The Florida Times-Union » NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Florida might be in the same spot it was in 2008 and 2009 on Selection Sunday, but coach Billy Donovan believes it isn't fair to compare this year's team to the past two. This year's

Gator Country » FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Finally, Mike Holloway can check off another goal as Mission: Accomplished.

The Tampa Tribune » It's now a coin flip whether the Gators will be invited into the NCAA Tournament as an at-large selection.

Only Gators » NOTE: OGGOA is currently in the process of relocating (AKA I am moving) and is without Internet access until Monday morning. Therefore, we will be coming at you with a ton of news and notes first thing

Florida Gators (Official Site) » The No. 1 University of Florida men's track and field team captured the first NCAA Indoor Championship in program history on Saturday night, scoring 57 total team points and the Gator women placed fourth.

Florida Gators (Official Site) » The No. 4/11 Florida softball team split its first SEC matchup, winning the first game, 12-2, in five innings and dropping the second, 6-4, in eight to Ole Miss. Junior <b>Tiffany DeFelice</b>

St. Petersburg Times » By Antonya English, Times Staff WriterSaturday, March 13, 2010Upsets might help knock uf out of ncaasNASHVILLE — Unexpected mayhem and Florida's loss to Mississippi State in the quarterfinals

Gator Country » LAS VEGAS With a field featuring 11 of the Top 20 teams in the nation, including No. 1 Oklahoma and No. 3 Texas, and competing on one of the toughest courses in the nation, the No. 4 Florida Gators

2010 Way Insanly Too Early Pre-Season Poll

Florida Gators (Official Site) » The University of Florida men&#39;s golf team is currently tied for 10th place after two rounds at the Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters. The squad, which led the field after day one, shot a team

Florida Gators (Official Site) » No. 6 Florida (11-2) used a six-run sixth inning to power past Charleston Southern (5-10), 16-10, on Saturday. Sophomore <b>Preston Tucker</b> (3-for-6, two runs) tallied a season-high

The Gators Men's Basketball team beat Aubun last night 78-69 in the first round of the SEC tournament. Some say this puts them in the dance; here (http://gatorsfirst.com/index.php/florida-gators-sports-news/college-basketball/college-basketball-tourney-bubble-watch-3-08-10.html) is one Gatorsfirst author's take on the matter. Either way, last night was a great win for the gators with many players stepping up to the challenge. The Gators played like it was a must win game, which it was. The first must win game of the season, despite many saying the last five regular season games were must win . The big story for Auburn was Tay Waller going 0-6 with 0 points and 4 fouls. Waller averaged over 20 points a game in the final games of the regular season for Auburn, but could not connect against the Gators.

When Tim called me in 2006, I had no idea how prophetic his words would be.

"Go to YouTube and put in the name Tim Tebow," he told me. "This is the guy the Gators just signed. You're going to hear a lot about his guy."

As if Tim Tebow needed something else to hurt his draft stock.

As I started earlier this season (http://gatorsfirst.com/index.php/florida-gators-sports-news/gatorsfirst/gators-first-weekly-notes-feb-18-2010.html), throughout the offseason I'm going to give a quick rundown of the week's storylines, in case your not as OCD about Gators as those that get their up-to-the-second Gators news here (http://gatorsfirst.com/index.php/florida-gators-sports-news/rss/gatorsfirst-rss-feeds.html). But even if you do, I hope I'll entertain you somewhat, give you some different perspectives, and throw in some other odds and ends to keep you interested.

Following him for some holes, thoughts went through my mind as to how I might attract his glance.

Playing with K.J. Choi only increased the size of the gallery even though it was only a practice round.

But surely he'd know. We shared something in common. Would he notice? Or was I just looking for a way to get some attention.

These and more raced through my head on that day in 2005.

Illinois State comes to town for a 2 game series on Tuesday and Wednesday. ISU is projected to finish 4th in the Missouri Valley Conference, behind Wichita State, Missouri State, and Creighton. The Redbirds are coming off an 0-3 performance at the Music City Invitational hosted by Vanderbilt. ISU lost 6-4 to Indiana, 9-2 to Vanderbilt, and 7-2 to Kent State. Despite those performances, ISU is averaging 9.6 runs a game in 9 games and has a very dangerous man in the leadoff spot.

