Steve Spurrier didn’t forget about Dre.
That’s Dre Massey, Florida’s versatile junior wide receiver who spent two years at Holmes Community College in Mississippi before transferring to UF this year.
But before Massey earned a second shot at playing Division I football, he was recruited out of high school by Spurrier, then South Carolina’s head coach. Massey was a standout quarterback at Mauldin High School just outside of his hometown of Greenville, South Carolina.
But the recruiting talks didn’t work out in his favor.
“Everybody knew with my grades, I wasn’t gonna make it,” Massey said.