I really hope Hayden Hansen will come back next year for his senior season! I think Lagway will start getting him the ball more and once he does that the whole country will see how elite of a TE he really is! Everytime he catches the ball he averages 15+ yards!
I agree. He is terrific. And as a blocker, to the best of my ability to assess these things, he is really good. As a receiver, he could be even more excellent if they'd send him more targets.
Ever notice that in the NFL the top picks are usually QBs. Money talks. Lagway is likely a top pick. Putting limited UF $ into surrounding Lagway with talent is the smart move.
We have our head coach locked in for a lower salary than our piers. Put saved $ into players. If Billy hired by another team if we do well next year we avoid his big buyout. Next coach do smaller buyout.
I think this class will finish in the top 10-15! We’re making a late push for commitments just like Auburn did last year when they took 2 of our top recruits right before ESD last offseason!
@ I’m pretty sure if you keep up with gators football at all you know that the plan this recruiting class is to load up with transfer portal players and just bring in a few elite Highschool talents, so our portal class is gonna be the strong point of our recruiting class this offseason instead of it being the Highschool recruits that is the higher ranked portion. We need older players that can come in and give immediate playing time for next season rather than Highschool freshman who haven’t played a single snap of college ball. It’s pretty much gonna be like FSU did last season with all the portal players expect we are way better off with our Highschool recruiting/development so once the seniors we get out of the portal leave after next season we will have our Highschool freshman becoming redshirt freshman or sophomores with some playing time under their belts and they will be ready to take over vital positions on both sides of the ball without being much of a drop off in performance! If we go for an elite Highschool class and keep fielding freshman on the field we will never win a national title, we have to hit the portal this offseason and load up every position of need with elite portal talent for each position and use the Highschool recruits as talented back ups etc!
@@Scrapyard1v1er I gotcha, that makes more sense. Thank you for the clarification. So the strategy is to not recruit too well from high school (like stupid schools like UGA, Bama, Ohio State, etc do) because we want to follow FSU's model of getting older players. A bad recruiting class was the plan all along!
@ I guess you think last years Highschool class wasn’t good either since it finished as the 13th best Highschool class? Our portal class finished 6th giving us the 7th overall recruiting class for last year but the Highschool class still finished as 13th so I guess you think that was bad? All I’m saying is if our Highschool class can finish in the top 10-15 again this year and we can land the #1-2 transfer portal class I think that would be a better route than trying to go for the #1 Highschool class this year. We need more proven players rather than true freshman for the 2025 season if we want to compete for a title
Dj Pickett isn’t coming to the swamp! I wanted him badly as well but I knew when he decided to go visit Georgia instead of coming to our game against LSU that he wasn’t worried about us
@@Scrapyard1v1er I realize he’s a long shot, but if we could somehow show out against Ol Miss I think we get his attention. He was a UF lean early on so I wouldn’t give up on him.
I think there’s a small chance we land some top recruits in the next cycle and they reclassify. Also with Surtain leaving FSU(there top recruiter) and most of there staff. It’s open season for not only FSU commits but there players too in the portal.
UF for the next 2 years pays less $ for head coach than our competitors. Billy got the cog in Lagway. Use lower head coach $ on talent to surround Lagway.
UF pays less for HC. HC salaries in millions: UF 7.4, UGA 13.2, Clemson 11.1, TX 10.6, OSU 10, FSU 10, LSU 10, Bama 9.8, Ole Miss 9, UK 9, UT 9, OK 8.1, UM 7.8 PUT SAVINGS IN PLAYERS
One of the biggest problems still not taken care of by Billy Napier - inability to fire or get rid of coaches who are NOT doing their jobs, for example the offensive line coach, getting a flipping MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR to to a poor job. Was he responsible for the play of the O-Line Saturday? Or was it the coach that was brought in this year?
Pretty sure he demoted the SC coach, added a ST coach over couch, dropped previous DL and DB coach. Not sure his attachment to Sale but he’s better than Mullen was.
@@RayGravesGoat Well... yeah, maybe. But... but... uh... Account hack! Someone hacked my account!! North Koreans making wild claims about American football! Attacking my credibility!! Oh well... I maybe should have just expressed my frustration with Sale (and that big ole' paycheck). Thanks for pointing these others out.
Brandon, it is now a $$ balancing act. In past had to pay coach to get players. Now can pay players to get players. PAYING A COACH BUYOUT THROWS YOU OUT OF BALANCE.
I really hope Hayden Hansen will come back next year for his senior season! I think Lagway will start getting him the ball more and once he does that the whole country will see how elite of a TE he really is! Everytime he catches the ball he averages 15+ yards!
Hansen’s only a RS Sophomore. He’s got 2 years left if he wants to here. He ain’t good enough for the pros yet. He’ll be here 2 more years.
I agree. He is terrific. And as a blocker, to the best of my ability to assess these things, he is really good. As a receiver, he could be even more excellent if they'd send him more targets.
