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The last few days have been a whirlwind for former Florida enrollee Chris Steele, who was a 4-star cornerback in the 2019 class and spent the spring with the Gators.
He recently announced that he was transferring, and a reported reason why was the fact that the Gators wouldn’t let him change roommates after fellow 2019 signee Jalon Jones was accused of sexual assault by two women.
Now, it seems Steele is moving on, as he announced via Twitter that he was transferring to Oregon:
I now know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have everything I’ve ever wanted. I have learned the secret of being content. In any and every situation, I can do all things through GOD who gives me strength…Ready to get to Eugene and ball! #LongLiveBigBruce🖤🦆 pic.twitter.com/QIomrC5L1w
— 🌹🖤 (@KinggChris7) May 14, 2019
According to the 247Sports composite, Steele is the No. 5 cornerback in the class of 2019 and the No. 6 overall recruit from the state of California.
If Steele finds success at Oregon, it’ll leave the Gators wondering what might have been.
Bye Felicia.
was that suppose to be funny
Why?
Ouch. That’s got to hurt.
Yeah, Karma just came back and hit Mullen square in the whatchamacallit.
If anybody deserves a hardship – this guy does – best of luck to him
He didn’t like his roommate so he deserves a wavier? Your name implies your of tougher stuff. Contrary to this stories statement, he asked for a transfer before the assaults. That paragraph is an out right lie. Other stories on this very site has stated that fact. He didn’t even enter the portal until a month after the assault. He is using this to gets his wavier. High moral standards there.
So Mullen flew all the way to California with his wife to beg this guy to come back. Meanwhile his players were trashing Steele on social media. Left hand, meet right hand.
The ribbing on social media happened after Mullen flew out west. The kids decision was made.
I hope he has a good career at Oregon. Cristobal will enjoy coaching him up.
Gonna be a while before UF gets another kid to cross the country to play for them. Actually, keeping in-state kids interested seems to be an issue now. Mullen’s got a whole lotta ‘splainin’ to do to get those Mamas back on board. And the teammates’ social media attack on Steele just dug the hole deeper for the Gators.
I don’t think you’ll see much effort in left coast recruiting, moving forward. I can’t think of one success story where it’s worked out well.
Well, come to think of it, there’s this quiet southpaw at Alabama…
I think the social media thing was showing that Steele may have been having a hard time keeping up. I heard Steele had a solid spring, but those pictures are telling, don’t think they would brag if that wasn’t the real way they were doing him.
The Freshman running with the first team couldn’t cut it? OK.
You do realize the only reason he was running with the first team was because of injuries right?
Is Tennessee back for the 15th year in a row?
He may stick there or not but either way it’s time to move on with guys that really want to be Florida Gators!!
Are there any?
On campus in a matter of 5 days. I’m sure this wasn’t planned well in advance.
Exactly
Really poor leadership by Mullen in this situation. You have to take care of the kids you get. Not only does this take a crown jewel from his class, it is bound to hurt Florida’s recruiting in the future.
Best of luck to this kid. He seems like a class act, someone Mullen and his staff should aspire to be like.
Yeah, he’s a real class act. You must have stopped following the story 24 hrs after it broke. But you can exaggerate and embellish if it makes you feel better about your inferior coach.
Exaggerate how Mullen and his staff completely ignored Steele’s request to get moved? The kid feared damage to his reputation. (And that fear has been proved credible by the sexual assult allegations.) Shame on Mullen for not respecting his request. Almost makes me wonder if he was trying to keep the whole situation quiet…
Exaggerate & embellish
BS narrative proven to be false by the timing of the events in question
Cute.
Almost as cute as your lack of a defense for your “superior coach”.
Defending him is wasted on you… ‘Mullen doesn’t care about recruits, he forces them to room with rapists’ …how can you debate with stupid trash like that? You are exaggerating & embellishing the issue and cherry picking the things you want to believe and ignoring everything else. Either that, or you really don’t believe your nonsense and are just here to be a jackass.
I never said he doesn’t care about recruits. I did say however that he sat on his hands when it came to this situation.
I never said he roomed with a rapist. (Hence the word allegation.) But there are certainly character issues at play. Steele didn’t want his name to come up in an investigation. (Which is smart on his part.)
Whose exaggerating and embellishing now?
This paragraph symbolizes the whole problem with this site and it’s willingness to push a false narrative. He recently announced he was transferring, and a reported reason why was the fact the Gators wouldn’t let him change roommates AFTER fellow 2019 signee Jalon Jones was accused of sexual assault by two women. In other stories it is clear that he asked for a transfer well BEFORE the assaults. So let’s just keep feeding a false narrative for clicks and posts. Here’s guessing that he gets a wavier.
You keep saying the same thing, Darth, the article I read stated that he raised character concerns with staff, yes, BEFORE the attacks, which looks way worse on Mullen imo.
And yet his dad tweeted this out on April 14th, well after his son requested the move and a week after the assault occurred. “Man, the love my son gets @Floridagators is incredible! @CoachDanMullen is awesome”. CLEARLY not a family that’s angry about their son being ignored or thinking he’s being forced to stay in a horrible living situation. But let’s ignore all the facts and just keep rolling with the Mullen looks horrible for not moving him right away narrative that allows Dawg fans to keep running their mouths. Funny thing is, he’s barely off the plane back home and already committed to Oregon. Do you Dawg fans really believe this is something he hasn’t been considering for a while now? That’s not the type of decision you make that quickly. You guys can’t be that naive.
Getting really tired of the false information here. Gators are spinning a false narrative specifically to make a good kid look bad because he didn’t want to have his name mentioned in a sexual assault police report.
The tweet from his father is irrelevant because of the timing. I think it’s pretty obvious the turning point for the family was their son’s name turning up in reports about sexual assault. That happened on May 1st. A lot is being focused on the dorm request, and yes that was important. But that would have gone away if not for the media attention on the JJ assault accusation. May 1st is the important date not the dorm request. Also he reported character concerns about JJ to the coaches in Feb. They told him to tough it out and they’d move him in the summer. That response was fine until May 1st. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out why.