lesgrossman

Thanks Truth, reasonable posts on the topic of actual football being played on the field don’t generate much comments

Good call on UF oline. The pocket collapsed from the tackle position multiple times during the orange and blue game, forcing Mertz and lagway to step up in the pocket or scramble for their lives. Thankfully it was touch football. Bigger need even than finding a complement to EW3 at wr.

Doc, I did like the desire by Blue to win at the end and pay it off. These guys need to experience victory at every chance so they can develop that “winning is a habit”. Maybe Mr truth is finally right - CBN realizes he has to win first and be champions of life second.

Seems similar to what the gators showed during the season. QB room is solid, great WR1 (now EW3 instead of pearsall), and deep rb room. Jadan Baugh could be trouble for sec defenses. 3rd level of defense is still soft, and troubling special teams organization on the field. OL seemed to let the pocket collapse especially in second half, with pressure on the tackles. Still given all the changes I believe CBN is ahead of where he was a year ago.

Very leaderly, he’ll make a great coach one day if he chooses. The emphasis on winning for the man next to you is needed up and down the roster. Good luck this year young man and go Gators!

As long as sully has them in shape by regionals and into the super regionals and can develop an ace by then.

Will be interesting to see how CTG replaces 60%of the starting lineup this offseason; next year’s team likely to be very different from this years. He seems to be more of portal centered coach, the high school recruiting is below what CMW did.

Agree, money is corrupting both cfb and cbb

Marsh, hate to say it but the gators need to play through bad officiating until they are top tier again. There does seem to be a pattern of bad officiating against them but nothing to do but process the loss and fight through. I do hate it that cfb and cbb seem more and more to be at the mercy of (bad) refereeing, but can’t change that.

Good to see a sec team actually beat a power 5 team in march madness. Congrats to TAMU

Mike white had no offense and now TG no defense. Until TG hires an assistant who gets defense and can integrate that with TG’s up tempo offense, this or round of 32 will be the program ceiling. Predictable what happened inside with lampkin vs Florida’s young bigs and no rim protection without handlogten. Our guards are not good at defense either, they always seem to be chasing the opponents guards and ineffective at fighting through screens. TG needs to toughen the team off season. They get pushed around by physical teams.

Good to have him back in friendly territory at Shands, one of the best in the nation.

First half was like rugby in the paint, stopped watching after that. Refs pretty much can’t/won’t control the contact. SEC officiating is not good. Seems like the more physical you are as a team the more leeway the refs give you.

Prayers for Micah. Very sad. Hope he can recover.

Also have to eat some humble pie for saying Aberdeen not good. Congratulations young man and sorry for not believing!!

Wow, just wow. Save something for the big Dance fellas, meanwhile let the big Gator Eat!!!!

Yep, though the a&m guards should be equally tired but they’re fighting through. Our guys need to dig deeper and take it to the rim aggressively and get to the line. The officials seem to love a&m, Williams must teach how to make every play look like a&m is getting fouled. Golden should learn from that

Hopefully other teams don’t watch film of this game. This is the formula to give UF fits

Not looking good. Weak Gator defense at the point of attack, their guards driving at will and the Gator bigs not or late providing help or if they do a tricky tack foul is called while atm continues to mug the gators down low with impunity. Groundhog Day of the first game except this time the gators aren’t bringing the fight. Aberdeen is not good, and I get you need to rest Pullin, but this game is getting way.

Great win by the Gators. They match up well with the Tide where defense is not a strength. TAM will be a tougher game, their guards are physical and draw fouls consistently and they are tougher down low, on the glass. Just the recipe that gives the gators trouble, plus they can play zone. Good test for the team as they are likely to see a similar team if they advance in the big dance.

Agreed. Still a mystery how with subpar results white recruited asa Newell the #12 player in the country out of Florida’s recruiting footprint (Orlando). TG needs some portal magic to replace his two best players in Zyon and Samuel this offseason

Hard to say what’s better, exit in quarters and rest up or win 1 or 2 more for momentum going into the big dance. At this point the probably won’t improve/harm their seed line either way so just go out and have fun and let the chips fall where they may.

Thankfully the Gators won and likely kept their 7 seed line for the big dance, important so they don’t get funnelled to a 1 seed if they get out of the round of 32. On hail Florida hail they are actually saying it’s fine if the gators lose in the quarters to rest for the ncaas. Seems wrong to think like that. Hopefully they beat Bama, but for sure the sec tourney takes a toll.

Just lost to nine win Vandy and gets a raise and an extension. Stricklin clearly is clairvoyant towards the future where CTG brings UF back to final four prominence, in his own mind at least. UF AD has to be the best $1M/yr job int country.

8115 with the talent on this team it’s about the momentum going into next season. We’ve seen what happens with Mullen and CBN when end of season momentum is negative. The gators need to get to and at least be competitive in the round of 32 to have momentum going into next year

Surprisingly the game vs UGA or Mizzou is now big for golden. He needs two wins in the sec tourney to restart momentum going into the big dance after yesterday’s bad loss. Though with this team anything is possible, my sense is their inconsistency will come back to bite them in the round of 32

Basketball lot easier to turnaround. The size and scale of making a top tier power 5 cfb program is another thing entirely.

Took a page out of tamu’s playbook and the guards took it strong to the rim. It wasn’t pretty but effective. 48 free throw attempts is insane. And golden didn’t let them collapse. Fought hard on D till the end and denied Bama 3 point shooters their normal number of attempts. Surprised Bama didn’t press or 1-3-1 zone, they let the gators off the hook. To get out of the first weekend of the big dance: 1. Tougher d on 3 point shooting 2. More aggressive guard play, take it to the rim and get to the line 3. Solve 1-3-1 zone 4. Get more quality minutes from Aberdeen and kugel so Clayton and Pullin aren’t playing 35 minutes a game 5. Don’t go tentative with double digit lead at 15 minutes to go

*in Coleman coliseum

*Bama team is championship special