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Vereen covers his visit to Gainesville, one that will be hard for others to beat.

the majority of SEC coaches should be fired…just sayin’…

nice to see Regular Season Rick flame out again…

Florida LOVES this kid and I mean LOVES this kid - this would be a HUGE HUGE piece of this 23 class. With the landscape of recruiting and the way things have changed with NIL etc. Anyone doing this for a living is taking major risks trying to predict how these things end up, but nature of the beast I suppose. Time will tell all.........

CB Tony Mitchell

Dude is looking jacked! Definitely one of my favorite Gators of all time. Probably one of the most underrated as well. Black was a straight baller!


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DEFINITELY need whoever these commits are to announce publicly!

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Over Oregon, Bama, UGA, etc....WOW

I would bet other highly rated recruits also commit to Tenn

Whether or not they stick in the end we shall see

This is what we need...some top shelf, top 100 or better rated kids to publicly commit to get our class rolling....even with NIL not all top kids are going to wait despite what some on here are claiming

Hopefully we get some good news soon!

By Franz Beard
A few thoughts to jump start your Tuesday morning:
FLORIDA DEFENSE: THE TIMES THEY ARE ‘A-CHANGING
When it comes to Florida’s defense in the 2020 and 2021 seasons, there were far too many times when it seemed coordinator Todd Grantham outsmarted himself. Known for his NFL-style schemes that were diagrammed in a playbook thicker than the one Dan Mullen used for the offense, it wasn’t uncommon for the Gators to look dazed and confused. Too often, when they seemed to know what they were doing and where they were supposed to line up, they couldn’t make tackles or come up with a third down stop.

Enter co-defensive coordinator Patrick Toney, one of the first hires Billy Napier made when he took over as Florida’s head coach.

“The first thing that we’ve got to do is play fundamentally sound defense,” Toney said. “The number one priority is how we’re playing the game.”

Think back to the LSU game when the Tigers ran the same exact play over and over again and the Gators couldn’t stop it. LSU ran for 326 yards that day. Also think back to the 2020 SEC Championship Game against Alabama, when Mac Jones certainly didn’t look dazed and confused but the Florida defense did.

Toney’s philosophy might be explained like this: Make the opposing QB think way too much.

“First and foremost, from a defensive standpoint, we want to make the same things look different and different things look the same,” Toney said. “In today’s game the person you’ve got to make things hard on is the trigger man. You’ve got to be able to disguise and make him decide where the coverage is, where are the strengths and weaknesses and where the coverage issues are. We’re going to try to put in a defense that poses problems for the quarterback post-snap.”

“If you look at every run, there’s a run-pass option to it. What everybody is trying to do in today’s game is get the ball handed off into a positive-numbered box, so you want to show population one way, maybe, and force them to throw the football that way or maybe force them to hand the ball into a loaded-box count. The quarterback is making a decision on runs and passes every snap, not just passes.”

UF BASKETBALL: GOLDEN MAKES FIRST HIRE
Todd Golden is already in Gainesville and he’s bringing Jonathan Safir with him from his staff at San Francisco. Safir has a master’s in sports management from Columbia and he’s considered brilliant when it comes to analytics, particularly when it comes to scouting both opponents and potential recruits.

Florida assistant Akeem Miskdeen will be joining former UF coach Mike White’s Georgia staff.

UF BASEBALL: GATORS MOVE UP ONE SPOT IN THE POLLS
D1Baseball Top 25: 1. Ole Miss 15-4; 2. Texas 17-5; 3. Arkansas 16-3; 4. Vanderbilt 17-2; 5. Tennessee 19-1; 6. Oregon State 14-4; 7. Florida State 13-6; 8. FLORIDA 15-5; 9. Oklahoma State 14-6; 10. Virginia 19-1; 11. Arizona 15-4; 12. Notre Dame 12-4; 13. North Carolina 17-3; 14. Georgia Tech 15-5; 15. Liberty 14-4; 16. Texas Tech 17-4; 17. Georgia 16-4; 18. Louisville 16-4; 19. TCU 14-5; 20. Texas State 18-3; 21. LSU 15-5; 22. Maryland 16-3; 23. Gonzaga 14-4; 24. Clemson 15-4; 25. UConn 14-3
USA Today Coaches Top 25: 1. Vanderbilt 17-2; 2. Ole Miss 15-4; 3. Texas 17-5; 4. Arkansas 16-3; 5. Tennessee 19-1; 6. Oregon State 14-4; 7. FLORIDA 15-5; 8. Virginia 19-1; 9. Arizona 14-4; 10. Florida State 13-6; 11. Texas Tech 17-4; 12. North Carolina 17-3; 13. Oklahoma State 14-6; 14. Georgia 16-4; 15. Notre Dame 12-4; 16. Georgia Tech 15-5; 17. Liberty 14-4; 18. LSU 15-5; 19. TCU 14-5; 20. Maryland 16-3; 21. Texas State 18-3; 22. Louisville 16-4; 23. Clemson 15-4; 24. Stanford 9-7; 25. Gonzaga 14-4

