Hit of the Week

Reggie Nelson needs more publicity



And yes the dawgs' receivers were scared the rest of the night.

Latest Polls

Bowl Championship Series Rankings
(Updated: Sunday October 29, 2006)

*Only Poll that really matters now*

1. Ohio State
2. Michigan
3. West Virginia
4. Florida
5. Louisville
6. Auburn
7. Texas
8. USC
9. Notre Dame
10. California
11. Tennessee
12. Rutgers
13. Arkansas
14. Boise State
15. Boston College

The Associated Press Top 25 Poll
(Updated: Sunday October 29, 2006)

1 Ohio State 9-0
2 Michigan 9-0
3 West Virginia 7-0
4 Texas 8-1
5 Louisville 7-0
6 Auburn 8-1
7 Florida 7-1
8 Tennessee 7-1
9 USC 6-1
10 California 7-1
11 Notre Dame 7-1
12 Arkansas 7-1
13 LSU 6-2
14 Boise State 8-0
15 Rutgers 7-0


Looking at the two polls, looks like some extreme differences. Everyone has their own opinions but I expect to see some big shake-ups in the next couple weeks.

Ohio State has been winning pretty strongly. The defense is still suspect. But they look like the team to beat.

The Michigan/ OSU should drop out of national title contention b/c other one loss teams should have stronger strength of schedules. Michigan had some bad performances against teams like Vanderbilt, PSU and Northwestern. I expect Michigan to get handled and drop out of national title contention.

The Louisville/West Virginia loser drops out of contention. The winner doesn't make the championship game because their strength of schedule sucks. Rutgers would be a nice upset special, they are a good feel story but not that good.

USC and Texas both look very suspect. Their competetion continues to be sub par and they barely squeak out games. USC had this catch up to them FINALLY...to an off the radar Oregon State team. It will happen to Texas too. I expect USC to lose at least one game to either Cal or Notre Dame. And I also expect Texas to lose another one in the Big 12 Championship...maybe Nebraska, Missouri?

Whoever wins the SEC Championship possibly..Tennessee, Florida, Auburn or Arkansas will have a chance for the National Championship Game. All have one loss. And God do I hope it is Florida. Just get your offense together!

Gators win in a close one... too close

Thoughts on the game....

-If our kicker makes the two field goals, the game isn't as close... Hetland is now 1 for 7. Let someone else try, please.

-Why is the offense strong in the first half but crappy in the second half? Our coaches are usually good at making second half adjustments, but I couldn't even sit in my chair the second half. Some adjustments should have been made.

-Our RB DeShawn Wynn needs more plays straight up the middle. The spread works only if the defense feels like the middle must be respected.

-Chris Leak needs to step it up as a senior. No turnovers.

-Our defense forced 5 turnovers. That's what I expect from these boys.

-Let Tebow pass the ball. The Georgia defense was ready for the run, so let him pass the ball. He threw for a bzillion yards in high school.

-I really am starting to think the two-headed quarterback might not be so good. Our offense has so much potential, but it never seems to click. One quarterback might be the answer. But which one?

P.S. USC lost and Texas has their hands full.

Don't Call it the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party

Only Gators get out alive of Jacksonville!

Gator Baketball team starts out Numero Uno

The coaches rank everyone else behind Florida in this years preseason coaches poll.

ESPN/USA Today Preseason Coaches Poll
1. Florida (30)
2. North Carolina
3. Kansas
4. Ohio State(1) <- What the hell is that for?
5. Pittsburgh
7. LSU
8. Georgetown
9. Wisconsin
10. Arizona
11. Duke
12. Alabama
13. Texas A&M
14. Memphis
15. Boston College
16. Washington
17. Marquette
18. Connecticut
19. Texas
20. Syracuse
21. Georgia Tech
22. Kentucky
23. Creighton
24. Tennessee
25. Nevada

The starting five are back and look to be at least as good as before. Joakim Noah has gained about 20 pounds in the weightroom, he said on the Midnight Madness televised event. He also is a LIBERAL! I bet some of the righties will just hate that. Don't worry, Donovan balances out the team, he supports the Prezzz.

Walter Hodge is said to have stepped it up in his play this summer and will be a legit shooting threat and point guard behind Taureen Green. Chris Richard has slimmed down significantly and is our "third big man." He would start on almost every top 25 team in the nation.

Behind our veterans, it looks like we will see good depth and playing time from some solid freshman. Dan Werner, Mr. Basketball of New Jersey, looks to be the most ready to play but don't be surprised to see all the freshmen make a significant impact this year.

All the freshman have star potential. Here are the pictures of what they look like. If you are on campus and see extremely tall people with extremely long shirts, that's them.

