{"id":301848,"date":"2026-06-09T22:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301848\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T22:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:18:10","slug":"florida-lands-commitment-from-jacksonville-state-rhp-maddox-mcdougall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301848\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida lands commitment from Jacksonville State RHP Maddox McDougall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to On3\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/user\/petenakos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pete Nakos;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Pete Nakos&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Pete Nakos<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/florida-gators\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Florida Gators;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Florida Gators&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Florida Gators<\/a> have landed a commitment from Maddox McDougall out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/transfer-portal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NCAA transfer portal;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;NCAA transfer portal&quot;}\" class=\"link \">NCAA transfer portal<\/a>. McDougall is a right-handed pitcher who spent the past two seasons at Jacksonville State. He will now head to Gainesville, hoping for a breakout campaign with Florida. A nice pickup for head coach Kevin O\u2019Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/join\/?utm_source=publisher&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=subscriber_referral&amp;ref=421786\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:[ $19.99 gets you a FULL year of On3 | Rivals national coverage ];elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;[ $19.99 gets you a FULL year of On3 | Rivals national coverage ]&quot;}\" class=\"link \">[ $19.99 gets you a FULL year of On3 | Rivals national coverage ]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>McDougall pitched in 23 games this season for Jacksonville State, 22 of which were out of the bullpen. He finished with a 2.76 ERA, giving up just 15 earned runs over 49 innings pitched. Florida will like the number of strikeouts produced, as McDougall fanned 54 opposing batters. Maybe the walks, which sat at 18 in \u201926, are an area the Gators will want to improve moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Four of McDougall\u2019s outings were against power conference programs. Two of them \u2014 Alabama and Auburn \u2014 actually play in the SEC. In those two specific games, McDougall combined for 3.1 innings pitched, seven hits, five earned runs, one walk, and two strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, SEC opponents are going to become a whole lot more common for McDougall. Florida is there to continue the development after showing significant signs of progress at Jacksonville State. Some work will be done during the summer months and into fall ball before officially getting his UF tenure underway with the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p>On3 | Rivals\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/florida-gators\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Gators Online;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Gators Online&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Gators Online<\/a> has a transfer portal tracker going for Florida. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/florida-gators\/news\/transfer-portal-tracker-florida-gators-baseball-roster-updates-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:You can check out everything happening for O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s offseason moves here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;You can check out everything happening for O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s offseason moves here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">You can check out everything happening for O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s offseason moves here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>To keep up with the latest players on the move, check out On3\u2019s Transfer Portal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/news\/2026-college-baseball-transfer-portal-tracker-latest-entries-commitments\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:wire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;wire&quot;}\" class=\"link \">wire<\/a>.\u00a0The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/transferportal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:On3 Transfer Portal Instagram account;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;On3 Transfer Portal Instagram account&quot;}\" class=\"link \">On3 Transfer Portal Instagram account<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TransferPortal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter account\u00a0;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Twitter account&amp;nbsp&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Twitter account\u00a0<\/a>are excellent resources to stay up to date with the latest moves.<\/p>\n<p>Florida loses assistant coach to NC State<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/florida-gators\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Florida;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Florida&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Florida<\/a>\u00a0baseball team is reportedly set to lose a second assistant coach off its 2026 staff.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KendallRogers\/status\/2064444934732583148?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:According to D1Baseball.com\u2019s\u00a0Kendall Rogers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;According to D1Baseball.com\u2019s&amp;nbsp&quot;}\" class=\"link \">According to D1Baseball.com\u2019s\u00a0Kendall Rogers<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/nc-state-wolfpack\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NC State;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;NC State&quot;}\" class=\"link \">NC State<\/a>\u00a0is expected to hire\u00a0Taylor Black\u00a0as its new recruiting coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Black spent the past four years at Florida. He had a previous stint at NC State from 2014-17, so he\u2019s returning to some familiar stomping grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>A Florida bio for Taylor Black credits him with much of Florida\u2019s improvement in hitting after his arrival ahead of the 2023 season. The Gators also reached Omaha twice while Black was on staff.<\/p>\n<p>On3\u2019s Thomas Goldkamp contributed to this report<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to On3\u2019s Pete Nakos, the Florida Gators have landed a commitment from Maddox McDougall out of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2530,116,118,117,16843,94915,126683,46367],"class_list":["post-301848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-florida-gators","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-state","tag-maddox-mcdougall","tag-mcdougall","tag-ncaa-transfer-portal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}