Things were looking up for the Florida Gators football team at the start of spring.
Head coach Dan Mullen had just raked in what looked to be a very promising class. With 17 four-star recruits, it earned a No. 9 ranking from 247Sports and included the highest-rated UF recruit since 2016 in California native Chris Steele.
“I’d think we did a poor job recruiting if guys were coming in and then immediately walking out the door because it was something different than what they thought it would be,” Mullen said in March.
Two months later, his highly-ranked class began to waver.