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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2017 14:15:52 GMT -5
After finishing #25 in the AP/Coaches in 2015, UF improved up to #14 in the AP and #13 in the Coaches in 2016. I'm expecting continued improvement in 2017; another SEC East title, maybe an SECC, and a higher ranking. I like the talent and 17 schedule that will give UF a chance to compete on the national level for the first time since 2012 and 2009 before that.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2017 11:45:46 GMT -5
Down to 5 EEs - CB Shawn Davis has to make up a class - He'll enroll in May.
Florida is looking at one less player than expected in its class of early enrollees.
Sources confirmed to SEC country that 3-star cornerback Shawn Davis did not meet the credit requirements and must make up a class, preventing him from enrolling early at Florida as originally planned. Davis ranked as the nation’s 50th-best cornerback, according to 247Sports. Five other players did meet the requirements and have enrolled, including 4-star tackle Kedeem Telfort and 4-star tight end Kemore Gamble.
Davis is one of three corners committed to the Gators and would have been the only one to enroll early. Both of Florida’s other two corners are 4-star recruits: Elijah Blades and Marco Wilson.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2017 0:30:50 GMT -5
RJr punter Johnny Townsend has decided to return for his RSr season. Johnny could have chosen to kick in the NFL, but he decided to come back. Both punter and kicker, Eddy Pineiro, return for UF. As you recall, Johnny beat out Kyle Christy as a true freshman then took a redshirt the following season to allow Kyle to finish up his UF career.
RFr punter Tommy Townsend, Johnny's younger brother and a decorated punter coming out of high school, will get his time in his RJr and RSr seasons.
This from SEC Country:
It’s rare that a punter is good enough to go to the NFL at all, let alone have the opportunity to forgo his senior season and become an early-entrant. But that was the dilemma for Florida punter Johnny Townsend, who was probably good enough to leave early and have a shot at getting drafted. That NFL paycheck will have to wait another year, however, as Townsend took to Twitter Thursday night to announce his return for the 2017 season. Though it’s not on the level of Georgia returning Nick Chubb and Sony Michel, Townsend’s presence is certainly a boon for the Gators. He was the SEC’s leader in punting yards per attempt, and he has a very good shot at being named the SEC’s first-team selection in the preseason. Townsend was the second team punter in 2016, behind Alabama’s JK Scott, also returning next year.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2017 17:36:49 GMT -5
Mike Summers to L'ville to coach the cardinals OL. This doesn't surprise me in the least. Mac wasn't happy this year with the pad level, lack of aggression, and poor pass blocking of the OL. Summers wasn't a great recruiter either. He was also the last of Muschamp's former staff:
Mike Summers will not be back with the Gators next season. The Florida assistant will take over as Louisville’s offensive line coach next season the school announced Saturday. ESPN’s Brett McMurphy was first to report the news.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Florida offensive line coach Mike Summers, after three seasons with the Gators, is returning to his Kentucky roots.
Louisville head coach Bobby Petrino announced Saturday afternoon that he has hired Summers as co-offensive coordinator and O-line coach, marking the third time the two have worked together. Summers was a Louisville assistant under Petrino from 2003-06 and also worked on Petrino's staff at Arkansas.
Summers is a Kentucky native who has coached at both flagship schools in the state, his alma mater, Kentucky, and at Louisville. He was the only holdover from former Gators head coach Will Muschamp's staff retained after the 2014 season when Muschamp was replaced by Jim McElwain.
"Kathy and I are so excited to re-join the Cardinal family," Summers said in a statement on Louisville's official website. "I'm so excited to be back in the state of Kentucky and be re-united with Coach Petrino. I think he is the best football coach in the country and I'm excited to be part of something special at Louisville."
What does this mean for the Gators?
McElwain and his staff spent Saturday hosting recruits and their families. The assistant coaches attended the UF men's basketball team's win over Georgia at Exactech Arena with several recruits as they try to finish strong on the recruiting trail prior to National Signing Day on Feb. 1.