A tight end is a quarterbacks best friend I wish we would find him more
Ever notice that in the NFL the top picks are usually QBs. Money talks. Lagway is likely a top pick. Putting limited UF $ into surrounding Lagway with talent is the smart move.
Nowadays getting a premier QB is the 🔑. UF has one in Lagway. Put the $ into surrounding talent not a $40 mil coaching staff buyout.
We will have a top ten recruiting class i promise you . We got to win these last three games it is a must for florida .
Good morning Gators Nation let Billy cook
GO GET THEM JACKSONVILLE BOYS BILLY
We have our head coach locked in for a lower salary than our piers. Put saved $ into players. If Billy hired by another team if we do well next year we avoid his big buyout. Next coach do smaller buyout.
I think this class will finish in the top 10-15! We’re making a late push for commitments just like Auburn did last year when they took 2 of our top recruits right before ESD last offseason!
Can you imagine? That would almost be as good as Mullen's worst recruiting class!
@ I’m pretty sure if you keep up with gators football at all you know that the plan this recruiting class is to load up with transfer portal players and just bring in a few elite Highschool talents, so our portal class is gonna be the strong point of our recruiting class this offseason instead of it being the Highschool recruits that is the higher ranked portion. We need older players that can come in and give immediate playing time for next season rather than Highschool freshman who haven’t played a single snap of college ball. It’s pretty much gonna be like FSU did last season with all the portal players expect we are way better off with our Highschool recruiting/development so once the seniors we get out of the portal leave after next season we will have our Highschool freshman becoming redshirt freshman or sophomores with some playing time under their belts and they will be ready to take over vital positions on both sides of the ball without being much of a drop off in performance! If we go for an elite Highschool class and keep fielding freshman on the field we will never win a national title, we have to hit the portal this offseason and load up every position of need with elite portal talent for each position and use the Highschool recruits as talented back ups etc!
@@Scrapyard1v1er I gotcha, that makes more sense. Thank you for the clarification. So the strategy is to not recruit too well from high school (like stupid schools like UGA, Bama, Ohio State, etc do) because we want to follow FSU's model of getting older players. A bad recruiting class was the plan all along!
@ I guess you think last years Highschool class wasn’t good either since it finished as the 13th best Highschool class? Our portal class finished 6th giving us the 7th overall recruiting class for last year but the Highschool class still finished as 13th so I guess you think that was bad? All I’m saying is if our Highschool class can finish in the top 10-15 again this year and we can land the #1-2 transfer portal class I think that would be a better route than trying to go for the #1 Highschool class this year. We need more proven players rather than true freshman for the 2025 season if we want to compete for a title
Build the trenches. We need Solomon Thomas, and bring back Peyton Joseph. DJ Pickett would be like hitting the lottery.
Dj Pickett isn’t coming to the swamp! I wanted him badly as well but I knew when he decided to go visit Georgia instead of coming to our game against LSU that he wasn’t worried about us
@@Scrapyard1v1er I realize he’s a long shot, but if we could somehow show out against Ol Miss I think we get his attention. He was a UF lean early on so I wouldn’t give up on him.
Joseph burnt that bridge a long time ago
@@grantmaloy5377 never say never. If Napier needs him he’ll gladly take him.
I think there’s a small chance we land some top recruits in the next cycle and they reclassify. Also with Surtain leaving FSU(there top recruiter) and most of there staff. It’s open season for not only FSU commits but there players too in the portal.
UF for the next 2 years pays less $ for head coach than our competitors. Billy got the cog in Lagway. Use lower head coach $ on talent to surround Lagway.
Can the #47Gators win another game this year and make the liberty🎷 bowl coalition???
UF pays less for HC. HC salaries in millions: UF 7.4, UGA 13.2, Clemson 11.1, TX 10.6, OSU 10, FSU 10, LSU 10, Bama 9.8, Ole Miss 9, UK 9, UT 9, OK 8.1, UM 7.8 PUT SAVINGS IN PLAYERS
All I hear is 3 star 3 star 3 ….. the portal will be big lol
One of the biggest problems still not taken care of by Billy Napier - inability to fire or get rid of coaches who are NOT doing their jobs, for example the offensive line coach, getting a flipping MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR to to a poor job. Was he responsible for the play of the O-Line Saturday? Or was it the coach that was brought in this year?
Pretty sure he demoted the SC coach, added a ST coach over couch, dropped previous DL and DB coach. Not sure his attachment to Sale but he’s better than Mullen was.
No sacks against LSU
@@RayGravesGoat Well... yeah, maybe. But... but... uh... Account hack! Someone hacked my account!! North Koreans making wild claims about American football! Attacking my credibility!!
Oh well... I maybe should have just expressed my frustration with Sale (and that big ole' paycheck). Thanks for pointing these others out.
Brandon, it is now a $$ balancing act. In past had to pay coach to get players. Now can pay players to get players. PAYING A COACH BUYOUT THROWS YOU OUT OF BALANCE.