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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2014 18:42:43 GMT -5
Joker Phillips staying put for now Post by Zach Abolverdi » Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:57 pm
Texas coach Charlie Strong has hired Joe Wickline as his offensive coordinator. Joker Phillips was reportedly a candidate for the job.
Some school will hire him away eventually. Fortunately for Florida's receivers, they get at least one more season with him.
This year will be the first time since 2009 that UF has same the WR coach as the season before.
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Post by trnyerheadncough on Jan 15, 2014 19:28:34 GMT -5
I seriously doubt you get Harris. He's underrated too. Kid lit up quality competition on the way to a high school national championship.
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Post by canefan on Jan 15, 2014 21:04:25 GMT -5
Trn, you may be right about Jimbo trying to force out a few players to make way for some higher rated guys. Last week, UF offered both WR CJ Worton and QB Treon Harris. Worton is visiting UF, Ole Miss, and another school while Harris is visiting UF, Auburn, and Miami. I don't expect either to make a decision before NSD. If that's the case, they probably stick with FSU leaving you with your last 6 slots that you mentioned. I don't know why UF would want Worton as he is a duplicate of Ryan Sousa. As a QB, Harris is a bit short at 5'11" although Chris Leak did well at 5'11 1/2" for UF. Maybe he switches to WR or DB? He certainly isn't going to beat out Jeff Driskel or Will Grier (honored today as the national player of the year). It occurs to me that UF is helping FSU more than UF to take either of the players. Am I wrong on that? Treon is dead set on playing QB in college. Massive talent but I don't know about the physical side for him. Miami offered him ages ago as an athlete and last week as a QB. Dan and both brothers are Canes and Ice says he has an interest. Just don't know for sure. Can't see him beating out Olsen or Kaaya either, but stranger things have happened.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2014 21:45:37 GMT -5
I don't think UF ends up with Worton or Harris. After watching Harris' film, I was lambasted on Gator Country for suggesting UF can do better at QB. Some think Harris is the best in Florida. I didn't see it.
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Post by canefan on Jan 15, 2014 23:14:05 GMT -5
Well, all he has done at QB us win, win, win.
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Post by lz2112 on Jan 16, 2014 0:23:16 GMT -5
Joker Phillips staying put for now Post by Zach Abolverdi » Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:57 pm Texas coach Charlie Strong has hired Joe Wickline as his offensive coordinator. Joker Phillips was reportedly a candidate for the job. Some school will hire him away eventually. Fortunately for Florida's receivers, they get at least one more season with him. This year will be the first time since 2009 that UF has same the WR coach as the season before. This is a good thing? Our WRs really lit it up this year.
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Joker Phillips staying put for now Post by Zach Abolverdi » Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:57 pm Texas coach Charlie Strong has hired Joe Wickline as his offensive coordinator. Joker Phillips was reportedly a candidate for the job. Some school will hire him away eventually. Fortunately for Florida's receivers, they get at least one more season with him. This year will be the first time since 2009 that UF has same the WR coach as the season before. This is a good thing? Our WRs really lit it up this year. Most of that was because of the OL and the offense in general. With Pease out and Roper in, UF will see a big rebound on the offense including the WRs. UF had the #1 WR class in the nation in 13. There is some talent that will benefit from the continuity of Joker's coaching. Yes, I think this is a good thing.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2014 9:41:17 GMT -5
Contact Period - Day One: recruiting.blogs.gatorsports.com/17499/contact-period-day-1/That's an interesting group of day one visits. It would be nice to beat out SC for Adoree Jackson. I don't know why Jackson would want to play his first two years with a program with a depleted roster when he can come and be an impact player with UF in the SEC.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2014 9:48:07 GMT -5
Casey Prather has been upgraded from out to questionable against Auburn on Saturday afternoon. He was able to perform light physical workouts on Thursday. There was no knee damage, but the bone bruise was serious and has been slow to heal. I don't think he plays tomorrow.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2014 10:23:44 GMT -5
SEC Standings Through 1/16:
2013-14 SEC STANDINGS SEC Overall FLORIDA 3-0 1.000 14-2 .875 Texas A&M 3-0 1.000 12-4 .750 Alabama 2-1 .667 8-8 .500 Georgia 2-1 .667 8-7 .533 Kentucky 2-1 .667 12-4 .750 Ole Miss 2-1 .667 11-5 .688 Tennessee 2-1 .667 11-5 .688 Arkansas 1-2 .333 12-4 .750 LSU 1-2 .333 10-5 .667 Mississippi State 1-2 .333 11-5 .688 Missouri 1-2 .333 13-3 .813 Vanderbilt 1-2 .333 9-6 .600 Auburn 0-3 .000 8-6 .533 South Carolina 0-3 .000 7-9 .438
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2014 14:52:21 GMT -5
I think it comes down to if UF gets a lead that walk on Jacob Kurtz comes off the bench instead of Casey Prather. If we don't need him, give Casey a few more days of healing and bring him back at 100% next week for at bama and UT at home. If it's a close game, Casey probably comes off the bench to help:
Written by Franz Beard, January 17, 2014
Florida’s bench will grow by one player when the Gators (14-2, 3-0 SEC) travel to Auburn (8-6, 0-3 SEC) Saturday (4 p.m. SEC TV) as leading scorer Casey Prather has been cleared to play after missing the last two games with a bone bruise. Prather won’t start and Billy Donovan isn’t sure how many minutes he can get out of his senior, who averages 17 points per game, but having him back will be a plus for a team that has had to make due with seven scholarship players since Prather suffered a bone bruise against South Carolina in the first SEC game of the season.
