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Speaker 1: Well. Welcome in new edition of the Florida Football Insiders podcast.
Week four of the college football season is here. We
are already almost to the quarter pole of the regular season.
Most teams have played three games, some have played two
with a bye week, and we were here to give
you a great full recap and preview of all the
Florida football teams from Florida State, Miami, Florida, usf UCF.
Speaker 3: FIU, and FAU.
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Speaker 1: The Florida Football Insiders podcast is all nothing but the
state of Florida football. And we've got some teams on
the rise here Florida State, Miami, top ten in the
country heading to a potential early October showdown up in
Tallahassee if everything holds to form, which we think it might.
You got USF coming off the great start beating Boise
in Florida, and then I obviously have the little bit
of drama in Gainesville with the Gators now falling to
one and two after their loss in Baton Rouge over
the weekend.
Speaker 3: So let's give you a little recap.
Speaker 1: We've got Kevin Brockway from the Gainesville Sun. He's gonna
give you the lowdown on the Gators. What went wrong
in Baton Rouge, what can they fix moving forward, future
of Billy Napier and such. So we'll get to Kevin
here just in a few minutes, but first let's start
down in Miami where the Hurricanes made with an emphatic
performance forty nine to twelve win over the USF Bulls.
They really showed their muscle here in this game. Carson
Beck threw for three forty and three touchdowns. Mark Fletcher
ran for one hundred and twenty yards and two touchdowns.
Rain delay in this game, he had about an hour
long rain delay down in South Florida.
Speaker 3: With that four o'clock kickoff.
Speaker 1: The rain, whether whether there was a delay or not,
was not going to affect the result of this game.
Mario Cristobal with a late touchdown to stick it to USF.
Late in the game, they scored with about a minute
ago on a situation that had no business running plays
and scoring, which bumped the game to the over over
fifty six and a half got the sixty one. So
a little a little unlucky there if you if you
played the over, if you played the under in the game.
Speaker 3: But USF was completely dominated this.
Speaker 1: This entire game Byron Brown was you know, played okay,
two hundred and seventy four yards passing. A lot of
those were garbage garbage time. When the game was over
through for a touchdown on Chaz Nimrod had four catches
for one to twenty eight. USF just had a mighty
a horrendous time running the ball. I think they had
about forty yards rushing for the game, and that's been
a common theme. Even though us have been gotten off
to a good start, their rushing attack has not been
good and they have to figure out a way to
get the for other people to produce offensively other than
just Byron Brown. Nimrod's been a good receiver for them,
but as far as from the running game perspective, they've
got to figure out a way to get that running
game going. As they head into American Conference play here
in just a couple of weeks, again, the Canes with
a very emphatic performance all around performance offensively, defensively in
the kicking game as well. And again Miami is heading
into a bye week from Mario Christobal in company. The
USF Bulls, we home to South Carolina State and then
they will get into the conference play.
Speaker 3: The following week.
Speaker 1: So good start again, a great start for USF two
and one on the on the on the year, the
ball is in their court. If USF wants has wants
to have an opportunity to be a playoff contender and
be considered, you gotta go win the American Conference. You
could potentially lose one game in the American but it
better not be to one of the weaker teams in
the conference. But the USF will probably be a favorite
in most every game they play the rest of the way.
So the ball is kind of in Alex Golish's court here.
Have a great opportunity here to to kind of be
the power the darlings of the UH non power five
with their big wins. They need Florida to win a
few more games as well to make that Florida win
look a little bit better. And they need Boise to
keep winning as well. But again, lots of opportunity for
the USF Bulls as they head into conference play again.
I think they go to Memphis, they go to Navy.
A couple of tough games they're gonna have to navigate.
But but again, there's not a team in that conference
that that that will be that will be at anywhere
considerable favorite over USF SO and for Miami, again, don't
slip on the banana peal. You've got a great team here,
great offensive line. Beck's playing really well, the wide receivers
are playing well. Take care of business in the games
you're You don't have Georgia Tech, you don't have Clemson
on your schedule. You do have to go to Tallahassee,
which which will probably be a prime time National Game
Day game here in a couple of weeks. As long
as as everybody does what they're supposed to do. Uh
and we'll we will, we will all be reliving back
the back in the nineties when you had two top
ten powers year after years.
