Dan Mullen has done a good job of upgrading Florida’s recruiting immediately.
The 2014 class was the last one prior to his arrival to finish in the top ten of the 247Sports Composite rankings. More crucially, the 2013 class was the last one to have more than half of its composition consist of blue chip 4-star and 5-star recruits. Jim McElwain’s final 2017 class came close, finishing No. 10 on signing day before later dropping a spot to 11th and having 11 blue chips to 12 non-blue chips.
Even then, two of the top ’17 recruits never played with James Robinson getting a medical disqualification for a heart condition and Kadeem Telfort participating in the credit card fraud scheme before transferring.