NO difference between democrats and republicans is proven today. God is gone in America. You guys need to STOP looking horizontal for your savior and start looking vertical. God is our only hope of not only America but the world. This confirmation is atrocious and will have EVIL ramifications for years to come. And, of course, there are only two true, honest on justices on the court. Only two.

BUT...adds Miami and LSU. Hmmmm

Now, ALL 3 (Big 3) Florida schools are in his Top 12.

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I was just told two just committed to Coach Napier - not sure if they are going public tonight or not.....working it now

The pecking order at running back in the spring practice media viewing sessions has been fairly consistent through seven workouts, with redshirt senior Lorenzo Lingard, sophomore and Louisiana transfer Montrell Johnson and redshirt sophomore Demarkcus Bowman tending to take reps in drills in that order.

Lingard, Johnson, Bowman and injured redshirt junior back Nay'Quan Wright are likely all in line to receive their share of touches in 2022. But if AllGators had to predict which running back will earn the first carry of week one or even the upcoming orange and blue spring game, our guess would be Lingard.
https://www.si.com/college/florida/...ews-notes-spring-practice-7-2022-billy-napier

Always felt that Mullen & Greg Knox screwed up badly by not playing him consistently. With his speed - 10.71 seconds for the 100 M - hope he sees the field more.

By Franz Beard
A few thoughts to jump start your Friday morning:

TRINITY TO THE RESCUE
It is almost as if Trinity Thomas can will the Gators to victory. Case in point the NCAA semifinals in Fort Worth Thursday night. After the Gators had to eat three sub-9.80 scores on vault for a 49.2375 team total, which left UF in third place in the evening rotation, Thomas almost took over the entire meet. Auburn was killing it on floor and beam and Michigan got off to a 49.4875 on floor but Thomas got a rally started with a nearly flawless 9.975 on bars and this was after waiting a 10-minute delay while a faulty bars apparatus was fixed.

The big score by Thomas, which earned her the national championship on bars, boosted the Gators to a 49.475, which still left them solidly behind Auburn, 99.050-98.7125. Florida picked up percentage points on the balance beam with Thomas scoring a 9.9375 aided by a 9.9125 by Megan Skaggs and 9.900s by Sloan Blakely and Leah Clapper. Auburn, meanwhile, stumbled a bit on vault – 49.350 – but still led 148.400-148.225 heading into the last event.

Auburn scored well on bars – 49.4375 – but with Thomas scoring her 11th perfect 10 of the season and fifth since the NCAA Championships began with regional action, the Gators made a statement with a 49.750, the best score on any rotation in either the afternoon or evening as the Gators won the semifinal 197.9750-197.8375 over Auburn.

The perfect 10 gave Thomas both the floor and NCAA all-around championships. Her 38.8125 easily outdistanced Auburn’s Sunisa Lee, who finished with a 39.675. Skaggs finished third in the all-around at 39.6625 and Leanne Wong finished fourth at 39.625.

Both Florida and Auburn advanced to Saturday’s NCAA championships where they will face off with Oklahoma and Utah. This is the 18th time the Gators have advanced to the NCAA team final. Florida won the NCAA championship in 2013-14-15.

ORANGE AND BLUE SUPERLATIVES
Billy Napier on why the Blue team won 34-0
“The Orange team turned the ball over, right? The Orange team had more penalties, right? The Blue team took care of the ball and played with poise and discipline. We're going to look at this tape and it's going to be a microcosm of every football game we play next fall. So you've got to take care of the ball and you've got to play the situations really well. Fundamentally you've got to be sound in what you do. Blue team made some explosive plays. They were aggressive, and they finished possessions, which the Orange team didn't. We missed a field goal and then a turnover in the red area. So that game's different if the Orange team executes and scores touchdowns in the red area, doesn't turn the ball over. These are simple things, but they're hard to do consistently."