The departure opens another vacancy on McElwain's staff. Defensive coordinator Geoff Collins was hired as head coach at Temple in December and after Florida's 30-3 win over Iowa in the Outback Bowl, McElwain named Randy Shannon defensive coordinator.
McElwain has multiple options in filling the two openings on his staff. He could promote from within the organization or hire from the outside. Veteran offensive line coach Bret Ingalls served as an offensive analyst this past season. The area that appears the most concern to McElwain is adding strong recruiters to round out his staff.
Summers is the latest move in the retooling of Florida's football staff. Temple announced this week that Gators defensive graduate assistant Josh Linam has joined Collins' staff as a defensive analyst.
Meanwhile, former Gators offensive analyst John Garrett, who joined McElwain's staff in 2015 before moving to Richmond as offensive coordinator this past season, is now head coach at Lafayette. Garrett hired Gators offensive graduate assistant Christian Pace as running backs coach. Pace was at Florida the last two seasons.
In one other personnel move, Collins hired Gators equipment assistant Kane Ivers-Osthus, one of Florida's "Money Down" sideline guys under Collins, as a graduate assistant working with Temple's football equipment staff.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2017 9:02:19 GMT -5
From Pat Dooley's Back Nine - a little bit of football and basketball:
10. If you made it to the Florida-Georgia basketball game Saturday, you probably needed a day for your voice to recover because of all of the booing of the officials and cheering big plays. It got crazy loud when Canyon Barry went all Kenny Boynton on us and hit the second of his four-point plays. I mean, cuh-razy loud. It is amazing that this team is 14-3 and 5-0 in the SEC (and still getting plenty of cyber-criticism) when it ranks 237th in the nation in rebounding. But that's what Mike White has been able to do, take a flawed team and accentuate its strengths. One reason for the low rebound numbers is that Florida forces so many turnovers (18 against Georgia), which means those are shots that are not taken and therefore cannot be rebounded. Florida is second in the SEC in steals. South Carolina, UF's opponent Wednesday, is No. 1. I think it's really cool that these two teams will play as ranked teams.
11. Villanova is back at No. 1 in the AP poll, which doesn't mean a whole lot except that you can keep the ranking. Thanks, but no thanks. What is the upside of being No. 1 in an irrelevant poll (we have a 68-team playoff) when all it really means is your next opponent(s) are going to play their tails off to try to beat No. 1 and maybe storm the court? It's like the situation Florida is in right now with its lofty RPI. There aren't too many opportunities in the SEC to get big RPI wins, but Florida is certainly one of them. So the Gators are going to get everybody's best shot the rest of the way and you could see that with the intensity of Saturday's game.
12. You may have seen the story this weekend about how NCAA officials will meet with advanced metric gurus Jan. 20 to decide whether or not to scrap RPI, the analytic used as a guide for the basketball committee. Instead, the committee would have advanced analytics at its disposal, things like the Sagarin ratings and KenPom ratings. Of course, those are exactly the people that the NCAA officials are meeting with so you probably know how that will go. Florida has benefitted this year from its odd schedule as far as RPI goes. The Gators are third. Jeff Sagarin's rating has UF at 14, Ken Pomeroy's at 13. Clearly, they don't put as much emphasis on playing away from home for a month. The good news for UF is that any scrapping of the RPI would not go into effect until next season. I've always liked RPI, but the committee members look at everything already. Seems kind of silly to need a meeting. Just use everything available. Including your eyes.
13. Mike Summers leaving Florida for Louisville was no surprise to UF, but the hire Jim McElwain makes is going to be crucial. I don't think Florida has underachieved on the offensive line over the last three years, but it certainly hasn't overachieved. How many times did a running back simply run into the back of an offensive lineman this year? There were some bright moments for the line (LSU, Georgia), but for McElwain's offense to work it needs to be exceptional. It was not.
