Zach Abolverdi lands Gainesville Sun beat writer job

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Funny thing is if he grew a mustache and put on some glasses he might be able to pull off a young Pat Dooley
 

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Oddly enough, I met his parents a few years ago in a chance encounter. Something was mentioned about UF football and they said, “hey, maybe you know our son, Zach?”. Having given me their name, I immediately realized I was face to face with Crucial’s parents. It was all I could do to contain my urge to chuckle at the thought of that Polo video. But actually they’re really great people and I enjoyed talking with them. So I imagine he’s a decent guy. His rapping is Top 5 worst things in history, and he still can’t pick a recruit prediction to save his life. But I wish him the best in this.
 

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I interviewed him twice in my podcasts. He was always professional and friendly.
 

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Working for the Sun doesn't sound like a good career move to me.
 

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Oddly enough, I met his parents a few years ago in a chance encounter. Something was mentioned about UF football and they said, “hey, maybe you know our son, Zach?”. Having given me their name, I immediately realized I was face to face with Crucial’s parents. It was all I could do to contain my urge to chuckle at the thought of that Polo video. But actually they’re really great people and I enjoyed talking with them. So I imagine he’s a decent guy. His rapping is Top 5 worst things in history, and he still can’t pick a recruit prediction to save his life. But I wish him the best in this.
Polos was bad but the video and song he made when he was riding around in a mini van and saved a middle schooler from getting jumped by another middle schooler may have topped it.
 

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I'm honestly gonna miss hating on pat and robbie. But I do feel pretty good about pretty good about Zach giving us a good bit of ammunition
 

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Ox, you should send him an iPod as a congratulatory gift from Gatorchatter. I'm sure folks would chip in. C'mon, he'd laugh.
 

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Oddly enough, I met his parents a few years ago in a chance encounter. Something was mentioned about UF football and they said, “hey, maybe you know our son, Zach?”. Having given me their name, I immediately realized I was face to face with Crucial’s parents. It was all I could do to contain my urge to chuckle at the thought of that Polo video. But actually they’re really great people and I enjoyed talking with them. So I imagine he’s a decent guy. His rapping is Top 5 worst things in history, and he still can’t pick a recruit prediction to save his life. But I wish him the best in this.
At least he got rid of that bowl cut hairdo.

This is GREAT! I love reading Zach's work. Congrats to him.
 

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Its a good move for him, but working for a bad paper. Surely his enthusiasm will give a better product. Maybe he'll actually be able to get a scoop once in a while being the hometown paper.
 

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DaFuchs? You interviewed him twice but neither were ever posted?
Of course they were, dork....on the GSMB. You think he would have let me interview him as a member of the Chatter? :crazy:

I found one of the old ones, a recruiting interview with him in February of 2014. I'll get it posted here shortly.
 

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