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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2013 15:52:19 GMT -5
A predicted overcast day will help the players and fans:
Saturday A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 87. Saturday Night A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 69.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2013 16:21:49 GMT -5
Daniel McCullers is a beast at DT - Tennessee depth chart for UF game: www.utsports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/091613aab.htmlCoach Jones opened up his QB competition this week. The QB that practiced best will be the starter regardless of what the depth chart says. UT has some good players - recognize many from recruiting. I'm surprised the duckies handled them so easily. I think Pease is going to have to open up more this week. The vols are not a physically weak team and may not be as bad as the loss at Oregon indicated if they can get a QB who can be effective. The vols have two big receivers, but nobody yet who could get the ball to them. I took UF at -16 1/2, but a UF 10 to 14 point win is more likely. That presumes UF has the turnover and redzone bugs worked out of them. Otherwise it could be a typically close UF vs UT game.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2013 17:20:51 GMT -5
I took UF at -16 1/2, but a UF 10 to 14 point win is more likely. That presumes UF has the turnover and redzone bugs worked out of them. Otherwise it could be a typically close UF vs UT game. I hate these big spread games
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Post by canefan on Sept 18, 2013 17:39:49 GMT -5
Darrell, I don't think Miami is going to flip this recruit or the other two who want to play together and with Cook. He's recruiting for UF: September 18th, 2013 03:00pm Commit of the week: RB Dalvin Cook by Zach Abolverdi Florida coach Will Muschamp and assistant Brian White traveled to Miami on Thursday to watch running back commitment Dalvin Cook in action. The Under Armour All-American made their trip well worth it. Cook ran for 162 yards and three touchdowns on just nine carries as Central shutout Coral Reef, 49-0. But that was just his official statline. The 5-foot-11, 192-pounder also had three scores called back in the first quarter — a 90-yard punt return and touchdown runs of 68 and 46 yards. Cook took an official visit to Texas over the weekend but told The Sun he is still “100 percent” committed to the Gators following the trip. Never know in recruiting. Cook is the only one they have any interest in, and his brother is I believe a freshman basketball player at Miami this year. We have two excellent running backs committed already so I truly am not that concerned.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2013 17:39:50 GMT -5
It's a CBS 3:30 game between two SEC East rivals. It's a good game to have on the list. I just think a lower spread is warranted. Unfortunately, the people betting real money don't agree. It was bid up to -17 from the opening at -15 1/2 before settling at -16 1/2 today.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2013 17:46:36 GMT -5
Darrell, I don't think Miami is going to flip this recruit or the other two who want to play together and with Cook. He's recruiting for UF: September 18th, 2013 03:00pm Commit of the week: RB Dalvin Cook by Zach Abolverdi Florida coach Will Muschamp and assistant Brian White traveled to Miami on Thursday to watch running back commitment Dalvin Cook in action. The Under Armour All-American made their trip well worth it. Cook ran for 162 yards and three touchdowns on just nine carries as Central shutout Coral Reef, 49-0. But that was just his official statline. The 5-foot-11, 192-pounder also had three scores called back in the first quarter — a 90-yard punt return and touchdown runs of 68 and 46 yards. Cook took an official visit to Texas over the weekend but told The Sun he is still “100 percent” committed to the Gators following the trip. Never know in recruiting. Cook is the only one they have any interest in, and his brother is I believe a freshman basketball player at Miami this year. We have two excellent running backs committed already so I truly am not that concerned. If Eddie Vanderdoes going from ND to UCLA taught us anything, it's not over until they physically enroll these days. It just depends on how bad the recruit wants to change. I noticed Anthony Moten still hasn't pulled the trigger for Miami. I'm wondering if UF is still recruiting the kid? I'd be surprised if Will Muschamp isn't still recruiting Moten and Jarren Reed. As Charley Pell said, God smiles on teams with good defensive tackles.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2013 17:48:46 GMT -5
I just think a lower spread is warranted. Unfortunately, the people betting real money don't agree. ...and there's the rub....you (like a lot of us) have a big heart and would like to wish this won't be a blowout and yawn-fest......I happen to agree with you since I'm not a weekly gambler watching the spreads to see if my rent gets paid...lol.....Still, if this thing starts getting one-sided right off the bat, I'm gonna change channels faster then a health program update from that idiot you-know-where...lol
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2013 18:05:16 GMT -5
I just think a lower spread is warranted. Unfortunately, the people betting real money don't agree. ...and there's the rub....you (like a lot of us) have a big heart and would like to wish this won't be a blowout and yawn-fest......I happen to agree with you since I'm not a weekly gambler watching the spreads to see if my rent gets paid...lol.....Still, if this thing starts getting one-sided right off the bat, I'm gonna change channels faster then a health program update from that idiot you-know-where...lol Keep in mind that South Carolina was up 28-0 on Vandy and still didn't cover the spread. One year, think it was our 96 national championship year - could have been 95, UF jumped on UT 35-0 in Knoxville and had to hold on for a 35-29 win. Strange things happen in college football.