14. We often talk about momentum from a bowl win in terms of your team's attitude going into the offseason and the recruiting boost a win can bring. We're seeing at Florida that it shot some life into season ticket sales, which were up 171 percent for the first week of sales over last year. Some of it has to do with the amazing home schedule and I'm not talking about you Northern Colorado and UAB. You either Vandy. If TV cooperates with the times of the games, the businesses in Gainesville should do well when Tennessee, LSU, Texas A&M and FSU come to town. Across the street, the new arena and a team that keeps winning have given the basketball program five sellouts compared to one all of last year.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2017 15:01:53 GMT -5
I think it more than way too early, but the average of the way too early rankings have UF starting at #20 in 17. At least that's 5 spots higher than where UF actually started the 16 season when the Gators finished #13 in the Coaches and #14 in the AP. This from floridagators.com:
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – One of my favorite parts of the college football offseason is the way-too-early preseason top 25 polls that begin to flood the Internet as soon as Nick Saban finishes his on-field interview at the national championship game.
Not sure who invented the way-too-early top 25 concept, but boy, has it ever spread. The NFL mock draft remains No. 1 on the Internet in terms of mass production in the offseason, but over time, way-too-early might catch up.
Here at FloridaGators.com, my colleague Chris Harry and I have discussed doing a way-too-early top 25 the past couple of years, but then we come to our senses. Who would actually read it?
I always have the Gators No. 1, and Chris, deep into the UF men's basketball season by now, doesn't have time to analyze film and study bear fronts, gap integrity and arm talent as much he does during football season.
So, we simply rely on the views of others to get a proper gauge of where the Gators might open the next season in polls.
With more and more options each year to choose from, I've selected 11 way-too-early top 25 polls from around the world to determine the likelihood of Florida's ranking entering the 2017 season. For what it's worth, the Gators finished ranked 14th in the final AP Top 25 poll in head coach Jim McElwain's second season.
There's a good chance they will open around that spot in 2017 – or not.
Without further ado, let's get to these way-too-early top 25 polls before the revised way-too-early polls come out after National Signing Day:
--The Landof10.com website covers the Big Ten conference heavily, and with Florida concluding the season with a 30-3 whipping of Iowa, I figured the folks at Landof10 might think highly of the Gators heading into next season. I was wrong. Ranking: 31 (Landof10.com prefers a way-too-early top 40 poll).
--Next, we head back to Southeastern Conference territory to take a look at the still-way-too-early top 25 poll from the Opelika-Auburn (Ala.) News. Back in the Deep South, no surprise Alabama is ranked No. 1. I was somewhat surprised Auburn is not No. 2, but instead ranked 13th. What about the Gators? Ranking: 17. Sixteen spots below where I'd have them, but 14 ahead of Landof10.
--At SBNation.com, they refer to their poll as "our stupendously early top 25." Alabama, Ohio State, USC, Florida State and Penn State are in the top five spots. The Gators are sandwiched between West Virginia and Miami lower in the poll. Ranking: 18.
--The folks at bleacherreport.com have Alabama No. 1 and Florida's SEC-East rivals Georgia (No. 7) and Tennessee (No. 18) ahead of the Gators. Sound familiar? Ranking: 24.
--A common theme has clearly emerged as I make my way through these way-too-early top 25s: Alabama is going to be good again in 2017. While that may not sit well with other fan bases around the SEC, sportingnews.com has the Crimson Tide on top, too. The Gators gain some ground, though. Ranking: 14.
--USA Today is familiar with college football polls as the administrator of the Amway Coaches' Poll throughout the season. In its way-too-early top 25, Florida State, Alabama, Ohio State and Michigan form the top four. The Gators open the season against Michigan at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Where do the Gators stand? Ranking: 22.
--SportsonEarth.com prefers to take a high-brow look at the sports world, but that doesn't mean a way-too-early top 130 isn't worth their time. UAB, which is cranking its program back up in 2017, is No. 130. Alabama, located not too far away, is at the top. Florida is closer to Alabama than UAB. Ranking: 19.
