Florida’s wide receiving corps was arguably the weakest position on the entire Gator football team last season.
The 2014 edition of The Opening football camp kicks off this Friday and runs until July 10 at Nike’s headquarters in Beaverton, Ore.
With a football program that grows further out of touch with its fanbase as the days go by, the University Athletic Association announced on April 14 that it was going to employ an innovative way to respond to the qualms of supporters.
One year, six months and eight days after he officially joined the Florida football staff, Joker Phillips is out as the Gators’ wide receivers coach after resigning Wednesday, according to the school’s website.
Florida has landed its quarterback of the future.
When it comes to high school football recruiting, there is no such thing as an offseason. The 2014 session of Will Muschamp’s football camps kicked off Friday afternoon, featuring some of the best high school football players from across the state.
A revamped Florida offense seemed to be missing a piece coming out of spring practice. In the crippled passing attack that threw for only 2051 yards in 2013 -- 12th in the SEC and 109th in the nation -- tight ends weren’t much of a focal point if any could be found in an inept offense.
There might not be real football to be played until late August, but that doesn’t stop news from breaking around the Southeastern Conference. In the past week, SEC football TV schedules were announced, Florida’s 2015 recruiting class picked up two commitments and a former Gator national champion announced his return to the Gainesville campus.
As you walk past “Gator Mania” in the Oaks Mall, you take in a storefront that vomits orange and blue. But hanging on a mannequin in a display window is an orange shirt with a blue crab on it that has the No. 5 right in the middle, inviting you to visit ‘Jameis’ famous crab shack emporium.’”
Editor’s Note: A version of this story ran online on May 15.
6-1-1, 6-0-2, 6-2-0. They’re not area codes found in your local phone book, they’re different number combinations to get to the magic number the Southeastern Conference has finally settled on as it pertains to league football games: eight.
One year ago, Florida was coming off a magical 11-2 season that included a berth in the Allstate Sugar Bowl. The Gators were pegged to contend for a Southeastern Conference Eastern Division title and were even labeled as a dark-horse national title candidate in 2013.
Orange clad tables, a silent auction and a packed room of Gators fans greeted coach Will Muschamp on one of the final stops on his offseason speaking tour at the 2014 Gator Gathering at Emerson Alumni Hall — closer to home than any of the other spots around the state.
Former Florida wide receiver Reche Caldwell is in trouble with the law again. This time Caldwell was arrested for possession of the drug ecstasy with the intent to sell.
ORLANDO — It’s not easy to stand in front of a fanbase that just witnessed a 4-8 season and tell them everything is going to get better.
Thirty-five cornerbacks were selected between Thursday and Saturday in the 256-pick NFL draft — Marcus Roberson and Loucheiz Purifoy were not on that list.
After no player from Florida was selected in Rounds 2 or 3 of the NFL draft on Friday, three heard their names called on the third and final day of the draft.
The Gators added another weapon for their spread offense.
Dominique Easley is a first-round pick.
Jeff Driskel took to Florida Field during Saturday’s Orange and Blue Debut for the first time since suffering a season-ending fractured fibula against Tennessee on Sept. 21, 2013.
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