Regardless of how you may feel about Lane Kiffin, any objective viewer knows he is 100% correct about the influence NIL is and will have on a kids decision to play for a specific school. Having said that, IF that is the changing landscape of College Football, which it clearly is, then Universities are going to have to figure out how to compete at the same level. No different than any other business..."Evolve or Die".

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It’s almost like he’s been forgotten about… what’s his progress so far does anyone have any insight ???

I cant wait to see Lingard as well and HOPE he has a break out year! I do think this video is sped up at bit right as he gets the ball! LOL
Either way, fun video to watch!

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Does this surprise anyone?

Just wondering? From the outside looking in I think not, but my Bucs receivers are taking a home town discount to build the team.

Like seriously, by now Vladimir Putin isn't even looking Poopy Joe's way unless he smells his malaodorous stench from Joe's underwear. The last bit of sanctions were a joke and now it's more of the same shennanigans as Putin continues his advance upon Ukraine in what is nothing but a damn proxy war. It is the Russian and Ukranian people who are the biggest losers in this organized debacle as both countries are played off against each other to strike matches starting WWIII. I feel for the citizens of both countries as they watch family members and friends alike get carted off to prison for protesting this war or gunned down in the streets of places like Kyiv. No amount of aid from our corrupt government to the Ukraine will suffice for this atrocity that Poopy Joe allowed to happen. God Almighty will have the perpetators' souls in Hell for all this.

Havent seen his name come up and didnt see him on the "visit" list.

Good looking prospect though!

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Will be interesting to see if he brings anyone else or if he fills the remaining two spots with new hires.

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By Franz Beard
A few thoughts to jump start your Thursday morning:
WHAT A CONCEPT: GOLDEN HAS AN OFFENSIVE PLAN
Todd Golden wasn’t pointing fingers at anyone in particular when he was introduced to the Gator Nation at an O-Dome press conference. He didn’t have to. The numbers speak for themselves.

When he began describing the kind of team he expects to roll out on the floor next year and every year thereafter, a couple of things stood out like your proverbial sore thumb: shooting 3-pointers, rebounding and cutting way down on turnovers.

Start with shooting.

“The team I think was around 30.5 percent (actually 30.3 percent) from the year on three, and the way that I like to play that's simply not going to be good enough,” Golden said.

Rebounding: The Gators averaged 33.6 rebounds per game. Opponents averaged 35. Some of that can be attributed to injuries. Colin Castleton played all season with a torn labrum that will require surgery and caused him to miss six games. Backup center Jason Jitoboh missed the last 16 games of the season after sustaining an eye injury. Anthony Duruji played the last month of the season on a bad ankle and CJ Felder missed games because he was sick and then with a hip pointer. No matter the issue, this is an area that has to be addressed for the Gators to be better.

“That was an area that was surprising to me when evaluating the team and the roster that they didn't have a lot of success in because I think the pieces are there, and I think the talent is there in terms of being able to get on the glass,” Golden said.

Turnovers: Florida had more turnovers than assists in the 2020-21 season and last year they had only 12 more assists than turnovers. Remember this: As a senior point guard at Saint Mary’s, Todd Golden had the second best assist-to-turnover ratio in the NCAA – 3.68-1.

“A lot of people have asked me what type of teams should they expect to see when the Gators take the floor next year?” Golden asked rhetorically. “I try to explain it, you should expect to see a big, strong deep roster that has a lot of skilled and unselfish players that are willing to put the team in front of themselves. Foundationally, we always strive to be elite in three areas: Defensively, rebounding, and taking care of the basketball. If we're able to do that, it will raise our floor and give us a great chance to be really successful and eliminate any unnecessary volatility we might have.”

Defensively, the Gators were inconsistent. They had some brilliant games like the win over Auburn, but they had some games when the breakdowns were almost too many to count.

It is the offense that has been stuck in a rut for much of the last seven years. How does Golden plan to improve the offense?

“Offensively we're going to play fast, but not in a hurry,” he said. “We're going to try to push in transition, score early in the clock, hunt rim twos, catch and shoot threes. If we don't score in transition, we're going to slow it down and make you guard us in the half court and make you guard continuous player and ball movement, unique ball screen actions, and different things that I think are incredibly difficult to scout.”

Continuous movement was a problem. Unique ball screen actions were, too. Florida’s pick and roll game was far too predictable and not all that difficult to defend. Opposing coaches thought Florida had good athletes that were held back by a way too simplistic scheme.

Golden is somewhat of an analytics freak. He will bring in the staff he needs – “Whatever he needs, he’ll get,” athletic director Scott Stricklin said – and they’ll do the analytics to figure out what works well for the Gators offensively. One thing for certain, he’s got a plan to make it work and that has to be music to the ears of Florida fans who grew frustrated with inconsistent offense the last seven years.

NAY’QUAN WRIGHT: “WE’RE GOING TO SHINE IN THIS SYSTEM”
The competitor in Nay’Quan Wright begs to get out on the practice field this spring, but the injured ankle that he’s still rehabbing tells him to be patient, that his time will come. So, instead of going through the paces at each practice, Wright’s main focus is absorbing everything he can so he can be ready in the fall.