Speaker 3: Has got a chance to be a great game in Tallahassee.
Speaker 1: I would favor probably Miami slightly over over Florida State
at this point from what I've seen gues especially with
Beck playing as well as he is. But again, if
you're Mario, you cannot slip on the banana appeal against
the team.
Speaker 3: That you're not supposed to lose to.
Speaker 1: So that's been kind of Mario's mo o over his career.
Speaker 3: Is he's lost games that he's.
Speaker 1: Not supposed to lose, bone headed in game decision and
all that.
Speaker 3: But Miami off to a great start. All right.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the other matchup involving in state teams.
Yet FIU played FAU last week. In FIU, the Panthers
get it done thirty eight twenty eight over the owls.
Kean Owens, the running back for FIU, runs for one
hundred and seventy three yards in two touchdowns on nineteen carries.
Great job there running the ball for FAU. Caden veld Camp,
the quarterback, through for three forty three and two touchdowns.
Jamari Sans ran for one hundred and five on fourteen carries.
Back and forth game, but FIU was kind of in
control of this game for the most part. After halftime,
FIU moves to two to one. They will host Delaware
and you say, Delaware, oh, that should be a win.
Will be careful. Delaware just got done beating Connecticut. Over
the weekend up here in the East, Up in the Northeast,
FAU will be home to Memphis to start their conference play.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 1: The Memphis Tigers will be coming down to South Florida
as well, and the FAU falls to one in two.
Speaker 3: So good.
Speaker 1: Two good intra state matchups this week involving the Florida
Florida team. So that's a good thing here. I'm glad
they It's a great thing for the state of Florida.
It's a great thing for those programs. And these guys
play each other most every year, whether it's USF, MY USF, Florida,
Florida State, Miami FI, U f AU. They play USF
pretty regularly as well, So it's a great mixture that
these teams are all playing each other.
Speaker 3: It's good for the state.
Speaker 1: It's good for the economics of these programs as well
as well. So keep it up, Florida State. Coming off
of a bye, they're gonna be playing Kent State again.
If you're Florida State, just keep taking care of business.
They play Kent State and then they have a quick
turnaround and play at Virginia on Friday night. Not first
ACC game. That could be a little bit tricky. Tony
Elliott and the Virginia Cavaliers are playing much better up
in Charlottesville. But again Friday night at Charlottesville. If you
remember back in the day, Florida State lost their first
ever comp French game on that famous Thursday night in
Charlottesville when Virginia scored late to win the game and
the last I think maybe I think it was the
last play of the game up in Charlottesville for their
for FSU's first ever conference loss. So so again, Florida
State keep it up, Castellanos, the receiving course playing well.
Speaker 3: They running the ball well.
Speaker 1: The defense has been good again, setting up the potential
showdown with Miami in early October. As for the UCF Knights,
three point thirty on Saturday, they will host Bill Belichick
in the North Carolina tar Heels. U CF two and
zero coming off of a bye uh. You and North
Carolina is now two and one coming.
Speaker 3: Off of two uh they beat two weaker teams. I
think they beat Richmond last week.
Speaker 1: They remember they lost Week one at home to TCUHO
got blown out.
Speaker 3: So this will be a good test for both programs. Uh.
Speaker 1: See if where Belichick and and the tar Heels are.
See where u CF's at again. Non conference game here
three point thirty on Saturday in the Bounce House in Orlando.
All right, there's your recaps again. Florida loses twenty to
ten to LSU. We're gonna get into all the details
with Kevin Brockway the Gainesville Sun here in just a minute,
all the you know, the ins and outs of the
Lagaway performance, Billy Napier, the defense, the preview. Remember, Florida
goes to Miami. I'm sorry, I don't know why I
said Miami has a bye. Miami host Florida Prime Time.
