Posts Tagged ‘Jeff Driskel’
No. 34: Florida
By Paul Myerberg // Aug 3, 2012
Florida’s depth chart at the end of last season featured 37 freshmen and sophomores, which tied the Gators with Tennessee for the most in the SEC. Will Muschamp played 51 first- and second-year players altogether, the second-highest total in program history; Urban Meyer played 55 such underclassmen in 2007. Florida had nine scholarship seniors on the roster, the program’s third-fewest since 1951. Entering the season, Florida’s 148 returning starts were the third-fewest in the SEC. The 37 returning starts on defense ranked last in the conference. These are your excuses for a seven-win season, the program’s lowest single-season total since 1989. But this is Florida, home of the Gators, home of the three national titles, home of feverish expectations – excuses have no place in Gainesville.
Tags: Andre Debose, Aubrey Hill, Brent Pease, Caleb Sturgis, Charlie Weis, Damien Jacobs, Dan Quinn, De'Ante Saunders, Dominique Easley, Florida, Jacoby Brissett, Jeff Driskel, Jelani Jenkins, Jon Halapio, Jonathan Bostic, Jonotthan Harrison, Jordan Reed, Latroy Pittman, Lerentee McCray, Loucheiz Purifoy, Mack Brown, Marcus Roberson, Matt Elam, Matt Patchan, Mike Gillislee, Quinton Dunbar, Ronald Powell, SEC, Sharrif Floyd, Tom Davis, Trey Burton, Will Muschamp, Xavier Nixon
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Two-Deep Notes: U.S.C., U.F., Utah and U.C.F.
By Paul Myerberg // Mar 15, 2012
With spring comes rain, baseball, grass and depth charts. Each of the latter trio is welcome, with none more so than the parade of two-deeps cascading onto university Web sites over the last two weeks. Another four schools offered up a preliminary depth chart over the last two days: Utah, U.C.F., Florida and South Carolina. With these depth charts, and with a few others, comes spring. An important note, however: All depth charts are to be taken lightly, and then taken outside and lit aflame, because they’re worthless. Less than worthless, perhaps — for many teams, the names and numbers listed alongside the vast majority of positions are space-fillers, more or less.
Tags: Ace Sanders, Blake Bortles, Florida, George O'Leary, Jacoby Brissett, Jeff Driskel, John White IV, Jon Hays, Jordan Wynn, Leon Orr, Marcus Lattimore, Matt Elam, Mike Matulis, South Carolina, U.C.F., Utah, Will Muschamp
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This is Absolutely Going to Hurt
By Paul Myerberg // Oct 7, 2011
This? This is going to hurt. It’s going to hurt Florida as a team. John Brantley’s going to be hurting, both in body and mind, as he recovers from last week’s sprained ankle. It hurts Will Muschamp’s hopes of notching his first meaningful SEC win. It hurts Charlie Weis, who had done a fairly nice job — a better job than his predecessor at offensive coordinator — showing Brantley the ropes of his pro-style offense. And most of all, this is going to hurt Jeff Driskel, who gets the privilege of making his first career in Baton Rouge, at Tiger Stadium, against the nation’s most impressive defense, and does so about nine months to the day that he left Oviedo Hagerty High School and first walked onto campus in Gainesville.
Tags: Charlie Weis, Florida, Jeff Driskel, John Brantley, L.S.U., Will Muschamp
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The SEC’s Quarterback Crop
By Paul Myerberg // Apr 4, 2011
I don’t think the argument is about which SEC team has the best quarterback: it’s Georgia and Aaron Murray, and any argument to the contrary — especially with his closest competition out for spring practice — should fall on deaf ears. Murray, entering his sophomore season, showed enough as a first-year starter in 2010 to earn this prestigious title, even if this looks like the conference’s worst batch of starting quarterbacks in the better part of the decade. Where have all the stars gone? Are we ready for a year without an SEC quarterback factoring heavily in the Heisman Trophy mix?
Tags: A.J. McCarron, Aaron Murray, Alabama, Arkansas, Barry Brunetti, Brandon Mitchell, Chris Relf, Christian Lemay, Connor Shaw, Florida, Georgia, Huston Mason, Jeff Driskel, John Brantley, Kentucky, Larry Smith, Matt Simms, Maxwell Smith, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Morgan Newton, Nathan Stanley, Phillip Sims, Randall Mackey, SEC, South Carolina, Stephen Garcia, Tennessee, Tyler Bray, Tyler Russell, Tyler Wilson, Vanderbilt
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