Individual stats
Anthony Richardson: 18-24 passing for 207 yards and two touchdowns; 6-22 rushing for one TD.
Montrell Johnson: 15-62 rushing for one TD; 1-2 receiving
Dante Zanders: 5-56 receiving
Noah Keeter: 3-53 receiving
Demarkcus Bowman: 17-61 rushing; 4-18 receiving
Ja’Quavion Fraziars: 5-53 receiving
Trent Whittemore: 3-36 receiving
Keon Zipperer: 2-33 receiving
Justin Shorter: 3-27 receiving
Jack Miller III: 13-23, 121 passing, 1 interception
Amari Burney: 11 tackles, 1 pass breakup
Ventrell Miller: 7 tackles, 1 sack
Trey Dean III: 5 tackles
Mordecai McDaniel: 8 tackles
Jalen Kimber: 6 tackles, 1 interception, 2 pass breakups
Jordan Young: 6 tackles
Diwun Black: 3 tackles, 2 pass breakups

Billy Napier on Richardson: “He’s a product of his work. He’s learning a new system. Standing behind him back there, it wasn’t too big for him. He communicated well and the ball went where it was supposed to go.”

Billy Napier on Zanders: “I mean he’s been the story of the spring … I mean the guy’s 6-5 ¼, he’s 260 pounds, he’s loose, he can transition, he’s got good ball skills … I mean he’s a God-send. Not only did he make the move [from D-line to tight end], that guy running out there is going to make a lot of plays for us.”

Montrell Johnson on SEC speed: “Like I said, I was very under recruited guy. I feel like I can play with those guys. I’m gonna say it felt the same as the Sun Belt. It’s a difference but I felt very comfortable out there. Very confident. I’m gonna keep grinding and getting better.”

Noah Keeter on the transition from linebacker to tight end: "Honestly I thought it would be a lot harder, but I was lucky. I transitioned before spring break, so over spring break I was able to study the whole break and kind of figure out the offense on my own. And I've been meeting with coach Darlington and coach Peagler pretty much every day trying to figure it out. It's definitely tight end heavy. We're pretty much run through the tight end, so you've got to know pass plays, pass combos and run combos with blocking, but I've been able to pick it up pretty fast."

Billy Napier on Diwun Black: “Even when he’s wrong a little bit, he can make it right and oftentimes makes plays. He is productive on a consistent basis … During Identity Program I wrote his name down multiple days where he’s probably the gold standard when it came to effort in the program. The guy’s bought in.”

UF BASEBALL: GATORS FACE VANDY IN NASHVILLE
The Gators (21-12, 5-7 SEC) will try to climb back above .500 in SEC play tonight when they square off with Vanderbilt (23-9, 5-7 SEC) in Nashville. The two teams are tied not only in the SEC East standings but also for 17th nationally in the USA Today Coaches Top 25 Poll.

Florida has won five of the previous six series with the Commodores. The last time the Gators lost a weekend series to Vandy was 2018 when the Commodores got a sweep.

The Gators will send lefty ace Hunter Barco to the mount to face Vanderbilt right hander Chris McElvain (4-2, 3.59 ERA).

UF SOFTBALL: GATORS 7, OLE MISS 4
Kendra Falby and Skylar Wallace each delivered a 2-run double in the top of the fifth inning Thursday night in Oxford, highlighting a 5-run explosion that helped the Gators (32-9, 9-7 SEC) take a 7-4 win over Ole Miss (29-12, 5-8 SEC) in the first game of the 3-game series.

The Gators scored their runs in bunches. In the third inning, Charla Echols broke open a scoreless game with a two-run double that drove home Falby and Wallace, then in the fifth, the Gators pushed five runs across for a 7-0 lead. The Rebels rallied for four runs in the bottom of the sixth off Elizabeth Hightower (11-4, 2.78 ERA), but Natalie Lugo came on to pitch the seventh to pick up her second save of the season.

Wallace raised her batting average to .442 with a 3-hit night. She also added her SEC-leading 35th stolen base. Falby, Echols and Katie Kistler each had two hits.

The Gators will face Ole Miss at 2 p.m. today. The game was moved up to early afternoon because of inclement weather expected in Oxford later in the day.

UF WOMEN’S GOLF: GATORS IN FOURTH AT SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS
The 10th-ranked Gators were +11 for the day Thursday in Birmingham as they dropped two spots to fourth place through two days of the SEC Women’s Golf Championships. The Gators are 12-over for the tournament, exactly 12 shots behind 20th-ranked Auburn, 11 behind 3rd-ranked South Carolina and eight behind 14th-ranked LSU.

Marina Escobar Dominga, who had an opening round 67, was 6-over Thursday but she continues to be Florida’s low scorer at 145. Maise Fuller shot even par 72 for Florida’s low score of the day.

SEC FOOTBALL/BASKETBALL
Arkansas: Stanley Umude, second on the team in scoring at 11.9 and a 37.1 percent 3-point shooter, is hiring an agent and declaring for the NBA.