“Right now I’m taking it step by step, day by day, and just continuing to believe,” Wright said Tuesday afternoon after the Gators finished their fourth practice of the spring. “I actually started running now. it’s going down the right path. I’m not worried or rushing.”

He does whatever work the trainers allow him to do, but that does give him time to observe and he likes what he sees, both of the new offense that head coach Billy Napier is installing and the three running backs who are out there working every day – Lorenzo Lingard, Demarkcus Bowman and Louisiana transfer Montrell Johnson. Lingard and Bowman are former 5-star recruits who started their careers elsewhere (Lingard at Miami, Bowman at Clemson). Neither one got much of a chance to play in former coach Dan Mullen’s system. Johnson was the second leading rusher as a true freshman for Napier at Louisiana last year.

Lingard and Johnson have breakaway speed while Johnson is a downhill runner who Wright says is “not running from no contact.” It’s still spring and the Gators won’t scrimmage for another week, but it’s a running back friendly system. None of the Florida backs were playing the last time the Florida offense was more run than pass with running backs getting the bulk of the carries.

“We’re going to shine in this system but at the end of the day we have to show up every day and work,” Wright said. “Things can change. Right now Coach is a run-type of guy, a run type of offensive guy but that’s just something this program hasn’t done in a while. I think it would be great. Get the backs more featured and also the weapon receivers we have.”

TRINITY THOMAS SEC GYMNAST OF THE YEARThe remarkable career of Trinity Thomas keeps earning more accolades. Wednesday, Thomas was named SEC Gymnast of the Year, the second time (2020) she has earned that award. Thomas has six perfect 10s this year, 14 for her career, and she is the third Gator and one of only 12 gymnasts all-time to win the Gym Slam: a perfect 10 in all four events.

Thomas was one of five Gators who earned All-SEC honors. Also named were Nya Reed, Megan Skaggs, Alyssa Baumann and Leanne Wong.

The Gators are the No. 2 national seed and will be the top seed at the Auburn NCAA Regional starting on March 31.

GATORS SET RELAY RECORD AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
The 200 IM relay team of Adam Chaney, Dillon Hills, Eric Friese and Will Davis set the NCAA record with a time of 1:21.13 to capture the event at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in Atlanta Wednesday. Chaney’s 20.19 backstroke was the third fastest split of all time while Friese swam a 19.36 butterfly to tie for the fastest split of all time.

The Gators also got a seventh place finish in the 800 freestyle relay as they finished day one of the competition in second place with 64 points, 10 behind Texas.

SWEET 16
West Regional
1 Gonzaga (28-3) vs. 4 Arkansas (27-8): Arkansas has to neutralize Andrew Nembhard, the best pure point guard remaining in the tournament. If he penetrates then Drew Timme will score in the mid-to-high 20s. Sag and Nembhard will kill the Hogs from three. JD Notae has to play great for Arkansas to win. I like the Zags.
2 Duke (30-6) vs. 3 Texas Tech (27-9): This is Duke’s boys against Texas Tech’s grown men. Duke has size and an enormous amount of talent, but the Blue Devils haven’t played any defense as ferocious as Texas Tech, which gives up only 60.2 points per game and holds opponents to 31.4 percent on threes. For Duke to win, Mark Williams has to control things in the paint. I like Terrence Shannon to dominate this game and for Texas Tech to win.

South Regional
11 Michigan (19-14) vs. 2 Villanova (28-7): Nova just knows how to play the game. Unlike Tennessee, which disintegrated against Michigan, Nova won’t make stupid mistakes and lose a winnable game. Jay Wright will outcoach Juwan Howard and Collin Gillespie will make everyone on Nova better. Nova. Big.
5 Houston (31-5) vs. 1 Arizona (33-3): Houston will pack the paint and dare Zona to win the game from the 3-point line. The difference this game is probably hustle points and nobody gets to more 50-50 balls or runs down offensive rebounds like Houston. Houston in a grind it out squeaker.

SEC FOOTBALL/BASKETBALL STUFF
Alabama: Georgia Tech running back transfer Jahmyr Gibbs has been drawing excellent reviews as Alabama has begun spring practice. Running backs Jace McClellan and Roydell Williams are in black no-contact jerseys as they rehab from injuries.

Auburn: Quarterback Dematrius Davis, a 4-star signee from the 2021 class, has put his name in the transfer portal ... Corner Ro Torrence, who played in 10 games last year after transferring in from Hutchinson Community College, is in the portal.

Georgia: Former Florida assistants Erik Pastrana and Akeem Miskdeen have followed Mike White to Georgia.

LSU: Former LSU associate athletic director Sharon Lewis has alleged that running backs/associate head coach Frank Wilson sexually harassed her and another woman. At his Wednesday press conference one day ahead of the Tigers opening spring practice, head coach Brian Kelly said, “We stand behind Frank Wilson.”