Speaker 3: That was a miss. Sorry about that.
Speaker 1: Miami will host Florida Prime Time this weekend with Herb
Street and Fowler. I believe will be on the call
in Miami at hard Rock. So no buye for Miami.
They have Florida coming to town and again we will
preview that with Kevin Brockway of the Gainesville Sun here
in just a minute.
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Quick recap of the National Football League before we get
to Kevin. The Dolphins fall to oh to two. They
lose thirty three to twenty seven to the New England Patriots.
Kind of a back and forth game. You had a
punt return for a touchdown by the Dolphins, you had
a kickoff return by the Patriots. You had you know, interceptions, turnovers.
Pretty wild game out of Miami. Had the ball a
couple of times late to try to win the game
and could not get it done. Dolphins fall to oh
to two. They traveled a Buffalo Thursday night. Amazon A
tough tough turnaround here, having to go to Buffalo another
division game.
Speaker 3: OH win three.
Speaker 1: Be interesting to see if they again, if they get
beat badly potentially on Thursday night. Could Mike McDaniel be
in trouble here with the long weekend you've still seen.
Tyreek Hill got a little bit more on track last week. Again,
they played better than the week one, but still too
many mistakes. The defense is not very good. Tyreek Hill
did get involved, had over one hundred yards receiving, but
Tua did not.
Speaker 3: They just don't.
Speaker 1: They don't look like they're very much in sync on
what's going on in the defense, just getting gashed too
many long drives by the against the defense down there
in Miami. So be interesting to see what happens if
they were to get beat pretty soundly. On Thursday night
in Buffalo, the Jags fall to one in one, lost
a very winnable game up in Cincinnati. Remember, Joe Burrow
gets hurt early in this game midway, I think midway
second quarter, got hurt with the turf toe injer He's
gonna be out three months. The Jags lose basically fall
to Jake Browning, the backup quarterback, comes in and throws touchdowns,
multiple touchdowns.
Speaker 3: He did throw three interceptions.
Speaker 1: The Jags were up three laid in the game, fourth
and five from like the eight yard line, and they
decided to go for it, not kick the field goal
to go up six. They don't convert drop ball on
fourth down. Browning then takes some ninety three yards in
the last three minutes to win the game. So a
game that I think you saw some demonstrative behavior between
Liam Cohen and Trevor Lawrence. Well, so we'll see how
that unfolds. I think they'll be fine. Just I think
that was just a moment where Cohen was a little frustrated,
said something to Lawrence on the field, and Lawrence gave
him to kind of get out of here, wave off,
wave away, kind of deal. But you know, Trevor at
ten playing really well for them. They got the backup
running back Tooton. His playing is contributing pretty well. Lawrence
is playing okay, but he's still throwing some untimely interceptions
and just some couple of bonehead balls that you just
wouldn't think he'd be thrown at this point of his career.
But the Jags do fall to one in one Houston Texans.
The two Texans will come to Jacksonville this Sunday, again,
pivotal game in the AFC South for Jacksonville especially. You
can really put a dagger into Houston if you can
win this game. The Houston Texans, coming off the heartbreaking
loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Monday night, lose twenty
to nineteen to the Bucks. Baker Mayfield engineers another last
two minute drive of the game, just a dramatic drive
converts on fourth and ten with a run and then
Rashad White runs it in with six seconds to go
from two yards out to seal the win for the
Bucks win twenty to nineteen, dramatic win.
Speaker 3: Again, defensive game.
Speaker 1: You know, the Texans had all kinds of problems running
the ball. Bucks had a couple of injury issues. Elijah
Canty now out for the year. Luke Gettick Gon be
out multiple weeks here with a foot injury that he reaggravated.
So again the Bucks offensive line is gonna be tested.