Tim Tebow has always said he needed only 1 of 32 teams to think he is an NFL-caliber quarterback. However, it is to his financial benefit to get four or five teams to think that, creating competition and a nice contract on Draft Day.

Nolan Fontana, what took you so long to get here?

Last year, he was the guy who got to live the baseball dream, facing a 3-2 pitch in the last inning, two outs in the 6A-District 4 title game. What he proceeded to do was tattoo a walk off homer in his last at bat for West Orange High School, something Coach O’Sullivan hoped to bring to the Gators this season when he was so aggressively pursuing him last year. His senior season in high school, Fontana brought a .521 batting average in the lead off spot, has one career error in 25 games, and is widely known for a Tebowesque work ethic.

Well, it's that most wonderful and favorite time of the year, when media types gather around to trash high profile SEC players headed to the combine. Every year it's the same thing: guys who supposedly lack the work ethic, character or intelligence to make the NFL. The reason why this happens: there are few large media markets in the SEC, and few of the national writers live in the SEC region or went to SEC universities. Instead, the big media markets and the institutions that produced most of the media writers represent places and schools like USC, UCLA, Stanford, Northwestern, Michigan, Notre Dame, Syracuse, Miami, North Carolina etc. So, far better to take a hard working high ethics kids from a Pac-10, Big 10 or ACC elite academics institution than from an SEC aggie school from flyover country. Basically, the same nonsense that worked against LSU and Auburn in the media-driven BCS controversies in 2003 and 2004 (costing the SEC a national title and a half) works against SEC players in the draft. And every year, we get to hear how stupid/lazy/criminally inclined/disappointing various SEC players are.

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On a starting-to-warm-up early March day in the Northeast, some thoughts on Florida Football:

There are now five teams that have punched their ticket to the NCAA tournament. East Tennessee St, Winthrop, Cornell, Murray St, and Northern Iowa have auto-bids from winning their conference. The major conferences start their tournaments this Wednesday and Thursday. As usual, lots of changes since my last update (http://gatorsfirst.com/index.php/florida-gators-http://gatorsfirst.com/index.php/florida-gators-sports-news/college-basketball/college-basketball-tourney-bubble-watch-3-05-10.html). Remember, there are 65 spots available, comprised of 31 automatic bids to conference champions and 34 at-large bids. Here is a comprehensive look at the major leagues in Division-I (full rankings are current AP poll (http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/rankings/_/poll/1/week/18))... From the results that follow, I predict that at this point 58 teams are safe, which includes 31 auto-bids and 27 at-large bids. Out of these 58 teams, 31 come from major conferences and 27 from minor ones. March 14th is approaching rapidly, so teams need to bunker down and play hard to make the field of 65. This means that there are SEVEN remaining at-large bids that will go to the ''bubble'' teams that I have listed. If I were to choose from the remaining bubble teams that are listed below, my last seven in, in order, would be: Florida, St Marys, Illinois, San Diego St, Georgia Tech, Arizona State, St Louis. My first four out would be Mississippi, Mississippi St, Washington, Wichita St. My next four out would be Dayton, Rhode Island, UAB, Illinois St. (read below).

Also with Game 2 starters at the end. In a game dominated by pitching, Florida used two big innings to defeat Miami 7-1 in the series opener. Florida starter Alex Panteliodis went 5.2 innings and struck out a career high 8, while holding the Canes to 2 hits and 1 run. The sophomore had a no hitter going until the 5th and kept UM off balance with a combination of perfectly placed fastballs and solid off speed pitches.

Well, it's that most wonderful and favorite time of the year, when media types gather around to trash high profile SEC players headed to the combine. Every year it's the same thing: guys who supposedly lack the work ethic, character or intelligence to make the NFL. The reason why this happens: there are few large media markets in the SEC, and few of the national writers live in the SEC region or went to SEC universities. Instead, the big media markets and the institutions that produced most of the media wri

After reading a write-up by a journalist calling Coach Meyer out for the number of arrests the Gator Football Team has had under Urban Meyer, I had to write this story. The journalist was trying to make the case that if Meyer had been more strict the first time around with a lot of players (i.e. Wilson, rickerson, and Hornsby), the latter charges that occurred wouldn't have happened. He also made the case that if the team had seen the needed discipline in regards to those players instead of letting them work their way back on the team; the team wouldn't have as many arrests either.

