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Trevon Grimes transfers to Florida from The Ohio State

Escambia94

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Trevon Grimes was a 5* standout wide receiver from St. Thomas Aquinas high school who committed to The Ohio State in 2016. Trevon was rumored to transfer to Miami in order to be closer to family, and had already taken a leave of absence due to illness in the family. Rumor has it that due to family medical issues he will be able to obtain a waiver and play next year. Trevon was a U.S Army All American in high school and was a teammate of QB Jake Allen. Welcome to the Gator Nation, Trevon!
 
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DRU2012

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SUCK IT URBAN MEYER, also rumor has it that Meyer might be done it a few years.
Well, one way or another, THAT "paradise" would be lost sooner or later--as we well know. Personally, I have long warned more than one rapt worshiper from Columbus that they too would know and FEEL "The Big Let Down" at SOME point. Thankfully, most of my anger and bitterness has finally faded...Even before our latest coaching change, I had come to see our experiences at his hands as akin to "the kind of thing you have to accept when you make a deal with the devil". In fact, looked at in that way we did about as well as possible, overall: A few years of chaotic but undeniable success, leading directly into betrayal, then years of darkness. About twice as much time in depths of misery as the original time of rising hope, joy and seeming enthronement before the sudden turn, then the long slide. With Mullen here now (a seeming Meyer protege, ironically enough--but though like most everyone, we didn't fully recognize it at the time: Turns out Meyer was depending as much or more on Mullen, Strong and the rest as they on him as each made his way up and out onto his own--I suppose in a way, they'd each made their OWN "deals", right?), I am really starting to feel that the clouds are finally breaking, the sun coming out again.
Not gonna suffer a recounting here, but it has been a long strange trip: Muschamp wasn't/isn't a "bad guy", just stubborn and immovable to the point of self-destruction (and has by now well-proven his incompetence above the position of DC). MacEllwaine, on the other hand, turned out to be a lying manipulator whose "success" is as a conman who faked enough care and competence to gather enough talent to dig as much money as possible out of those he could fool just long enough--with little true regard for trust, honor, or the personal consequences of his machinations for those around him--least of all the young men who looked up to and came to play for him. He WAS a "Bad Guy", it turned out--and with a by now fat bank account, by HIS standards I suppose a "success" by the only measure that truly ever mattered to him.
So we've paid OUR penance, players, coaches, Florida fans alike, for our overlapping "desperate deals" to achieve the success we were so sure we had coming. All any of us can hope for now is that the slate IS "clean", and hence all we can do from here is have patience, trust, and DO IT RIGHT THIS TIME.
 

Escambia94

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Urban Meyer will be okay at Ohio State for a while, but he will find it hard to maintain his very high standards for very long--especially in today's world. Meyer has not been able to keep a good coaching staff together, and he is facing more competition with other Big Ten schools now that they are out of probation or have improved coaching staffs.

Dan Mullen has the advantage for now assuming Willie Taggart does not assemble a vastly improved coaching staff on a shoestring budget, and assuming Mullen can beat Richt and Strong on the recruiting trail in-state, and beat Alabama, Georgia, Auburn, and the rest of the Power 5 who have been raiding the state. Once Mullen does this well a few times he needs to keep his core coaching staff together. His mentor, Urban Meyer, saw his coaching staff fall apart in year 4. Granted, coaching staffs will change over time, but look at how quality coaches are replaced. Was Steve Addazzio a good replacement for Dan Mullen in 2009? Was Addazzio that good of an offensive line coach without John Hevesy? The answer is no, of course, and the offense slowly got worse. Watch this coaching staff over time for signs of repeating Meyer's mistakes. Mullen kept this core of Hevesy and Gonzalez together since 2011, and worked pretty well with Geoff Collins from 2011 until he left for Florida in 2014. Todd Grantham only had a year with that core, but he always to be part of the gang. As long as Mullen keeps Hevesy, Gonzalez, and Grantham together and he replaces his other assistants with the same quality, then I can see the Gators doing well for quite some time.

One final note on Urban Meyer: despite losing a few key recruits he still has the #1 class and his defensive coordinator, Greg Schiano, is ranked as one of the best recruiters in America. Meyer is loading up.
 
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