Mississippi State: In explaining why he left New Mexico State (besides more money but he didn’t say that) to become Mississippi State’s basketball coach, Chris Jans said, “It’s a bigger stage, a bigger platform. You’re going to compete against the best players, the best coaches each and every night.”

Missouri: Corner Snoop Reeves, a former 3-star recruit from Cocoa, is in the transfer portal. He didn’t record any stats in 2021.

Ole Miss: Former Florida Atlantic special teams coordinator/tight ends coach Jason Fairman has joined the Ole Miss staff as an analyst.

South Carolina: Former South Carolina hoops coach Frank Martin is expected to be named the new HBC at UMass, replacing former Florida assistant Matt McCall, who was fired … Erik Stevenson, who averaged 11.7 points and 4.7 rebounds per game, is in the portal as a grad transfer.

ONE FINAL PITHY THOUGHT: A couple of weeks ago, Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby complained to Dennis Dodd, the fine college football writer for CBS Sports, that every day that passes without movement on expanding the College Football Playoff is going to it far more difficult to get the right deal done when the current 12-year playoff contract expires with ESPN. It’s well known that expansion could have gotten done months ago if not for the silliness of “The Alliance” – the three-conference group of the Big Ten, ACC and Pac-12.

Here is what bothers me most about the objections of commissioners Kevin Warren (Big Ten), Jim Phillips (ACC) and George Kliavkoff (Pac-12) and it goes beyond the money an expanded playoff would provide for the schools in their leagues. We have a problem that no one seems to talk about, which is the long term health of college football players. An expanded playoff could provide the kind of money that would allow everyone who plays the game extended healthcare beyond their playing careers. We hear all this talk about players getting paid to play the game. What I would really like to hear is about players getting health insurance for years after their college careers are over, for a lifetime if they suffered multiple concussions or serious joint injuries.

I’ve been writing about college football since the 1960s. The injuries grow more frequent and more severe every single year. Steve Spurrier once remarked that the players are bigger, stronger, faster and they hit harder than they’ve ever hit but the field they play on stays the same size. Translation: There is no place to hide from the kind of hits a player takes over the course of a college career.

What I would like to hear is for the commissioners of all 10 conferences plus the AD at Notre Dame to huddle up and decide on a plan to expand the College Football Playoff, adding what is expected to be another $1 billion in revenue to the sport. Then I’d like to hear these same commissioners do something that should have been done long ago and that is care for the health of the people who make the revenue which makes their jobs possible.

I can dream can’t I?

I know I am late to the party with this big W. But it bear worth noting that there are patriots fighting these establishment hacks tooth-&-nail! Rand Paul is certainly one of them. The RINO Romney voted against it, but hey what else would you expect from that loser? And Paul stated that he forced it because of the government's constant peddling of mask-fearmongering to the general public. You know....people like Anthony FRAUDCI, Rochelle (The MILF) Walensky just to name a few. Masks don't work, period. But the libs are gonna mask and vaccinate themselves to death anyways. Nonetheless, America continues to live on.

Say it ain’t so Florida Gators. RedState reports that there is a Study Room on UF campus now named for Karl Marx???

I cannot imagine Alumni donors will allow this nonsense to continue - amirite??

I've been preaching this Great Reset since 2020, and before. We want to politicize everything. We want to castigate the liberals in a political arena, but it ain't gonna work. We don't have a 2022, 2024 savior on the horizon. The powers of the world have climbed into bed with the American government and have been doing so for many years. We are horrified in disbelief by what we see because we can't understand how it can happen. But that's because we have been caught off guard and are now seeing the power of evil at full throttle. It will not stop until God stops it. Say all you want to about it, but God is Sovereign and in control of it all. He wasn't caught off guard napping. Best stop looking horizontal for your savior of our world and begin looking vertical. My gut says we are about to be in a much deeper pile of horse Biden than we are in now. This is just the beginning. Saddle up your horses fellas and prepare for the ride of your life.

This story is not religious, so it's okay to read it.
https://noqreport.com/2022/03/23/phase-2-of-the-great-reset-war/
STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• We’re being hit with one crisis after another, but there’s nothing “organic” or natural about these crises. They seem manufactured and intentional because they all strengthen, support and further the technocratic plan for a Great Reset
• Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has relaxed its hate speech policies in certain countries — but only as long as the hatred is directed against Russians. While hatred against an attacker is normal, one day, the designated target for “justifiable hatred” may be you
• We cannot continue to accept the idea of “justifiable hatred” — that it’s OK to hate and call for violence against any one group — because the target group of the day is decided by powers that ultimately seek to destroy us all
• World war is Phase 2 of The Great Reset plan, which includes the destruction of supply chains, the energy sector, food supply and workforce, to create dependency on government, which in turn will be taken over by private interests and central banks through the collapse of the global economy
• Pandemic lockdowns have sped up the Fourth Industrial Revolution — the transhumanist dream to merge man and machine, which will allow the technocratic elite to control all of mankind — and disruptions caused by war will speed it up even further

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Formby went back-to-back visiting Florida and Alabama. An in-depth look at both visits.