The media and sports bloggers are trying to paint this arrest record over the past three years as if Meyer doesn't care about his players or the trouble they get into as long as they keep winning. They couldn't be farther from the truth.

The first set of conference tourneys started this past Tuesday. Most of the major conferences don't start until March 9-11. Therefore most teams have one game left to impress the committee before starting conference tournament play. Lots of changes since my last update (http://gatorsfirst.com/index.php/florida-gators-sports-news/college-basketball/college-basketball-rewind-3-01-10.html). Remember, there are 65 spots available, comprised of 31 automatic bids to conference champions and 34 at-large bids. Here is a comprehensive look at the major leagues in Division-I (full rankings are current AP poll (http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/rankings/_/poll/1/week/17))... From the results that follow, I predict that at this point 61 teams are safe, which includes 31 auto-bids and 30 at-large bids. Out of these 61 teams, 30 come from major conferences and 31 from minor ones. March 14th is approaching rapidly, so teams need to bunker down and play hard to make the field of 65. This means that there are FOUR remaining at-large bids that will go to the ''bubble'' teams that I have listed. If I were to choose from the remaining bubble teams that are listed below, my last four in, in order, would be: St Mary's, Georgia Tech, Notre Dame, Arizona State. My first four out would be St Louis, Wichita St, Mississippi St, and Rhode Island. My next four out would be San Diego St, Memphis, Mississippi, and Washington. Charlotte, Tulsa, and Illinois St are also on my bubble list (read below).

The NFL Combine is finally over and Todd McShay has retreated to his cave, where he will put homeless men through cone drills and deflate Taylor Mays' draft stock.

The Florida Gators had ten participants at the Combine this year: Tim Tebow, Riley Cooper, Maurkice Pouncey, Brandon James, Aaron Hernandez, Carlos Dunlap, Jermaine Cunningham, Joe Haden, Brandon Spikes, and Major Wright.

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So the other day, I started thinking about what, exactly, could be the problem with our basketball team. We lack depth. I studied the early departures during Donovan's entire tenure (http://gatorsfirst.com/index.php/florida-gators-sports-news/gatorsfirst/early-departures-of-the-donovan-era-part-iv.html) at Florida last summer. We lack certain skill sets. Again, is Billy Donovan's recruiting to blame? Is Dan Werner just a bum with no business being on anyone's team? Then I really started thinking: which team would be better off in 2009-10, our present rotation (we run 8 deep) or a 9-man rotation consisting of guys that either left Florida early or aren't playing now for other reasons? Oh, and I'll answer those other questions, too...

So, we’ve learned that we don’t like Steinbrenner or his field.

The historic Florida baseball classic of the future, the Florida Four, old Yankee George’s new tournament to get the top collegiate baseball teams together in his house, took place in Tampa on Tuesday.

The Gators, hot during their third consecutive 5-0 start under O’Sullivan, went as cold as the frigid Florida wind against FSU, giving up as many runs in the first inning (7) as they’ve scored in all their first innings combined this season (again…7). There was no rally, no comeback, no last second almost (though that last gasp win strategy hasn’t worked out too well lately for the men’s basketball team anyway) and the Gators come back north today with a 10-5 loss (to the #3 team) and a win-loss that doesn’t look so unbalanced, unfortunately.

Tim Tebow's appeal has always been that he is a hard working kid, who loves Jesus, his Mom and Dad and the Gators.

The NFL Combine is finally over and Todd McShay has retreated to his cave, where he will put homeless men through cone drills and deflate Taylor Mays' draft stock.

