UF defense uses pack mentality
Aug. 25, 2008Despite sporting a collection of highly touted recruits it would be an understatement to say the Gators defense struggled last season.
Despite sporting a collection of highly touted recruits it would be an understatement to say the Gators defense struggled last season.
Last year Ahmad Black played in seven games as a cornerback but didn't crack the two-deep depth chart.
You could call it the Kestahn Moore show.
Plenty of attention is paid to UF's playmakers at skill positions, but the quarterback, running backs and receivers are not what make the Gators offense go.
Brandon Hicks is out on the practice field, and he misses a tackle. He misreads the play and gets caught in the wrong gap.
Tate Casey was a student athlete who felt like he was being faulted for, well, being a student.
Nick Calathes, Jai Lucas and much of the rest of the UF men's basketball team could be found chatting with Doc Rivers, coach of the World Champion Boston Celtics, in the O'Connell Center Sunday afternoon.
Forward Tahnai Annis was named the Southeastern Conference Freshman Soccer Player of the Week on Monday.She scored the game-winning goal in the 95th minute of Sunday's match at Florida Atlantic. Annis was the first-ever Gator to record a golden goal as her first collegiate-goal.
Nine months after the 2007 season ended, UF heads into the new year with the same dilemma as the previous.
Gators starting middle linebacker Brandon Spikes will probably not be playing in Saturday's season-opener against Hawaii, UF coach Urban Meyer said Monday morning.
ESPN and the Southeastern Conference has reached a huge ridiculous 15-year deal. The deal begins in 2009-10 and will include events from football, men's basketball and women's basketball. Check our Web site later tonight as we'll have a full story.
Gators running back Chris Rainey may not be the best player to talk to for many things, but he sure as hell knows how to make reporters laugh. This exchange could be heard at UF's morning press conference today with the player of "I'm a white-girl man" fame.
According to the Miami Herald former UF safety Jamar Hornsby has enrolled at East Mississippi Community College where he will play football this season. He will be eligible to transfer to another FBS school next year. Hornsby was kicked off the team earlier this summer after it was discovered that he made nearly $3,000 worth of charges to the credit card of deceased UF student Ashley Slonina. Hornsby was originally arrested on a felony charge. According to Alachua County court records, the charges were reduced Wednesday to four misdemeanor counts of unauthorized use of a credit card.
Team goofball and media favorite Duke Lemmens spoke today and he joked he was going to prep for Hurricane Fay by getting an umbrella as his protection. The Cali native hasn't ever been through a hurricane and has only dealt with earthquakes and fires.
If you didn't know UF was a big football school the day you submitted your application, you probably figured it out sometime in between jumping up and down in your parent's living room after tearing open your admission letter and watching your mom tear up as she sets your brand new Macbook Pro on your spiffy dorm room desk.
Let your chemistry book become covered with dust.
The campus maps are the giveaway.
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Percy Harvin is the most electrifying player on the Gators roster and a Heisman candidate, but the leader of UF's receiving corps is Louis Murphy.