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DTP said:
I don’t blame UFail for not agreeing to Pyburn’s demands but anyone else find it weird that so many UF defenders are heading to the portal? Not just benchwarmers trying to find playing time either. A lot of these guys were regulars/starters last year. Regular contributors usually don’t just leave P4 programs that are on the up and up.
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Maybe they got tired of being multiple on the front end AND multiple on the back end?
 
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DTP said:
I don’t blame UFail for not agreeing to Pyburn’s demands but anyone else find it weird that so many UF defenders are heading to the portal? Not just benchwarmers trying to find playing time either. A lot of these guys were regulars/starters last year. Regular contributors usually don’t just leave P4 programs that are on the up and up.
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As the other poster said, it’s possible that they threw so much money into that new signing class that the incoming freshman have higher NIL deals than many of the existing players. And if they are starters they’ll want to be out on par to freshmen, or exceed those deals. And if the Gators refuse, then they are out.
 
wnycanesfan said:
If true this is the byproduct of everyone knowing you are throwing stupid money around to HS. The guys on the team are going to want some too. Doubt he is the last one to try and shake them down just like the FSU guys did last year.
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$540K annual for a linebacker. Hmm.

If that’s just the average for all starting 11 players on offense and defense, your looking at an $11.9M annual spend on your starters.
 
So the gators are now dreaming a scenario up where JJ comes "home" to UF?

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TheOriginalCane said:
Just being honest, how much did you pay him for the first three years?

Doesn't seem that crazy that your leading returning tackler, who has been loyal to UF all along, would want a decent one-year bag for all he has invested.

Do you think that George Gumby is just gonna make all of Jack's tackles?
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I like Gumbs ceiling higher than Pyburn but at this point, they are different players. Once Jack got his legs under him, he was REALLY REALLY good against the run which is gonna be hard to replicate. Gumbs is way better as a pass rusher but I mean LJ McCray….time to step it up too!
 
flagator86 said:
I like Gumbs ceiling higher than Pyburn but at this point, they are different players. Once Jack got his legs under him, he was REALLY REALLY good against the run which is gonna be hard to replicate. Gumbs is way better as a pass rusher but I mean LJ McCray….time to step it up too!
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See, I agree with this entirely.

A big chunk of the Florida (and Florida State) fanbase, writing staff, and maybe even some coaches, seem to think that they can money-shame these kids for trying to get paid fairly (at least in their own minds).

Pyburn is from Jax. Florida slow-played him and he STILL flipped from Miami within minutes of Florida allowing him to step foot on campus at the end of the recruiting cycle. Pyburn has not been arrested or disciplined or penalized. He has put up the stats this past year. I'm sure you didn't give him a big bag to flip from UM to UF, he's just a Duval redneck and somehow liked Hogtown better. No big deal.

So why try to humiliate the kid when he just wants to be paid for ONE YEAR? He's been loyal and productive. Oh, but it's more important to throw cash at guys you just started recruiting in November when Slingblade Billy finally started to win a few games.

Sorry, that's just pathetic.
 
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