Still no Tristan Wurfs for probably another couple of weeks. Uh,
No Chris Godwin still a Mecca. Buka did score again
on a on a wide receiver screen and again you
had you had a couple of touch again two touchdowns. Uh,
they're a little bit concerning. Chase McLoughlin missed another relatively
short field goal, so that wasn't great. But again the
Bucks gritted out two road wins to start the year too,
against two pretty good teams Houston and Atlanta. Now the
Bucks come home to face the New York Jets, probably
gonna be without justin Field, so a very winnable game
for the Buccaneers. Then the Eagles come to town in
week four, So a terrific opportunity here for the Bucks
to get off to a great start in the NFC
South New Orleans oh and two, Carolina oh and two,
Atlanta one and one. But again, this is gonna be
a buccaneer falcon division here, uh and again Bucks with
two road wins in the bank already and obviously a
division win in Atlanta as well. So a chance to
get off to a tremendous start this year if you
take care of business against the Jets this weekend. So
there's your NFL update for you again. Florida Football Inside
of the podcast Kevin Brockway coming up in just a
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Florida Football Insiders Podcast. We gave you a little recap
of all the state teams in our previous segment. Now
let's get to Gainesville, Florida. We're going to talk Florida
Gators twenty to ten losers in Baton Rouge Death Valley
on Saturday night. No better person to talk to than
somebody that was in the building to see DJ Lagway's
five interceptions and such. Mister Kevin Lagway, beat writer for
the Gainesville Sun. He covers the Gators three hundred and
sixty five days a year. Welcome back, Kevin, how are you?
Speaker 4: Yes, I think it was fu Kevin Broadway, but Kevin
Lagway would be we would call it. I don't know
if I'd want to be one of DJ's relatives to
answer the questions for for that performance unfortunately, but it was.
It was really something I think that you know, I
think we're seeing you know how important you know, the
practice time, the development is between your freshman and sophomore,
or the offseason just being on the field as opposed
to mental reps. I think it's it's been showing up
week to week now the first few weeks and season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this was this was kind of his really worst
performance of his career Florida. I mean, he never had
a game where he had performed this poorly. And you know,
in retrospect, the Florida defense played really well. They kept
Florida in that game as long as the humanly possibly could.
But Lagway just continued to throw to the other team,
and there were two or three of those that were
just you hate to say it, miss reads, are just
awful throws that weren't even close. Just give me your
sense from being in the building Saturday night, kind of
after the second or third one.
Speaker 4: What were your thoughts, Yeah, you know, I mean I
think some people were wondering, you know, whether you would
go to Tremmell Jones at this point. But I think
Billy Napier is sticking by his quarterback, sticking by the
guy that you know, he recruited at Willis High School,
the top you know, national recruit, Gatorade High School Player
of the Year. I mean, I think DJ showed his
talent certainly last year in his ability to you know,
create big plays, particularly with his arm, you know, the
twelve completions of forty yards or more, and I think
teams have adjusted right keeping things in front of him.
I think DJ's probably a little frustrated in that regard
and as maybe trying to force throws that aren't there,
and you know, maybe also just kind of misreading. And
you know, Billy Napier talked a lot yesterday too about
time and score in those situations, you know, a ten
ten game where it's thirty seconds left and you try
to throw them all over the middle because you know
you're probably going into the half at least time to
ten ten, if not setting up for your own field goal.
And then late in the game, throw the overthrow of
the interception in the end zone where you're in field
goal range for Tray Smack, who's got a big leg
where you could you know, maybe you know, get a
field goal there and cut it to a one score
game kind of to twenty to thirteen. So those are
the kind of things that Billy wants this quarterback to
be mindful of, those time and score situation of situational
football where maybe you don't make as risky you throw
as you should.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you look at the box score a
little bit, thirty seven minutes of time and possession for
the Gators, I mean they were dominating being on the field.
Two things that kind of stuck out to me and
looking at the box score. Eugene Wilson Trey Wilson only
two catches. I know you had a bunch of completions
to other guys, but boy, Wilson's kind of your most
electrifying guy. Only two catches out of gen Wilson. Don't
you have to if you're Billy Napery, don't you have
to scheme some plays to get the ball into Eugene
Wilson's hands.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, you know, he is one of the you know,
fastest receivers on the team, I think too. You know,
you had Delaney on him, who's an NFL level corner.
