Saturday, April 7, 2007
The schedule for the University of Florida 2007 football season has been published. You can find it at the University Athletic Association website. They even give you the ability to import the schedule directly into Outlook!
It took me a few minutes to find it, of course. There is just a lot of stuff cluttering the site … Y’know … all about how we won the National Championship in basketball last year, and then the BCS Championship in football this year, and then the National Championship in basketball again this year.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Can there possibly ever have been a better time to be a Florida Gator? Basketball … then football … then basketball again?! I almost — almost — feel bad for Ohio State. We don’t even consider them “rivals”, but they must hate us now.
The Gators became the first team to go back-to-back since 1992 and the first ever to repeat with the same starting five.
They finished with a 10-game winning streak and haven’t lost a postseason game in 18 tries, counting sweeps at the Southeastern Conference tournaments the last two years.
The Florida Gators are, in sum, why we love college basketball.
Last year was for a ring. This year was for history and something as simple and pure as a teammate’s respect. That’s a legacy.
“Why go to Kentucky?” junior Corey Brewer said. “When’s the last time they won a national title?”
Also see: Eddie Munster Coaches Florida to Second Consecutive Championship
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Rick Scuteri/US PRESSWIRE
Chris Leak had all the right moves in dismantling BCS favorite Ohio State Monday night.
“The Florida game plan was art, suitable for framing. The execution of the game plan was similarly gorgeous.” — Pat Forde
“The Rambo-like Tebow threw for one TD and powered into the end zone for another.” — MSNBC
“… the Gators triumphed with a superior offensive system and a defense that ate a rather mundane scheme alive.” — the Heisman Pundit
“Call Gainesville, Florida what it is: The capital of college sports in America.” — Richard Deitsch
“Florida’s offense did donuts around the confused, slowish Buckeyes defenders. Meyer used so many formations that Ohio State developed a nervous tic. And about the only Gator who didn’t line up at quarterback was Meyer’s wife, Shelley.” — Gene Wojciechowski
“Ohio State, a team that had won nine games by at least three touchdowns, finished with 82 total yards and eight first downs, totals that Florida surpassed in the first quarter.” — Ivan Maisel
“He was Cool Hand Leak, steady as a rock, unflappable and never afraid of the Big Bad Buckeyes.” — Franz Beard
“At least it was close… oh wait, I forgot, we got CRUSHED.” — Steve Lazuka
“Ohio State and Michigan were the two best teams in a really bad league. Florida was the best team in a really good league.” — Jim Walden
“Florida kicked ass until their toes fell off. It was like watching a small animal get crushed between two glaciers.” — Every Day Should Be Saturday
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