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Post by canefan on Sept 18, 2013 18:08:18 GMT -5
Never know in recruiting. Cook is the only one they have any interest in, and his brother is I believe a freshman basketball player at Miami this year. We have two excellent running backs committed already so I truly am not that concerned. If Eddie Vanderdoes going from ND to UCLA taught us anything, it's not over until they physically enroll these days. It just depends on how bad the recruit wants to change. I noticed Anthony Moten still hasn't pulled the trigger for Miami. I'm wondering if UF is still recruiting the kid? I'd be surprised if Will Muschamp isn't still recruiting Moten and Jarren Reed. As Charley Pell said, God smiles on teams with good defensive tackles. You just never know with these kids. That is the main reason I don't follow recruiting anywhere near as closely as I use to. They just do crazy things and change their minds at the last minutes. As for rumors, the latest I have heard on Moten is that we are the clear front runner but the evolving second right now is Ohio State. He is pretty tight with a couple of STA kids on our roster but he is also tight with Joey Bosa at Ohio State. Right now I am hoping for Miami to get on Joeys little brother Nick early as he looks like he may be more dominant in high school than Joey was. I am sure the Yuckeyes will lead for him until he says otherwise though. One thing about Golden, he is relentless and has opened up our recruiting in the northeast quite a bit as well.
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Post by bamorin on Sept 18, 2013 18:23:01 GMT -5
If Eddie Vanderdoes going from ND to UCLA taught us anything, it's not over until they physically enroll these days. It just depends on how bad the recruit wants to change. I noticed Anthony Moten still hasn't pulled the trigger for Miami. I'm wondering if UF is still recruiting the kid? I'd be surprised if Will Muschamp isn't still recruiting Moten and Jarren Reed. As Charley Pell said, God smiles on teams with good defensive tackles. You just never know with these kids. That is the main reason I don't follow recruiting anywhere near as closely as I use to. They just do crazy things and change their minds at the last minutes. As for rumors, the latest I have heard on Moten is that we are the clear front runner but the evolving second right now is Ohio State. He is pretty tight with a couple of STA kids on our roster but he is also tight with Joey Bosa at Ohio State. Right now I am hoping for Miami to get on Joeys little brother Nick early as he looks like he may be more dominant in high school than Joey was. I am sure the Yuckeyes will lead for him until he says otherwise though. One thing about Golden, he is relentless and has opened up our recruiting in the northeast quite a bit as well. Bosa had a few bright spots in last Saturday's game. Bet he talks little bro into the trip north.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2013 22:32:04 GMT -5
Behind Enemy Lines - From Gator Country:
Behind Enemy Lines: An in-depth look at Tennessee Written byNick de la Torre, September 18, 2013, 0 Comments, Print Friendly
It’s Tennessee week, which means Gator Country is going behind enemy lines to bring you an in-depth look at the Volunteers before they travel down to The Swamp to take on the Gators.
