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But we are heating up

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Yeah, no, it's like they flipped the switch.
That vote of confidence was a big deal

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It was a big deal. You heard what DJ
said after they made that statement

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recruits started hitting him up. That tells you all you need to know. And
I think that there were probably a lot of guys that were feeling Florida

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feeling Napier, feeling the staff, and obviously feeling DJ
Lagway, but they were hesitant because what's going to happen here

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There was so much talk about job security
all season long, week after week

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It had to have an effect on the recruiting trail.
You know, other schools were using it against Florida

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So now that that's dead, you've seen Florida's recruiting
come alive. Tell me if I'm correct in this assumption

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because I said multiple things, right?
You had the letter, which like you say

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kind of gave some resurgence that, okay,
they're not going anywhere. People liked Billy

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That's never been a question. I think players have
always enjoyed what Billy Napier brings to the table

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That's been good. There was a question of job security.
They also wanted to see some product in the football field

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which was a little wobbly at the beginning of
the year. It's going to make a complete 180

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So you've got security. The love was always
there. We're playing some good football now

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There's rumors of this extra money flying around.
There could be maybe some more buy-in in that

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is all that kind of again just coming together at
the right time is that is that a fair assumption

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like yeah that's you're 100% on no I think I
think those boxes are being checked which is why

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that he's getting another year you know this
this thing could have easily went sideways

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just go ask the folks in Tallahassee I mean
the season can get away from you in a hurry

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so the fact that and look not only that not
to to just uh poke at the at the rivals but

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we saw a florida football team quit on damn all of you know
i mean they packed it up and went home they didn't quit

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they did not they did not and i'm telling you
man this team i mean you go back to last year too

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but this team is, you know, their starting
quarterback getting injured away from, you know

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having a 10-0 lead at Tennessee and
having a 10-3 lead against Georgia

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And they almost still won both of those
games. It's, so, look, I think a..

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I mean, you could take it all the way back to last year when they were
also up against another top 10 team in Mizzou on the road with a lead

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and lost their starting quarterback
and still almost won that game too

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Most of the time when you're in those type of
matchups and you lose your starter, game's over

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Especially against Georgia. I know everybody
thought when DJ went out, that game was over

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And it wasn't. The air was sucked out of the room
for sure. And look, I think we say this all the time

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and this is something that I've said, even myself
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Now back to the show. The team has never
quit. A lot of people felt that way

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Yeah, I wasn't alone. That was a big
straw for me. But the team never quit

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like an ESPN alert. Yeah. This is the funniest year. Like
they had the vote of confidence at the end of the year

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but then like three games into the season, you're
already getting an ESPN alert about a buyout

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So it's like, it's the weirdest roller coaster we've been on.
I've emotionally been on a roller coaster because of this year

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So, I mean, it's been wild. Like I think this is
the most wildest year that I've ever been a part of

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like Florida Gator football. It's been exhausting.
The only thing I can compare it to is 2013

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Yeah, yeah. All those injuries, another vote of confidence.
You didn't have an LSU win, though, at the end of the year

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The only thing Muschamp could hang his hat on at
that point was he had a top 10 recruiting class

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That was it. We're getting there. I guess he lost
his starting quarterback, Driscoll, for the year

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and then you had him coming back, so that was something that he
could sell. But Driscoll coming back is not DJ Lackway coming back

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Those are two totally different things. And
shout out to Jeff. He's still playing in the NFL

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That's no shout out to Driscoll.
No DJ Lackway. We got it

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The Lackway level is a hype or
something we haven't seen around here

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since number 15 was playing quarterback and not
the most recent one. Yeah, I will agree with that

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We know which 15 you're talking about. Look, man, so let's talk
about this big weekend again. There's a lot of trend happening

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We've seen this before. We get a lot of hype.
Florida does. It hasn't closed out, I would say

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We've done okay. Maybe I'm just buying back in
again, but there seems to be a little more optimism

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on Florida being able to close strong on some of these
guys, given the fact of where they're coming from

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FSU. So that's kind of where they're flipping them from.
You got Solomon Thomas, Jamie French, Javion Hilson

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Talk to us about these guys that are visiting this past
weekend. Their running back, Byron Lewis, that four-star

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I mean, it's insane. How are we
feeling on some of these guys

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I'm sure you spoke to some of them. Give us the ultimate
vibe of what's happened with this recruit so far

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Yeah, I mean, I've been keeping tabs. You know,
Corey and Keith are the guys that are talking to him

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But I'm certainly asking around and keeping tabs
on what's been quite the pickup in recruiting

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I do think a lot of this stems from not just the vote of confidence but Trammell Jones I mean that flip is a
big deal It could have a domino effect for Florida football recruiting and Florida State football recruiting

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because it's there for the taking,
given the way that their season's going

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and how Florida has started to trend,
at least in a better direction

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It's not also just Trammell Jones. I got to
give a shout out to my guy, Ronell Brown

