Former Gators commit and four-star receiver Jayden Gibson found the right fit with the Sooners.
The new Florida staff asked numerous prospects - even commits - for a short workout video. Gibson said he was perfectly fine with that request. But it became clear to the Winter Garden West Orange standout that the Gators were going in a different direction when he never heard from the new head coach.
“ was asking people to work out and send workout videos,” Gibson said here at Under Armour All-America Game practices. “I didn’t have a problem with that necessarily but it wasn’t even him who was delivering the message. I didn’t talk to Napier, not one time. Never spoken to him before. He was having recruiting assistants deliver the message. He never called me.
“In my mind, I’m not important to him so I’ll just decommit. No person on the new staff hit me up or talked to me so obviously they didn’t want me. There’s no point in me waiting and staying committed when I have so many other options of great schools to go to. I thought it was the best decision to just decommit.Numerous then-Florida commits reopened their recruitments, the feeling among many of them was that Napier wanted to move on from many pledges under Dan Mullen’s regime and start fresh.
“It wasn’t a ‘me’ thing,” Gibson said. “A lot of us committed to Mullen and didn’t want us there. Over the next couple weeks after I decommitted and I was looking at everybody they were recruiting and it was none of the same dudes except the five-stars that everybody is going to recruit regardless. For the four-star guys, three-star guys it was a whole different thing.
“I wasn’t mad about it. If he would have just hit me up and said, ‘We’re looking to go in a different direction,’ I’d be cool with that but he didn’t say anything to me. I don’t know what they expected me to do.”
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