Vince Ferrara is a sports talk radio host from WNML on FM 99.1 and AM 990 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Vince also has experience doing play-by-play and has hosted shows on ESPN Radio, Vol Radio Network and IMG College. He’s tuned into this Tennessee team and will give you a comprehensive breakdown of Florida’s opponent this weekend.
Gator Country: Vince, Tennessee hasn’t announced a starting quarterback yet, what have you seen from the quarterbacks so far and who do you think will start on Saturday?
Vince Ferrara: Butch Jones said this week that there is going to be an open competition at quarterback and whoever has the best week of practice between Justin Worley, Nathan Peterman, Joshua Dobbs and Riley Ferguson, will be the starting quarterback. I think it’s just motivation for Justin Worley. I think he will still start. He has the best grasp of the offense; command of the offense and of that team, he’s the most experienced. He needs to be much better and much more accurate than he has been and as Butch Jones has said, just let it loose, just play almost with arrogance at the quarterback position.
The other guys, Nathan Peterman had an opportunity to beat him out and the freshmen did in camp, they did not. Butch Jones talks about having more runs out of the quarterback position. I think Worley will start, even though he said it’s an open competition supposedly. But I think they will have a package for one other guy and I the competition will be to see who can be that one other guy to run some of those special packages. They want to see how it works during the game, maybe run more of it if it does work. Regardless, the opportunity will give someone game experience running with the ones for the rest of the season should Worley not succeed and continue to struggle. You have the South Alabama game the following week to work in a new quarterback if need be. I think the starter will be Worley but I think you’ll also see one other quarterback on Saturday.
GC: After giving up over 600 yards of offense and more than 50 points last week, where is the confidence level of the defense heading into the game this Saturday?
VF: The players aren’t telling you that there is but naturally, you would think that it makes you wonder. A lot of these guys are veterans and have been around a lot, I could see how you could go back and say here we go again, new scheme, new excitement but yet we’re still getting gashed, we’re still having blown assignments and we’re still on the wrong end of a bad score.
But the players are saying all the right things, so far. They had been really good, probably better and more improved than anyone thought going into the first two games. It’s only the first two games but they created seven turnovers against Western Kentucky. They had turnovers on four consecutive plays, which had never happened in NCAA history. So they were feeling really good going into that Oregon game. Injuries are a part of it too. They still haven’t had their dynamic defensive playmaker in Curt Maggit, who could play this week against Florida, but we’ve also heard that he’s been really close every game this season. He still hasn’t recovered from offseason knee surgery, at least fully; he’s practiced and done some things but just hasn’t been ready to go for the games. They really need him and they miss him a lot. They just got back Jacques Smith, who’s one of their starting ends, he returned last week, he’s back in the starting lineup this week. Their most impressive freshmen defensive lineman, Corey Vereen, has yet to play and he had an injury in fall camp that set him back. He may still be another week away from returning but he’s a guy that gives them speed off the edge.
They have veteran guys. Their best linebacker, A.J. Johnson, at times has struggled covering guys in the pass game in space. Oregon and even Western Kentucky exploited him in that area.
In the secondary, you had things that you hadn’t seen before in the Oregon game. Is it the competition? Is it just them reverting back to bad habits? I think you need a game like the Florida game to really see that because they have some players with ability there but they’re just not deep at all. They have a true freshman in Cameron Sutton starting at corner. He’s been good but he struggled against Oregon. Its ‘TBD’ on how they react against a more traditional Florida team, which I do feel like they match up better against than a team like Oregon who spreads you out with all that team speed. It was so many different and confusing things for them to deal with last week.
I think the defense is better than last year. It’s probably in between what we saw against Western Kentucky and Oregon.
GC: Last year, fans were more excited and confident than they had been in a long time about this game. Is some of that tampered because of a new coach, new offense, not winning a game in eight years, or is it a typical Florida week?
