File the 2007 football season under been there, done that, don’t want to ever do that again for Florida defensive coordinator Charlie Strong. Inexperience will do that for you and that’s the mess Strong had on his hands last year. He had only two returning starters from the 2006 team, whose defense proved it was the best in the nation the way it systematically destroyed Ohio State in the BCS National Championship Game. Worse yet, those two starters were also the only two players with any kind of game experience on something other than special teams.
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Curtis Porter went camping for a scholarship offer this week and he struck gold. The 6-2, 330-pound two-way lineman from Charlotte (NC) West Charlotte showed up for one session of the Urban Meyer football camp and he put on quite a show. While he was on his way home to Charlotte, he got an offer from the Florida Gators. It’s quite obvious that Porter, who has a zany sense of humor, is quite impressed with the University of Florida.
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USA Baseball recently announced that sophomore center fielder
Matt den Dekker (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) was among the eight additional collegiate players who have accepted invitations to participate in the 2008 USA Baseball National Team Trials.
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Marreese Speights made it official that he won't be returning to the University of Florida Thursday morning. Speights' AAU coach, Matt Ramker, informed Gator Country that the 6-10, 240-pound sophomore, who averaged 14.4 points and 8.1 rebounds per game for the Gators last season, signed with agent Andy Miller which means he is eligible to be taken in the upcoming NBA Draft.
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Jacksonville Jaguars defensive end and former Gator
Jeremy Mincey will be honored Sunday with the NFL's Continuing Education Recognition Award, the N4A Award, by the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics.
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William Green is a man of few words. He would rather let his play on the field do all the talking for him. One of the nation’s most highly recruited defensive ends out of Hoover (AL) Spain Park, Green will be heading to Gainesville in just a few days and he’s excited about the move. All except for one thing. Green loves to train, but from what he’s heard about Florida strength and conditioning coach Mickey Marotti, he knows he better be prepared to run the stadium steps and plenty of gassers.
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University of Florida center Marreese Speights (St. Petersburg, Fla.) will keep his name in the upcoming NBA Draft, forgoing his final two years of eligibility.
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Just when the Florida Gators had apparently signed the final piece of their 2008 recruiting class, Coach Urban Meyer pulled off a national signing day surprise. When T.J. Lawrence announced on ESPN that he was a Gator, everybody thought the class was complete but there was one more piece to the puzzle --- David Young, a big offensive tackle from Edwardsville, Illinois.
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