UF SOFTBALL: GATORS FALL ONE SPOT TO NO. 6
D1Softball Top 25: 1. Oklahoma 25-0; 2. UCLA 24-3; 3. Florida State 27-2; 4. Alabama 24-4; 5. Virginia Tech 21-3; 6. FLORIDA 25-3; 7. Duke 23-4; 8. Northwestern 19-4; 9. Arkansas 19-5; 10. Oklahoma State 21-6; 11. Oregon 21-4; 12. Kentucky 20-5; 13. Michigan 17-6; 14. Tennessee 20-8; 15. Washington 20-7; 16. Texas 21-9-1; 17. Arizona State 22-5; 18. Auburn 25-2; 19. Clemson 19-8; 20. Missouri 19-9; 21. Georgia 26-4; 22. Arizona 19-6; 23. UCF 26-7; 24. Ohio State 17-5; 25. LSU 20-10

THE SWEET 16: WHO’S LEFT STANDING
East Region
3 Purdue (29-7): These guys are enormous (7-4, 6-10 up front) and they have one of the best pure point guards in the tournament in Jaden Ivey (17.6 points, 4.8 rebounds, 3.1 assists). They pound it inside and foul people out (785 free throw attempts, 2nd best in the country) but when you sag to stop the inside game, they hit 38.8 percent of their three-pointers.
4 UCLA (27-7): The Bruins know how to win. They made the Final Four a year ago and the same guys that got them there are back again. Everybody knows you have to stop Johnny Juzang and Jaime Jaquez Jr. from scoring, but the guy who makes them go is point guard Tyger Campbell (11.8 points, 2.5 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 41.5 percent on threes). Whoever beats the Bruins has to start by neutralizing Campbell, who can score but is at his best setting up his buds.
8 North Carolina (26-9): Here is everything you need to know about why North Carolina is in the Sweet 16. In two games, the Tar Heels have assisted on 51 of 62 made shots. They are the most unselfish team remaining in the tournament and they are the best passing team. If they pass like that the next two games they’ll be in the Final Four.
15 Saint Peter’s (21-11): These guys are playing with house money. They didn’t win the regular season in their conference (Iona did) and had to win their conference tournament. To get to the Sweet 16 they’ve knocked off No. 2 Kentucky and No. 7 Murray State. They don’t score a lot, don’t defend all that well and they aren’t a great rebounding team. But they’re here and they win.
Friday’s games: 15 Saint Peter’s vs. Purdue; 8 North Carolina vs. UCLA
I like: Purdue and North Carolina

Midwest Region
1 Kansas (30-6): The Jayhawks have the easiest path to the Final Four. Wouldn’t Kansas making the Final Four be a slap in the face of the NCAA, which has hit Kansas with a serious Notice of Allegations? KU is standing by its man (Bill Self). Not the most talented team Self has had but good enough to get to the Final Four and maybe good enough to win it all if David McCormack can stay out of foul trouble.
4 Providence (27-5): Providence defense (54 points per game) is like hand-to-hand combat. The Friars aren’t a great shooting team but they compensate by grinding teams into the ground with their defense and they’re terrific rebounders. Nate Watson (13.5 points, 5.3 rebounds) has to play well for Providence to advance.
10 Miami (25-10): There are two secrets for Miami’s success: (1) The Hurricanes take care of the basketball (9.25 turnovers per game) and (2) they’re the oldest team in the field, average age of the starters 23 years old. Point guard Charlie Moore (12.8 points, 2.7 rebounds, 4.6 assists) is playing at his fourth school (Cal, Kansas and DePaul are the others).
11 Iowa State (22-12): The Cyclones got into the tournament by the skin of their teeth (three straight losses to end the regular season) but they’ve scored two white knuckles wins over LSU and Wisconsin to make it to the Sweet 16. The Cyclones don’t score a lot, but neither do the teams they play. Boring, but so far it’s worked.
Friday’s games: Kansas vs. Providence; Miami vs. Iowa State
I like: Kansas and Iowa State