The Gators fell last night in a 60-64 loss to #13 ranked Vandy. Some were considering this a must win game for the Gators to make the NCAA tournament, but at least one GatorsFirst author still thinks the team has a chance whose article can been seen here (http://gatorsfirst.com/index.php/florida-gators-sports-news/college-basketball/college-basketball-rewind-3-01-10.html). The game was the total opposite of last game against Vandy where Macklin fouled out with 2 points and 1 rebound, and the team shot almost 50 percent from the arc. This game Macklin had 21 points with 12 rebounds and the team went 2 for 13 from the arc. The Gators had many chances to win this game, but its hard to win when you go 37 percent from the field, 15 percent from 3 range, and 66 percent from the line.

First let me state that the Florida Gators, in
my opinion, have already done enough to make the NCAA Tournament field
this year. 20 wins, including victories over Florida State, Michigan
State, NC State, Mississippi State, South Carolina, Ole Miss, and
Tennessee should be enough.

However, not knowing ahead of time what upsets there may be in the
conference tournaments that may knock a Kentucky or a Duke from the
automatic to the at-large status, Florida needs to win one more game
this week to go into the SEC Tournament without a worry.

The first set of conference tourneys start on Tuesday, March 2nd. Most of the major conferences don't start until March 9-11. Therefore teams have about 2 or 3 games left to impress the committee before starting conference tournament play, and basketball fans are running short on time for March Madness betting (http://www.betvega.com) and completing their brackets with friends. Remember, there are 65 spots available, comprised of 31 automatic bids to conference champions and 34 at-large bids. Here is a comprehensive look at the major leagues in Division-I (full rankings are current AP poll (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/rankings?pollId=1 seasonYear=2010 weekNumber=17 seasonType=2))... From the results that follow, I predict that at this point 63 teams are safe, which includes 31 auto-bids and 32 at-large bids. Out of these 63 teams, 31 come from major conferences and 32 from minor ones. March 14th is approaching rapidly, so teams need to bunker down and play hard to make the field of 65. This means that there are TWO remaining at-large bids that will go to the ''bubble'' teams that I have listed. If I were to choose from the remaining bubble teams that are listed below, my last two in, in order, would be: Mississippi St and St Mary's. My first four out would be Notre Dame, Arizona State, Charlotte, and Wichita St. And my next four out would be Connecticut, Rhode Island, San Diego St, and Memphis. Mississippi, Cincinnati, Minnesota, Washington, Marshall, Tulsa, Illinois St, New Mexico St, and Louisiana Tech are also on my bubble list (read below).

When Sports
Illustrated ran the cover which accompanies this piece in
September of 1982, we knew things had changed.

The Florida Gators had gone big time. And we were right there.

Quarterback Wayne Peace was my Phil Simms, before Simms was Simms.

I can remember singing the praises of the then much-maligned New York
Giants' quarterback during the 1986 season. Giant fans never thought
that Simms could deliver in a big spot. I always liked him.

Let's get something straight: Tim Tebow will be drafted (http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/jan/26/261052/so-many-reasons-not-draft-tebow-id-take-him-anyway/sports-bucs/). Earlier than you think. Or Todd McShay thinks, for that matter. As a quarterback. And all that stands in the way of success is how he develops the NFL-ish skills he is lacking. Which can be said of almost every prospect, ever. A huge factor, which will help his NFL career be as successful as possible, is his initial destination. The franchise which chooses Tebow will impact his long-term career by the expectations placed on him for 2010, the patience of the franchise with a young QB, and the quality of coaching he will receive. So where will he go? How could he best adapt to the NFL game? Which franchises are a good mix of 'likely to draft Tebow', and 'could develop Tebow into an NFL star'? After all, the Tim Tebow experiment is inevitable (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/tim_layden/01/13/tebow/)...

What's the greatest game ever played at Florida
Field, also known as the Swamp?

My high school football coach at Fletcher Senior High School in
Jacksonville Beach, Florida told me something I hadn't known.

Running track for him in high school was a kid named Robert McGinty.
He'd go on to become Auburn's placekicker in the mid-1980's. After the
1985 season, he transferred to Florida after missing a last second
attempt against Alabama.

You
know, for a quarterback slotted to be taken well outside of the first round of
the NFL draft, Tim’s getting an awful lot of press again.

With
injury no-shows Colt McCoy and Sam Bradford, the Combine is turning in to
another Senior Bowl, with a Tebow media frenzy hoping for…What are you people
hoping for?