Georgia: Tight end Brock Bowers, who made All-America last year as a true freshman, has landed a hefty NIL deal with Zaxby’s.

LSU: Tight end Nick Stortz, who medically retired from football during the 2021 season, is apparently healthy again because he’s back on the roster.

Missouri: New basketball coach Dennis Gates has hired Dickey Nutt, brother of former Arkansas and Ole Miss coach Houston Nutt, as an assistant coach. Nutt had a 279-304 record as a head coach at Arkansas State and Southeast Missouri State.

South Carolina: Tim Buckley, who spent the last three years as an assistant at UNLV, has completed the staff for new South Carolina head coach Lamont Paris.

ONE FINAL PITHY THOUGHT: Nobody is going to rank the Florida Gators in their all-too-early top 25s, at least not until Billy Napier does his roster makeover in the next couple of weeks. There is every good chance 15-20 players are currently listed on the Florida roster won’t be here in a couple of weeks. Some of them have already seen the light and they will be hellbent to get their names in the NCAA transfer portal even before they schedule their exit interview with Napier. Others will go into that meeting hoping and praying they don’t hear these words: “You are never going to see the field here at Florida. Perhaps you should think about putting your name in the portal.”

No kid wants to hear those words, but this is the college football world in which we are living and it’s not going to change. Now that players have their free agency, they aren’t going to give it up. There should be some tweaks made to the process for sure. I’ve advocated several times that for a kid should not be granted immediate eligibility when he transfers unless he has a 2.5 GPA. That’s not that difficult to achieve. Secondly, a kid should not be allowed immediate eligibility if he is under suspension when he enters the portal. Finally, a true freshman should have to spend one year on campus before he is allowed to transfer. That prevents an impetuous, spur of the moment decision based more on anger or upset than common sense.

Those changes won’t prevent anyone from transferring out, but they might slow down the flow even by a slight trickle and that’s something we need.

We also need some way to reel in NIL. I’m not advocating eliminating it completely because that just isn’t going to happen, but we need some rules, regulations, guidelines and structure to it because kids are using the portal to shop for NIL deals. That in itself isn’t a terrible idea, but people who have far more insight into this than I say kids are creating NIL inflation by not being truthful about NIL deals. Do we need some sort of registry so there can be a record of NIL deals? That’s a bit drastic but how else are we going to stop kids from gaming the system by lying about NIL deals they may or may not have received?

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Germany does their part to help stop Nordstrom II, and the US sanctions the two places in Ukraine that are not even in Russian hands yet. Ya think there was an agreement made between Putin and Brandon before this happened? I do. Remember the comment from the senile one that a "small" incursion would be OK? He is an UNAMERICAN crooked POS. And just like my WHOLE life, the left consorts and comforts our worst enemies, while accuses their foes of doing it

Oh, and if Trump were President...this invasion would NOT be happening.

Danny Wuerffel narrates hype video for Florida on eve of spring practices​

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10 Recruiting visitors due to watch the start of spring practice
https://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/florida-gators-recruiting-visitors-list-for-march-15th/

Hoping that anyone who gets to G'ville & gets to watch any Spring Practice sessions will post their thoughts here

From my column at Gator Bait
By Franz Beard
Camp Napier concluded Thursday night at The Swamp before an announced crowd of 45,000 that came from all parts of Florida for the Orange and Blue Game. How close that was to the actual number of warm bodies in the stadium is anybody’s guess. There is no guesswork when it comes to Florida’s No. 1 quarterback, however.

If there were any doubts that Anthony Richardson is THE man then they were erased in the first half of the Blue Team’s 34-0 win over the Orange when Richardson completed 13-15 of his passes for 167 yards and two touchdowns. AR15 finished the game completing an efficient 18-24 of his passes for 207 yards while running for 22 more and another touchdown.

It made for a pleasant night for first year head coach Billy Napier, who said the atmosphere was “even better than I expected to be honest with you.” This was the 15th and final time Napier will see the Gators on the field until August, so he had reason to be happy with what he saw, but there was no time to wait for the euphoria of a first night in The Swamp to wear off. There were recruits waiting and that was a far greater priority than answering questions from the media, so he cut the question and answer session in the South End Zone meeting room short to get in a few last words before the recruits headed off into the night.

