Tebow Invited to New York For Draft, Really?

On Wednesday Tim Tebow unvieled his new throwing motion to the world in front of NFL coaches and scouts. According to numerous scouts, most were amazed with the amount of improvement that Tebow has shown from the Senior Bowl until now. One group that was extremely impressed was the NFL draft committee in New York who exteneded an invitation to Tebow.

The NFL draft every year extends invitations to the top nine players that they feel will be drafted first. This year they have increased this amount to 18 players. The official list has not been released yet, but according to sources their will be four QB's invited, Sam Bradford, Colt McCoy, Jimmy Clausen and Tim Tebow.

The NFL draft is unvieling another new twist this year. The format of the draft has changed, instead of the first three rounds taking place on Saturday and the next four taking place on Sunday, the draft now will last three days running from Thursday to Saturday. The first round will take place Thursday night, second round Friday night and 3-7 on Saturday.

With the new format of the draft hypothetically a player could be invited to New York and not be picked in the first round and then have to come back for day two and wait for his name to be called, especially since they are inviting 18 players instead of nine. I would have to say that the chances this happens to Tebow is better than 75%. Of all the mock drafts that have been released by ESPN not one has Tebow going in the first round. It will be very interesting to see which players are invited to New York and who was not. Personally, I could name 35 players that will be drafted before Tebow. The fact that Tebow has new throwing motion and has shown huge strides in his mechanics and footwork should not get him a seat in New York. Tebow is invited because he is "Tim Tebow", not because he is one of the 18 best players coming out this year. Tebow should have declined when he was invited to the New York and let another player go that had a higher chance of being picked in the first round. Personally it will make me extremely happy to see Tebow sitting in New York by himself on Friday waiting for his name to be called.

Florida Players Leaving maybe

The have been rumors that alot of Florida players are going to be declaring for the draft. Tim Tebow and Brandon Spikes of course are seniors and will be gone no matter what. DE Carlos Dunlap and CB Joe Haden are expected to be leaving. Aaron Hernandez there ALL SEC TE is a serious possiblilty. Bruce Black the father of S Ahamd Black has been stating that his son will be leaving with the three other players who joined the Gators all from the same High School. These players are RB Chris Rainey and OL Mike and Maurkice Pouncey. If this is all true this is music to my ears.

SEC officials have done it again.

Anybody who watched the Florida vs Arkansas game and saw the personal foul call on Malcolm Sheppard of Arkansas knew right away that the SEC officiating crew had blown another call. I am very tempted to watch the game again and count how many times I saw Tim Tebow do the Gator Chomp after running for a first down, but as everyone knows there is no official that will ever throw a flag against "the best player ever in college football", according to some people in the media. I am sure that most SEC fans know now that this was the same officiating crew that called the Georgia vs LSU game. There are quite a few things about this that I am pretty fired up about.

1. How many times is the SEC going to come out and admit that there officials made a mistake when calling a game and not do anything to penalize the official or officials that made the mistake?

2. The SEC has come out and stated that there definition for "excessive celebration" is when a player directly makes a gesture towards the crowd or an opposing player. If this is what they are trained to call then why do only certain players or teams get this called against them?

3. Why would an officiating crew that blew a major call in a nationally televised game against two highly ranked teams be assigned to another game of the same magnitude? They should have been calling the Mississippi State vs Middle Tennessee State game last week. Supposedly this week they are calling the Tennessee vs Alabama game. You probably would not want to be the Tennessee Volunteer's this week. With the reputation the crew is getting if Tennessee is about to upset a top 5 SEC team they will make sure that it does not happen.

As many SEC fans know, we do have the worse officials in the NCAA, which I think is pretty sad considering that the SEC is year in and year out arguably the best conference in the NCAA. You do have to start asking yourself questions after the calls this year. Are there things going on with the SEC officials that people do not know. I have been reading some pretty interesting conspiracy theories over the past two days as to why the SEC officals are so bad but more importantly why nothing is being done to correct these errors. Perhaps the NCAA should be in charge of all officals and the conference no longer has a say.

Tebow's Concussion

I have never in my life seen such media attention to a concussion as there has been since Tim Tebow was leveled by a Kentucky linebacker a little over a week ago.  If I did not know any better I would think that he had fractured his skull or had been injured in a way that no player has ever been injured before. Tim Tebow is not the first player to ever have received a concussion and I am sure that there have been worse concussions to happen in college football than Tebow's.

I am not a fan of Tebow at all but I will give credit where it is due. Tebow is good football player but is not the second coming of Fran Tarkenton, Dan Marino or any other great NFL quarterback.  Tebow as of right now is a low first round or high second round pick.  I do not understand why every time I turn on ESPN all I ever hear is Tebow this and Tebow that.  He is a great leader and a very good COLLEGE football player. I would not put him though in the same category as Jim Thorpe, Herschel Walker, Vince Young or Red Grange.  These players could single handily win games for their team.  Tebow will never be a good NFL player he will join the league of Florida QBs that amount to nothing in the pros.  Must I remind everyone of Jesse Palmer, Rex Grossman and Danny Wuerfell.

I just do not understand why they are making such a hype about all this.  I had a concussion in high school that knocked me out cold for a couple minutes and was back playing the next day.  I admit that concussions are serious but I do not think that anyone players deserves 24 hour coverage about if he can eat or read yet due to an injury.  However, every one commentator and expert in football worships the ground that Tebow walks on. 

On a side note, I just hope that the next time Tebow scores and does the Gator chomp towards the ground that he is called for unsportsmanlike conduct due to making a "gesture" towards the crowd.  I mean that is what the rule states but some how when Tebow does something it is ok. I mean it should be he is TIM TEBOW.  

Tebow might be back for LSU

Florida coach Urban Meyer stated today that Tim Tebow could be back for next weeks game against LSU. Florida has a bye week this week, which could not come at a better time for the Gators. Florida has been battling the flu bug the past couple weeks and would be without Tebow this week if they were playing. Tebow took a hard shot during Florida's win against Kentucky and suffered a concussion. Meyer is not 100% certain if Tebow will be able to play yet.

Overrated Gators

Florida 23 Tennessee 13

What happened to the Gator stomping, Urban?

If you ask me they should just be happy that they got a win AT THE SWAMP!!

For a team that all experts have been saying is the best team in nation hands downs and maybe the best team in the past decade. I was very unimpressed with their first showing against a legitimate opponent. The Gators only produced 322 yards of total offense. Tebow led the team in passing and rushing with 115 yards in the air and 76 yards rushing and one touchdown. Tebow turned the ball over twice, throwing an interception and fumbling during a run. The Gators gave up 210 yards in total defense. This is not even the season low for the Vols, with UCLA last week holding them to 208 total yards. So, let's get this straight a PAC 10 defense from UCLA holds the Vols offense to less yards than a Gator defense that returned all 11 starters from a year ago. I think Florida is good but I am not jumping on the media bandwagon until they prove that they are hands down the best team in the nation. From what I saw today they are one of the best teams but I would not put them as the consensus #1. Your QB should not be your number one rusher in the spread offense that they run. Tennessee just showed the nation that the Florida Gators are very beatable.