The Florida Gators landed their top recruiting target on National Signing Day with five-star offensive tackle Martez Ivey (Apopka, FL) officially announcing his decision to stay in-state and play at Florida over Auburn.
A long-time Florida lean, Ivey (6-foot-6, 275 pounds) is the rated as the No. 2 overall player and No. 1 offensive tackle by the 247Sports Composite.
McElwain, Summers and defensive backs coach Kirk Callahan continued pressing Ivey through the last week, ensuring that he understood how bad Florida, which has just seven scholarship offensive linemen returning for 2015, needed his services.
Out of Apopka High School, Ivey is the 16th member of Florida’s 2015 recruiting class and fifth offensive lineman to make his pledge this cycle.
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Ah well. I was hopeful, but can’t say hugely surprised considering. Looks like WM is keeping most of his guys that supposedly had been long time Gator fans. At least we got the guys who really want to come here and hopefully we can still close out with a couple more guys. Scary, no QB yet
Maybe there’s still a ray of hope for Cowart who reportedly is wavering on Auburn (http://espn.go.com/college-sports/recruiting/football/story/_/id/12277247/byron-cowart-no-1-recruit-espn-300-commits-auburn-tigers) Let’s hope Cowart comes to his senses considering he’s been a longtime Gators fan. Otherwise, Easley & Fowler better tell him to stop using Chuckie if he does decide to stick with Auburn. It sucks that Muschump would have his best day closing today than all of his signing days combined at UF. It’s laughable that all these kids wax on about their “relationship” with him. I wonder what they’ll all say about that if/when he’s gone from there by this time next year.
Way to go Coach Mac. Hope he gets a chance to whip Cowart in a SECCG.
Go Gators! This is very, very good news. We really need some OL.