--CBSSports.com takes college football seriously, and especially takes SEC football seriously. We all know who is No. 1 in their poll, but I was surprised at No. 10: South Florida. Charlie Strong has fans in Tampa fired up. Meanwhile, what about the Sunshine State's flagship program? Ranking: unranked. The poll doesn't go beyond 25, so that must mean the Gators are the first team among those receiving votes. (At least according to my averaging system for this little project).
--The first time I remember seeing a way-too-early top 25 was on ESPN.com a few years ago, and if that was the first of its kind, then I'd like to thank the World Wide Leader for igniting this blog's creation in some tiny way. The Gators are more popular in this way-too-early top 25 than the last one we visited. Ranking: 21.
--Next up is foxsports.com, which surprisingly has Kansas ranked No. 1. OK, not really, just checking to see if you're still reading this. Yep, it's you know who at No. 1 -- again. However, despite uncertainty at quarterback heading into spring camp, Florida "should be set otherwise on offense." Ranking: 17. Gator fans will take that analysis and see what happens.
--Finally, last but not least, we check in with the folks at SportsIllustrated.com to see who they have atop their way-too-early top 25. By now you're really tired of hearing about No. 1, so let's get right to it. Ranking: 19. "The Gators have a lot to replace defensively, but have won back-to-back SEC East titles" SI concludes.
That is true. So, where should we realistically expect the Gators to open next season in the national polls?
First, let's scratch the Landof10.com way-too-early top 25 from our scientific experiment. It's obviously a very non-objective ranking. How can the Gators be 30 spots below where I would have them if I did a way-too-early top 25?
Meanwhile, Florida is ranked in nine of the 10 traditional media polls referred to here, except for CBSSports.com. As mentioned above, I'm just going to assume they would have made it if this was a review of "way-too-early top 26s" from around the world.
Having made that clear, the Gators check in at 17, 18, 24, 14, 22, 19, 26, 21, 17 and 19 in the 10 polls. If my math is correct, that totals 197, and combined by 10, equals an average ranking of 19.7.
Based on our final conclusion and rounding up, the Gators should open next season ranked No. 20 in the polls.
Does that sound about right to you?
Or is it just way too early?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2017 15:35:44 GMT -5
I have to give steaksauce credit for stating that UF needed to upgrade facilities to keep up with the SEC arms race in facilities.
Since then, UF has upgraded the O-Dome making it state of the art in that type of facility even though the capacity was reduced from 12,000 to 11,000 to do it and to keep it at the prime location across the street from the football stadium. Both basketball and gymnastics are enjoying the renovated O'Dome now as it opened in mid December. The football indoor practice facility opened last August. The athletic dorms and the building where the student athletes go for study/tutoring have also been renovated. The following from floridagators.com tells us about the coming addition of a football/athletic training facility and the upgrading of both the baseball and softball stadiums. The total of the three projects will have a price tag of approximately $100 million dollars, probably more:
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – In the latest step toward the Gators' $60 million stand-alone football facility becoming a reality, the University of Florida placed an advertisement Wednesday on its official website for a construction management firm.
According to the post, the contract for construction services includes pre-construction and construction phases of the projected 135,000 square-foot building that will serve as the primary meeting and training headquarters for the UF football team.
Wednesday's advertisement comes on the heels of the preliminary plans being released on UF's official website last month.
Chip Howard, UF's executive associate athletics director for external affairs, said to expect more releases such as this throughout 2017 as the University Athletic Association gears toward what is currently a $100 million facility plan that includes the construction of a stand-alone football facility and major upgrades to McKethan Stadium, home to UF's baseball team, and Seashole Pressly Stadium, which houses UF's softball team.
"It's part of a university process," Howard said. "These are the procedures we follow in the first steps of a major project."
UF advertised for the design firms for the project in December and will be accepting detailed applications Thursday. With this new advertisement, UF will be accepting comprehensive applications from construction firms for the next four weeks. The deadline is Feb. 15.