2006 Recruits

Jon Mitchell- Mount Vernon, NY


Brandon Powell- Memphis, TN


Marreese Speights- St. Petersburg, FL


Dan Werner- Lincroft, New Jersey

What's the deal with FSU?

Here is an article from the Orlando Sentinel that tries to explain the situation in Tallahassee.

Excerpts:

"How, then, did all these highly ranked recruits grow up to become an unranked football team? How, then, has FSU lost seven of its past 12 games dating to last season? How, then, have the 'Noles lost as many games since the beginning of the 2001 season -- 23 -- as they did in the previous 15?"

I will tell you how. Florida is stealing away a better quality of athlete from the state of Florida. The Florida coaches are molding their kids into star college players. FSU is not. Strong players still go through Tallahassee and may still end up in the NFL but their time at FSU must certainly be dissappointing. The coaches don't get the use out of their star recruits like they should be. There has to be monumental coaching changes in Doak Campbell.

Here is an example of a star FSU recruit:

Antonio Cromartie was a mega-recruit -- a tall cornerback who could fly -- when he signed with the Seminoles in 2003 out of Lincoln High, just down the street from FSU's campus. He made good on all of that potential when he was a first-round NFL draft pick this past April.

What happened in-between, though, was a college career that embodies some of the unforeseen developments that can occur after a player signs. Cromartie tore his anterior cruciate ligament in one knee, missed an entire season, then left early for the draft. For a top recruit, FSU got little value: Cromartie started one game in his college career.

(Pic from Orange and Blue Hue)

If I was an FSU fan, student or alumni I wouldn't be quiet about what has to be done. Your historic coach and his hand-picked staff has to go. That's why it won't be a surprise when you see new coaches at both FSU and UM next year.

Reggie Nelson gets a Heisman vote from me

His hair is that crazy and his smile is that big.

This kid is a flat out playmaker. He stood out against LSU, who supposedly has the star safety, Laron Landry, of the NCAA.

Reggie Nelson is the top safety in America. I would love for him to stay his senior year but I know he is gone. The NFL is calling, and under his situation, it's understandable.

A few quick links and good reads on Reggie F'n Nelson the playmaker.

Gators' Nelson Always Gets The Message

Ratliff: Nelson to NFL?


Check the highlight videos from my past posts and see who makes the big hits, and the clutch interceptions. He does it every week.

Just call him The Predator because that's what he's like back there roaming the secondary. He preys on the receivers coming through the middle, and those leaping off the ground. Wideouts should be scared when they play the gators.



Plus they both have the long dreds.

Morphing Badger Badger Badger

Original Badger Badger Badger


Fluffy Badger Badger Badger


Retarded Bush Badger Badger Badger


Wisconsin Bucky Badger Badger Badger

Florida Midseason Highlights

ChrisLeakfan4Life gets a weekly post on my blog because he has the best Florida highlight videos going right now.

This is big boy football, people.

Even with the Gator football fans feeling like their hearts have been ripped out last week from the Auburn War Eagle Tigers, Florida travesty.... there is still hope!

Whether your hurting-

-From the shafting of the season second only to the Oregon Oklahoma game...
-From the defining example of "home- cooked" officiating...
-From the realization that one bad half, even with a stellar defense, can lose you a game in the SEC...
-From the feeling knowing you were the better team on that Saturday night and you win 8 out of 10 times even in Jordan-Hare...
-From the feeling you know that game may have been a blowout played on a neutral field or The Swamp...

it hurts still the same.

The SEC is the toughest conference, and I wouldn't have it any other way. "It's a tough-ass conference," says Urb. It's why I respect the lowest team on the SEC totem pole more than the highest team in the Big 12 or PAC 10. If you live for this conference, you understand.

Onto a brighter note, and an optimistic viewpoint. Some in the MSM still think Florida has a chance.....

"You say Southern California; I say the best team in the Pac-10 is one-loss California, and the Trojans are a few short weeks from finding that out. You say Michigan; I say it doesn't matter — one of those two teams from the Little Nine will be done Nov. 18 in Columbus. You say West Virginia or Louisville; I say the winner of that Thursday night throwdown in two weeks will lose to either Rutgers or Pitt later in the season. You say one-loss Texas; I say, please, the Big 12 blows. You say one-loss Notre Dame; I say the Domers wouldn't last a month in the SEC."

Which leads right back to Florida....

Do your job Gators, and all the cards might fall back into place...just like the 96' National Champs.

The Bears are who we thought they were!

I'd have a meltdown to if my team squandered a 20 point lead at the half. The kicker is, there wasn't an offensive touchdown all night for the bears, and the bears had 6 turnovers!



