What are they basing being the front runner on? Getting the last of 3 crammed in OVs? If he takes his last OV next to Miami after playing on a 7v7 team sponsored by John Ruiz they should worry big time.
The Gaytors have the perfect Charles Robinson/Yahoo Sports information-bootstrapping/money-laundering operation going.
It goes like this. A Gaytor assistant coach feeds information to his fraternity brother, QueJay. QueJay then posts his information on Swampa$$ 247. Then, an ACTUAL writer like Blake Alderman gives it his own personal "I agree with this" stamp of approval. A few key Gaytor porsters like Northern Gaytor repeat the information, and the next thing you know, it is a rock-solid verifiable fact, at least according to the Gaytor porsters. And God forbid you try to tell them otherwise.
I've tried to document this whole process, generally, and how it has specifically applied to Jaden Rashada "suddenly" falling in love with Florida.
---Florida has whiffed on all of its prior QB recruits for the 2023 class. Or maybe they "weren't takes". Bygones.
---Jaden Rashada has been searching for an "NIL deal" that has become elevated in the Iamaleava Era.
---Florida's recruiting class has been going nowhere, with the last 2 WR pickups being a guy who can't outsprint girls and a guy with a brother on the roster.
---Florida has been backchanneling Jaden Rashada with the "old school" SEC offer, the "we'll pay you money just to visit us" bag game, having nothing to do with legitimate NIL.
---As Rashada's Quest for the Holy Bag has continued, it has taken him to some unusual destinations, including Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he assured the local sports writers that Fayetteville was not nearly as bad as he expected. Unfortunately, Walmart/Tysons refused to get involved in the poker game, which saved us all the indigity of reading additional Rashada quotes touting Arkansas tourism.
---With Alabama and Georgia "we're good, thanks", and the lesser teams in the SEC not ponying up (Ole Miss, Arkansas), Rashada finally entertained calls from The University of Faded Glory Florida.
---To hear Gaytor fans tell it, Rashada's dad is in loooooooove with Gaypier from way back a long time ago during his lengthy one-year-tenure at Arizona State, where he recruited/developed exactly zero-point-zero quarterbacks as QB coach.
---Meanwhile, if there was any organic reason for Rashada changing his mind, any "oh, I loved you at Arizona State", any of this movement could have happened MONTHS AGO. But it is painfully apparent to anyone who is not a Gaytor, Rashada was paid to cram a 24-hour visit in RIGHT BEFORE he had to go to one of the most prestigious QB camps in the country.
---Where Rashada did not participate much or stand out for his excellence.
---BUT, the very fact that Rashada took an exhausting and delayed cross-country flight to pick up his Unofficial Appearance Fee, before giving his obligatory "your town of [insert town name here] was not as bad as I expected" speech and flying back to his QB camp on 1 hour of sleep, is enough to PROVE to the Gaytors faithful that nobody would do so much "if he wasn't serious about us" [ignoring, of course, the decades-long history of SEC schools paying recruits to visit their plantation campuses].
---Now for the fun part...Gaytor assistant coaches start svcking each other's ***** after the "amazing visit" that really "opened eyes" and "gave the family something to think about". Gaytor assistant coach/frat brother tells QueJay that Rashada is really serious, and that multiple top WRs are lining up to play alongside him.
---QueJay runs to Swampa$$ 247 to share his irrational exuberance, and the myth of "we're Top 2, and I'm not talking about #2" is born.
---And they told two friends, and they told two friends, and they told two friends, until it became an undeniable fact.
Gaytor playbook. It's long and convoluted, but entirely predictable.
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