Chimere Dike
Florida
WR
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6'1"196 lbs
Florida
19 POS RK
173 OVR RK
55 GRADE
4th Round No 1 (103) Overall

Chimere Dike's NFL draft profile​

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Pre-Draft Analysis​

Dike is a deep threat who tied for the third-fastest 40 (4.34) for the receivers at the combine and averaged 18.6 yards per catch in 2024. He runs away from coverage on deep crossers, runs by defenders on go routes and gets safeties to bite on double moves. His speed makes him dangerous after the catch. Most of Dike's production came on deep crossing routes, but he has the tools to develop as a route runner. He is explosive and flashes the ability to shake defenders at the top of routes. He makes contested catches over the middle and can hold onto the ball while taking a big shot. -- Steve Muench

Cam Jackson
DT
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6'6"328 lbs
Florida
21 POS RK
189 OVR RK
52 GRADE
5th Round No 2. (140) Overall

Pre-Draft Analysis​

Jackson is a big nose tackle with long arms. He's an effective two-gap run defender. He shoots his hands, overpowers blockers one-on-one and sheds blocks in time to make plays. He's strong enough to hold his ground when he gets double-teamed, and he keeps his pads down. Jackson is quick for his size, and he can slip blocks. He's a powerful bull rusher who pushes the pocket, has the ability to get off blocks late and gets his hands up. -- Steve Muench

Jason Marshall Jr.
CB
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6'0"194 lbs
Florida
29 POS RK
25 5OVR RK
41 GRADE
5th Round No. 13 (150) Overall

Pre-Draft Analysis​

Marshall started 39 games at Florida, and he's at his best in press coverage. He can reroute receivers, mirror the release and shadow underneath. He reads the quarterback, sorts out route combinations and breaks on the ball in zone. Marshall is not a playmaker and his arms are short, but he flashes good timing breaking up passes and the ability to jump routes. -- Steve Muench

Shemar James
LB
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6'1"222 lbs
Florida
17 POS RK
20 8OVR RK
49 GRADE
5th Round No 16. (152) Overall

Pre-Draft Analysis​

James is an undersized linebacker with the burst to beat blockers to the point of attack and shoot gaps. His hands are active, and he can slip blocks in tight spaces. He makes quick reads and closes well breaking on passes in coverage. He has the traits to develop man-coverage skills. James also can cover kickoffs and punts. -- Steve Muench

This is from the Harold ledger, which is published in Lexington Kentucky so it’s a pretty big deal that they’re even willing to print something like this in the heart of the bluegrass. I know there was a lot of mashing of teeth when this got published in Lexington

Thought it was a good read, came out April 9 so sorry I posted before.

Freshman Zack Swanwick capped off his stellar and undefeated match play week (3-0) with the match-clinching point for a 4-1 victory over Texas A&M.

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. -The Florida men's golf team is back on top of the Southeastern Conference, defeating Texas A&M 4-1 in the conference finals for the program's 17th SEC Championship on Sunday at Sea Island Golf Club.

Head Coach J.C. Deacon led the Gators to its second Southeastern Conference Championship in the last three seasons and 17th in program history, No. 2 among all league men's golf programs. The victory is fourth this season and the 31st tournament title under Deacon in 11 seasons. This is the third straight season of four-plus wins under him and the seventh season of multiple wins, including the last five consecutive.

In the last four years with Deacon, Florida has won the NCAA National Championship, two SEC Championships, NCAA Individual Championship, SEC Individual Championship, 16 tournaments titles and 13 individual titles.

The Gators won its 10th match play outing in the SEC Championship, ranking second-most in the conference behind Vanderbilt's 13. In postseason match play, Florida is 12-4 all-time and 9-4 in the SEC.

Florida reached SEC Match Play Finals for the third time overall and in the last four years (2022 & 2023) by defeating the No. 6 ranked Oklahoma Sooners 3-2 in the quarterfinals and the No. 1 seed, No. 2 ranked and the reigning SEC and National Champion Auburn Tigers, 3.5-1.5 in the semifinals yesterday. The win against the Aggies moves the all-time series record to 3-0 in the conference tournament.

The Gator Golf programs have both reached the finals twice in the last four seasons. Florida is the only league school to have both its programs reach the finals two-plus times and do it in the same season, this year.

Florida continues the postseason journey at NCAA Regionals, May 12-14 and will find out their selection live on Golf Channel at 1 p.m. ET on Wednesday, April 30. With the conference title victory, Florida looks to secure one of the six No. 1 seeds as the regional sites include:

* Amherst, Virginia Poplar – Grove Golf Course

* Auburn, Alabama – Auburn University Club

* Bremerton, Washington – Gold Mountain Golf Club

* Reno, Nevada– Montreux Golf and Country Club

* Tallahassee, Florida – Seminole Legacy Golf Club

* Urbana, Illinois – Atkins Golf Club

Playing in the lead match in all three rounds, Luke Poulter continued his stellar play with taking the first two holes of the finals match. When all five matches were officially underway, the score was tied 2-2-1 as Poulter (1Up thru 3) and Matthew Kress (1Up thru 4) led for the Gators.