I think that factored into it too, in terms of
how well he was covering him. But yeah, no, Trey
Wilson's gotta find ways to get open for sure, and
Florida's gonna maybe find ways to find him.
Speaker 5: I know that.
Speaker 4: You know, early in the season, they were doing a
lot of those kind of jet sweet pitch passes and
so forth, things of that nature, but they weren't working
very well. And I think one of the issues with
you know, Trey Wilson run after catches. You know, he's
one hundred and eighty pounds, so it's kind of easy
to take down, particularly in an SEC game against SEC defenders.
So but he's gonna keep working at it, you know.
I thought Aidan Mizel showed some promise in that game.
Obviously had the touch I catch. You know, Vanill Brown
the third looks like he's got a lot of ability
both as a receiver and a you know, a return guy.
And j Michael sturtevant Uh hasn't quite flashed yet as
much as he could, so I think those things. And
you know what really hurts is is having you know,
Dallas Wilson with the legendary another Tampa kid that looked
electric in the spring game, and uh looks like, you know,
he's still going to be out for a bit with
that leg injury.
Speaker 1: And the other part of the other part of the
box score that really got me got me a little
surprised and confused, was you're in the game, You're it's
a defensive kind of game, but you only give jayde
and Ball ten carries. You know, they didn't run the ball.
I don't think enough. And I know that L s
U front and that defense is good, but boy, you
got to run the ball a little bit more. I mean,
that's to me, that's the strength of that Florida team,
is those running backs. Only ten carris for Jade Ball.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a little weird that, you know, and listen,
they're finding John Bond the spring got the excuse me.
The screen passes, though, particularly one during the touchdown drive
where it was the third and fourth probably Anabrier's best
play call the game. I think Dad a little dup
off screen when LC brought pressure and that screen gained
about twenty five yards, so Ball had seven catches for
another fifty, so he can't.
Speaker 5: He had close to one hundred all purpose yards for
the game.
Speaker 4: But that being said, yeah, you would like to get
him the ball a little bit more, you know, a
handoff on the ground. You know, he's splitting carries a
little bit with Jacobe Jackson, but Jacoby hasn't been off
to the best start this season, and I think you
know you're going to see Ball continue to get the
bulk of the carries here going forward.
Speaker 1: You would you like out of the Florida defense? I mean,
obviously they hold Nussmer to twenty points in that building,
and for most of that game it was thirteen to
ten for a long time. Would you like to would
you like what'd you see? And would you like out
of that Florida defense?
Speaker 4: Well, linebackers, Miles Graham, you know, playing very well. I
thought the Dejon Johnson had to pick secondary did okay.
Still the front though, they stopped the run very well.
But you would have liked to have seen a couple
more of those negative plays, right like they had, you know,
seven sacks against Nuts my last year. This year, they
had no sacks, only one quarterback Curry, so they weren't
necessarily you know, getting to the quarterback as much, and
LSU played a little bit of quick game on them.
But there were times when nus Meyer dropped back too
and the pocket was comfortable enough for him to make
some throws. So while it was a good day for
the defense, it wasn't, you know, obviously good enough to
get out of the winning side. And no turnovers either, no,
none of those game breaking plays or one, excuse me,
the Dejaun Johnson, but certainly not as many as LSU had.
Speaker 1: What sense did you get in the locker room after
the game? Just the mood of the locker room. Obviously,
I thought that was probably a game. You know, if
they don't throw five picks, they probably they either win
the game or that game goes deep into the fourth quarters.
What kind of sense in the mood of the players
in the locker room did you get?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say that you know, DJ came out
and he faced the music a little bit, and he
you know, took the accountability on him. Miles Graham as well.
Even with the defense, it feels like that there are
ways the defense could have played better. So I think
that you know, a little shell shock, but also I
would say, you know, willing to take accountability, not necessarily
shying away from it. I know some people think that
when a quarterback has a turnover performance like that, you know,
the locker room can kind of fracture a little bit
in terms of the defense versus the offense. I have
not seen that yet, but we will see. You know,
if DJ has another bad game or two like this,
it's a little turnover prone.
