OT Florida's cupboard sure is empty
Well, all those Florida fans that said Urban Meyer left a clusterf*ck behind sure have a point now. Zero draft picks through the first 3 rounds. I thought the guys was a world class recruiter? Their 2007 class was #1 and their 2008 class was #3... plus his last class was #2..
wtf?
April 27th, 2012 at 11:52 PM ^
April 28th, 2012 at 12:13 AM ^
Here's a good Dr. Saturday article about the UF attrition. I have no idea how much attrition has occurred since the article was penned (which was Oct. 26th), but as of then, only 60 of the 85 players who signed LOI's since 2008 were still on the team.
Edit: Also, Alabama lost two more players to attrition over that same time period (27 vs. 25), but they also (over)signed 24 more LOI's (109-85) in those four years... #stopoversigning
Side question: Matt Hinton left Dr. Saturday- does anyone know where he might have landed?
April 28th, 2012 at 12:46 AM ^
That he had a likely destination but was vague about it.
Another one from NFL.com basically says it's a down year for Florida's "Big 3," not just UF.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d828b4f35/article/florida-colleges…
April 28th, 2012 at 12:43 AM ^
Their biggest reason for staying no longer existed---they could no longer aspire to be included in The Circle of Trust.
April 27th, 2012 at 11:54 PM ^
The only former Gator that's been drafted so far is Jenoris Jenkins.
April 27th, 2012 at 11:58 PM ^
I remember when my cupboard was almost empty the other day and I had to settle for split spea soup. I stocked up on Velveeta shells and cheese the next day,
I believe Jaye Howard and Chris Rainey are the only Gators projected in the draft (i.e., played their full time there, not counting transfers like Jenoris Jenkins). That's a maybe too - they were pretty low on most lists, so who knows if they even go. I might be wrong about that, of course. You are right, however, about Florida's presence in the draft, it has sort of gone...well....the way of the Urban in Florida.
April 28th, 2012 at 12:15 AM ^
It's little things like this that give me hope that Urban isn't going to be as dominant as he was.
April 28th, 2012 at 12:31 AM ^
Listening to a sports radio station in Big 12 country on my way home from work, they were commenting on how strange it was that neither Oklahoma nor Texas had any players drafted at the time (part way through the 2nd round) but Baylor and OSU (ntosu) each had two taken in the first round.
Maybe someone at Bleacher Report, should read this, because according to them Meyer's building an outstanding class at tsiO and UM's class is severely overrated. WTF
Paying attention to anything on BR is about like taking monetary advice from my ex brother-in-law who thought timeshares were a great investment.
But at least with timeshares, you don't have to wade through near as many mouth-breathers and racists to see how bad a deal it is.
That state has more than enough football talent for FSU, Florida, Miami and their neighbors. They even managed to have enought talent left over that a Heisman candidate lands all the way to Michigan. Cry me a river Gator fans.
Cam left College ball last year he was a Urban guy.
I know I'm a Debbie Downer, but Michigan hasn't had a great number of draft picks in recent years, either. Our first draft pick this year came in the third round, and I'm not sure that we'll have any first rounders in next year's draft, either...
our donkey hating LT? I know that he has two years of eligibilty left but.......
I'm expecting him to stick it out for two more years, but who knows?
April 28th, 2012 at 10:27 AM ^
April 28th, 2012 at 10:43 AM ^
Difference is nobody really talks about rich rod and his recruiting classes. Meyer, however, is always given so much praise for all the talent he is able to put together. so his point is that meyer is supposed to have had all this talent at Florida but nobody is being drafted. (although, i'd say that might be due to other circumstances and not due to lack of talent. lots of attrition after meyer left)
April 28th, 2012 at 12:29 PM ^
His first full class is just now going into their true senior season. Odoms and Shaw are the only guys he brought in who have been in the draft pool yet.
April 28th, 2012 at 12:00 PM ^
April 28th, 2012 at 12:43 PM ^
Al Davis?
I was thinking the same thing. Of course, with Florida all you hear is how amazing that school is for producing pro talent, while UM has never been touted as an NFL factory even when it was outfitting a good number of pro teams with talented players.
All that said, I don't put as much emphasis on NFL production when considering how good a recruiter is for a school. College coaches are paid to win games, not produce pros, and while both tend to go hand-in-hand, NCAA champions can oftentimes have relatively few pro prospects while consistently mediocre clubs can produce pros at an amazing rate (see Illinois, Clemson, etc.). Meyer's problems at Florida stemmed from his inability to both win games with his talent as well as bring in enough top-notch kids to stay competitive when some of them left early.
"UM has never been touted as an NFL factory"
Waddya mean? . . . we're Quarterback U! Or at least we were. Now we need to get back there.
We should have a first round pick next year. Kiper said that Denard will be at least the #2 WR for next year. In this current NFL, there will definitely be two WRs taken in the first round. That puts Denard as a first round pick. I know he really wants to be a QB at the next level but you gotta think teams would take him regardless because of his potential elsewhere.
This is all not mentioning Lewan, Toussaint, and Floyd(maybe?) who could all be first round picks if they have good years this fall.
I believe (and I hope), that our days of being irrelevant on Draft day like we have been in the last few years, are over.
Floyd will be lucky to be an undrafted free agent. He's no where near the caliber of player that Martin or RVB are and look how close to the 1st they went.
Toussaint will need a big year and a sub 4.5 40 to get picked day 1 or 2.
Denard will have to accept WR, run routes, show he can catch, and show well in the 40. His durability issues, fumbles and the decline of the wildcat have impacted his stock.
Taylor has a legit shot at a first round pick with a good year.
Prime example, still ended up getting picked in Round 2.
Interesting Wikipedia fact - somebody must be a hater: at the time of the NFL combine, had 4 children by 3 different women.
April 28th, 2012 at 10:08 AM ^
April 28th, 2012 at 10:53 AM ^
And all those players have had to switch offenses (twice now?) and by all accounts have some incompetent or otherwise unproven coaches.
I think once the coaching staff has more than 1 year to mold players, the draft prospects for UM will improve
Florida has 14 starters coming back - so it's not really a surprise that they don't have many picks yet. Next year will have quite a few top picks.