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110% and I’ve thought about this. I don’t think it’ll happen because - ready… that stuff doesn’t normally happen… but we should do it. It would crush them.
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No, he was fired by the 4-13 Giants. He was unemployed. He went looking for a job, and the best he could do was Duke. That was his current market value. UF just took the Duke DL coach. That's who they hired.
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UiF decided to put 1-3-5 and 2-4-6 on the backs of the lineman's pants to help him know where to run…
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Kinda like Golden hiring Jethro. Crazy parallels.
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I said the same thing last week. That would be glorious if we flipped Raymond.
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Crush em! My heart is ready for that.
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Good times!
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They’re justifying it based on who he recruited at Penn State I guess…
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@Liberty City El is Sean Spencer going to dominate DL recruiting here???
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@Liberty City El is Sean Spencer going to dominate DL recruiting here???
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At this point yall can toss the Gators and Noles in a hole and build the sands. We gonna mudhole FSU and UF aint over coming UGA or Bama. Its Rip for both for atleast a decade. First place its gonna show up...on the recruiting trail. Watch
Nice list at first glance, dude atleast has a history of recruiting I guessThey’re justifying it based on who he recruited at Penn State I guess…
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@Liberty City El is Sean Spencer going to dominate DL recruiting here???
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but but they are NFL guys that means they can recruit. NFL **** dont mean a **** thing in college, unless your roster is completely stacked like Bama and u bringing in a former HC whos known for X's and O's.
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Agree 100% .Recruiting is a whoooole other gift and can get tedious to say the least when having to deal with a bunch of spoiled brats who are used to everyone in their lives fawning over them like they’re someone special….
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Jesus. Napier's 140 person staff (63 paid):
(Napier) is amassing (an) army. Eight of 10 on-field assistants have been hired. Half of his 12 analyst/quality control positions are filled. His strength and conditioning, football operations and personnel departments each have five jobs with four hirings completed. Both player performance specialists are on hand. His director of nutrition will be onboarding two registered dietitians — one for offense, one for defense — as well as an executive chef. There are eight spots for marketing/creative, and three spots for the “GatorMade” program that provides NIL guidance and career counseling.
All told, there are 63 full-time staffers, plus another 77 intern spots within the master plan. “That’s a big part of what we believe in: more people that have a sincere care for the player and want to impact the player,” Napier said.
It sounds gluttonous — 140 jobs for a football team that, counting walk-ons, consists of around 130 players. But during Florida’s brief coaching search, Napier presented athletic director Scott Stricklin with specific tasks for each hire and the overwhelming flowchart made sense. Now it’s being implemented with designs on maintaining quality of life for people within the organization.
“This profession can chew you up and spit you out,” Napier said. “Literally I could work every day of my life, from sunup to sundown and more. There’s that much work to do. As competitors, we can let it consume us.”
Building out such an expansive organization, he contends, allows coaches to delegate, be more efficient with their time and “get good at the things that are important” to playing championship football.
“There’s nobody that’s just sitting around eating popcorn, just watching the game,” Napier said. “We’ve got things for them to do. We’re not going to hire anybody we don’t have a very clearly defined role for.”
That includes two on-campus recruiting staffers who are front-and-center this weekend as official visitors arrive. Napier hired Katie Turner away from Georgia and promoted her to assistant AD of recruiting strategy, with sources telling The Athletic she’ll earn a $200,000 salary. He also brought in Bri Wade from Louisiana as director of on-campus recruiting.
“You have the personnel component of what you do, and then you have the Ritz-Carlton Effect, the hospitality component of what you do, the customer service side,” Napier said. “We’re basically in the sales business. We’re selling our product, right? We’re presenting our product, we’re creating unique experiences for the player, their families. In recruiting it’s important that you get really individualized because no situation is the same. That’s what Katie and Bri do. They help us organize that experience that these players have for us, and no detail is too small.”