Speaker 5: Then then you know, maybe we will see if if
that's the case.
Speaker 1: Well, obviously we we wrap up. Then the Gators are
now one and two. Obviously, you lose the us F
last week, you lose LSU this week. Now you have
to turn turn the page quickly and go play a
top five team in the country in Miami, in hard
rock in Miami. Miami comes off of the beating of Florida.
I'm a USF I man, a team that the Case
lost to three two weeks ago. They beat him by
thirty thirty five. Just talk about you know, is this
a spot where again, do you anticipate this being a
spirited effort out of billion in his guys or could
you see this being you know, something where oh, man,
here we go again and they get beat by two
or three touchdowns.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't think like I haven't seen the
effort being the issue yet. It's just the execution, right,
It's just you know, being making smart plays. And you know,
certainly you know another aspect of that game too. If
you're calling the LSU game, you know, you're up three nothing,
you're kind of pinned deep in your end there and
you're thinking to yourself, well, you know, you might have
to put the ball away, and then Lagway studs the
play kind of heaves the ball downfield. Jade Baw is
there and it's a stunning you know, he's behind the
defense completely. It's a stunning eighty seven yard touchdown.
Speaker 5: Hats.
Speaker 4: The only problem is flag on the play, you know.
And it turns out that Nijah Harris gets called for holding.
So it's kind of like little things like that that
have been happening, right, you know. And that's the third
touchdown and the last.
Speaker 1: Got about that play that way game, big play that game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, three three plays and that's the third touchdown in
the last two game that gets called back on a flag.
So the penalties have been a big problem as well.
Just that overall, you know, discipline of you know, not
not holding or not making that play in that situation
really hurts. And you know, offensively only two touchdowns the
last two games too. I mean, it's got to get better.
They've got it, you know. USF it was red zone execution,
right and here it was turnovers and penalties that were
killing drives. So they just have to be a little
bit more on potant in those situations.
Speaker 1: To the hard question here if they were to get
beat badly here in Miami bye week coming up, is
do you get any sense of potential change at the
bye week or do you think he's gonna get at
least Texas in the Texas A and M game to
kind of write the ship.
Speaker 4: Yeah, at first I thought maybe, you know, open week,
it would make sense then, But the latest that I'm
hearing is if they're gonna give him, you know, every
opportunity to dig out of this at least through October
and then maybe the second open week would be you know,
if things don't improve, and if you're two and five
or god forbid one and six, you know, I think
that you know, you might pull the plug down. Don't
forget too there's this rule with transfers to the first
five games, you have a thirty day transfer window to
if your coach is let go, but that that disappears
after week five. So I think a lot of it too, is,
you know, do you want your your players put on
the season or not or there to be a mass
exodus because a lot of them do like Billy. So
I think he's gonna get a little bit of a time,
at least half the season to try to try to
figure this thing out.
Speaker 1: What's the mood in the in the Gainesville community? Is
it just a matter of when for most people? Or
do they or do they think? I mean, I know
it's hard when you're losing. What kind of sense you
get from the community in Gainesville?
Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of frustration and wondering why he's still here.
And I think certainly, you know, last year, I kind
of thought the four game winning streak bottoms some equity,
but that USF loss, it left quick, you know, following
that loss, and and then you know, certainly the way
you look going to LSU. Not that they didn't compete hard, right,
but they don't give you, you know, they you know
this isn't you soccer.
Speaker 5: They don't give you medals for trying hard.
Speaker 4: This is the sec you got to win, right and
you were hoping in year four, if you're a Florida fan,
then it was going to start to really turn the corner.
And are you know, Billy Navy, These are all players,
not pretty much. I think there are a few fifth
year stranglers from the Dan mullen air, but even those guys,
you look at Austin Barber and Jake Slaughter, those are
two year better guys. But for the most part, these
are mostly Billies guys now, and a lot of them
aren't necessarily some of them aren't performing up to their
recruiting billing, and other you know, having developed necessarily to
the rate that you'd like to see him develop.