Unlike Dennis Green, I would not have fired the offensive coordinator, Keith Rowen. I would have taken responsibility for the ineptitude of the offense in the second half of Monday nights game.

Cardinals will be Cardinals. I almost feel bad for ol' Matty, he seemed solid out there throwing the ball. Oh yeah, one last note to Denny, next week bring an offensive line to the game.

University of Miami in a complete downward spiral

Here is the clip of the fight, complete with commentary from former Miami wide receiver Lamar Thomas. Listen to some of the things he said. (He was fired after the game.)

Miami fans seemed to be loving it. Just checkout some of the videos on youtube claiming Miami to be the winner. No one knew FIU had a football team until tonight. And you started a fight with them. Just embarrassing, Did Miami really feel that threatened by FIU?

After all that. Here comes the heavy sanctions. Only 1 player suspended indefinitetly on the Miami squad. The rest of the 13 players will receive a one game suspension against the worst divison 1A team football team in the country, Duke.

Florida International dismissed two players and put 16 others on indefinite suspension. That is called taking a stand.

In the NFL, Albert Haynesworth was suspended 5 games without pay for stepping on someones face.

I saw that happen like 10 times in the video.

Yet nothing from the joke, that is the University of Miami. Thug U

"Why is it bad? I really don't understand. I think it's good. It gets people to watch football more," said Sara Cass, 19, a Miami student from New York City.

I'm speechless

Let's get this out of the way first..

First half we played like Florida

Second half was not at all Florida-like

And yet I honestly felt like the better team lost.

Yes the crowd was hostile... The refs were worse.

The play...as I will call it, will go down as one of the worst fuck-ups in NCAA football.

It should have been an incomplete pass..Tate Casey was right there. At worse, intentional grounding, although it wasn't called on Auburn all night. But there is no way in hell that was a fumble. We likely get a field goal, take the lead and hopefully change the momentum of the game. The game was too close for a ref to screw us. It was so close on both sides of the ball.

Two plays that killed us-


The botched punt by Eric Wilbur. He is usually money. How could he screw it at the worst possible time?



Chris Leak's incomplete pass, somehow called a fumble. Given Leak had a crappy night, under-throwing his passes, that last incomplete pass was not a fumble.


ESPN has a decent article on it.

Some not so classy moves by Auburn I noticed. I guess since they couldn't score a touchdown on offense, they had to be classless on defense.

1. The guy who flipped into the endzone on the blocked punt? I wished bad he pulled an Adrian Peterson.

2. Running back on the last play? Score is meaningless. Go down, the game is over. Maybe the dude was a stat whore? Anyway, I wish that call would have been reviewed anyway. I'm not so sure that was even a fumble, but down by contact.

I hope Arkansas starts losing, we keep winning. (I want to pummel Georgia and South Carolina!) And I hope Auburn keeps winning so we have a rematch. Revenge is sweet, Auburn won't have their crowd, and I hope it gets ugly.

The Gators bring the Swamp to Auburn

Only Gators get out alive of Jordan-Hare.

Go Gators!

Preview of Florida v. Auburn

Basketball Season Inching Closer

First of all, for all the Rowdy Reptiles, go sign up for your tickets here

Now a couple of opening articles about the chances of UF repeating and some quotes from the gator boys:

National Champion Gators Handle Hype

Defending National Champs Thinking Repeat at Florida

Gator Hoping To Stay on Top

Worst opninion writer I've read, he does not deserve any recognition as a "Sportswriter"

Just so you can see what he looks like...



Mike Freeman at it again..
Meyer's gimmick erases Leak's Heisman chances

Playing the race card again and spouting his opinion about the Gators. He does not know jack shit about them. He honestly just looks like an ass. Represents everything wrong in the hyper commercial, individual achieving, college atmosphere of today.


"Some coaches are the most egotistical, glory seeking people you will ever meet. Which brings me to Urban Meyer."

"Yet there is no better example of a coach wanting to look like Stephen Hawking at the expense of his own players than what Meyer is doing now. Namely, Meyer is building his clip file and cameo highlights on network television at the expense of Chris Leak, the most under-appreciated player in recent college football history."

"Not to put too fine a point on it, but Meyer is screwing Leak out of a potential Heisman so Meyer can look like he's the smartest guy in the room."

It's not about the Heisman, it's about winning! Winning championships. If that happens everything else falls into place. And hopefully everything falls into place that you're soon out of a job. You're not doing a good job being controversial because 50% of the people don't like you, and 50% of the people do.....no one likes your opinions. No one should read your column because it's pure garbage.