South Region
1 Arizona (33-3): It took overtime against TCU and some whistles being swallowed by the zebras for Zona to get to the Sweet 16. Zona starts two 7-footers and brings another one off the bench. They are a ferocious rebounding team that makes up for a lack of outside shooting with tons of second chance points. Whoever beats the Wildcats has to at least stay even on rebounding.
2 Villanova (28-7): Collin Gillespie (16 points, 3.8 rebounds, 3.4 assists, 41.5 percent on 3-pointers) is the best player on the best coached team still standing. This is a typical Jay Wright team. They rarely turn the ball over (10 per game), don’t miss free throws (team 82.3 percent) and they get after people defensively (62.9 points per game). Someone is going to have to beat Villanova, because Villanova won’t beat itself with silly mistakes.
4 Houston (31-5): Houston’s defensive strategy is classic. The Cougars wall up the paint and make it as close to impossible as it gets scoring inside, then they dare you to beat them with 3-pointers. Houston allows only 59 points a game and 37.48 percent from the field. The Cougars are also the best offensive rebounding team remaining in the tournament.
11 Michigan (19-14): I still don’t think Michigan should have gotten in, but here are the Wolverines one of two Big Ten teams still standing. If 7-1 Hunter Dickinson plays as well as he did against Tennessee (27 points, 11 rebounds, 4 assists, 3-5 on 3-pointers), the Wolverines can make it to the Elite Eight.
Thursday’s games: 11 Michigan vs. 2 Villanova; 5 Houston vs. 1 Arizona
I like: Villanova and Houston

West Region
1 Gonzaga (28-3): If it’s a fast game with both teams committed to running the floor, it’s next to impossible to beat the Zags. Slow them down and make them play half court and they struggle. Drew Timme can score on anyone but the glue guy is point guard Andrew Nembhard, who is the best point remaining in this tournament, bar none. He plays defense, he doesn’t turn the ball over, he finds the open guy and he makes shots, whether it’s beyond the arc or at the foul line. The later in the game the more lethal he is.
2 Duke (30-6): No pressure on these guys. Nooooo. Coach K is calling it a career so every game could be his last. Would you want to be on the team that didn’t send Coach K off without a national championship?
3 Texas Tech (27-9): These guys defend. It’s in your face for 94 feet and they are relentless. If they’re hitting shots, they can beat anyone in the country. If they aren’t making shots, they’re still in the game because of their defense but they’re beatable.
4 Arkansas (27-8): For Arkansas to make it out of the region and into the Final Four, the Hogs will have to play the way they played at home in beating Kentucky and Auburn. If they play like they did in barely beating New Mexico State, they’ll be back home in Fayette Nam watching the Final Four on TV.
Thursday’s games: 1 Gonzaga vs. 4 Arkansas; 2 Duke vs. 3 Texas Tech
I like: Gonzaga and Texas Tech

ONE FINAL PITHY THOUGHT: Matt McMahon is LSU’s new basketball coach. He could have had any one of several vacancies out there that would have paid substantially more than the $575,000 he was making at Murray State, but instead he picked LSU, which is a bit strange. It’s strange because LSU basketball – and perhaps football – is headed toward the equivalent of nuclear winter because the coach he’s replacing (Will Wade) got hit with seven Level I (NCAA’s most severe) violations. Folks in Baton Rouge seem to think that LSU will be very fortunate if the basketball program is allowed participate in the postseason anytime before 2025. It makes you wonder how McMahon is going to recruit and how much LSU is going to pay him. His otherwise sparkling coaching record could be swimming with the bacteria on the bottom of the septic tank.

Complicating matters are the football violations, one of which involves a football booster who allegedly embezzled $180,000 from a hospital to pay the father of an LSU player. LSU tried to keep the basketball and football violations separate by self-imposing sanctions for football, but when the NCAA included both football and basketball in its NOA, it meant the self-imposed sanctions were not enough.

LSU will get hit with lack of institutional control, which means any violation in any sport, no matter how tacky or small, will rise to Level I. It’s not just football and basketball that are getting hammered, it’s the entire program. A lot of folks think it’s righteous and about time.

Our little high school. Flagler Palm Coast High School has a serious recruit. I hope UF gives him a look. Login to view embedded media

This Kid is a stud!

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Have to LOVE that all 3 of our guys (and one of our former guys) are in there. Would have to go with Tebow as #1! Cam would be #2.


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For those without a subscription I’ve added a few excerpts below:

Urban Meyer burst into a room full of players at the Jaguars’ facility. He was furious.
One of his players had missed an assignment during a preseason game, leading to a busted play. Meyer was enraged when it happened. A day later, he was still fuming. If the mistake ever happened again, Meyer warned, he would cut every single one of them.
“And do you know what would happen if I cut you guys?” Meyer said, according to four people in the room. “You couldn’t get a job paying more than $15 an hour.”
The implication that his players were capable of little more than playing football left some angry, others offended. “I lost all respect for him after that,” a veteran player in the room said.