“He was cleared yesterday for non-contact,” Florida coach Billy Donovan said Friday morning. “He’s going to do some contact today, but I really don’t have a real good feel yet of how much we can get out of him because he hasn’t done any contact. He’ll be available for the game, but how much he’ll play is really, really hard to say. I’m doubtful he’s play much, that’s my guess, because here we are a day away from the game and he’s done nothing contact-wise. Now, he’ll do some contact today in practice and I’ll have a better feel for what he can do after practice. But he’s cleared to practice and cleared to play in the game.”
Prather woke up the morning after the South Carolina game with swelling and soreness in his knee. An MRI was done that determined no structural damage so it was simply a matter of waiting for the swelling to do down to allow normal movement.
“The bruise was pretty significant,” Donovan said. “A lot that has gone down. He did some running yesterday, did some non-contact stuff yesterday. Calling it like it is, he looked okay to me. He didn’t look great. We’ll see how he looks today. The healing and swelling and all that stuff is moving in the right direction.”
Prather’s place in the starting lineup will be manned by freshman point guard Kasey Hill for the second straight game.
AUBURN IMPROVED SINCE LAST SEASON
Auburn is winless in three SEC starts but Donovan sees a dangerous team that is much improved since last year. The Tigers went 8-3 against a good non-conference schedule and two of their three SEC losses (Ole Miss and Missouri) came down to the last possession. Donovan hasn’t had to spend a lot of time getting his players’ attention that this is going to be a tough SEC road contest.
“I think our guys understand the non-conference schedule that they’ve played – Illinois, Clemson, Boston – they’ve been tested,” Donovan said. “Their first SEC schedule started off difficult. They had to go to Ole Miss. They played Missouri. They had to go to Tennessee. So they’ve had some tough games and they’ve played very well.”
One reason for the improvement is dynamic backcourt play. The Tigers run a three-guard offense with freshman Tahj Shamsid-Deen on the point flanked by Chris Denson and Virginia transfer K.T. Harrell. Deen leads the team in assists while Denson (19.4 points per game) and Harrell (19.0) are the top scoring combo in the SEC.
Denson puts the ball on the floor and makes a bee-line to the rim while Harrell is Auburn’s volume 3-point shooter (nearly six attempts per game; hitting 41% of his shots). Defending two prolific scorers is a difficult task that is made more troublesome by the presence of 7-footer Asauhn Dixon-Tatum, who actually has grabbed more offensive rebounds (47) than rebounds on the other end of the court.
Donovan says it is difficult to defend Harrell and Denson because Auburn coach Tony Barbee does a good job of putting them in positions to score while limiting the amount of help that can be given defensively.
“They put those guys in good places on the court where you can’t get a lot of help,” Donovan said. “They’re isolated a lot of times. They’re a good enough 3-point shooting team that if you just starting running at them they’re going to be able to swing the ball and move it. Because of the spacing and their ability to score, drive, pull-up and make mid-range jump shots, layups and threes, the more help you give the more it frees up their frontcourt to offensive rebound. That’s what they’ve done. They’ve really offensive rebounded well. It’s almost like Marshall Henderson at Ole Miss. Last year, you got two frontcourt players at Ole Miss and they’re running screening action and you know Henderson is going to take the shot. Maybe you can dictate what kind of shots they get off, but you also got two guys committed to the basketball and now you’ve freed up their frontcourt to really offensive rebound. That’s where Dixon-Tatum has really taken off. He’s averaging like four offensive rebounds per game.”