The high school kids will get plenty of follow up communication from Napier’s assistants and the “army” of analysts and support people whose sole purpose in life is to spread the Florida gospel. When Napier presides over the staff meeting at 7:45 in the morning, no doubt he’ll be asking a lot of questions about the high school kids, but bet the farm and everything else you hold sacred that talk will shift to roster management.

Specifically, Napier is going to have to make some very hard decisions. The spring football game was fun for everyone, head coach included. Having to deal with who may or may not be a Gator past May 1 is probably the most difficult aspect of Napier’s job.

Napier admitted he has some talented players, just not enough of them, and not every one of the players who saw the field Thursday night is talented enough to ever sniff the playing field moving forward. He is going to have to be brutally honest and tell some kids they just don’t fit into the long range scheme of things.

It can’t be fun to conduct an exit interview when you have to tell a kid whose lifetime dream might have been to play for the Florida Gators that he’s just not good enough, especially if you know the kid you’re talking to has tried his very best to do everything the right way. How do you suggest to that kid that if he has a future in football at Florida other than as a member of the meat squad that he ought to put his name in the NCAA transfer portal, knowing fully well there will be at least a thousand kids who transfer out who won’t have a scholarship next year?

But that’s one of the things Napier is going to have to do in the next couple of weeks. Something else he’s going to have to do is re-recruit players he would like to keep who might be leaning toward a transfer. That is an unintended consequence of the transfer portal. It’s not just about acquiring new talent that elected to change scenery from St. Somewhere Else, but also about re-recruiting players on your own roster who have talent but may not be feeling the love.

“A guy goes in or the rumor mill starts swirling this guy is going in,” Napier said. “That's why we have an entire group of people in the back that's what they do every day. Bird Sherrill, Chase Clark and that crew, we're working on college personnel every day.”

It is the job of Sherrill, Clark and the Crew to know who’s leaving, who’s thinking about leaving and who needs to be coaxed to stay. It’s all part of roster management. It is more than simply dealing with attrition. It has everything to do with having enough good players to compete at the highest levels. One you know who is with you and who you need to be without, then you can set about the task of finding some players.

Florida needs a bunch of them. Five walk-ons, Napier told us a couple of weeks ago are going to get scholarships. Tackles Kaleb Boateng and Mark Pitts are probably two of them. Another might be Noah Keeter, who was conscripted from linebacker when three scholarship tight ends went down with spring-ending injuries. All Keeter did Thursday night was catch three passes for 53 yards and a touchdown. He’s played defense all his life but he looked like a natural pass catcher in the Orange and Blue Game.

Heading into the spring, the thought was the Gators were close to being over the 85-scholarship limit, but when five walk-ons are about to get scholarships and the head coach says not only will UF be very active in the transfer portal, but will be looking to sign 10 or more, then that says there will be quite a bit of attrition.

It is expected that by May 1, the transfer portal ranks will swell by at least 1,000 players nationwide who are convinced they need to find that green pasture of their football dreams. The majority of players in the portal have no business dotting an SEC roster, so finding replacements has to be a very selective process.

Napier isn’t into hit or miss when it comes to adding plug and play types from the portal.

“From a personnel standpoint and everything that we do, we want to make every decision in the best interest of the team,” Napier said. “There will be an opportunity. I don't necessarily think we’d turn down any good player, a player that can get it in our two deep and make our team better, that’s what we're looking for.”



Without coming right out and saying so, Napier essentially declared what we all know, that in the Southeastern Conference you better have a minimum of a two-deep that is game ready. That’s just to compete. If you’re going to win, you better go well beyond the two-deep with players close enough in the developmental process that they can go to whatever level is next when a second teamer answers the next man up bell. Injuries are just a reality in the SEC. No league sends more players to the NFL. This is a league where the players are bigger, stronger, faster and they hit harder, which means there will be injuries so you better have a roster full of good players to deal with them.

So it will be off to the portal for Napier and the Florida Gators. Key in, for a moment if you will, on that statement about not during down a player who can fit into the two-deep. That very well may have been a hint that Napier doesn’t think Florida has 44 SEC-caliber players ready to go this fall. If that’s the case, then where does he go to find them?

"I mean typically I would say there's some sort of relationship with most of these kids, a pre-existing relationship,” Napier said. “You have knowledge of the player, maybe someone in the building recruited the player, someone in the building's connected to the area.”



