Debose >>> keese
We shall see. So far, keese looks just as good if not better. keese will def be the smarter player.
^forgot about David Nelson.
Richardson will be as good as any player on that list. Trust me, there are no standouts at WR right now and Debose hasn't been great either. Teague will also be as good or better than most of those WRs.
I don't argue that there was more depth at UF but Nuke would have been competing for a starting spot right away and so would Teague. WR is not a strength for UF this year.
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The legend of NuKeese Richardson growing by the day | Florida Gators sports news, analysis, commentary - Gator Bytes, a PalmBeachPost.com blog
Here is what most Gators honestly think of the keese situation:
The legend of NuKeese Richardson growing by the day
by Ben Volin
Until Lane Kiffin stole him away to Tennessee, NuKeese Richardson was a relatively unknown four-star receiver prospect out of Pahokee.
But since Richardson defected from Florida to Tennessee on Signing Day, Kiffin and his staff have turned Richardson into the second coming of Red Grange.
Kiffins staff took the hype to a different stratosphere on Tuesday, when receivers coach Frank Wilson appeared on a Knoxville sports talk radio show.
Wilson was asked if any player on the roster reminds the staff of Reggie Bush, the Heisman winner who played for Kiffin at USC.
Yeah, Wilson said. NuKeese Richardson.
Thats exactly what we saw in him, a guy who had big-play ability and can strike at any point on the field.
Nothing against Richardson, but Reggie Bush? Come on.
All Bush did his senior year in high school was earn a spot on the 2002 Parade All-American (and the top running back), USA Today All-USA first team and a member of the Tom Lemming Super Team. He scored 27 touchdowns
in eight games. At USC, he won a Heisman Trophy and became the No. 2 overall pick in the NFL draft.
Richardson, meanwhile, was a stand-out on Pahokees state championship team in 2008, but he may have not even been the best player on his team. He accounted for 20 touchdowns this year in 13 games and was named to the Palm Beach Post All Area First Team. But his teammate, running back Vincent Smith, beat him out for Player of the Year, while his other teammate, Brandin Hawthorne, won Defensive Player of the Year. Both are headed to Michigan.
If Richardson had come to Florida, he would have been near the bottom of a stacked depth chart at receiver. He would have had to fight for playing time on special teams, and may have red-shirted his first year. Andre Debose, the five-star athlete out of Sanford-Seminole, is the receiver prospect Urban Meyer simply couldnt lose, not Richardson.
It isnt Richardsons fault that his coaching staff is over-hyping him to the point of absurdity. In fact, its probably unfair to Richardson, who somehow has to meet these out-sized expectations.
But its all par for the course for Kiffin, a coach who doesnt let the facts get in the way of a good booster club speech.
First there was the now-infamous Signing Day celebration breakfast, where Kiffin bragged and boasted about stealing Richardson away from the big bad Gators.
And there was the Sports Illustrated profile in the Feb. 16 edition, in which the writer called the losses of Richardson and Marsalis Teague devastating to Florida.
(Never mind that half of Kiffins quotes and anecdotes from that story have already been exposed as lies, including the part about Kiffin firing a bunch of people within the athletic department).
Dont be surprised if by next week, Kiffin names a wing of the football complex after Richardson.
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You're not quoting anything we don't already know. The entire nation knows that Debose was your most hyped/coveted recruit and is supposed to be the next PH. He isn't and won't be.
I don't doubt that Debose will be a good player but I don't know that he has some of the intangibles that I do think will make Nuke great.
The point is that Nuke and Teague were both highly coveted, the #2 and #3 WR prospects that UF expected land and it was a slap in the face for the upstart Kiffin to take them from the mighty NC Urban/Gators. The media jumped on it all and made it national news that Kiffin made some disparaging comments but also took 2 highly touted recruits.
It would piss me off if I were Urban or a UF fan and Kiffin was building the new UT's reputation at my expense. It comes with the territory when you are the big dog, just like Spurrier did to UT.
Urban has a lot of momentum built up at UF but the early signs of Kiffin's start are already not good Urban/UF and the rest of the SEC. With the way our coaching staff recruits and their NFL-like mentality toward coaching the players and playcalling, it is only a matter of time until we are at least UF's equal if not better. UF will be in a major transition period after this year and that may give UT the opportunity we need to start a run of our own.
I'm not saying that UF will suddenly fall off but they will not be nearly as dominant and will have to struggle every year to win the east against a UT team that will be just as talented, if not more talented every year.
I see UGA and USC being relegated back to what they were in the 90's as fighting for 3rd in the East while UF/UT fight it out for the SECC appearance.
EEEhhh. Good, but def not great. He has had some injuries that have slowed him down a bit so he may not have had a chance to show coaches what he can do at full health. None of the wrs, minus Deonte, have looked great in practice against our defense. Debose is very thin and our defense is very physical.. There will never be another wr as good as Percy so those comparisons are, and have always been imo,
very far fetched.
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hmy: :sick: Not even going to bother ever posting in here ever again after that. Gotta be the most homeristic, self knowingly wrong post ever to be placed on the internet.