GAME PLANNING
While Donovan uses statistical analysis that comes from computer programs that break down possessions and situations, the bulk of scouting and game planning is still done by coaches watching film and analyzing.
The computer helps, certainly, in telling Donovan how an opponent is rebounding, for example.
“What you look at is maybe on drives to the basket, what percentage of those drive do they offensive rebound?” Donovan said. “They’ve got a certain number of offensive rebounds every game. How are those offensive rebounds coming? Are they coming from blocking out? Are they coming from rotations? How are they rebounding the basketball? Those kind of things.”
The information the computer analysis programs spit out doesn’t always make its way to the players, either. It’s simply taken into account by the coaching staff which comes up with a game plan that is easily digested by the players.
“Because sometimes stats and numbers can be deceiving if you just look at the numbers and say ‘Okay, this is what we’re going to do,’ “ Donovan said. “Sometimes you’ve got to look at your personnel as well, what kind of matchups you have, and then you’ve got to take some of that information, you know, and then maybe some things you sit there and say ‘if we can take this away from a team that’d be good.’ But when you do try to take something away from a team, it may open up something else. So those are the kind of decisions scouting-wise we’ll make as a staff. A lot of the information’s not going to the players. We’re trying to give them the stuff that’s pertinent of what they’re going to deal with. They’re not paying attention to numbers in the game, they’re having to guard personnel and guard screening actions and those kind of things.”
PROBABLE STARTING LINEUPS
FLORIDA (14-2, 3-0 SEC): Will Yeguete (6-8, 230, SR); Patric Young (6-9, 240, SR); Kasey Hill (6-1, 181, FR); Scottie Wilbekin (6-2, 176, SR); Michael Frazier (6-4, 199, SO)
AUBURN (8-6, 0-3 SEC): Allen Payne (6-6, 225, SR); Asauhn Dixon-Tatum (7-0, 226, SR); K.T. Harrell (6-4, 216, JR); Chris Denson (6-2, 181, SR); Tahj Shamsid-Deen (5-10, 163, FR)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2014 16:51:42 GMT -5
SEC Basketball Standings:
Team Conference Overall
Florida 4-0 15-2 Kentucky 3-1 13-4 Ole Miss 3-1 12-5 Texas A&M 3-1 12-5 Georgia 3-1 9-7 Missouri 2-2 14-3 Mississippi State 2-2 12-5 LSU 2-2 11-5 Tennessee 2-2 11-6 Alabama 2-2 8-9 Arkansas 1-3 12-5 Vanderbilt 1-3 9-7 Auburn 0-4 8-7 South Carolina 0-4 7-10
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2014 18:54:58 GMT -5
Have a feeling this kid will be a bit like Loucheiz Purifoy:
By Zach Abolverdi Correspondent
Published: Monday, January 20, 2014 at 6:06 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, January 20, 2014 at 6:06 p.m.
Last Monday, Deiondre Porter was committed to South Florida and had no recruiting trips scheduled.
One week later — he's a Gator.
The Tampa Jefferson athlete was offered by Florida and Miami last week and promptly set up official visits to both schools. He also decommitted from the Bulls.
But after spending this past weekend in Gainesville, Porter felt no need to go see the Hurricanes.
He was sold on UF.
“I was looking for a school that fit my character,” he said. “I'm a football guru, and I want to be surrounded by other football gurus. Florida is a football-based school. They also have great academics, and graduating from college is a main priority for me.”
Porter announcement his decision Monday on the Bright House Sports Network, choosing the Gators over UCF, UM and USF.
UF is recruiting the consensus three-star prospect as an athlete. The 6-foot-1, 170-pounder will likely end up at receiver or defensive back.
Whatever position Porter plays, he knows he'll have a chance to contribute.
“The Florida coaches play the best players,” he said. “They don't care if you're a freshman or a senior. If you know the system and you're a baller, you'll get on the field.
“They told me I have an opportunity, and I'm going to take it. That just gave me motivation. I'm going to grind hard these next few months so I'll be ready when I get there.”
With the addition of Porter, the Gators have landed a commitment in seven of the last eight weeks. They now have 21 members in their 2014 class and four more scholarships available.
