I have spoken much about how close we are.
I have ALSO spoken here about how we “need that one guy”—and LATELY have said I didn’t necessarily think we needed that person ON THE PLAYING FIELD so much as part of our RECRUITING TEAM...
“We need a charisma-soaked, RECRUITING-MACHINE to go out there and talk Gator Football, specifically the way it will be under Dan Mullens in the years ahead!”:
I have the man. Tim Tebow.
Go ahead and laugh. It was my first thought too. And then I smiled. At the fiendish brilliance of it. Consider:
What is the currency sine quon non out there these days, the thing that SINGS AND SWINGS MORE THAN EVEN MONEY? Money can and will come later, with game and success and all the rest, but what Tebow has bucketloads of snd can easily share just by showing up in your town, at your school, and just appearing on CAMERA with you, is FAME? CELEBRITY—and in case you haven’t noticed, you can rub OFF a little game by proximity, but it is damn near IMPOSSIBLE TO BUY.
And that’s just the start of it. The man is fit, beautiful, KNOWS FOOTBALL AND IS A GATOR THROUGH AND THROUGH.
HIRE HIM, Dan Mullens. “Special Laison National Recruitment and Gator Offensive Spokesman”
Let the howling put downs (and enormous publicity furthering the EXACT EFFECT WE ARE EXPLOITING HERE) BEGIN...The “experts” will hate it...they’ll MURDER US—and do what?!!
They have never been our friends save for a few days when it suited them (go read them NOW if you wanna know the true contempt with which they have always covertly viewed us!).
The young PLAYERS out there will GET IT...more and more, they won’t just “come around”: Eventually they will notice, they will listen and watch—and they will absolutely flock to his side when he comes to them, comes to their towns, their campuses throughout NOT just FLORIDA (where we will win recruiting wars for YEARS TO COME—imagine YOUR mom and dad the day TT drops buy for a light lunch and a review of son’s highlight reel?!!) but the region, Hell, the whole damn NATION is his potential “recruiting territory”!
Think he’ll do it? It’d take the right pitch. But just the one—as opposed to all those hundred of futile, so far almost devoid-of-one-5-star ones that Mullens and Co. have more or less whiffed on! I even know em the tack to take...but I don’t wanna get bogged down in THAT.
Think about what I say here...Yes, it’ll sound like metaphorical satire at first. But let it roll around your mind a few days; begin to consider it seriously, as a genuine strategy...and remember: Ultimately, (1)THERE’S NO ONE LIKE HIM, and (2) ONLY WE CAN GET HIM (IF we do it right).
I will discuss EXACTLY how we go about it in a subsequent post—IF a serious discussion here actually comes around to the Idea.
Have your laughs. Then:
Let’s go get our Symbolic Leader.
I have ALSO spoken here about how we “need that one guy”—and LATELY have said I didn’t necessarily think we needed that person ON THE PLAYING FIELD so much as part of our RECRUITING TEAM...
“We need a charisma-soaked, RECRUITING-MACHINE to go out there and talk Gator Football, specifically the way it will be under Dan Mullens in the years ahead!”:
I have the man. Tim Tebow.
Go ahead and laugh. It was my first thought too. And then I smiled. At the fiendish brilliance of it. Consider:
What is the currency sine quon non out there these days, the thing that SINGS AND SWINGS MORE THAN EVEN MONEY? Money can and will come later, with game and success and all the rest, but what Tebow has bucketloads of snd can easily share just by showing up in your town, at your school, and just appearing on CAMERA with you, is FAME? CELEBRITY—and in case you haven’t noticed, you can rub OFF a little game by proximity, but it is damn near IMPOSSIBLE TO BUY.
And that’s just the start of it. The man is fit, beautiful, KNOWS FOOTBALL AND IS A GATOR THROUGH AND THROUGH.
HIRE HIM, Dan Mullens. “Special Laison National Recruitment and Gator Offensive Spokesman”
Let the howling put downs (and enormous publicity furthering the EXACT EFFECT WE ARE EXPLOITING HERE) BEGIN...The “experts” will hate it...they’ll MURDER US—and do what?!!
They have never been our friends save for a few days when it suited them (go read them NOW if you wanna know the true contempt with which they have always covertly viewed us!).
The young PLAYERS out there will GET IT...more and more, they won’t just “come around”: Eventually they will notice, they will listen and watch—and they will absolutely flock to his side when he comes to them, comes to their towns, their campuses throughout NOT just FLORIDA (where we will win recruiting wars for YEARS TO COME—imagine YOUR mom and dad the day TT drops buy for a light lunch and a review of son’s highlight reel?!!) but the region, Hell, the whole damn NATION is his potential “recruiting territory”!
Think he’ll do it? It’d take the right pitch. But just the one—as opposed to all those hundred of futile, so far almost devoid-of-one-5-star ones that Mullens and Co. have more or less whiffed on! I even know em the tack to take...but I don’t wanna get bogged down in THAT.
Think about what I say here...Yes, it’ll sound like metaphorical satire at first. But let it roll around your mind a few days; begin to consider it seriously, as a genuine strategy...and remember: Ultimately, (1)THERE’S NO ONE LIKE HIM, and (2) ONLY WE CAN GET HIM (IF we do it right).
I will discuss EXACTLY how we go about it in a subsequent post—IF a serious discussion here actually comes around to the Idea.
Have your laughs. Then:
Let’s go get our Symbolic Leader.