Florida Coach Disputes Damaging Rumor About Ex-Colorado 5-Star Cormani McClain

After graduating from high school, Cormani McClain, a former five-star and top-ranked cornerback in the 2023 class, has been surrounded by high expectations. McClain chose to take a similar path as Travis Hunter, who was the top cornerback in the 2022 class, and join Deion Sanders by committing to the Colorado Buffaloes.

McClain struggled to find his footing, playing in only nine games and making just 13 tackles. After one season, he transferred to the Florida Gators. However, tweets started surfacing on Tuesday claiming that McClain was no longer with the Gators' football program.

However, Florida's secondary coach, Will Harris, was quick to dismiss those rumors.

On Tuesday, Harris emphatically tweeted, "Not true!!!" seemingly putting an end to the chatter about McClain's status within the program.

This news comes after On3's Nick de la Torre reported that he was informed that McClain has been late to most of the team's requirements, such as meetings and workouts.

Torre mentioned that Florida uses a type of strike system. First, you receive a warning; then, you have to do extra running or lifting, which McClain has also been late to. The team then decided to have the defense and the rest of the team do these additional workouts, hoping it would encourage McClain to show up on time, but it didn't work.

Torre concluded that no player will be liked in the locker room if their tardiness is causing the rest of the team to have to run.

On3's Zach Abolverdi revealed on the Gators Online message board, "I’m told Cormani McClain was at workouts at 6 AM this (Tuesday) morning. Working to see if anything has changed since then."

The Florida Gators have not yet issued an official statement regarding McClain's status.

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