Early this week, Tebow announced that he would
not be throwing at the NFL Combine.  The announcement is not much of a
shock considering the short amount of time that has elapsed since he
overhauled his throwing motion.

Instead, Tebow will run, lift, and jump at the Combine and throw
later next month at Florida's pro day.

Unfortunately for Tebow, running, jumping, and lifting won't exactly
wow scouts.

Siena comes into town tonight as classic small northern school fodder for a big southern team to feast on. La Salle this weekend will be the exact same. Northern schools generally play around 40% of the games at home and 60% of their games on the road, including usually a lengthy road stand to start the season. Siena plays 21 of their first 23 on the road, while La Salle plays 16 of their first 17 on the road.

I was one of the few in attendance Wednesday as rain fell and the temperature plummeted at McKethan stadium to see Florida outlast Central Florida. Florida built an early 7-0 lead before holding on to win 7-6 over the Golden Knights. With drizzling rain that forced a 30 minute delay and fell well into the middle of the game, Florida was able to get just enough from the bullpen to hang on, as Kevin Chapman struck out Chris Duffy (LF) with one on in the 9th to end it and earn his first career save. Duffy was 3-4 at the time, and had hit a two run homer in the 8th to cut the Gator lead to 7-5.

If we got to pick, choosing Tennessee to blow out was a great choice (75-62). Especially with NCAA selection committee member Jeff Hathaway in the crowd. The first half was close with Tennessee hitting 6 threes and the Gators having to score the last 7 points to enter the locker room tied. The second half was all about the Gators where they hit four 3 point shots in two and a half minutes to jump ahead 70-50 with 3 minutes left. Overall, a lot of good came out of this game and the Gators tacked on another top 25 win.

It is over! The two straight years of NIT Bids?
Done. Florida is going dancing. I know, I know, there are still three
games left. And then there is a little matter of the SEC Tournament. No
matter. The Gators are in. Like Mick Hubert no doubtedly said many times
after Erving Walker launched a three point shot, "Book it!"

The Gators welcome the University of Central Florida Golden Knights to Gainesville (barring rain) tonight. This game kicks off a five games in five days run to end the season starting home stand for Florida. UCF tonight, Sienna tomorrow, and a three game series with La Salle this weekend should definitely test UF’s deep pitching staff. The Knights are the most dangerous of the three and have won four of the eight games here since 1994.

You’ve got to love when you start a season like this.

Gator baseball completed the weekend sweep of USF, taking
the third game even after going to the ninth down 6-3. After a few odd plays on the part of USF to
give up two runs (they were hitting and walking batters for a good part of the
inning), an infield dribbler by sophomore Preston Tucker turned in to a game
tying error with two outs left in the game.

Tim Tebow and 9 other Florida Gators (including 5 juniors) will be appearing at the 2010 NFL Combine, starting tomorrow. I've got all the info on which jersey number each will wear (Tim's going to be QB 19), and what the schedule for each group will be (when they'll be arriving in Indianapolis, when they'll be working out, etc.). I have a spreadsheet for the entire combine (courtesy friend of G1 Trey), but I've sorted it below to only show the Gators who will be appearing

If you watched them last year, you know full
well the down field impotence displayed by the Florida Gator offense in
2009. This, coupled with its red-zone woes, had me and just about every
other Gator fan I know, pulling our hair out to no end.

Maybe some of that had to do with an over-reliance on quarterback Tim
Tebow, but maybe it had more to do with a lack of a really reliable
down field threat.

It appears that George Edwards will be named the new Defensive Coordinator for Buffalo Bills.Let me say that if this was known before signing day and not told to the players that signed with us yesterday that is a bs move by our staff.Update February 5 - 10amAccording to Joe Schad, Edwards was offered the Bills job on Signing Day.Names already thrown aroundCorwin Brown - currently the DB coach

Today is a huge day for the Gators.As of 9:15am here are the letters of intent that in:Solomon Patton - WRGerald Christian - TEIan Silberman - OTTrey Burton - QBLeon Orr - OL/DLJaylen Watkins - CBJordan Haden - S/LBMatt Elam - S/RBRobert Clark - WR/CBJosh Shaw - CB/SNeiron Ball - LB/DEChris Dunkley - WR - first LOI in at 7amDominique Easly - DTTyler Murphy - QB/AthCody Riggs - CBQuinton Dunbar -

Not much is known about Urban Meyer's health. We do know it hasn't stopped the coach, or hurt recruiting. But Villanova's Andy Talley has been there and preaches caution for Meyer, Dennis Dodd says.

