After two magical winning seasons Billy Donavon lost his top players due to the NBA draft, Including Al Horford, Taureen Green, Corey Brewer, and Joakim Noah. After this Billy Donavon was offered many NBA jobs including the Orlando Magic head coaching position. At first he accepted and was offered a multi million dollar contract. Then after a span of a few days he missed his gators. He got out of the job and Stan Van Gundy deservingly was appointed new head coach. Then after the controversy Donavan stayed with the Florida gators. After loosing the two-time NCAA championship winning starting lineup He had to start from scratch. So what did Mr. Donavon do he recruited the best recruiting class in America. Including
PF 9 Eloy Vargas
(American Heritage School)
PF 19 Allan Chaney
(New London HS)
C 5 Kenny Kadji
(IMG Academy)
SF 16 Ray Shipman
(Pace HS)
PG 27 Erving Walker
(Christ The King Regional HS)
These top five recruits were all at the top of recruiter’s boards. Billy Donavon his ready for another magical season in Florida