Friday Schadenfreude: Florida board Eubanks meltdown
Florida must have wanted this kid pretty badly judging by the seven page (and counting) thread bemoaning his Michigan commitment. Here's the link: http://florida.247sports.com/Board/14/Contents/TE-Nick-Eubanks-commits-…
Highlights include:
"Harbaugh kicked our butt on the field and looks like he can swoop in within a few weeks and take our recruits, as well."
"Well Nick, you better hope that you really love your new dorm room. Because you're gonna be snowed into it for 5 months out of the year. College life is supposed to be fun, not a jail sentence. I sure hope that, "Hello Walls", is his favorite song. Because he's gonna get to know the 4 walls of his dorm room real well. In no way could I pick a school strictly for the football side of it. Living in Siberia for 4 years isn't my idea of a fun. Chomp! Chomp!" (I personally always love the internet tough guys that are scared of non-tropical weather)
"I concede Michigan won the post-2014 coaching carousel. They really lucked into having Harbaugh as an alum and the fact the 49ers ran him off. But he's a one of a kind hire, the guy spent his summers as an NFL QB helping his dad with recruiting and scouting as some kind of unpaid, volunteer assistant at WKU.
The stories of Harbaugh on the trail remind me of Meyer."
EDIT: Best one in the whole thread -
"It's literally all about the sales pitch. Not record, not head to head, not stats. Its how you sell it. Just so happens we have Michigan beat on almost all those things they sold but they know how to sell it and we have the worst staff of recruiters relative to the program in the entire SEC. You could take almost any staff and put them in this same situation UF is in now, meaning new staff, 10 wins, ATL, favorable depth chart, 28 ships, PT everywhere, instability everywhere else, loaded state every year, etc and they'd produce anywhere from the number 1 class to something better than this."
Did we not just beat them into submission in their own state?
January 29th, 2016 at 8:30 AM ^
Chomp Chomp!
-Jim Harbaugh to Florida Fans
January 29th, 2016 at 8:35 AM ^
January 29th, 2016 at 8:38 AM ^
That's funny.
January 29th, 2016 at 8:42 AM ^
I love how Florida had to use a trick play from the 1 yard line to score.
January 29th, 2016 at 8:57 AM ^
And an illegal trick play at that.
Refs -3
January 29th, 2016 at 9:08 AM ^
January 29th, 2016 at 9:19 AM ^
Well, the play itself wasn't illegal, but the formation/shifting before the snap was. Florida had two guys in motion at the same time. Kelvin Taylor went in motion and then as he was still getting set, Treon Harris started walking around pretending to audible. Should have been blown dead as an illegal shift.
January 29th, 2016 at 9:25 AM ^
Just imagine if we had JP for the game!
January 29th, 2016 at 12:50 PM ^
Not to mention the deception. Michigan was flagged for less earlier in the year.
January 29th, 2016 at 9:20 AM ^
Much ascii was spilled on this here internet over what "intent to deceive" is. Some feel this was an example of it.
January 29th, 2016 at 9:40 AM ^
January 29th, 2016 at 9:19 PM ^
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January 29th, 2016 at 9:31 AM ^
Intent to deceive? Stupid rule, but Florida play was borderline.
January 29th, 2016 at 9:38 AM ^
If we can be flagged for "deception" for the fact that Rutgers simply didn't cover our tight end, Florida should have been flagged for snapping the ball while its QB was looking to the sidelines and barking out the play.
January 29th, 2016 at 11:13 AM ^
January 29th, 2016 at 10:27 AM ^
on the menu at any Ann Arbor restaurant? It should be.
January 29th, 2016 at 10:55 AM ^
at the Florida Food Summit in Gainesville in September--it was grilled ribs, and they tasted positively amphibian.
Laughed at the notion that Eubanks would hate being snowed in in his apt in A2. I did my undergrad at Michigan and my doctorate at UF, and though I have strong respect for my dept. and program at UF, which is a top-15 public u nowadays, there is no comparison between the towns. Gainesville has a tiny, pleasant downtown, but nothing else. A2 is one of the best towns on the planet.
In fact, the dirty secret in Florida is that although UF is the more prestgious u, FSU is in by far the nicer town. Tallahassee (where I now live) has 3 universities, the government, and a population roughly the size of Ann Arbor's. To me it is a little like A2 was 20 years ago, meaning funky in a good way. And yes the weather IS delightful, discounting August and September. If you ever wondered why recruits cleave to FSU over UF despite the difference in academic quality*. . . I would have a hard time readjusting to the cold, but I would sooner live in A2 in a heartbeat than Gainesville.