Buckeye Futures - December 6, 2008

Tim Tebow gets a convert ......sort of

Senior Year: "The Epic Tale of one Gator"

Is Vol's AD destroying the UT football progam ?

George Edwards. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Edwards_(American_football)this would be a great hire if it pans out.

There is so much going on right now it is next to impossible to pick a place to start discussing the State of our beloved Gators.The Sugar Bowl1. Now this is the team that we were all expecting to see when Tebow announced he was coming back after the National Championship game. It is amazing how well a team can play when the burden of being perfect is taken away. We finally saw a team that was

This morning I'm very happy for Bobby Bowden. He went out a winner as a he deserved to. Say whatever you want about his coaching skills deteriorating over the last few years but he handled himself with dignity and represented UF's sister school with class. Final thought, Urban Meyer can learn a little something from coach Bowden, namely how to keep football in perspective and balance work with

I'm on vacation and iPhone blogging, so this will be brief.I've been hearing rumors of health issue with Meyer for some time, and had it on a pretty good source he would be gone by age 50 at latest. If he had to leave, while no time is "perfect", right now is damn close. Next year was apt to be a down year anyway with our player losses, and with the new talent coming in (that we can hold in to)

Gloat away rivals, but know this truth -If we want your coach, we can have him.If we don't want him, by all means keep him.

I found this piece today listing the 10 “happiest” states in the nation. They are –1. Louisiana2. Hawaii3. Florida4. Tennessee5. Arizona6. Mississippi7. Montana8. South Carolina9. Alabama10. MaineSix of the ten are SEC football states. The correlation is obvious.The least “happy” SEC state? Kentucky, at 35th. Of course if I had to root for Wildcat football, 35th sounds about right.The least happy

A commenter to my last post notes, quite correctly, that the Heisman for any given year should be made by comparing how players did within that year, and I agree.By this metric, however, I think Ingram still falls short. Ingram was 5th in rushing yardage this season. The top 10 running backs were –1 Toby Gerhart, RB STAN 17362 Ryan Mathews, RB FRES 16643 Dion Lewis, RB PITT 16404 Donald Buckram,

I’d like to start this by saying I respect Mark Ingram. I think he is an excellent football player and a quality person. His Heisman acceptance speech was excellent.I just don’t understand why he won it.Before the vote I noted he was probably the least deserving of the candidates, a crop of which this year was less than stellar. As of late the Heisman has seemed to go mostly to the quarterback

Zach Azzanzi has been hired to replace Billy Gonzales as wide receivers coach. Gonzales left the staff to become the wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator at LSU on Thursday. Despite being caught off-guard by Gonzales's decision, Coach Meyer hire Azzanzi before the end of the day. Azzanzi, most recently the wide receivers coach at Central Michigan, has a reputation for being an

Word came to me tonight that Billy Gonzales is no longer part of the Florida football staff. He has chosen to move over to Baton Rouge and join LSU's coaching staff. Coach Gonzales was not only the Wide Receivers coach but also the Recruiting Coordinator. This move will have a huge effect on this year's class - speculation has already begun that WR Kenny Stills will no longer be a part of this

In an effort to diversify the content of Saurian Sagacity we present the “Master’s” age group results (40-49) of last evening’s PAL (Police Athletic League) mile race in Boca Raton.Naturally the only reason we do so is it has something to do with me.My friend and I entered the race with a wager of a beer to the winner (between us two – there was no chance 2 forty-somethings were winning the race)

On ESPN radio’s Mike & Mike this morning Mark Schlereth referred to the Heisman Trophy as a “garbage award”.I totally agree. In fact, I’d call it a “bullshit beauty award”.The Heisman Trophy is supposedly given to the “best” football player in college each season. Yet, as is widely known, it seems to be almost exclusively awarded to offensive players, specifically quarterbacks and running backs.