The most toxic environment I’ve ever been a part of,” a veteran member of the football operations staff said. “By far. Not even close.”
Receiver D.J. Chark, who signed with the Lions last week after spending the first four years of his career with the Jaguars, said Meyer routinely threatened to fire coaches and cut players. “He feels like threats are what motivates,” Chark said. “I know he would come up to us and tell us if the receivers weren’t doing good, he wasn’t going to fire us, he was going to fire our coach. He would usually say that when the coach was around.”
Kicker Josh Lambo said last year Meyer kicked him during warmups — a fact Meyer’s lawyers reportedly conceded to Rick Stroud, the reporter who broke the story for the Tampa Bay Times. Lambo believed Meyer’s kick was an act of “intimidation,” a theme echoed by several people in the organization. One player described the year with Meyer as “mentally exhausting.”


Signs of dysfunction were apparent early on. Several sources said Meyer stepped into the job as if he had all the answers, even though he had never coached in the NFL.
Meyer said he conducted a six-month deep dive on the NFL that included interviews with his former Florida and Ohio State players as well as a study of the salary cap. But multiple sources said Meyer was unfamiliar with star players around the league, including 49ers receiver Deebo Samuel, Seahawks safety Jamal Adams and Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald, a three-time NFL defensive player of the year.
“Who’s this 99 guy on the Rams?” Meyer asked one staffer during the season, according to a source. “I’m hearing he might be a problem for us.”
In his first staff meeting, Meyer criticized the way NFL teams operate, noting specifically that coaches failed to take proper care of players’ health. And then, according to multiple sources in the meeting, Meyer said: “I hate scouts. Scouts are lazy.” It was an especially jarring comment given that scouts were also in the room.


Not long after veteran receiver John Brown signed with the Jaguars as a free agent, he ran the wrong route in practice. To correct the mistake, Brown, who is from Florida, and rookie quarterback Trevor Lawrence ran through the route again after practice. Meyer walked up to the pair.
“Hey, Trevor, you’ve got to slow it down for him,” Meyer said, according to sources. “These boys from the South, their transcripts ain’t right.”
Another time, during a meeting that also included members of the coaching and personnel staffs, Meyer berated a player so harshly that the player cried. According to two sources, Meyer slammed the door after departing the meeting, leaving others to console the player. The next day, one of the other staff members present confronted Meyer about the incident in what one source described as a tense exchange.
Sources said Meyer repeatedly belittled his staff to its members’ faces. He told his assistants he was a winner and they were losers, then demanded they defend their resumes. One player said it was coaches often looked “drained” whenever they left staff meetings with Meyer.

https://nypost.com/2022/01/01/profe...edophilia-could-help-offenders-demand-rights/

For some (libs) this is normal and perfectly rational. You know , the CNN people and their watchers
Judging from some of the positions taken and defended on this board I would not be surprised if there were a few pedos or at least pedo apologists on this board that totally agree w this wack job professor.

1 Why does it seem its so frequently Professors that defend this lunacy?
2 Since the libs here will give this thread a wide berth , how long until one of them involves Trump in their feeble response?

Florida moves up one spot from #9 to #8. The Gators are one out of five SEC Ranked in the Top Ten

During an in-depth interview with M'Pemba, he shares the schools he wants to visit coming up with Florida on the list.

I gave you credit for answering a test directive at our other vacation spot.

Name the primary reason one prefers the English system of measure over the metric system. The correct answer? One prefers the English system of measure over the metric system because he understands neither.

You might find where I gave you credit and enlighten the gang if you so choose. We might have a bit of fun.

launch and driad were born April 26, 1982 at 5:10 AM and 46 seconds. Which one is older? The correct answer is, I don't know. If I knew locations of birth, then I would know if both are the same age or which is older. Time zone or zones.

We can have some fun with this if you'd like. I can slip in a question as I sometimes do and you can slip in an answer if a member doesn't beat you.

I stated, name a month which every 4 years has 29 days. Tulsaaggieson answered, every 4 years all 12 months has 29 days. In my test session, the handful of us who gave this answer received bonus points from the administrator. There are 13 correct answers to the question. I believe someone here once presented this directive.

I have 3 gold coins identical to the eye. One is counterfeit. How does one very quickly define the fake? Answer: I weigh the coins. The two weighing the same are the real McCoys.

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