Philadelphia (Pa.) Martin Luther King offensive tackle Dontae Angus is at risk of not qualifying academically and will likely have to attend a prep school, his coach told The Sun. Florida stopped recruiting him in late November.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2014 19:10:31 GMT -5
Florida softball is going to kick the NCAA championship door open this season: www.gatorzone.com/story.php?id=27062I'm sure Harry thinks OU should be #1. I'd agree with him. Tuesday January 21, 2014 Florida Softball Ranked No. 4 in USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25 Preseason Poll LOUISVILLE, Ky. No. 4 Florida opens the 2014 campaign Feb. 6 in Tampa. The Gator softball team will begin the 2014 campaign ranked No. 4 in the USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25 Preseason Poll, announced Tuesday by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association. Florida has been ranked in eight of nine preseason USA Today/NFCA Top 25 Polls under ninth-year head coach Tim Walton, and this year marks the Gators’ fourth top-four preseason ranking, joining the 2009 (No. 1), 2010 (No. 3) and 2012 (No. 2) squads. The ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25 Preseason Poll is scheduled to be released Jan. 28. The Gators are scheduled to face against eight teams ranked in the USA Today/NFCA Top 25 preseason poll this year, including No. 1 Tennessee, No. 5 Michigan, No. 6 Alabama, No. 11 Texas A&M, No. 14 Missouri, No. 15 Florida State, No. 17 LSU and No. 25 USF. In addition, Gator opponents Arkansas, Wisconsin, N.C. State and Auburn are receiving votes in the poll. The Orange and Blue finished 2013 with a 58-9 record, leading the nation in wins. Florida captured its fourth SEC title with an 18-6 mark in conference play. The Gators earned their 14th NCAA Tournament bid in school history and played host to an NCAA Regional for the ninth straight year. Florida enters the 2014 season just two victories shy of the program’s 800th win. The Gators will look to their two returning All-Americans, senior pitcher Hannah Rogers (Lake Wales, Fla.) and junior pitcher/first baseman Lauren Haeger (Peoria, Ariz.) to provide leadership on a squad that returns 14 letter winners and welcomes four incoming freshmen and one junior college transfer. UF will begin the 2014 season in Tampa, Fla., with a game against 25th-ranked USF on Feb. 6 at 6 p.m. ET, followed by five games in the Wilson-DeMarini Invitational. In this season-opening tournament, the Gators will face No. 5 Michigan and play two games against Wisconsin, which is receiving votes in the initial rankings. Florida’s full 2014 schedule can be found on GatorZone.com. Rank Team 2013 Record Totals Final 2013 Poll 1 Tennessee (7) 52-12 729 2 2 Oklahoma (17) 57-4 720 1 3 Washington (1) 45-17 702 4 4 FLORIDA (6) 58-9 684 5 5 Michigan (1) 51-13 652 6
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2014 10:04:50 GMT -5
I agree with this analysis from Franz Beard on Gator Country. The Gators will go as far as Roper can get Driskel to improve:
Written by Franz Beard, January 24, 2014
Defense wins championships. Someone once said that, someone believed it and we’ve been hearing it ever since. Over the course of any college and professional season, we’ll hear that said a couple bazillion times. It’s almost as if someone out there feels this compelling need to perpetuate the myth so they go with the old rule about propaganda – tell a lie, make it a big lie and keep repeating it until you’ve said it so many times that people accept it as fact.
I used to buy into that myth, probably because I heard it repeated so often.
Yes, myth. It is a myth.
You need defenses to win championships and the better the defense the better the chance you have to win big, but defenses DO NOT win championships. They help you win championships but they do not win championships.
You win championships with great quarterbacks. A great quarterback can take you places a defense can’t. Just ask LSU back in 2011. That LSU team won the SEC and got to the national championship game thanks to its defense. Alabama won the national championship game. Alabama had a great defense, too, and it had A.J. McCarron at quarterback. Does anybody remember who quarterbacked LSU? His name was Jordan Jefferson. He was terrible and I’m being kind. Can you recall a worse looking offense in a national championship game?
Quarterbacks have to have help. They certainly can’t do it alone, but surround a great quarterback with some pretty decent skill players and give him a good to great defense to work with and you’ve got a chance to win a championship.
Remember Texas in 2005? The Longhorns didn’t have a great defense but they had Vince Young. Southern Cal had a great defense but that defense couldn’t stop Vince Young in what a lot of folks say is the greatest college football championship game ever played. Texas got to the national championship game in 2009 with Colt McCoy at quarterback, but how many championships has Texas competed for since then? Do you remember the name of any Texas quarterback since 2009? You want to know why Mack Brown is unemployed?