Gameday gives the gators love x 2

Gameday stopped by Gainesville, and the Gators impressed. Chris Fowler,Kirk Herbstreit and Lee Corso were there doing the ordinary show thing. Herbstreit repeatedly has said THE SWAMP is the toughest place to play. (but he picked LSU?) Lee Corso picked the gators to win and the crowd went nuts. (And luckily for us, the Corso curse didn't get the gators.)

A recap of the LSU explained by the top 11 performers of the game.


Players of note:

-. Reggie Nelson
"A blocked punt, an interception and another interception created by a ferocious hit - all in a days work for Reggie Nelson. He was named co-defensive player of the game for his performance against LSU, and Urban Meyer said he graded out a perfect 100 percent."

Meyer is on record saying he is the best safety in the ncaa and would be his first pick in the nfl draft.

-Ryan Smith
"With four interceptions in the past two games, and four more near-interceptions, Ryan Smith has adjusted to life in the SEC. The Utah-transfer is making an enormous contribution to the supposed weakest link on the defense."

He could have many more INTs if he had a little better hands. He can read routes like it's nobodies business and has an acute sense for where the opposing QB will throw the ball.

- Tim Tebow
"Tim Tebow makes his first appearance in the Hot 11 after his memorable performance on Saturday. Tebow got the Gators on the board with a 1-yard touchdown run, followed it with the jump-pass for a touchdown and ended the day with a 35-yard pass to Louis Murphy."

The Gator Nation knew he could throw!


After the butt whooping the gators put on the Tigers.

It looks like Gameday is following the Florida Gators to Auburn.

Go Gators! Today is a big one!

LSU, we heard your defense is impressive, but so is ours.



Only gators get out alive....


P.S. Why do so many LSU fans have bowl hair cuts? Just an observation....

This network will never work

Will Ferrell having fun with SportsCenter




I thought this would lighten the mood with the criticism of ESPN lately. You won't hear me stop grumbling though, until changes are made.

Marcus Thomas is back!

via ESPN:

Gator News:

1.Suspended defensive tackle Marcus Thomas has been reinstated and will play Saturday when No. 5 Florida hosts ninth-ranked LSU.

2. ESPN.com's Joe Schad reported Thursday that starting running back DeShawn Wynn will miss the matchup against LSU.

3. Wide receiver Percy Harvin, who had an ankle injury, was cleared to play against the Tigers.

The game just got a whole lot more interesting.

Marcus Thomas on the practice field?

All from The Miami Herald

Thomas has officially returned to team functions despite the fact that his suspension remains in limbo.Thomas did not actually engage in team drills. There is speculation that Thomas could return for the game considering he practiced Tuesday and has already missed two games.

''He worked out a little bit earlier -- not with the team,'' Meyer said. ``He's just trying to stay in shape.''

Will he be back for LSU? I sure hope so.

Throwback vs Modern

Which one do you like better?

I can't believe it

Look who is coming to Gainesville

Thoughts on the Bama Game

For play by play on game... see Espn, Gatorzone or Sunsports Replay.
Now onto my thoughts of the game. The good stuff.

Defense
-Even without Marcus Thomas (who we still need badly) our D held them to 0 offensive touchdowns. The only TD Alabama scored was a Chris Leak botched-snap fumble for 6. Bama was in the redzone a few times, only came out with two field goals.

-Still need more pressure on the QB. We need scoop.

-Secondary had 3 INTs - One return for a TD. The secondary really stepped it up against a strong true throwing QB.


Leak makes a 40+ yard run all the way to the two yard line.

-Tebow played strong. Leak was great. (Signs at the stadium = Leak 4 Heisman! Chris Leak is Bringing back the Sexy)

-Bubba didn't get too many catches but one was BIG for a TD and one catch showed his mobility again. He danced around the Alabama defense although he didn't get too far.

-Jemalle Cornelius had some absolutely huge catches this game, That's just senior leadership. I think some his catches rival the beauty of Calvin Johnson of GT.

-Touchdown Baker had great hands with his TD.

Something to note

-We could have pretty easily scored two more TDS. Ryan Smith had a third interception dropped that was a a wide open TD run back. And we likely could have punched it in at the end of the game. But no need to run up the score.

Players of note

- Wynn is becoming a real bruiser. I hope his ankle is a go for LSU.

- Brandon James seeing more time. Some at the running back. Always strong at the return position.

- Ryan Smith 2 INTS! Nice! and a chance at a third!

- Reggie F'n Nelson, yet another interception. Had an INT for a touchdown tonight. He is electrifying.

Officiating

-Was pretty decent. Calls went both ways. Didn't decide the game. But I was in the fifth row for the "supposed" Tebow fumble. The ball was down by contact with the ground. Alabama does not deserve that fumble stat!

Go Gators! LSU is next!