Archive for December, 2008

Harvin Chooses To Rehab Over Christmas

Posted by admin on December 24th, 2008   No Comment

Junior receiver Percy Harvin will most likely not be opening up any Christmas presents this year. The whole Florida team left to go home and visit their families for Christmas while Percy Harvin chose to stay in Gainesville to get healthy for the BCS game. Harvin missed the SEC championship game with a high ankle sprain and has continued his rehab. Harvin is expected to be 100 percent healthy going into the BCS title game against Oklahoma on January 8th.

“They moved him from the pool to the trampoline and then obviously the next thing will be the ground, hard surface,” Gators coach Urban Meyer said. Harvin chose to get better and not spend time with Santa Clause or worry about digging in his presents. He would rather be doing rehab.

“That’s how dedicated he is,” said Meyer, of Harvin’s decision to stay in Gainesville and continue to work out while the campus is empty. “He’s going to be here for Christmas, to get ready to go.”

Hopefully Percy Harvin get’s completely healthy as he is suppose to and Florida comes out with another championship. Feel free to leave comments on the blog.

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Gators Blow Past UCF

Posted by admin on December 21st, 2008   No Comment

In Jacksonville, the Gators took care of the Knights 89-61 at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena. Sophomore Alex Tyus put up his first career double-double with 20 points and 14 rebounds. Don’t that remind you of a Joakim Noah a little bit? Nick Calathes tacked on 16 points with a career high of 11 assists. Freshman Erving Walker sprung off the bench with 14 points and went 4 for 6 beyond the arc. Kenny Kadji had 15 points along with 7 rebounds. The best game of his Gator career so far.

Florida’s rebounding was terrific. The Gators outrebounded the Knights 38 to 29. Alex Tyus had some words to say after the game. “It feels pretty good just to come out and get the win. We played really well. Coach said it was one of our best games of the year. Every day I just try to do three things, that’s play hard, rebound and play good defense.”

“I thought Alex’s activity of chasing balls, long rebounds, helped us. Gator coach Billy Donovan said. “We have some length, and with the way our offense is spaced out it’s not like we’re all congested in the lane. If guys will make the effort to run in their, we can become a little more difficult to block out.”

The Gators shooting was on the money. After taking a long break, they still managed to shoot 52.4 percent from the floor and they shot 38.5 from behind the arc.

Florida (8-2) is back in action against Georgia Southern (3-5) at the O’connell center. Game time is 7pm.

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Mullen Will Coach In BCS

Posted by admin on December 18th, 2008   No Comment

The new Mississippi head coach Dan Mullen will be coaching on the Florida side on January 8th in the BCS Championship game in Miami, Florida. Florida coach Urban Meyer said that is what the plan is for right now.

Meyer has told reporters that he has spoke with Mullen and believe he is staying to coach and Mullen told him the goal for right now is just to win. Mullen is in Mississippi right now working with the Bulldogs but will continue coaching when the BCS game has come. Meyer has great confidence in the game against the Sooners and it should all work out fine. Reporters asked Meyer if he thought Mullen would be 100% focused for the championship game. Meyer responded by saying if he wasn’t, he would not be coaching if he wasn’t.

I believe Dan will still coach the same as he always has with the Gators and he still wants one last championship at UF before he leaves. He made a wise decision of staying for the BCS title game rather than taking off straight to Mississippi. He has done a tremendous job with all the time he has put in and was a heck of offensive coordinator. He will be hard to replace but with Meyers potential, I am sure Urban will find a great coach to fill in Mullens shoes.

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Tebows heisman loss may help Florida

Posted by admin on December 14th, 2008   No Comment

In New york, Tim Tebow did NOT win the Heisman. Yes, I repeat Tim Tebow did NOT win the Heisman. Most of you are probably shocked right? Well don’t be. This is more of a good thing for Tebow and the Gators. Yes it was great how he won it last year and became the first Sophomore ever to win the Heisman and of course 2 years in a car would have been unbelievable. But the chances of Florida winning another BCS Championship in Miami may be high.

Sam Bradford will be the one being hammered with questions from reporters everyday, taking pictures for the papers and fans, and maybe the Heisman jinx will carry onto him. Did you know that four if the last five winners have lost their bowl games? (Ocala Star-Banner) And one of the names is Tim Tebow. After winning the Heisman last year, Tebow and the Gators could not capitalize against Michigan. And I don’t think all the Florida fans wouldn’t mind if Bradford joined in and became five out of six.

“Why get over it? Use it”, Tebow said. I’ll be motivated enough. I think it’s more motivating for my teammates. They’re a little bit excited. Tebow also said he has already gotten a ton of text messages but he could not share with the media. He also told reporters that “Probably along the lines of, We’ll showthat guy who should have won the Heisman.” (Ocala Star-Banner)

Florida will face Heisman winner Sam Bradford and the rest of the Sooners on January 8th in Miami.

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Tebow thinks about returning to UF

Posted by admin on December 8th, 2008   No Comment

We all know the great news. Florida is headed to the National Championship in Miami on January 8th. More big news is that Junior Quarterback Tim Tebow stated that he is leaning toward returning for his final season as a Florida Gator. “I’m not even thinking about the NFL right now” Tebow told reporters. (Ocala Star banner) “It will be after the game. But if I had to say I was leaning any way, It would be to coming back.” Usually players send in all of the paperwork to the NFL at the end of the regular season but before their senior year so they can see their possible draft spots. Their has been information received that Tebow has not yet sent in any NFL papers. He acted like he didn’t have a clue what the papers even were.

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Florida defeats ‘Bama, advances to the BCS national championship game

Posted by admin on December 6th, 2008   No Comment

Don’t worry Urban.
The BCS is with you.
Florida defeated No.1 Alabama 31-20 in the SEC Championship game Saturday.
Their prize: Its eighth conference championship and a chance to win its third national title.
A victory over No. 1 Alabama has made Florida the SEC Champions for the second time the last three years.
More importantly, it moves coach Urban Meyer and the Gators into their second national title game in the same time period.
Alabama likely will have to settle for the Nokia Sugar Bowl against Utah.
For more on the game, check back later tonight.

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Computers aren’t humans. And they’re ruining college football

Posted by admin on December 1st, 2008   No Comment

Computers can’t cry.

They don’t get angry.

And they can’t judge college football.

Here’s why:

Oklahoma, not Texas, will be playing in the Big XII Championship on Saturday. And they’re going despite the Longhorns win over the Sooners.

The Big XII South ended in a three-way tie.

But the battle to advance to the conference title game was between just two teams — and one of them wasn’t Texas Tech.

And that’s where the computers show their complete inability to judge anything on an objective scale.

Let’s face it. College football polling is subjective. But for the most part, human experts have a handle on who is the “best.”

I can’t say the same for computers.

The computer averages have Oklahoma ranked No. 1 and Texas ranked No. 2 — even though the Longhorns beat the Sooners by 10 points on a neutral field.

And then it gets even sillier.

Florida is ranked No. 6 in the computer rankings. That’s right, two places behind Texas Tech and a spot behind Utah.

The Gators are ranked No. 4 in both the Harris and USA Today polls. Florida is No. 2 in the Associated Press poll and even garnered three first place votes.

The computers just crunch numbers.

If Texas would have defeated Oklahoma a week after the Sooners’ crushing of Texas Tech, this problem wouldn’t have existed. Why does Texas’ win mean so little?

Why is Oklahoma playing for the Big XII title?

And why is someone not crying foul over this college football injustice.

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