Primed for a strong finish: Gators flip Vols DB commit
Dan Mullen and the Florida Gators are on the verge of a big recruiting finish to the 2020 recruiting cycle.
The Gators flipped former elite Georgia lineman commit Joshua Braun Friday, and now, Mullen and company have flipped 4-star Tennessee defensive back commit Mordecai McDaniel.
McDaniel (Washington, D.C.) is ranked as the No. 24 overall cornerback in the nation and ranked as D.C.’s No. 5 overall prospect, according to 247Sports Composite Rankings. He boasted offers from big programs around the nation, and he had been committed to Tennessee since August 21.
The 6-foot-1, 195-pound cornerback became the Gators 24th commitment in the class of 2020. While Florida has a strong class already, things are setting up for a big finish with several other big-time prospects looking the Gators way.
To pull the flip, Mullen, safeties coach Ron English and cornerbacks coach Torrian Gray went in-home with McDaniel. He shared his commitment via Twitter:
Though I really appreciate everything that Tennessee have offered me. I must follow my heart ♥️ and with that being said …I would like to say that I will be attending the University of Florida 🐊 #GoGators pic.twitter.com/l9S1pLap2v
— Mordecai McDaniel (@HunnitBandCai) December 14, 2019
You can watch McDaniel’s junior high school highlights below:
Florida gets all those good players and then I just don’t know what happens to them!
Yeah, if they only produced on the field, we wouldn’t suck anymore.
Yeah, Florida is definitely the school known for doing less with more and constantly coming up just short.
I suppose.
Haven’t seen a new National Championship Trophy in the Bulldogs case since nearly the 70’s. With all those top 10 recruiting classes, still goose eggs.
What happens to them is they outperform their recruiting rankings:
2018
Team talent composite: 14
Final AP poll: 7
2019
Talent: 9
Current rank: 6
How about UGA?
2018:
Talent: 1
Final AP poll: 7
2019:
Talent: 2
Current rank: 5
Kirby Richt!
its funny you should say this. There was actually a metric of teams where their players out played their rankings. UF was #1. UGA wasnt even on the list
Stupid lil’ Georgia Moron projecting again
Omg he been here 2 yrs lol
Congrats on asterisk wins they have asterisks now because u think now Mullen will and u prob cant see how utterly stupid that is
Well that’s a tough loss. Radioheads say he has been a soft commit for a while. Good get for gators. Big recruiting weekend. Pruitt and co. Closed really strong last year. Am hopeful he will again.
Mullen and Co are pulling together a solid recruiting effort.
Yeah you guys have a nice class going.
Mullen and company did some great work this week.
Not done yet
Players should go where they want, but I’m not a fan of the flipping at the last minute thing. if you are not sure where you want to go then don’t commit until signing day.
There must be some mistake. I’ve been repeatedly told by some very knowledgeable fans that Mullen cannot recruit.
WHO in Hades said THT? Heck man, doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that If Kirby had Mullets top 5 recruits they would fill in his14 thru 19 spots on this year’s Leghumper recruiting contingent nicely…
Before you guys pull out your hailfire missiles, relax Francises….just kidding. Any elite team would love to have the 24th best DB on their practice squad…
So many backhanded complements lately. You act as though the 24th best db is destined to be buried on an “elite” team but consider this. There are usually 4 or 5 dbs playing at any given time, per team. So this recruit is believed to be on the 5th or 6th best team if teams were made from the recruits of 2020. Certainly nothing to sneer at. Still not impressed? Don’t worry, UF also has two top ten db commits. This is currently more than UGA has
Two of Georgia’s starting DBs this year, Stokes and Reed, were 3-stars. So please kindly give the practice squad line a rest.
Funny thing is that the 24th best DB goes to Georgia and ends up on the practice squad not showing any improvement, leaves school after his junior year due to personal problems and was last seen working on his game outside of Hezabah , GA hoping to catch on with a semi-pro team…….. while that same player goes to Florida and thru the coaching and conditioning program improves to the points where ends up making an All SEC team or two, gets his diploma, becomes a mid round draft pick and after 5 years in the league with his diploma from a top ten public university garners a career he had also always dreamed about. Yeah, that’s a good recruiting pitch.
TWO DBs were 3 stars? I’ll be darned, So then one must guess that while Kirby is no Mullet in player development, he has a little bit of coaching ability…like I said, lighten up francises…
Congrats on your DB pick up, very nice flip.
He’s the 15th cb on 247 the site everyone seems to go by idc about stars our great as it and ur too blinded by stars to realize lol seriously one player I dont like in this class is Javier the OT
Mincey is a beast Tre Johnson wow but he got his 5 pt bump from 247 a few days ago
Even Odom the TE tape is really good and Pitts and Zip we need a blocking machine that happens to catch everything and surprisingly fast
Needs are basically filled for this cycle minus an RB even tho I think Nayquan has potential be sick af
And they would still underperform with Kirby as the coach.
Good for Florida.
So much talent on D in this class omg(even if dogs cant see lol watch Tre’Vez Johnson senior film) dan find them gems boy gd just way more in fla then miss if we add Tim Smith Xzavier Henderson and the Gibbs RB from Ga or Marks or Parrish ima be so happy and proud of dan and staff for this class
Combined this class with the last our defense had game changing talent
Wont be easy wins for dawgs anymore lol so funny how they brag about em what kirby do first yr? 2 td loss to Mac lol and he took over a 9-3 team
Mullen took over a 4-8 team and made it 10-3
I think you Gators are missing the humor in “Humpers” comments. If you read his regular posts then you would know he’s just poking a little fun. Just like us Gators do towards the Ug’s. He’s not to be grouped in with those other 3-4 morons that can’t write or post anything that makes any sense. Lets all try to have fun posting when we can. There Humper, i got your back, you owe me a beer.
The Leghumper is my favorite Georgia commenter, although every now and then he’ll get on a rant that runs for a week or more, like his “opponents with open dates before playing UGA” rant in November.
But generally speaking, I get a kick out of his comments.
You had to bring that up again didn’t ya? Dangit man! 5 BYE teams…lol
Aww thanks guys, feeling mutual. Beers all around! Jacksonville Landing November 2020…just put it on CO’s tab, he owes me…