Running back Montrell Johnson, right guard O’Cyrus Torrence and backup right tackle Kamryn Waites were with Napier at Louisiana. Napier knew Ohio State transfer quarterback Jack Miller III from when he was the offensive coordinator at Arizona State back in 2017. Corner Jalen Kimber, who transferred in from Georgia, was from Mansfield, Texas, a place where Napier and the Rajin Cajuns recruited regularly.

“So far of the young, the players that we've added to our team, we had a connection with them before they got here,” Napier said. “I think that's what you're going to see for the most part going forward.”

Because the players Napier will be recruiting from the portal will be expected to play right away, those pre-existing relationships will help to minimize the risk. Nothing is perfect in evaluating players, but every precaution has to be made to bring in the right players.



The advantage Napier and his staff will have these next two weeks when they hit the portal hot and heavy is that they have that “army” or support people and analysts who have been making their lists and checking them twice since they arrived on campus. They’ve been looking over players already in the portal as well as scouring rosters to find players likely to transfer.

If you were at The Swamp Thursday night and you have a roster, you might want to hold onto it for comparison sake because in the fall there might be a whole lot of players who played in the Orange and Blue Game who are plying their trade somewhere else. Is it necessarily fair that college football has reached this point? Not necessarily so, but it’s the way the rules are written now.

Get used to it.

I mean.....seriously, where the hell does it end with this rogue band of losers in Washington?? None of their policies have worked except to bring this country down. Just when you think they can't top themselves, BOOM....an EO to outlaw of all things, "ghost guns." You tell me what "ghost guns" killed anyone in the existence of humanity! I'll wait. Meanwhile, this is obviously their lust-ridden, sought-after goal of eradicating our 2A. It's time we go on an all-out offensive agaisnt these bastards and stop EVERYTHING they're doing cold-ass-turkey. Living in Bizarro World just got more dangerous! Ghost guns! Yeah they'll kill ya, right???🤣😁😂🤣😁😂

The recruiting groundwork for the 2023 class down to ’25 is being laid down by the Gators’ coaching staff last night. With an eye to the future, Florida invited Pensacola Catholic receiver Koby Howard to the Orange and Blue Game on Thursday impressing the in-state prospect.

“UF was Lit last night,” Howard said. “I had a great time touring the facilities with coach Chase Clark (Asst. Dir. of Personal). Florida’s new football facility is gonna be crazy good.”

Seeing Florida in action helped Howard imagine a possible future in Gainesville.

“I can really see myself playing there,” Howard shared. “I got a chance to meet coach (Keary) Colbert (WR) for the first time; he’s a really cool guy. He seems like a coach I can play for, for sure.”

The fans turned out for the coaches, players, and recruits last night.

“The atmosphere at the spring game was awesome,” Howard said.

The Gators have a leg up on the competition when they are ready to drop that offer.

“Florida used to be my dream school when I was younger,” Howard shared. “I used to get a birthday cake every year with the UF colors. I like Florida a lot, but they haven’t offered yet. They say they will offer soon they just wanted to get me up to the school and start building on a relationship. That’s very important to me with any school.”

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Good get. Massive potential

Had more than a few people reach out and ask about Josh Braun, saying they heard, saw, or read somewhere he was going to leave UF. I spoke directly to his father who told me to squash this rumor they are 100% happy and UF has helped J tremendously get situated with earning his PhD etc. I am not sure where the noise in the system came from but appears as if its just that - noise.

And yes there is a poor little Timmy moment 😆

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I saw that he got some 1st team reps with the defense yesterday. However, I also heard the commentators say that he “hasn’t been available” as much as the coaches thought he would be. Does anyone know what that means???

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It was nothing but love and good vibes during the visit. Coach Spence is a great dude on and off the field. We are building a pretty good bond so far that I'm definitely looking forward to growing

Trinity just won a well deserved national championship in the all around! She came in to the floor exercise needing a 9.9625 to win and what did she do? Got a 10.0… Wow! She is so much fun to watch!

Florida’s spring game was a star-studded event both on the field and in the stands. One of the impressed onlookers was four-star 2024 running back Chauncey Bowens. The Benjamin School recruit left the Orange and Blue Game liking what he saw, especially from the coaches and fans.

“The environment that the fans created stood out to me,” Bowens said. “Even for a spring game it put me in the mind of a regular game. Also, getting to watch coach (Jabbar) Juluke’s running backs and how they use them stood out as well.”

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