The pre-construction phase includes the demolition of a small storage building and preparing the grounds for the construction of a three-story building along 2nd Avenue adjacent to the team's existing practice fields.
According to the plans released in December, the school envisions breaking ground on the facility in December 2017 with a final inspection in June 2019. The three-story building will include locker rooms, a hydrotherapy room, a players lounge, meeting rooms, training rooms, coaches offices, a lobby and dining hall to serve UF's roster of 500-plus student-athletes.
The design concepts and projected construction dates currently in the public domain could change according to Howard.
"The only thing that's out there previously is just a study,'' Howard said. "For the scope of the project, that's what we envision. What may change is the timeline. It was a very conservative timeline that we put onto the university procedure. That all remains to be determined based on who you hire as an architect and who you hire as a construction management firm."
Howard said that since the stand-alone football facility will take the most time to build, its initial plans were released first. The baseball and softball projects won't take as long and the plans for those projects should be released publicly at some point in the coming months.
The Gators released a master plan to upgrade facilities in early September. Since then, Florida opened the Exactech Arena at Stephen C. O'Connell Center to rave reviews following a $64.5 million renovation.
In addition, Athletic Director Scott Stricklin replaced Jeremy Foley on Nov. 1 and is conducting a spring speaking tour around the state with boosters to inform them of the new projects and what they can do to help as UF transitions into a new era.
"We continue to move ahead with our various facility projects,'' Stricklin said. "It is important that our student-athletes and coaches have the support and facilities that they need to be successful."
Howard has been at UF for more than 25 years. He's seen major projects such as the expansion of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium and the construction of the team's indoor practice facility come and go with success.
When the next round of upgrades is complete, Florida's football program will have a home like it's never had before. Until then, 2017 is going to be a busy year as the project gets off the ground.
"The bottom line is that it's a big building and it's a long project,'' Howard said. "It will be really nice. It's just going to take some time."
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2017 17:59:32 GMT -5
Luke Del Rio had shoulder surgery and will miss spring ball. The rising redshirt freshmen QBs, Feleipe Franks and Kyle Trask, will get most of the spring refs. EE Kadarius Toney will try out at QB, but I expect he'll end up at WR or slot WR. This from SEC Country:
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida coach Jim McElwain announced Thursday that redshirt junior quarterback Luke Del Rio will miss spring practice after undergoing surgery on his non-throwing shoulder Wednesday. Del Rio missed the Gators’ final five games, but it was presumed he had injured his throwing shoulder during the team’s Nov. 5 loss at Arkansas. McElwain had later commented that in hindsight he wished he had pulled Del Rio out of that game and that he could see in reviewing the tape how the quarterback looked clearly limited by the injury on a downfield throw to Antonio Callaway that was intercepted. While meeting with reporters after that game, Del Rio sported a sizable ice pack strapped to his throwing shoulder. RELATED: QB Feleipe Franks to get full share of spotlight in spring He made some light throws in pre-game warm-ups late in the season, looking to still be working his way back from the unspecified shoulder injury, and was listed as the team’s backup quarterback for the Outback Bowl. So the direct cause or origin of the issue that required surgery on his non-throwing shoulder this week is not clear. The quarterback also missed two games early in the season with a knee injury. Overall, he finished with 1,358 passing yards, 8 touchdowns and 8 interceptions while making 6 starts in his debut season with the Gators. His best game was a 320-yard, 4-touchdown, 1-interception effort against Kentucky in Week 2. He never looked the same after the knee injury, throwing 6 interceptions and just 2 touchdown passes over his final three games. He was expected to compete with redshirt freshman Feleipe Franks for the position heading into the 2017 season. Franks and fellow untested second-year quarterback Kyle Trask will now get an even larger share of the reps this spring and Del Rio will look to make an impression in fall camp.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2017 18:07:52 GMT -5
