As Florida’s Spring camp ends, the Gators are addressing injuries before the season starts in Fall.
As Feleipe Franks took to the lectern to face reporters and cameras, one question stumped him.
The biggest storyline for Florida heading into this spring was its situation at quarterback.
While the biggest question of Florida’s offseason has been the quarterback competition, the Gators used their annual Spring game as an opportunity to find some answers in the running game.
Winner: Feleipe Franks, quarterback
Sure, Feleipe Franks is ahead in Florida’s quarterback race.
Nothing about Friday’s Spring football game felt real.
Kyle Trask is in his high school coach’s office, and he’s angry.
When Feleipe Franks stepped foot on UF’s campus last Spring as an early enrollee, the level of hype and expectation surrounding his arrival was through the roof.
The Florida Gators football team hasn’t produced a 1,000-yard receiver since 2002.
In the late 1980s, Jim McElwain was starting to get his feet wet by coaching as an assistant at Eastern Washington. Around the same time, he was approached with an opportunity that could have altered the course of his career.
As Jalen Tabor fielded questions from reporters Tuesday, he smiled.
Growing up in Missoula, Montana, Jim McElwain fantasized about two sporting events he — one day — hoped to attend.
Standing in Florida’s Indoor Practice Facility, Feleipe Franks a few feet to his left, Kyle Trask realized something.
As Jim McElwain took to the lectern Monday morning for his weekly press conference and began to field questions about his football team, he looked on incredulously at the group of reporters sitting in front of him.
The most interesting thing Jim McElwain said at his press conference on Tuesday came toward the end. UF’s third-year coach had already been asked about the team’s injuries, its quarterback battle and every other pertinent thing when a question came up about why he liked to use athletes — like receiver Dre Massey and true freshman Kadarius Toney — at quarterback.
Jim McElwain had little of importance to say following Florida’s first day of Spring practice, but he still said plenty when reporters asked him questions on Tuesday.
Jim McElwain knows what he wants.
Defensive backs coach Torrian Gray is leaving UF for the NFL.
When addressing reporters on Wednesday, coach Jim McElwain said he’d be hiring new assistant coaches “shortly.”
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