Speaker 1: At this point, Well, the Gayer is gonna have another
great opportunity on primetime Saturday night in Miami on you know,
another top five opponent. You got a bye week. Then
you have a Texas team who's not playing really well.
Arch that you know there's he's not played really well,
So you're gonna have there's some opportunity here if your
if your Billy, if you can just get the execution
up you can get the performance of some of your
better guys to play a little better. There's an opportunity
here to get right back in the mix. But you got,
like you mentioned, the execution and your better players got
to play good when it's time to play good. I mean,
you can't have the holding. Like you said, I completely
forgot that the eighty seven yard touchdown that was a
huge play in that game. Florida goes up ten to nothing.
That's a completely different, uh, you know environment in that
building as opposed to three nothing in holding calls. So
enjoy the enjoy your time in Miami this weekend, Kevin,
I know you'll do some great work Gainesville Sun.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Tell everybody where they can find all your great work online.
Speaker 4: Yeah, at Gatorsports dot well, Gatersports dot com, Gainsville dot com,
and at Kevin brockwayg one on Twitter and we Jason,
I always appreciate it should be should be a lot
of fun. You know it's gonna be interesting because you know,
now with this nine game SEC schedule, I don't think
we're gonna see another Florida Miami game in quite a while,
so this will be uh and I think a lot
of people thought maybe early in the season, if Miami
lost the Notre Dame and if Florida started three and other,
there'd be a lot of Gator fans down there. I
think the shoes on the other foot. Now game day's coming,
but they're coming from Miami, and I think you're gonna
see it's gonna be more like eighty twenty ninety ten.
I think now Miami to Florida fans in there.
Speaker 1: Any Nuggets on the basketball front, I know we're about
a month away or so from basketball kind of getting
cranked up. Any Nuggets there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a couple of weeks away.
Speaker 4: I mean actually September twenty second is when they'll start practicing.
And really, you know, I think what you're gonna see
is at three, a bigger front line with Tommy Hawk
playing the wing at small forward to go with Alex
Connon and Ruben Ginlu and and you know, Boogie Fland
is back from offseason hernia surgery, so you got him
and Zavi and Lee and the guards and A J.
Brown coming off the bench. I mean, that's potential to
be another really strong team, another team that can make
a deep run. But you are losing a generational talent
in Walter Clayton Junior. So it'll just be interesting to
see how the backcourt, uh kind of comes together during
the course of the year with the two transfers who
are very talented players, but you know, a national championship
guard like Walter Clayton jun He just brought something a
little extra, a little extra flair, a guy that can
make a big shot at the big moment. I think
that's the thing that's that's not proven yet that you know,
you still have to watch and see. But I think
Todd does a pretty good job of developing his players
certainly and finding those you know, diamonds in a rough
and and I think you know, you'll you'll see some
of the frontcourt guys like how like Alex Condon take
got more of a leadership role.
Speaker 1: One more thing I just thought about. It's something I
saw a couple of weeks bat that was kind of
under the radar and way after the fact. Scot O'Sullivan
gets suspended by the a D for what the first
three or four games of the season. What was what
was the oedipice of being so late on that way
after I mean, they said there was going to be
an internal discipline and all that, and then you know,
three four months later they announced it. What was kind
of behind that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it was just the announcing schedule too.
I think they kind of did it around the same time.
And what's interesting about the the uh you know, the
suspension is, yeah, it's a three game suspension, but it includes.
Speaker 5: The two fall games.
Speaker 4: So really it's a one game suspension in season, but
it's it's the fall games that they have for fall baseball.
Speaker 5: He's gonna be suspended from those games.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's on.
Speaker 5: Your point of view, suspension games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, that makes it even worse in my venue.
But well, Kevin, great work, back, keep up the great work,
Enjoy the join the game in Miami and all things
Florida Gators. Go see Kevin Gainesville or gainorsports dot com
at the Gainesville Sun. Appreciate the time and enjoy the weekend.
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