Spring will be interesting at QB. The consensus of insiders will have Feleipe Franks winning the job, but I wouldn't rule out Kyle Trask. Franks at 6'4"/220 is said to be a bigger gunslinger like Rex Grossman, but Trask is even bigger at 6'6"/240 and is said to have a soft pass like Wuerffel yet has the size to run like Tebow. I think I'd rather that Trask was better at one or the other as I'm concerned he might not be a Wuerffel or Tebow. I can see why the insiders are predicting Franks. This from SEC Country:
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Redshirt freshman quarterback Feleipe Franks was set to get his audition for Florida’s starting quarterback job this spring, regardless. But with the news Thursday that redshirt junior quarterback Luke Del Rio will miss spring practice after undergoing surgery on his non-throwing shoulder, the reps will be even more dedicated now to Franks and fellow untested second-year QB Kyle Trask. That’s as a wide an opening for the 2017 starting job as Franks could hope for in trying to prove he’s up to the task. Franks, a 6-foot-6 4-star recruit from Crawfordville, Fla., has been ahead of Trask on the depth chart, elevating to second-string on the depth chart when Del Rio was injured Nov. 4 at Arkansas. He never got into a game, but the Gators’ fan base has rallied around his potential in hoping he could be the long-awaited, much-overdue next quarterback of the future for the program. Neither Florida head coach Jim McElwain nor offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier have revealed much about their own hopes for the position in 2017. Leading up to the Outback Bowl, Nussmeier emphasized Del Rio was still in the mix while also responding affirmatively that he feels Franks is ready to compete for the job. But after a lackluster season from Del Rio (when healthy) — one that included 8 touchdowns and 8 interceptions in 6 starts — the opening was clearly there for Franks to compete for the job. That opening would seem even wider now, but in reality, this probably doesn’t change anything. With or without a healthy and active Del Rio, Franks’ path to playing time rests squarely on his own abilities. He possess the greater upside, and if he can prove he’s ready for the job after spending a year in the system, learning the offense and refining his mechanics, there would be no reason to further delay his arrival. If he stumbled through the spring and summer, looking erratic and giving the coaches concern about throwing him out there against Michigan on Sept. 2, then Del Rio was and remains a fine Plan B. Franks still has to prove himself, prove that he’s ready to run the offense, make decisions at the line of scrimmage, adjust to SEC-caliber defenses and make the necessary throws. If he doesn’t earn that trust from the coaching staff, Del Rio is still there with six career starts and a 320-yard, 4 touchdown performance against Kentucky on his resume. After two years in the program, he doesn’t need a spring practice to know what he’s doing. But he may have needed one to convince the coaches he might still be the better option to open the season. Ultimately, though, just as it was before this news, it comes down to Franks and his performance this spring. The only difference is he’ll now have an almost exclusive share of the spotlight in March. Everybody will know very soon just how ready he is for that starring role.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2017 19:33:06 GMT -5
Florida defensive line coach Chris Rumph is reportedly staying in Gainesville, despite being pursued by the national champion Clemson Tigers. ESPN’s Brett McMurphy reported Thursday that Rumph had “received overtures from Clemson” but elected to remain with the Gators. “He wants to remain at Florida on (head coach) Jim McElwain’s staff,” a source told McMurphy. Clemson is looking for an assistant after defensive ends coach Marion Hobby took a job with the Jacksonville Jaguars. SEC Country’s Zach Abolverdi reported Rumph “never entertained an offer” from the Tigers.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2017 13:17:10 GMT -5
After telling the ODome crowd that UF is going to kick the door down in Atlanta next season, the UF basketball team responded with a 10-2 close to lead at the half 32-27. Me thinks that kick the door down reference was for the recruits UF has on campus this weekend. Many of the visitors are committed to UF so 2/3 of the UF 17 recruiting class is on campus this weekend. This from floridagators.com:
GAINESVILLE, Fla -- Gators head coach Jim McElwain and his staff are busy this weekend hosting a large group of recruits on their official visits.
