Troupe Talks: Catching up with Ben Troupe

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Normally, at this time slot on this day you would see my "Thoughts of the Week". However, as I mentioned last week, I am dealing with the loss of my grandfather and had to visit with my family in south Florida for the funeral proceedings.

In lieu of my thoughts of the week, I caught up with former Gators tight end Ben Troupe on the phone and he had A LOT to say. "Thoughts of the Week" will be back next week.

Ben Troupe will always be a Florida Gator in his mind and that is a badge that he wears with honor. The 6-foot-4, 270-pound former tight end out of Swainsboro, GA that would grow...

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[NavetG8r]

Great article. Hope WM let's Ben come talk to the players this year.

 

[AlexDaGator]

I was SURE he was going to be a great NFL tight end. He could get downfield and make an over the shoulder catch. Not many tight ends can make that catch. He had great hands, slick moves after the catch...this one really confounded me.

Alex.

 

[ergator920103]

Link: http://www.gatorcountry.com/feature/troupe-talks/
Troupe has high hopes for the Gators team and thinks that going 4-8 last season may be the catalyst that they need, “I think the reasonable expectation for this season is to win the East and contend for an SEC Championship and I think anything less than that would be considered a failure, in my eyes, only because I know what we are capable of doing in the (SEC) East. We’ve got a lot of players, and coming off a 4-8 season and sitting on a hot seat, and I think that’s the best seat to be on because you don’t want to be comfortable in college football and because Muschamp knows what we need to do this season, I think we need to win the SEC East. There is no team in the East that we can’t beat or contend with.”
Troupe’s strong words weren’t just for the coaching staff, but also for players he and focused — numerous times — on accountability and the need for players to be accountable to each other, especially after going 4-8. “Playing at Florida is a privilege — you are not obligated to be here. No one player is going to make this team. We got to make sure that the best players, the number one recruit, and everyone on the 85 man roster know that they are all accountable to each other and that you are ready to play and step-out there on the field,” Troupe noted. “There is no room for any player to be walking around with their chest out, you’ve got everything to prove — not just the SEC.”

 

[GatorStud]

That's some painful sentence structure. We love you Ben, but man, take a breath with a period once in awhile.

 

[deuce]

That's some painful sentence structure. We love you Ben, but man, take a breath with a period once in awhile.

"lol"

 

[TheDouglas78]

I was SURE he was going to be a great NFL tight end. He could get downfield and make an over the shoulder catch. Not many tight ends can make that catch. He had great hands, slick moves after the catch...this one really confounded me.

Alex.

Was on some questionable teams offensively. Started in a two tight set in Tennesse with Erron Kinney, then after Troupe's second season did he really have a quarterback after that? He played with a lot of questionable quarterbacks between the Titans and Bucs. I am like you, and though he would be an solid to great NFL tight end.