Florida grabbed its first lead of the match, 3-2 behind Zack Swanwick winning back-to-back holes on five and six, flipping his match to go 1Up. The two matches in front of the freshman were Poulter 2Up thru 8 and Kress 3Up thru 7 as A&M was only 1Up in the final two matches.

Kress, who went 3-0 in the SEC tournament his redshirt-freshman season, started to run away with the match by taking four holes in a five hole stretch across 4-8 to go 4Up.

Following Kress' surge and Poulter's steady two-hole advantage, Swanwick and his opponent Wheaton Ennis exchanged the lead three times before Swanwick made the turn 1Up after winning the par3 eighth.

When all five matches had finished the front nine, the score was tied 2-2-1 with Florida leading the first two matches, Texas A&M controlling the next two with 1Up leads and the anchor match tied.

Kress grabbed the first point of the match with a 5&4 victory after halving the 14th, the same hole where he completed his undefeated mark at the 2023 SEC Championship as he did not lose a hole today.

Florida earned its second point right after the Kress victory as Poulter cruised to a 4&3 win to finish 3-0 in conference championship match play debut. He led the whole match and only lost two holes.

After a 2-0 lead, the remaining three matches were all split: Gators 1Up thru 11, Texas A&M 1Up thru 12 and the middle match tied thru 13.

A hole later, Turner tied his match with a birdie on the 13th resulting in both him and Swanwick tied (thru 14) and Gilligan 1Up thru 12.

Swanwick continued to be clutch. Down one with three to play, the freshman made back-to-back birdies on 16 and 17 with the second from the fringe with a crowd behind him.

With a 1Up advantage and one hole to play, Swanwick and Ennis both hit their second shots on the green on the 18th with Ennis closer to the cup. Swanwick went first and knocked his putt close enough for Ennis to concede for par, forcing the Aggie to make the birdie putt and send it to extra holes. He missed the putt just right, resulting in the hole halved and Swanwick winning 1Up to complete an undefeated weekend (3-0) and his second match-clinching point this week, as his first was vs. Oklahoma in the quarterfinals.

The final score reads 4-1 as the Aggies earned a point on a 2Up win due to Phichaksn Maichon leading Turner thru 16 when the match was clinched and Gilligan also a 2Up victory while he was up two holes with four to play as he finished 3-0 this week and a career 4-0 mark in conference tournament match play.

Notes:


* Florida men's golf wins its 17th SEC title – No. 2 among all league men's golf programs.

* The win is Gators Athletics' 266th overall SEC title – which leads all league programs by more than 100 titles.

* This is the 47th consecutive season Florida has won a SEC title – the longest current streak among the league programs.

* Florida won two league titles – in different conferences – in the last two days. Today, Florida wins the SEC men's golf title and yesterday, Florida lacrosse secured the Big 12 regular-season title with a 5-0 league record after closing regular-season action with a 17-5 win over Arizona State.

* In their SEC Championship debuts, both Luke Poulter and Zack Swanwick went undefeated (3-0) in match play

* Senior Ian Gilligan also went 3-0 this week and 4-0 all-time in SEC Championship match play.

SEC Championship Finals Pairings: No. 5 Florida 4, No. 3 Texas A&M 1
Luke Poulter 4&3 vs. Jamie Montojo
Matthew Kress 5&4 vs. Aaron Pounds
Zack Swanwick 1Up vs. Wheaton Ennis
Phichaksn Maichon 2Up vs. Jack Turner
Ian Gilligan 2Up vs. Michael Heidelbaugh

Post Round Quotes

Head Coach J.C. Deacon

What made this group special this week...
"We just kept getting better. We had a stumble in day two (of stroke play) there and then round three was incredible, one of two teams that were under par that day and then they just got better each match. Today, we played unbelievable golf. Hats off to Bryan Kortman (Texas A&M Head Coach) and Matt Fast (Texas A&M Assistant Coach) their program is unbelievable. We seem to play them every time that we are here. They (Aggies) played great today but we just happen to be a little better.

"I am so happy for these guys. They love each other and they work so incredibly hard. They earned this (SEC Championship)."

How do you build upon this and look to win a National Championship…
"We will let them enjoy it today, but I know these guys have the highest of goals and like Dudley Hart (Associate Head Coach) says, nothing changes. Play great or play bad, you get back to work and these guys will do it."

I'd love to see him in leg irons. Remember when he sent henchman over to bait General Flynn? Trump should do the same. "Why did you arrest Comey?" Well, we just sent a couple of guys over and did it, and that was that. 😂

All five starters from Florida's national championship team received invitations to one of the NBA's pre-draft events

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - All five starters from Florida's national champion men's basketball team will participate in either the NBA Draft Combine or the NBA G League Elite Camp in Chicago, with activities beginning Friday.