This weekend’s prized visitor, Texas A&M five-star commit Harold Perkins, is the nation’s top-ranked linebacker, according to the 247Sports composite (which factors in rankings from Rivals and ESPN). Four-star safety Jacoby Matthews, thought to be choosing between Texas A&M and home-state LSU, is coming to Gainesville as well. Landing either would drastically improve the mood of Florida’s 2022 recruiting class that ranks 41st nationally.
With three transfers committed so far, Napier confirmed there are more to come.
“I think you could see us add a number of players over the next eight to 10 days,” he said. “We’re still in the process of working on that part of our team.”
As you might surmise, there’s a new staffer focused solely on scouting the portal — Bird Sherrill, director of college personnel. He spent six seasons with the Detroit Lions after graduating from Alabama in 2016.
(Napier) is amassing (an) army. Eight of 10 on-field assistants have been hired. Half of his 12 analyst/quality control positions are filled. His strength and conditioning, football operations and personnel departments each have five jobs with four hirings completed. Both player performance specialists are on hand. His director of nutrition will be onboarding two registered dietitians — one for offense, one for defense — as well as an executive chef. There are eight spots for marketing/creative, and three spots for the “GatorMade” program that provides NIL guidance and career counseling.
All told, there are 63 full-time staffers, plus another 77 intern spots within the master plan. “That’s a big part of what we believe in: more people that have a sincere care for the player and want to impact the player,” Napier said.
It sounds gluttonous — 140 jobs for a football team that, counting walk-ons, consists of around 130 players. But during Florida’s brief coaching search, Napier presented athletic director Scott Stricklin with specific tasks for each hire and the overwhelming flowchart made sense. Now it’s being implemented with designs on maintaining quality of life for people within the organization.
“This profession can chew you up and spit you out,” Napier said. “Literally I could work every day of my life, from sunup to sundown and more. There’s that much work to do. As competitors, we can let it consume us.”
Building out such an expansive organization, he contends, allows coaches to delegate, be more efficient with their time and “get good at the things that are important” to playing championship football.
“There’s nobody that’s just sitting around eating popcorn, just watching the game,” Napier said. “We’ve got things for them to do. We’re not going to hire anybody we don’t have a very clearly defined role for.”
That includes two on-campus recruiting staffers who are front-and-center this weekend as official visitors arrive. Napier hired Katie Turner away from Georgia and promoted her to assistant AD of recruiting strategy, with sources telling The Athletic she’ll earn a $200,000 salary. He also brought in Bri Wade from Louisiana as director of on-campus recruiting.
“You have the personnel component of what you do, and then you have the Ritz-Carlton Effect, the hospitality component of what you do, the customer service side,” Napier said. “We’re basically in the sales business. We’re selling our product, right? We’re presenting our product, we’re creating unique experiences for the player, their families. In recruiting it’s important that you get really individualized because no situation is the same. That’s what Katie and Bri do. They help us organize that experience that these players have for us, and no detail is too small.”
This weekend’s prized visitor, Texas A&M five-star commit Harold Perkins, is the nation’s top-ranked linebacker, according to the 247Sports composite (which factors in rankings from Rivals and ESPN). Four-star safety Jacoby Matthews, thought to be choosing between Texas A&M and home-state LSU, is coming to Gainesville as well. Landing either would drastically improve the mood of Florida’s 2022 recruiting class that ranks 41st nationally.
With three transfers committed so far, Napier confirmed there are more to come.
“I think you could see us add a number of players over the next eight to 10 days,” he said. “We’re still in the process of working on that part of our team.”
As you might surmise, there’s a new staffer focused solely on scouting the portal — Bird Sherrill, director of college personnel. He spent six seasons with the Detroit Lions after graduating from Alabama in 2016.
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Corey Raymond isn't going to flip to UM for more money. He reached out to Miami, but since we had T-Rob, it wasn't super-high-priority to throw money at him. Between Gaypier being a Louisiana guy, staying in the SEC to get payback on Kelly, the fact that he was prioritized by the Gaytors, and the fact that Raymond is a very loyal guy, there's no way in **** that Miami could pry him away.
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They’re justifying it based on who he recruited at Penn State I guess…
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Would be hilarious if they screwed up and accidentally/actually signed UM alum Sean Spence.
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