VF: People are up for it, there’s no doubt. Last year it got carried away early in the year. They had a terrific start against weak non-conference opponents.
I remember watching the Jon Gruden quarterback special before the draft with Tyler Bray. They showed how excited the fans were for ESPN’s GameDay and the Florida game, the great crowd and excitement and Tyler Bray said, ‘Yeah, we thought we were going to win. We didn’t think we were going to lose. We were already thinking about Alabama.” That’s just amazing to me that any player, and maybe that’s just what he and a few of his friends thought and not what the team thought, but just the fact of that thought crossing anybody’s mind when you had that losing streak to Florida and you really hadn’t done anything last year to even think that, is alarming. But I think this is a more mature group and they understand that better. I don’t think it’s the players, I think it’s the fans that still jump the gun. They jumped the gun going into the Oregon game where there was some confidence. Going into the season, the wins kept rising up and going higher and higher into the year. I think when you get the excitement with a coach, you tend to get unrealistic and you tend to hope. I think Oregon tampered that some but I think there’s still some people who have looked at Florida, seen them struggle on offense and see that as an opportunity for Tennessee. There is still a feeling that Tennessee can win this game. If they beat Florida, snap the streak and beat their hated rivals, then they will easily be able to flush the Oregon game to, hey, bad matchup, good team, we still have a shot to win the East. It would get that out of hand if they beat Florida.
GC: What would it mean for Butch Jones to come in and do something that Lane Kiffin didn’t do, Derek Dooley never did and Phil Fulmer did a couple times but not enough for Tennessee fans liking and beat Florida?
VF: It would be absolutely massive.
Just like when they lost to Kentucky under Dooley, how that took away a year of what he had to work with in terms of patience, that really sped up his firing process. A win over Florida would almost certainly add a year guaranteed to it. There has been such frustration in losing to Florida. You hear the team ‘signature win’ all the time, Derek Dooley was not able to get it. But if you snap everything, you snap the streak against ranked opponents, on the road and against Florida. They’re already excited about what Butch Jones is going to bring. It will get out of hand in terms of the fan base excitement. It would just be absolutely massive if Butch Jones wins this game. And if there are any people still on the fence about him, I’m sure there are some silent fans out there that have done that; they’re not fully buying in, the skeptical ones. If he beats Florida, I think they’ll come over. There’s a great opportunity there for Butch Jones against Florida.
GC: What’s your prediction for the game?
VF: I said on Sunday when I was asked to make a prediction on a TV show that I fill in on, I was forced to make a prediction, so I’ll stick with that and say Florida 27-10. I think it’s going to be so incredibly difficult for Tennessee to move the ball on Florida’s defense. Their defensive line is just so good and the corners are so good. The true freshmen, and frankly all the receivers, have had problems getting off on man and bump and run coverage on the line. Florida is so good at that with their corners, I think it’s just so difficult not having a passing game threat. Florida will load the box and make it difficult for Tennessee to run the ball.
They’ll probably score, maybe on a Florida turnover, with a short field. But I think Florida’s defense is going to smother Tennessee. I think the line is pretty accurate, it’s up to 17 now. So I’ll go with 27-10 Florida.
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Post by canefan on Sept 19, 2013 0:24:59 GMT -5
You just never know with these kids. That is the main reason I don't follow recruiting anywhere near as closely as I use to. They just do crazy things and change their minds at the last minutes. As for rumors, the latest I have heard on Moten is that we are the clear front runner but the evolving second right now is Ohio State. He is pretty tight with a couple of STA kids on our roster but he is also tight with Joey Bosa at Ohio State. Right now I am hoping for Miami to get on Joeys little brother Nick early as he looks like he may be more dominant in high school than Joey was. I am sure the Yuckeyes will lead for him until he says otherwise though. One thing about Golden, he is relentless and has opened up our recruiting in the northeast quite a bit as well. Bosa had a few bright spots in last Saturday's game. Bet he talks little bro into the trip north. I'd guess he winds up there, but I have also heard little bro is much more south Florida than Joey and wouldn't shock people if he stayed close to home.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2013 8:08:48 GMT -5
The Associated Press
Published: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 at 9:06 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 at 9:06 p.m.
