Four-star running back prospect Mike Davis once said Florida’s biggest ailment on the field was its need for “bigger backs.”
Mark Pantoni has been behind the curtains of the big show that is Florida football since Urban Meyer’s tenure.
ST. PETERSBURG — Dante Fowler Jr. could be considered either one of high school football’s biggest question marks or one of its boldest exclamation points.
Uriah LeMay is 17 years old, but he was in Gainesville to celebrate the Gators winning a BCS title before most students on campus applied to college.
LAND O’LAKES — The 6-foot-5, 215-pound son of a former Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive tackle tries very hard to keep his secrets.
Breaking up isn’t as hard as it’s said to be.
Although Saturday’s Southeastern Conference matchup between the Gators and the Crimson Tide resulted in Florida’s first loss of the year, the weekend was UF’s most important, of the season for the team’s future.
Austin Hardin is 5-foot-11, 200 pounds, squats twice that weight and maxed out benching 290 pounds last year. He said his 40-yard dash clocks in at 4.4 seconds. He regularly takes snaps for Atlanta Marist High as a corner, a strong safety or, depending on the sugar content of his coach’s breakfast cereal, a halfback.
ST. PETERSBURG — Marcus Maye lights up most fields he steps on — even the barely-lit ones.
Nine-hundred twenty-five miles is a long way from home.
While some might say Kyle Murphy is destined to be a West Coast guy, the offensive tackle said he is still open to colleges all over the country.
For Ocean Lakes High (Va.) defensive end Eli Harold, today is significant.
Friday Night Lights is marketed as one of the nation’s grandest showcases for top-tier high school football players.
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — With the mid-July sun beating down on the two football fields at Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex over the weekend, 64 of the nation’s top high school football players participated in an inter-regional battle for touch football supremacy.
While Will Muschamp’s first crack at hosting a Friday Night Lights camp didn’t produce any new commitments on Friday, it clearly left an impression on many of the undecided recruits in attendance.
While Will Muschamp’s first crack at hosting a Friday Night Lights
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When the hip hop music blasts and UF coaches begin issuing orders at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on Friday, four reigning 3A state champions will take the field for Florida’s seventh-annual Friday Night Lights camp.
Marcus Maye has known for a while how he feels about Florida. On Monday, he decided to make his feelings public.
Last Friday, Georgia held its “Dawg Night” camp, a high school prospect event similar to Florida’s Friday Night Lights. In one night, the Bulldogs got five oral commitments — two from top recruits who the Gators had on their wish list.
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