*FSU has the #2 film school and a top ten music program, nice things to have for the rest of residents. Having the gulf 12 miles away ain't bad, either. Know this turned into a little ad for Tallahassee, but perhaps it will be of interest to someone.
January 29th, 2016 at 4:22 PM ^
I have spent a lot of time in Gainesville and it is a great college town. To say that recruits "cleave to FSU over UF" is certainly a stretch. And if you are going to compare to Ann Arbor, Gainesville is the town with the world-class research hospital (Shands at UF) and also a beautiful performing arts center. That being said, I like FSU and Tallahassee a lot. Great city to visit, but UF has the better academics, along with a bigger & more beautiful campus as well. But, neither one have the culture of A2.
January 29th, 2016 at 10:55 AM ^
The Quarter Bistro has a fried gator appetizer, or at least they did the last time I was there.
January 29th, 2016 at 8:51 AM ^
And just took another recruit from Florida.
I'm starting to feel like Florida doesn't like us.
January 29th, 2016 at 9:23 AM ^
Bug Bunny : Florida :: Lorena Bobbit : _______________.
(Unlike the actual MAT, I'll leave this one as a fill-in-the-blank. First correct answer gets a dollar - just reply with your full name, address, SSN, driver's license number, passport, recent photo, and sample signature. I need that stuff for the 1099.)
January 29th, 2016 at 9:43 AM ^
Hanging chad?
January 29th, 2016 at 11:02 AM ^
January 29th, 2016 at 10:08 AM ^
I don't know, I rather like having Florida attached.
It's nice to have a place to concentrate a lot of our meth heads, racist retirees, swamp folk, and drug lords so that they don't pollute the other 49 states.
January 29th, 2016 at 11:00 AM ^
January 29th, 2016 at 9:05 AM ^
STILL has seven points.
January 29th, 2016 at 3:46 PM ^
Dude, that's impressive. You are going to double your point total on just one post.
January 29th, 2016 at 9:29 AM ^
The first thing I thought of after hearing a Florida fan complain then follow it up with "Chomp Chomp"
January 29th, 2016 at 10:04 AM ^
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January 29th, 2016 at 3:47 PM ^
UFucks?
January 29th, 2016 at 8:31 AM ^
They could very well be getting Jacob Mathis, so that's not a bad consolation prize. I have him ranked higher than Eubanks.
January 29th, 2016 at 8:33 AM ^
On Mathis, Trieu said yesterday: "Hearing it's an Ole Miss vs. Bama battle with Ole Miss in the lead."
January 29th, 2016 at 9:07 AM ^
If Florida doesn't land Mathis, how are the fans going to tear down Bama and Ole Miss...they have the SAME warm weather!
January 29th, 2016 at 12:07 PM ^
A moribund Ole Miss program beating out a juggernaut for another highly ranked recruit. I wonder what could be going on here....hmmmmmm....
January 29th, 2016 at 8:49 AM ^
January 29th, 2016 at 9:19 AM ^
Magnus formed an unbiased opinion on the TE targets and now he gets crap for not ranking the one we nabbed higher? You don't have to agree with him, but I'd rather read an honest opinion and evaluation on the players we're after.
January 29th, 2016 at 9:24 AM ^
Yep--I appreciate Magnus' honest appraisal. (Let's hope Eubanks proves him wrong though!)
January 29th, 2016 at 9:29 AM ^
Keep in mind that Magnus does a great job and the evaluation is at a point in time. Hate ro get recruits that peak in HSn and here he will get a few years of great double-Harbaugh coaching.
January 29th, 2016 at 12:06 PM ^
January 29th, 2016 at 10:17 AM ^
I think people get generally pissed at Magnus for a low grade because Magnus has a history of doing a pretty good job with his grades. I guess it's a compliment to Magnus in some strange twisted way.
January 29th, 2016 at 11:14 AM ^
January 29th, 2016 at 9:20 AM ^
Not any uncommitted tight ends, no.
January 29th, 2016 at 12:24 PM ^
January 29th, 2016 at 2:53 PM ^
I think Conner Edmonds is a potential sleeper as a contributor, but he's not a sleeping giant. Simeon Smith is athletic, but he has to learn to play with his hand down. I'm not too high on Daniel Jokisch as an athlete. Of the three, I think Smith has the most potential.
January 29th, 2016 at 9:35 AM ^
If we had gotten one of Magnus' higher ranked TEs, everybody would sing Magnus' praises. I'm sure he would love it if Eubanks outperforms his TTB rating, but give the guy credit for making a judgment and sticking to it.
January 29th, 2016 at 12:26 PM ^
January 29th, 2016 at 2:47 PM ^
I couldn't care less about downvotes.
January 29th, 2016 at 8:35 AM ^