Tennessee freshman defensive end Corey Vereen is expected to make his collegiate debut Saturday at No. 19 Florida.
Linebacker Curt Maggitt remains sidelined as he recovers from a torn anterior cruciate ligament.
Volunteers coach Butch Jones updated the status of both players on his radio show Wednesday.
Vereen missed Tennessee's first three games after spraining the medial collateral ligament in his right knee during training camp.
Maggitt, a starter each of the past two years, tore the ACL in his right knee last November in a loss to Missouri. Maggitt hasn't played since, and Jones has declared him out for the Florida game.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2013 9:28:01 GMT -5
By Chris Harry GatorZone.com Senior Writer
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Danny Wuerffel was a teammate of Errict Rhett’s for two seasons in the early 1990s, so the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback was not at all surprised with how Rhett immersed himself into the role as the first “Celebrity Mr. Two Bits.”
UF’s former All-Southeastern Conference tailback and school’s all-time rushing leader set a high bar for the chosen ones who follow.
“It was both inspiring and intimidating,” Wuerffel said this week from his home in Atlanta. “I never had the enthusiasm or athleticism of Errict Rhett. I don’t even know if I should try to match it. So I guess I’m going to have to do it my own way or drink two or three Red Bulls before I go out there.”
With the honor of being asked to be play the Mr. Two Bits role comes the freedom of individuality. Rhett’s was on display for all to see in the 2013 season opener against Toledo.
Now it’s Wuerffel’s turn.
The 1996 Heisman winner and soon-to-be College Hall of Fame inductee, will get his chance to blow the whistle and lead the famous Gators cheer Saturday when the 18th-ranked Gators (1-1) take on Tennessee (2-1) at Florida Field. The choice seems appropriate enough, considering Wuerffel from 1993-96 went four seasons without ever losing to the Volunteers.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve felt this kind of a pressure in the ‘Swamp,’ ” he said.
Not that in bothered him before. In three starts against UT (including the first of his career), Wuerffel hit 59.6 percent of his throws for 767 yards, 13 touchdowns, three interceptions and one very famous Sports Illustrated cover.
Now he gets the Vols again, albeit under different circumstances.
“Should be a lot of fun,” Wuerffel said.
Wuerffel led the Gators to the national championship his senior year and toyed for the next six years in the NFL, mostly as a backup for four different teams, before retiring following the 2002 season alongside his former coach, Steve Spurrier, in Washington.
Now married with three children, his post-football life has been devoted to his Desire Ministries which targets impoverished urban neighborhoods with the goal of transforming them into thriving, healthy communities. Desire Street now has branches in five states (Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Georgia and Florida).
As for his much-publicized bout with Guillain-Barre’ syndrome, a rare disorder that inflicts the nervous system, the UF icon said it is now “in the rear-view mirror.”
When Wuerffel, now 39, runs to midfield Saturday, he’ll do so as a Hall-of-Famer. He was voted into the Hall in May. The 2013 class will be honored at a ceremony in New York in December and the official enshrinement in Atlanta next summer.
His latest accolade will be acknowledged with Wuerffel taking a curtain call during the first timeout of the first quarter.
“It’s obviously an incredible honor,” Wuerffel said. “Had this been five or 10 years ago, I wouldn’t have been in the same place of my life to appreciate it as much. Now, quite a few years since my college career, to be able to look back and reflect on the relationships and the teammates and coaches at the University of Florida, I think it sinks in deeper into my heart. There’s such a higher level of appreciation and gratitude that comes with it.”
Some perks, as well.
A Two-Bits cheer is calling.
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