zach, Any update from the recruits on if the convincing win might cause them to pull the trigger. Feels like the big win over FSU the year that Tebow and company commited.

By: CREEK GATOR

CREEK GATOR — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 01:31:37 +0000

@ GREG,
I get your point but if you read the article Zach wrote it was not a kneejerk reaction. According to the report this happened long ago not last week when the coaches stop recruiting Henry. I for one wondered why they never or stopped talking about his recruitment, at the time, the rumor was he was Ga. bound so I accepted that as the reason. There’s always post that critisizes the coaches for not or stop recruiting kids with QUESTIONABLE behavior (or TUDES as you say), now they are trying to get QUALITY, TALENTED athletes in the program, it appears they are being accused of being “sour grapes” because a kid is going elsewhere. Read the article again and see why they stopped recruiting him. He is a great athlete, but according to the article he “MAY” have caused problems later in his career at Florida. If we can avoid that lets do it upfront not as a reaction after the fact.GO GATORS!!!!

By: tomk

tomk — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 01:28:59 +0000

Zack,
can you tell me about our chances with Denver Kirkland? and as for recruting on defense, how about Issac Saviinaea at MLB? they both have at least a small intrest[ kirklands from florida and Issac ha s a “MED” intrest on one of these recruiting sites
thanks man

By: scooterp

scooterp — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:07:23 +0000

………..we legitimately missed on the other three you mentioned and their were no excuses given – just out recruited. Meyer wanted Richardson BAD. CJ had some concern with playing time with all the speedsters we had at the time and Watkins fell in love with Clemson on his visit. Henry is a different story.

By: scooterp

scooterp — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:03:39 +0000

@Greg- Are you a recruiting insider? I didn’t think so. This revelation wasn’t something that just came out last week about Henry’s relationship with the Gator coaching staff………and it did happen. It is a credit to the coaching staff for not letting it leak out into the media earlier and destroying the kid. Trust me, they didn’t want him after meeting him on campus several months back.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:05:59 +0000

Maybe Henry had a bad attitude and maybe that’s something we tell ourselves to feel better after a major rival comes into our state and steals a spectacular prospect. Maybe Trent Richardson, or CJ Spiller or Sammy Watkins also were “bad tudes” too, eh? We gotta stop missing on in state talent. I get that it’s Bama, and we’re gonna lose kids to Bama. But sorry not to go with the kneejerk “oh he must be a bad kid” reaction. And I have hard time believing that Saban will supposedly put up with a bad attitude or entitled kid. Whatever he’s putting up with seems to be working for him, unfortunately.