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    Michigan Busted

    So they cheated to get a NC. Harbaugh deftly side-steps any accountability and leaves his alma mater with a mess. This is about recruiting violations, not the sign stealing allegations...
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    RIP Alonzo Johnson

    Sad to learn Alonzo Johnson’s died on Friday. He was a great college LB & able successor to Wilber Marshall at OLB. Just 60 years old. I was fortunate to watch the 1985 f$u game from the sidelines and on the field for the postgame celebration. My best memory of that day is high-fiving Alonzo...
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    Returning Players

    Between all the angst and buzz about transfers and recruits, the returning players are overlooked. For example, who is replacing Pearsall? Will it be a portal guy or Williams? Jean? Mizell? We played a lot of young guys this year. Who do you hope/expect to take a big step forward? I’ll start...
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    Rays New Stadium

    The Tampa Bay Rays announce their new stadium plan: https://www.fox13news.com/news/rays-announce-plans-for-new-1-2-billion-stadium-for-st-petersburg To recap: Having the worst attendance in MLB, their plan is to build a $1.3b, 30,000-seat bandbox that will be the smallest stadium in MLB and...
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    Lawson Holland RIP

    Lawson Hollland, TE coach under Spurrier, died this week. God receive him and bless his family & friends. I met him once. It was the post-season Polk County Gator Club meeting in early 1998. SOS had promised to sign a game ball for anyone who had been at the 1997 #1 f$u game, where we derailed...
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    Crocs

    Except guys with a BMI of 32 or higher. State law mandates they wear Crocs or slides.
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    Cancun?

    Curious if any of you have been to Cancun and have any recommendations. I’ve booked 9 days at Hotel NYX, all inclusive. Just looking for some R&R with my wife. We don’t plan to do much besides eat, drink, sleep and read. But if you want to recommend a snorkel tour or other activities I’ll...
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    Cutting the Cord

    Don’t laugh or yell at me too hard, I have reasons for being late to this issue, but I’m looking at dropping Dish Network and picking up a streaming service like YouTubeTV, Hulu or Fubo. In terms of channels, YouTube comes closest to carrying the ones we watch, and I doubt we’d miss most. It...
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    Lakeland’s Bill Castle Retires as Winningest Florida HS coach

    After 47 years, Bill Castle retires as Lakeland's football coach https://www.theledger.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2023/01/03/bill-castle-winningest-football-coach-in-florida-history-retires/69775528007/ What a great coach.
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    Random Bowl Thoughts

    Had to post this somewhere…a thread for bowl reactions.
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    Happy Landing

    Yesterday a friend of mine accompanied his best friend, who is a pilot, on a flight to the Bahamas and back yesterday. His friend passed out on the return trip about 20 miles from Florida’s east coast. Neither my friend or the passenger they picked up in the Bahamas know how to fly a plane...
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    Gator Sources

    I’m curious as to which sites you prefer & recommend for Gators news & analysis. (I’m thankful that GC gives us a forum to share info. Thank you, Ox!) Free? Paid? Podcasts? Stats & Analytics?
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    In-Depth Article on OL Disaster 2010-2021

    This article from Bill Sikes details the failure to recruit quality and quantity OL since 2010. Its a very thorough illustration of flaws for that position group in our program which I bet would have parallels in other position groups (S & LB for example) if the analysis were done. And he...
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    State of Florida Football

    For the first time in decades no Florida team is in the final AP top 25. (I don’t see any coming after the bowls.) That and our loss to UCF got me curious about the State of Florida football the last 10 years. UF has been ranked in the top 25 6 times in the last 10 years, 3 times in the top...
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    Grading 2022 - Using today as a starting point?

    In order to gauge progress you need to know your starting point. Where are we today, right now? If we were to go into 2022 with these players as they are, what would you expect, another sub-.500 season? What do you expect has already changed and can/will change and how will all of that affect...
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    Gators in the CFL

    My father-in-law stopped on a CFL game this afternoon for a few minutes and I heard Louchiez Purifoy’s name called. I did a little poking around snd found these Gators are on CFL rosters. Some, like the first one, really surprised me. Others make sense. Players - CFL.ca Austin Appleby Nick...
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    Christmas Extravaganzas

    This is my wife, who stands 5’4”, in front of the snowman perched across the street from our home. I am in awe. The lights inside are continuously flashing, like he swallowed and entire disco or 3. Discuss and/or post impressive or outrageous Christmas displays you’ve seen.
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    Warning: Political Takes COVID & Sports

    Maybe this belongs in the PF, but... To this point we’ve seen a lot of postponements and cancellations of sporting events and severe limitation of live spectators due to COVID concerns. Has there been a single COVID casualty? A death? A life-altering case of damage or complication? To my...
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    Explosive Era

    I assume we who lived through it will always remember the joys of 1990 & 1991, when the Fun n’ Gun brought a us a best in the SEC in 1990 Championship in 1990 and first one to officially keep in 1991. I kept my commemorative Coke can all these years until this happened: I’ve cleaned up the...
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    Al Warrington IV RIP

    Al Warrington IV, for whom the business school is named and who was a major supporter and served the UFAA, died yesterday. “UF’s greatest supporter.” He love UF and our Gators as much as anyone. Warrington College of Business mourns the loss of UF’s greatest supporter and benefactor Al...
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