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How Florida’s roster management looks in the post-2024 offseason

I have not seen a firm enunciation of Florida’s roster building strategy, and more specifically its transfer portal strategy. In general, Billy Napier is in the camp of building primarily through high school recruiting and supplementing through the portal, as opposed to some of the more transfer-heavy programs out there.

Building that way is in Napier’s wheelhouse — part of why he got the job was that he was going to emphasize recruiting a lot more than Dan Mullen did — and it still looks like a winning strategy given how results have played out. Even the transfer-heavy FSU team that started 13-0 in 2023 included a fair number of transfers who’d been there multiple years.