May 15th, 2012 03:06pm
by Robbie Andreu
It is inevitable that former Florida quarterback Danny Wuerffel will be voted into the College Football Hall of Fame. But the question now is when? It could take several years, maybe longer.
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April 13th, 2012 02:17pm
by Robbie Andreu
Urban Meyer established some new traditions at Florida. He also eliminated an old one — those annual spring awards that Steve Spurrier and his staff used to hand out at halftime of each Orange and Blue game.
Well, we’re reviving the tradition here.
We present our version of the Gators’ spring football awards:
Best offensive player — Hard pick here, but we’re going with a true freshman — wide receiver Latroy Pittman, who brought some much-needed electricity to the downfield passing game.
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April 3rd, 2012 12:35pm
by Robbie Andreu
For the first time in his three-plus years at Florida, Mike Gillislee has the ball in his hands and absolutely no one in front of him (except his offensive linemen, of course). His competition is all behind him at tailback.
“Mike has distanced himself to be that guy,” UF coach Will Muschamp said.
To be THE guy at tailback for the first time in his career.
He’s had such a good spring that now in the final few practices the coaches are giving …
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March 27th, 2012 04:14pm
by Robbie Andreu
Brent Pease, of course, is Florida’s new offensive coordinator. He’s also the quarterbacks coach. And this spring, well, he’s kind of the wide receivers coach as well.
You can just call him one busy man on the practice field.
Because the quarterback and wide receivers are so intricately linked in the offense — and the fact Pease was the wide receivers coach at Boise State before he became the offensive coordinator there last season — Pease is spending a lot of his …
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March 22nd, 2012 03:38pm
by Robbie Andreu
When you look back at all the great wide receivers Florida has put on the field dating back to the start of the 1990s, it is shocking to see how little talent the Gators have at wide receiver this spring — and it’s not going to change in the fall.
In breaking down the wide receivers for the media the other night, new offensive coordinator Brent Pease mentioned only four — and that really catches your attention. He said he was …
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March 15th, 2012 11:12am
by Robbie Andreu
The media being the media, a conspiracy theory has spawned from the fact Will Muschamp chose to open practice when he did. The cynics have theorized that he opened Friday and Saturday’s practices knowing many media members would be out of town covering the Florida basketball team in the NCAA Tournament.
Well, here’s a news flash for all the news hounds who really believe the conspiracy theory: Muschamp did not open these two practices for the media, he did it for …
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February 2nd, 2012 01:52pm
by Robbie Andreu
St. Petersburg Lakewood five-star defensive end Dante Fowler Jr. stunned a lot of people — especially the Florida State coaches — when he flipped to Florida on National Signing Day.
The news did not come as a surprise to Will Muschamp and the Florida coaches. They knew it was coming. Fowler had told them weeks earlier that he was going to sign with Florida instead of FSU, the school he had committed to more than a year ago.
At Wednesday’s signing day …
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January 30th, 2012 04:23pm
by Robbie Andreu
With National Signing Day now only hours away, the Florida Gators are sitting in a pretty good position. They have a top-five class and it could get even better if some of the five-star studs they’re in on fall their way Wednesday.
It’s a good spot to be in. But it’s also a little bit of a scary one because there are no guarantees at this late stage (no matter what some of these kids have told the UF coaches in …
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January 26th, 2012 07:25pm
by Robbie Andreu
Gator Nation has been all abuzz since the news broke Thursday that Rutgers coach Greg Schiano has taken the head coaching job with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Many are assuming that Schiano’s departure has opened the door for the Gators to step in and steal five-star defensive end Darius Hamilton from the Scarlet Knights.
My advice on that is this: calm down because there’s a good chance it’s not going to happen.
Certainly, Schiano’s stunning move will give Hamilton and his family …
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January 11th, 2012 06:53pm
by Robbie Andreu
Will Muschamp took the time to talk about his new strength and conditioning coordinator, Jeff Dillman, whom he hired last week.
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Robbie Andreu has been The Sun’s college football beat writer since 1993. He covered every game of the Steve Spurrier coaching era. The only game he’s missed since he has been in Gainesville is the 2006 Florida State game in Tallahassee. He happily stayed home for that one because of the imminent birth of his second child. Before coming to The Sun in March of 1993, Andreu worked for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel for 10 years, covering a variety of sports, including the Miami Dolphins, the Miami Hurricanes, professional golf and baseball (playoffs and World Series). He also worked in Clearwater and Bradenton. He graduated from UF in 1977.