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the third because he's behind the scenes working
these dudes and it started with tramell and

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all these guys played at sfe man they've all
either played with each other or played against

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each other and that doesn't mean that they're all
going to end up at at the same school or end up

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but i think tramell coming on board with vernell
that that's a big deal because those two are so

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tight with so many other recruits. And that kind
of helps Florida get their foot in the door

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And now the staff gets involved. Now the
NIL offers start getting thrown on the table

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Now the visit experiences are happening.
It's the timing is working out for four

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And I think that that was strategic. I think
that they've had Trammell in the bag for a while

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And they were probably waiting on these
things to happen so that it could lead

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up to these moments that Florida's now trying to
take advantage of. So now they've got to close

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I mean, they're in not a battle just with Florida
State. They're fighting Texas with a lot of these guys

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So it's not like they can just –
it's going to be easy for the taking

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You're also fighting some other big-time
programs, and obviously Texas just took it to UF

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So I think some of these guys are
going to be harder to land than others

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But Florida's going to get some flips,
man. with the momentum that they have

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with the recruiters that they have,
the things now that are on their side

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and the fact that they have stepped it up from
an NIL standpoint with Florida Victorious

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they're going to be a serious player for these guys.
I don't know if you saw, we had Tramiel on before you

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and he kind of talked about that. Again, Florida
never stopped. They were always in my ear

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and same thing with Vanell Brown. and it's like, for now, Brown was a big
factor. And like you kind of said, it's like, look, when you add that piece

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it was lacking a leadership, and that's what a quarterback
does. There were some great pieces in this class

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but although you have DJ Lagoe, it doesn't
work that way. The brain doesn't work that way

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You need that quarterback. A quarterback for a
recruiting class is massive. You build around that

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And so, like you said, that piece falls.
It's like, okay, they've got something now

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And it's at the right time. And this is why I kept telling
Dave, too. I said, look, I know we're kind of panicking

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but last year we got plucked. This is when we were getting plucked was
right now. We had all this guys and then they right towards the end

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It's almost kind of what you want to be in their ear right
at the last second and be the most freshest thing possible

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You're not going to flip everybody. But especially if
you're flipping from a school that's having major issues

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like FSU, you can really, you can really do some damage.
And it's important for Florida to show up on Saturday

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Like if they win that game or, or, or play
Ole Miss the way that they played Tennessee

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And then obviously you got to finish out the year with a win over Florida state Like it
sets up to have the momentum that you need If you get a win Saturday man buckle up baby

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They're going to be picking and choosing because at some
point too, now you're going to save some spots for the portal

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You're not just going to load up on all these high
school kids. You're going to take the best of the best

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And you're going to fill needs that you, that you want to fill
with guys that are coming in with four years of eligibility

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I've kind of said that. I said, look, I think there's, we always
kind of, we have a top 20 or 25 commits, top three classes

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Like you don't, now you don't have not saying
that's not always the answer, but you don't

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have to do that. If you can act properly in the
portal, you go get, let's say 18, 19 guys, but out of

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that class, you're going to have four or five
guys that can probably slide in like an LJ

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like a DJ that have some kind of early on impact. And then you just
go be extremely precise in the, in the, uh, uh, the portal, which

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we've had some busts, but you've had some success.
The same thing in recruiting. That's just how it is

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I mean, I would argue that they
don't get enough credit for

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some of the guys that they've gotten in
the portal. I mean, I put out the tweet

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after the LSU game, but the
amount of transfers that they had

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that had big performances in that
game, you don't win against LSU if

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these guys aren't on the roster. Gums. And
I could have put more highlights in there

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but Badger, DK, Caleb Banks, who's from
the year before, is still transfer

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Gums, which is probably their best
find from the portal. Like, what a get

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And to get this former tight end to come
in and play like he's playing right now

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And then Triquets Bridges. where would where would
the secondary be without bridges this dude has played

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two different positions leads the team in tackles
uh had the you know game ceiling pass breakup like

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badger obviously when florida landed him i think
everybody expected that he was going to make the

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impact that he's had he's probably been a little
bit better than when people expected dk has been

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way better like i remember i was in i first
reported that they got dk because i was in bed

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on signing day and did i was behind the scenes
in florida's football offices and they got dk's

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signature and i kind of put it out on twitter and
people went on the forum at gators online and saw

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who it was and they were not happy with me they
were hot that i was like i won't say hyping it up

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But it was, you know, they were excited about it, man. Like,
when they got DK, they were pumped about it, and you see why

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I mean, the dude's been legit all
year. So, now, do they need to get more

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Yes. Like, you can't just rely on, you
know, great finds where you're, you know

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you're leaning on your evaluations, which have been pretty
good, but you're also not going to hit on everybody

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You know, and guys get injured or some guys come in with injury things that maybe you didn't know about. So it's
but I would say, though, man, like they've they've gotten more out of some of these guys than I think I expected