They watched the first half of the UF men's basketball team's home game against Vanderbilt. Late in the first half, football players Antonio Callaway, Marcell Harris, Johnny Townsend, Martez Ivey, Jordan Scarlett and Duke Dawson were introduced at midcourt, followed by McElwain, who received a loud ovation for leading the Gators to back-to-back SEC East titles.
McElwain fired up the sellout crowd at Exactech Arena at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center.
"When we get back to Atlanta this next season, we're going to kick the door down."
That's what Gator fans are hoping. Florida has lost to Alabama in the past two SEC Championship Games following a six-year absence in the game.
As McElwain enters his third season, the Gators are trying to close strong toward National Signing Day on Feb. 1.
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Post by canefan on Jan 22, 2017 19:07:48 GMT -5
Down to 5 EEs - CB Shawn Davis has to make up a class - He'll enroll in May. Florida is looking at one less player than expected in its class of early enrollees. Sources confirmed to SEC country that 3-star cornerback Shawn Davis did not meet the credit requirements and must make up a class, preventing him from enrolling early at Florida as originally planned. Davis ranked as the nation’s 50th-best cornerback, according to 247Sports. Five other players did meet the requirements and have enrolled, including 4-star tackle Kedeem Telfort and 4-star tight end Kemore Gamble. Davis is one of three corners committed to the Gators and would have been the only one to enroll early. Both of Florida’s other two corners are 4-star recruits: Elijah Blades and Marco Wilson. You hear about Davis Tweet today? Says something about he woke up this morning and wrote something about having a chance to feed his family. Then him and I think it was CJ Henderson going back and forth on recruiting him and Henderson wrote something like I need ten thousand bro. Got to believe these kids are trolling fans big time, but I don't think it's a good idea to troll about getting paid.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2017 9:08:25 GMT -5
Down to 5 EEs - CB Shawn Davis has to make up a class - He'll enroll in May. Florida is looking at one less player than expected in its class of early enrollees. Sources confirmed to SEC country that 3-star cornerback Shawn Davis did not meet the credit requirements and must make up a class, preventing him from enrolling early at Florida as originally planned. Davis ranked as the nation’s 50th-best cornerback, according to 247Sports. Five other players did meet the requirements and have enrolled, including 4-star tackle Kedeem Telfort and 4-star tight end Kemore Gamble. Davis is one of three corners committed to the Gators and would have been the only one to enroll early. Both of Florida’s other two corners are 4-star recruits: Elijah Blades and Marco Wilson. You hear about Davis Tweet today? Says something about he woke up this morning and wrote something about having a chance to feed his family. Then him and I think it was CJ Henderson going back and forth on recruiting him and Henderson wrote something like I need ten thousand bro. Got to believe these kids are trolling fans big time, but I don't think it's a good idea to troll about getting paid. No, I didn't see that tweet, but I did see about a week ago that Davis was reconsidering Miami before he denied it. Since CJ Henderson only wants $10K, that should be no problem for UF's south Florida bagman.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2017 11:07:19 GMT -5
Florida is indeed DBU. Rookies Keanu Neal and Brian Poole are significant starters/contributors on the Super Bowl bound Atlanta Falcons defense. When at UF, Neal started at safety and Poole started at nickel. Poole is the surprise as he was an undrafted free agent. Poole had 7 tackles and Neal had 6 tackles against Green Bay in the NFCCG: floridagators.com/news/2017/1/22/football-gators-neal-poole-are-super-bowl-bound.aspxDan Quinn is also only the second UF coach to lead a team to the Super Bowl. Mike Shanahan is the other.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2017 18:16:33 GMT -5
GAINESVILLE, Fla.— For the second-straight year, the Florida football team will conclude its spring practices with their annual spring game on a Friday night. The 2017 Orange & Blue Debut, presented by Sunniland, will be held on Friday night, April 7, in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Admission to the game will be free. More details, including a kickoff time, will follow regarding events surrounding the game. In addition, Florida's baseball game against Tennessee at McKethan Stadium will begin at 5 p.m. Broadcast information for both the football and baseball games will be announced at a later date.
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