Friday Schadenfreude: Florida board Eubanks meltdown

Submitted by SAMgO on

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?

Mr. Elbel

January 29th, 2016 at 11:15 AM ^

My favorite comment: "I liked Eubanks, but was getting a TE in this class even necessary? Feel like we could hit it next yr instead."

...Since their offense was on fire this year.

WNY in Savannah

January 29th, 2016 at 11:17 AM ^

No one is mentioning the bugs.  I'm not quite in Florida, but I'm close and Savannah is in a swamp, too.  The bugs are absolutely hideous.  We have 12 months of bugs--at least living in Michigan and NY the bugs would disappear for winter.  I am still trying to keep mosquitos out of my house in January.  But the worst part is that when the weather here is nicest, the gnats are unbearable.  If it's not too hot or too cold to go outside, you still can't go outside, because if you do, the gnats will destroy you.  If I go into my back yard in spring with shorts on, I will end up with fifty gnats bites on my legs that itch worse than any mosquito bite.

I would really appreciate it if some of you would send me a million dollars so I could retire and move back to Michigan!

Acedpar3

January 29th, 2016 at 11:35 AM ^

other have used the same thoughts you are using now. the only thing you forgot is michigan is a football school. i guess that has something to do with his commitment. once again nice try but he is ours.

LSAClassOf2000

January 29th, 2016 at 11:46 AM ^

It wasn't even halfway down the first page and I think this guy achieved the most poetic reply to losing out on a recruit that I have seen in a while in this cycle:

Fjytfytdrtdgtesregarestghfrrwerwggrs!!!!!!!

Somehow, that seems to capture the moment in a way few other comments do.

sportsfreak0819

January 29th, 2016 at 12:43 PM ^

Michigan vs Florida football 3-0

Jan. 1, 2003: No. 12 Michigan defeated No. 22 Florida 38-30 in the Outback Bowl:

Jan. 1, 2008: Unranked Michigan defeated No. 9 Florida 41-35 in the Capital One 

Jan. 1, 2016: No.12 Michigan defeated No. 25 Florida 41-7 in the Orlando Citrus Bowl

 

Michigan basketball defeats Florida in Elite Eight 79-59

 

 

aflapan

January 29th, 2016 at 1:02 PM ^

"I think Mac saw that and stopped recruiting all the 3* players to try and boost the blue chip % to increase odds of winning honestly."