UF smarter than us?

The Gators signed wide receiver Isaiah Johnson and seven other mid-year recruits to written offers of admission instead of financial aid agreements.

With this method, Johnson’s recent decision to de-commit will not result in NCAA sanctions for UF, as it did with LSU in February.

As discovered by Florida’s compliance office, the NCAA’s Michelle Hosick explained to SEC Country that if a recruit signs only a written offer of admission and not a financial aid agreement, a school is not in violation of NCAA rules should that recruit decide to enroll elsewhere.

But when a financial aid agreement alone is signed and its benefits are acted upon, the school has committed a recruiting violation if that mid-year signee fails to enroll. This happened to LSU with offensive lineman Matt Womack during the 2015 cycle.