When Lane Kiffin and Charlie Strong were hired in December to add to the prestigious head coaches already in Florida - Scott Frost (UCF) Butch Davis (FIU) Jim McElwain (UF) Jimbo Fisher (FSU) Mark Richt (Miami) - for days the talk of the college football world centered around how great the recruiting battles in Florida would be.
In a limited amount of time it’s safe to say Frost, Strong, Kiffin and Davis were able to live up to the hype.
Despite facing a mass exodus of recruits leaving to join Willie Taggart at Oregon, Charlie Strong was able to bring in the fifth best recruiting class in the American.