Walter Clayton Jr., Alex Condon and Alijah Martin all received invitations to the NBA Draft Combine, which runs May 11-18, while Will Richard and Rueben Chinyelu were invited to the NBA G League Elite Camp May 9-11. A select number of players from the G League Elite Camp will earn invitations into the NBA Draft Combine.

The events will take place at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago, and the G League Elite Camp includes five-on-five games in addition to strength and agility drills. Florida is one of three schools to have at least three players invited to the NBA Draft Combine (Duke, Arkansas).

Clayton, Martin and Richard all completed their college careers last season, while Condon and Chinyelu are both rising juniors with the option of returning to Florida. The NCAA deadline to withdraw from the NBA Draft is Wednesday, May 28, at 11:59 p.m. ET. The NBA Draft will be held June 25-26 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.

It’s deserves its own thread.

Pennsylvania Uber driver and mother of four pleads for her life before being shot in head, suspect arrested​

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Joe Biden has been our narcissist-in-chief. A man who advertised himself as a transitional president when he won the first time but couldn't give it up no matter how bad the poll numbers were. History will not or should not judge Biden kindly. And no better example of how the leaders of the democrat party view the interests of the American people far less than their own quest for power as they would keep this vegetable propped up to get a second term when THEY ALL KNEW of his mental deficiences. And only the Biden debate disaster got them to move him out. Shame on them all.

Looking for any allocated stuff for a decent price (don’t price gouge fellow gators 😝)

Blantons
EH Taylor
Eagle Rare

Along those lines but open to anything else you have 😎.

@Buje trying to give you a break that’s why I didn’t reach out lol

The pair steps in for two assistants who moved on to head coaching jobs

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - The Florida men's basketball team has added a pair of assistant coaches to its staff, head coach Todd Golden announced on Tuesday. Jonathan Safir, who has been UF's director of basketball strategy and analytics since 2022, has been promoted to an assistant coach role. In addition, Dave Klatsky joins the Florida staff after three seasons as the head coach at New York University.

Safir (pronounced like the gem, "sapphire") has been a vital part of Florida's run to the national championship, helping assemble the Gators' roster and shape UF's analytical approach to the game. Safir hails from Buffalo, N.Y., and is a 2015 graduate of Vassar College.

"I am excited to announce the promotion of Jonathan Safir to the position of assistant coach," Golden said. "Jonathan deserves a lot of credit for his work in many different areas of our program that ultimately led to our national championship victory a few weeks ago. He will continue helping me with the various roster management responsibilities he has had, and will take on a bigger role on-court moving forward. I am grateful to have him and Ali remain with us in Gainesville!"

Klatsky comes to UF on the heels of leading NYU to the Division III national title game this season and compiled a 68-16 record over the past three seasons. Prior to his time leading NYU, Klatsky coached at Colgate for 11 seasons from 2011-22and at Stevens Institute of Technology from 2007-11. A native of Holmdel, N.J., Klatsky is a 2001 graduate of Penn.

"I am thrilled to add Dave to our staff as an assistant coach here in Gainesville," Golden said. "I have known Dave for many years and am confident he will fit in with the rest of our staff seamlessly. Dave is a high achiever and a proven winner. Whether it was at Penn as a player, Colgate as an assistant, or NYU as the program's head coach, Dave has won big everywhere he's been. He has a great analytical sense for the game, and is a great teacher on the floor. We are excited to welcome Dave, his wife Abby, and their three boys to the Swamp!"

The pair will take the place of Kevin Hovde and John Andrzejek, who took head coaching jobs at Columbia and Campbell, respectively.

Safir Timeline
Florida

2025-present

Assistant Coach

Florida

2022-25

Director of Basketball Strategy & Analytics

San Francisco

2021-22

Assistant Coach

San Francisco

2018-21

Director of Basketball Operations

Columbia

2016-18

Director of Basketball Operations

Columbia

2015-16

Graduate Manager

Vassar

2011-15

Student-Athlete


Klatsky Timeline
Florida

2025-present

Assistant Coach

NYU

2022-25

Head Coach

Colgate

2011-22

Assistant Coach

Stevens Institute of Technology

2007-11

Assistant Coach

Penn

1999-2003

Student-Athlete

Well, it's somewhat slow at this time of the year...so I thought I would drop a link for what Tebow has been doing.

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I knew some of these countries had these crazy strict laws but didn't know cannabis could be a death penalty also. I knew Indonesia was strict but didn't know they were this strict. Might be because I think there are a lot of Muslims there. This guy is lucky Trump is POTUS instead of Biden or he might have never saw freedom for a very long time. I am sure the idiot was warned many times about the law though.

He's also a crowd surfer.
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Here is another 2027 QB to get familiar with, the Gators and Russ Callaway are doing exactly that.

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