Gators Land 4 Star DE

Urban Meyer and the Gators received some great news on Friday as Jeoffrey Pagan, 4 Star DE out of Asheville, HS in Asheville, NC verbally commited to them. Pagan had been in attendance for the Florida spring game but decided to let the Florida coaching staff know of his commitment before the game. Pagan informed Meyer of his decision Friday night.

Gary Brown of Florida Dismissed from Team

Gary Brown, a red-shirt freshman, was arrested early Sunday morning for two misdemeanor counts of battery. These charges stemmed from a party on Saturday night where Brown was asked to leave and after refusing to do so struck one female in the face and scratched another on the arm.

Brown was dismissed from the team today. UF associate AD Steve McClain has this to say:

"Gary Brown has had a history during his time here of not meeting a set of expectations we have for the student athletes in our football program and therefore he is no longer a part of our program."

This was the 27th reported arrest of a Florida Gator since Urban Meyer took over. That is a little over 5 players being arrested a year.

The Florida Gators are having to search for a defensive coordinator for the second time in the last 30 days. George Edwards who was hired on Jan. 8th to replace Charlie Strong has decided to take the open DC position with the Buffalo Bills. So now one has to wonder if Urban Meyer will take this "leave of absence" he keeps talking about or if he will work until they find a replacement.

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.

Urban making excuses

Chris Low from ESPN wrote a great article about Urban Meyer, after his win against Tennessee, and why he did not have to open up the Florida offense. I provided the link below:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4492076

Urban made comments that he did not feel he had to open the Gator offense due to the fact that Lane Kiffin was not trying to win the game. Meyer stated "When I saw them starting to hand the ball off, I didn't feel they were going for the win". Meyer made this statement because after Tennessee recovered a fumble on on their own two with 11:37 left in the game. Kiffin opted  not to go straight to his passing game to move the ball because they had not been very effective in moving the ball through the air. Tennessee still scored on that position to cut the lead to 23-13. I have to support Kiffin on this, if you were not having success in the passing game then why would you start throwing the ball and risk an interception. 

You have to love Meyer after all the hoopla all week about how his team was going to score 60 points and embarrass Kiffin and Tennessee on Saturday he only could only score 23 and win by 10 points. Urban you still got the win, why do you have to make excuses, maybe Tennessee is a lot better than you thought. I have never liked Urban Meyer and this kind of stuff just reinforcing why he is an arrogant coach and not a good example of how a SEC coach should act. Try to show some class next time Mr. Meyer.

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.