UF defensive line yet to reach prime this year
By JORDAN MCPHERSON | Oct. 7, 2015To the average fan, Florida’s defensive line has exceeded expectations so far this season.
To the average fan, Florida’s defensive line has exceeded expectations so far this season.
At first glance, Florida coach Jim McElwain and Missouri coach Gary Pinkel seem to have taken separate directions in their coaching careers without ever interacting with one another.
As the starting setter, Mackenzie Dagostino has been the quarterback for Florida volleyball’s offense all season long.
After both the UF men and women’s swimming and diving teams captured their sixth-straight All Florida Invitational titles on Sept. 20 in Gainesville, the teams will be tested with a pair of tough road meets against Minnesota and Vanderbilt.
The Southeastern Conference is more of a grind than a test, and the No. 12 Florida soccer team has shown it has been able to fill voids that needed to be addressed with the departure of several key players from last season.
Progress over perfection.
At first glance, Antonio Morrison’s success this season isn’t that surprising.
When asked what his team needed to improve on last week, men’s golf coach JC Deacon said, "It’s going to sound crazy … but it’s nothing.
By the end of Florida’s Gators Madness event on Friday, there were only two champions left standing.
Florida fans may have seen him on the bench last season.
For most first-year student athletes, being new means starting at the bottom.
Early on in life, Jim McElwain owned a 1972 Ford Pinto.
Mary Wise has had a track record of dominating the Southeastern Conference.
When most people hear the words "brick house," they are usually preceded by the words "she’s a" in reference to the 1977 Commodores classic "Brick House", but for the UF women’s basketball team, the words have taken on a whole new meaning.
The Florida soccer team is focused on playing all in and playing hard every minute of the match.
The Jim McElwain era of Florida football is off to a 5-0 start, but after playing four of their first five games at home, the No. 11 Gators (5-0, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) will now play three games away from The Swamp over the next four weeks, starting with Missouri (4-1, 1-1 SEC). Here’s what you need to know about the Missouri Tigers:
Just five weeks ago, Florida was unranked, and Jim McElwain and his team were both unproven.
Saturday’s game gave coach Jim McElwain his foundation for building the Florida football program back to prominence.
Thanks to some unusual training methods, any school facing the Florida women’s basketball team this season would be wise to think better of starting a scrap with the Gators.