Florida State had a string of 14 straight seasons when it finished in the top five. During that time the Seminoles won the 1993 and 1999 national championships. They always had good defenses which had a lot to do with staying in the hunt for the national titles, but the Seminoles were national champs when they had Heisman Trophy quarterbacks in Charlie Ward and Chris Weinke. Take a look what happened to the mighty Seminoles in the 2000 national title game when Weinke was hurt. Take a look at the next decade when they had quarterbacks like Dan Kendra and Chris Rix and Adrian McPherson and Christian Ponder. Take a look at what happened in 2013 when the Seminoles had an elite quarterback in Jameis Winston.
From 1983-92, the Miami Hurricanes won four national championships and played for two others. During that time they had elite quarterback play in the form of Bernie Kosar, Vinnie Testaverde, Chris Walsh, Craig Erickson and Gino Toretta. Vinnie and Toretta won Heismans. Miami didn’t win big again until 2001-2 when the Hurricanes won one national title and lost in the national championship game. Ken Dorsey was a great quarterback. Brock Berlin was his replacement. Miami hasn’t been the same since.
Alabama under Bear Bryant. When he had great quarterbacks like Joe Namath, Kenny Stabler, Richard Todd and Jeff Rutledge, he won national championships and in the years when Bear didn’t win the national title, he was in the hunt. When he didn’t have great quarterbacks, Alabama wasn’t nearly as good. Alabama always had great defenses, but the Crimson Tide only won championships when there was a great quarterback. Anyone remember what happened in the years when Scott Hunter was the quarterback?
Alabama under Nick Saban. He has won three of the last five national championships with Greg McElroy and A.J. McCarron at quarterback. Do you remember who the quarterback was before McElroy? The one who lost to Florida in the 2008 SEC championship game? Jim Bob somebody? Actually, it was John Parker Wilson. Nice enough kid, but with an SEC championship on the line in 2008, he got beaten in the most important game of his career by an elite level quarterback.
Florida. The Gators were the best team in the Southeastern Conference from 1990-96. Shane Matthews was the quarterback from 1990-92, then came four straight SEC titles with a national championship game loss in 1995 and a national championship win over FSU in 1996. Danny Wuerffel split time at quarterback with Terry Dean in 1993-94, then took the Gators to the top of the heap in 1995-96. Danny was the Heisman runner-up in 1995 and won the Heisman Trophy in 1996.
What happened to the Gators after that? There were good quarterbacks, just no great ones.
Florida won the national championship in 2006 and while everyone wants to talk about the defense, which stuck it to Ohio State in the national championship game, Chris Leak would gotten the Gators at least three more touchdowns if Urban Meyer hadn’t done his best not to embarrass the mighty Buckeyes. It was plenty embarrassing at 41-14 as it was. There was nothing average about Chris Leak. When he finally got the tools to win a championship, he made good on a promise that he made when he signed with the Gators in the first place and won the big trophy. Chris doesn’t ever get enough credit for being great enough to win a national championship in an offense designed for a single wing tailback, which he wasn’t.
From 2007-09 Tim Tebow quarterbacked the Gators. He had no defense in 2007 but still won a Heisman and nine games. He had a defense in 2008-09 but does anyone want to suggest that the Gators go 26-2 and win the 2008 title with a great defense but without Tebow? Do you recall the last two games of 2008? Tebow literally willed the Gators to win the Alabama and Oklahoma games in the fourth quarter. The defense in both those games was fine but the quarterback made the difference. With Tebow at quarterback, you KNEW Florida was going to win the game.
And what has happened here at Florida since Tebow graduated?
Florida had the best defense in the nation in 2012. Ask any pro scout and he’ll tell you without hesitation that the UF defense was without a doubt the best.
So why didn’t Florida win a national championship? I think you know the answer. This is not ragging on Jeff Driskel, but if he had played quarterback at a championship level the Gators could have won the 2012 national title.
This brings us to a 2014 season that is months away and a spring practice that begins in a matter of weeks. It also brings us back to Jeff Driskel. This is his last chance to live up to the high school hype. He’s got the tools. He can throw darts. He’s 240 pounds and can run like a deer. He’s got a new offensive coordinator who has proven he can tailor the scheme to the talent of his triggerman.
But can Kurt Roper mold Jeff Driskel into a championship caliber quarterback?
The defense will be good this year. Maybe not as good as it was in 2012, but it has a chance to be the best in the Southeastern Conference. If you have the best defense in the SEC, you are going to sniff the championship, but you do not win championships with defense. Defenses help but they don’t win championships. You win championships with elite quarterbacks. Can Driskel make the leap from good to great? If he can, Florida can be great. If he can’t, Florida might be good but that’s about it.
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