Let me start with a caveat here – nobody is saying that a college football team at the SEC level should be building a team with three-star recruits.
We just know that you can’t dismiss them.
Florida’s latest class only has two of them, although the haul in the transfer portal is full of them.
But that’s the key, seeing in a player what the recruiting services don’t see and developing that talent.
You’d still rather be able to recruit like Alabama, but first, you have to win more than six games a year. It’s a chicken/egg thing.
Anyway, that’s a long way to get to the point of this Dooley’s Dozen, the 12 best Florida players in the last 10 recruiting classes (not including this one) who were three-stars that Florida was able to develop into guys playing with five-star ability.