http://gatorcountry.com/football_recruiting/ GatorCountry.com football recruiting news feed English ray@gatorcountry.com Copyright 2013 2013-05-24T16:00:00-05:00 http://www.gatorcountry.com/football_recruiting/article/florida_eyes_2015_tight_end/17244 http://www.gatorcountry.com/football_recruiting/article/florida_eyes_2015_tight_end/17244#When:16:00:00Z
On Thursday the coaching staff visited 2015 Orlando (Fla.) First Academy tight end Garrett Williams.

“Coach (Derek) Lewis came by to see me,” Williams said. “This was his second time coming by, he came by a few weeks ago also. It was awesome to see him because he is a great guy and I enjoy seeing him around. I’m very high on Florida because they have a good program.”]]> 2013-05-24T16:00:00-05:00 http://www.gatorcountry.com/football_recruiting/article/brown_set_to_camp_at_florida/17243 http://www.gatorcountry.com/football_recruiting/article/brown_set_to_camp_at_florida/17243#When:15:05:00Z
One of the prospects Florida visited recently was Tuscaloosa (Al.) Academy athlete Torrence Brown.

“Coach (Brian) White came by to see me last week one day,” Brown said. “It went really well even though he couldn’t talk to me. He did talk to my coach and he asked him to let me run some routes during our water break so he could see me perform. He told my coach that he liked me a lot and that I performed well out there.” ]]> 2013-05-24T15:05:00-05:00 http://www.gatorcountry.com/football_recruiting/article/florida_picks_up_commit/17241 http://www.gatorcountry.com/football_recruiting/article/florida_picks_up_commit/17241#When:02:31:00Z
“Yes sir, I decided to commit tonight,” Lewis said. “I just felt like Florida was the best place for me and no other school could offer me the same that Florida could.”

When the 6-foot-5, 212-pound Lewis called Florida to tell Will Muschamp he wanted to commit, he had a happy coach on the phone. ]]> 2013-05-24T02:31:00-05:00 http://www.gatorcountry.com/football_recruiting/article/99_days_to_kickoff_sammy_green/17240 http://www.gatorcountry.com/football_recruiting/article/99_days_to_kickoff_sammy_green/17240#When:17:21:00Z
Each day we will profile a scholarship athlete (or two, or three depending on how the numbers fall) all the way up until Florida kicks off against Toledo on August 31. We’ll do this by giving you some history of the player and their time at Florida, give you their career statistics, evaluate the player and where they are on the depth chart and give you our projection of how that player will fare in 2013.

Unfortunately, the current Gator roster doesn’t have a player who wears 99, at least not until the rest of the freshmen class arrives on campus. So we had to dig deep and find the best player in Florida history to wear No. 99. Our digging gave us Sammy Green, a linebacker who played at Florida from 1973-75.]]> 2013-05-23T17:21:00-05:00 http://www.gatorcountry.com/football_recruiting/article/florida_recruiting_hendrix_hard/17239 http://www.gatorcountry.com/football_recruiting/article/florida_recruiting_hendrix_hard/17239#When:17:00:00Z
Will Muschamp and his staff are out trying to keep that tradition and this week, Florida visited O’Fallon (Ill.) High defensive end Dewayne Hendrix.

“Coach (Brad) Lawing came by to see me on Tuesday,” Hendrix said. “It went really well and he talked to my coach about me a lot. He told my coach about the schemes they run at Florida and how they like to rotate nine guys on the line into games. I like that because I would have a good chance to compete for early playing time there.”]]> 2013-05-23T17:00:00-05:00 http://www.gatorcountry.com/football_recruiting/article/may_recruiting_mailbag/17238 http://www.gatorcountry.com/football_recruiting/article/may_recruiting_mailbag/17238#When:16:47:00Z
A.) I think so, yes. Florida has already landed a top running back in state and they are in good shape with several other top prospects in the state.

Q.) Andrew, as of today, who do you think will be in this class come NSD?

A.) Haha my favorite question. I’m not ready to put that prediction out there but I feel good in saying that David Sharpe, Trent Harris, Travis Rudolph and Jalen Tabor will be in the class.]]> 2013-05-23T16:47:00-05:00 http://www.gatorcountry.com/football_recruiting/article/2015_dl_picks_up_florida_offer/17235 http://www.gatorcountry.com/football_recruiting/article/2015_dl_picks_up_florida_offer/17235#When:17:00:00Z
Last week, the Gators handed out an offer to 2015 Albany (Ga.) Westover School defensive tackle Trenton Thompson.

“Coach Brad Lawing from Florida offered me last Friday,” Thompson said. “He said I know you got offers from other schools but I want you to know that you have an offer from Florida. He really wanted me to come down there for a visit soon.” ]]> 2013-05-22T17:00:00-05:00 http://www.gatorcountry.com/football_recruiting/article/muschamp_talks_to_dixon/17234 http://www.gatorcountry.com/football_recruiting/article/muschamp_talks_to_dixon/17234#When:16:04:00Z
One prospect that the Florida staff has visited during the evaluation period is Palm Beach Gardens (Fla.) Dwyer receiver Johnnie Dixon.

“Coach (Joker) Phillips came by the schools to see me last week sometime,” Dixon said. “It was good to see him here visiting me and he seemed like a real calm guy. I talked to him on the phone later and I liked him a lot, he is a real nice guy and a cool calm person even though this was my first time meeting him. He’s a good coach with a lot of experience.”]]> 2013-05-22T16:04:00-05:00 http://www.gatorcountry.com/football_recruiting/article/floridas_swag_stands_out_to_peete/17230 http://www.gatorcountry.com/football_recruiting/article/floridas_swag_stands_out_to_peete/17230#When:20:37:00Z
This time it was too Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) St. Thomas Aquinas receiver Devante Peete who now has four big time offers.]]> 2013-05-21T20:37:00-05:00 http://www.gatorcountry.com/football_recruiting/article/florida_offers_2015_receiver/17229 http://www.gatorcountry.com/football_recruiting/article/florida_offers_2015_receiver/17229#When:20:31:00Z
Last week the Gators handed out an offer to 2015 Coconut Creek (Fla.) Monarch receiver Shawn Burgess.]]> 2013-05-21T20:31:00-05:00