The Gators just got a verbal commitment from #2 Joshua Shaw-DB/WR/QB Palmdale High School Football. Shaw picks Florida over USC, Ohio State and LSU.

The 28th ranked quarterback prospect by Scout.com for the Class of 2010. Burton led his team to an 11-1 record and the second round of the state playoffs. Burton is a dual-threat quarterback. Burton completed 62.5 percent of his passes for 1,699 yards and 14 touchdowns. The Venice High QB also rushed for 1,173 yards and scored 28 TDs on the ground.

The complete package at RB. Brown can run inside or outside and has the speed to be a threat to take it the distance at any time. Mack should be ready to see the field early as Tebow moves on and the John Brantley era starts.

Here is a look at the Florida Gators 2010 Football Recruiting Class so far.

Name	Position	Height	Weight	40 Time	Video
Ian Silberman	OT	6′ 5”	275	–
Trey Burton	QB	6′ 3”	220	4.5
Matt Elam	S	6′ 1”	205	4.45
Demar Dorsey	S/CB	6′ 2”	185	4.35
Jonothan Dowling	S	6′ 3”	180	4.73
Michael McFarland	TE	6′ 6”	230	4.7
Leon Orr	OT	6′ 5”	300	–
Gideon Ajagbe	LB	6′ 2”	192	4.72
Jaylen Watkins	ATL	6′ 1”	172	4.44
Jordan Haden	S/CB	6′ 0”	208	4.4
Gerald Christian	TE	6′ 3”	220	4.7
Solomon Patton	WR	5′ 10”	167	4.4
Travon Van	ATL	5′ 10”	190	4.4
Mack Brown	RB	5′ 11”	185	4.38
Neiron Ball	DE	6′ 4”	210	4.50
Quinton Dunbar	WR	6′ 3″	170	4.50
Lynden Trail	DE	6′ 7″	220	4.71
Joshua Shaw	CB	6′ 1″	195	4.5
Cody Riggs	CB	5′ 10″	160	4.43
Robert Clark	ATH	5′ 10″	170	4.50
Chris Dunkley	WR	5′ 10″	165	4.43
Dominique Easley	DL	6′ 3″	260	4.70
Sharrif Floyd	DT	6′ 4″	310	5.12
Ronald Powell	DE	6′ 4″	225	4.60

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How often do you watch highlight tapes on offensive tackles? Seantrel Henderson is one that you need to check out. He dominated defensive line last year as a Junior. All the scouting services have him as their top lineman of the 2010 class. The Gators are one of 50 plus teams that are recruiting this 6′7″ 295 lbs stud. Check out the tape for your self.

With Stephen Alli coming in early, the Gators are still in the market for another Wide Receiver for the class of 2010.

Kenny Still come on to Gainesville

Kenny Stills could be the player to fill that spot. Kenny is a 6′ 1″ and 171 lbs WR out of California. ESPN has him ranked at #38  in the WR class of 2010, while Rivals has him ranked #22, and Scout reports him as the #6 best WR. Kenny would fit in well with the speedy Gators. He posted a 4.3 time in the 40 yard dash.Everyone raves about how well he runs routes and how great his balance is once he is running with the ball.

As a high school Junior he caught 62 passes for 1,500 yards and 17 TDs. Kenny is also being recruited by UCLA, Oklahoma, Penn State, Cal, Tennessee, Michigan, LSU, USC, Nebraska, Stanford, Arizona State, Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Boise State, Arizona, and San Diego State.

Jordan Hicks a 6′2, 210 lbs stud LB from Lokota West High School in Ohio. He is the #1 rate LB on ESPN board. He has the Gators on his schools of interest.

The last few days their has been some drama around Sharrif Floyd. Sharrif a top Defensive Tackle in the class of 2010 found himself in the middle come controversy over the last couple of days. It all stared when Matt Alkire, who covers the Northern region for Scout.com, reported that Floyd came back from a trip to Florida and told one of his confidantes that Florida was negative recruiting. He was reported to say that UF was  pointing out Penn State’s record for having players in legal trouble. Also he was reported that Florida and Tennessee are well known to be the worst for negative recruiting.

Then last night Alkire backed off his report that Florida was involved in any negative recruiting. Floyd did admit some school gave him PSU arrest records but that school wasn’t Florida.  One coach in college football that has admitted to pointing out schools legal records is Randy Shannon…hummmm?

Mike Alkire did go to post this on a Gator forum…

On the Sharrif Floyd situation…

Jason told me I didn’t need to, but I want to apologize to you guys as fans and the coaches as I know they read this.

I will have an interview up today with Sharrif talking and apparently my source got the school wrong. Sharrif wouldn’t tell me who it was, but it did happen and wasn’t Florida.

In fact, all he had were great things to say about the program.

Again, my apologies. I won’t be coming back here to respond to this thread, but if you feel you need to PM me that’s fine.

The interview with Sharrif will be up today. Looks like Florida and South Carolina lead.

Matt Alkire
Recruiting Analyst
matta@scout.com

This is junior film on Darius White the 6′ 3″ 195 lbs Wide Receiver from Fort Worth (TX) Dunbar. Dunbar is a true play-maker with great size and speed. He has a very quick first step and has a great vertical to be able to make plays in the end zone. The Gators have offered Darius, but he is also recruited by Texas, USC, OSU, Texas Tech, Alabama and Utah.

With only 23 days till the home opener the Gators have now put on the pads and are ready to get down to business. It should be a great fall practice as guys try to crack the starting line-up. On defense there is going to be competition at every position. Defensive Coordinator Charlie Strong summed it up like this at the Gators Media Day:

“What is great is that the players understand that if they don’t prepare well, they don’t practice well, then they aren’t going to play. We have recruited well over the last few years and have managed to get some really good football players. Our staff has done a really good job at developing these players as well. If you look at our team a year ago, we got ridiculed for our game against Michigan. Then, at the start of last year we had Terron Sanders show up, Lawrence Marsh show up and Ahmad Black show up. All of those guys were developed and they became really good football players and key members of our improved defense last season. What we can’t allow happen is to look back to last season and not fully coach up our players just because they have made plays in games in the past. It is our duty as coaches to make sure that each day our players are getting better.”

Debose Working On Ball Security

ESPN.com’s BSC Guru Brad Edwards believes the Gators have schedule advantage in 2009. The Gators have a good looking schedule on paper, but any time you have LSU, UGA, Tennessee, and FSU on your schedule you don’t have any easy road to the BCS game.

University of Florida coach Urban Meyer begins his fifth season in Gainesville with a team constructed entirely of players he recruited. You can tell in recent interviews that Coach Meyer is happy with the state of his team, and proud of the talented staff and players he has around him. If you missed it, here is the must read from Pat Dooley on the comfort level Urban Meyer now has in Gainesville.

As we reported last night Kadron Boone picked Texas Tech over Flordia. “I’ll tell you what,” Trinity head coach John Brantley III said, “I’d be excited if I was a receiver and you’ve got the potential to catch 70 to 100 balls a year. I think that’s what Kadron was looking at.” Yes that is Gators QB John Brantley’s Dad quoted there. Not even having a Gator for a coach in high school was able to swing him to the Gators. Andy Marks gets more in-depth with his interview with Kedron.

Still none of the Freshman players have lost their stripe yet, but Jelani Jenkins, Xavier Nixon,  Mike Gillislee, and Jon Bostic have impressed so far. Also Jordan Reed and Andre Debose are improving over each practice.  The first one to lose their black stripe will join Jeff Demps from last year and Major Wright from the 2007 class as the first to be welcomed to the team.

And just a little something to get you fired up…