Six Florida Gators Make Coaches Preseason All-SEC Team

by FlaGators on Jul 14, 2011 11:57 AM EDT in Florida Football

Six Florida Gators football players have been voted All-SEC by the league coaches for the upcoming 2011 football season. That's the good news. The bad news however, is that none of the six made the first team. The Gators placed two on the second team and four on the third team.

The Gators' lone representative on the second team offense is RB Jeff Demps. Not really a surprise there as he is expected to be a focal-point of the offense this season under Charlie Weis.

Linebackers Jon Bostic and Jelani Jenkins both earned third team defensive honors. Caleb Sturgis was voted second team kicker, Andre Debose was voted third team return specialist and Trey Burton was voted third team all-purpose specialist.

The one omission that jumped out at me rather quickly was Jaye Howard. The guy has garnered quite a bit of preseason love from the national media. I think that he should have at least been voted to the second team.

It is clear that when looking at this breakdown by school, that the coaches think Alabama is the most talented team in the SEC. What I find interesting is LSU's number. If everyone thinks they are a top five team to start the season, where are the players to back it up? I've said from the start that LSU is overrated and I stand by that comment.

It appears that the coaches also like Arkansas a lot. At least the players at Arkansas, anyway. Bobby Petrino certainly looks like he his taking that program in the right direction.

Looking for a surprise team? Look no further than Georgia. They've got the talent (especially at QB) and the schedule to make things happen.

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Alabama's seven first-teamers seem a bit much.

Really, Alabama has seven of the best players in the conference?

Also, Georgia? Georgia?

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by Andy Hutchins on Jul 14, 2011 12:04 PM EDT reply actions

I know right. I mean, I know their schedule looks pretty, but I wasn’t expecting that many first teamers.

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by FlaGators on Jul 14, 2011 12:22 PM EDT up reply actions

How can they leave out Jay?

The guy has so much potential going into this season.

Really disappointing.

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by Gatorbuc15 on Jul 14, 2011 12:07 PM EDT reply actions

I must have wrote, edited and changed the Jaye Howard sentence(s) probably 15 times. I didn’t know what to say. I still don’t.

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by FlaGators on Jul 14, 2011 12:22 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah I'm dumbfounded

I mean it’s actually kind of sickening.

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by Gatorbuc15 on Jul 14, 2011 12:35 PM EDT up reply actions

Too. Excited. About. DT. Talent!!!

My guess (which would probably be wrong in this case) is that it’s hard to pick one DT from the four-headed monster. But I say that being totally biased and drooling over Jay’Omar Sharrif Easley.

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by The Bull Gator on Jul 14, 2011 12:39 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 1 recs

You’ve got a point. All 4 of them are monsters, but Jaye does have more experience. And that’s a pretty valuable thing to have, especially in this conference.

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by Gatorbuc15 on Jul 14, 2011 12:47 PM EDT up reply actions

Jay’Omar Sharrif Easley.

Fantastic.

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by FlaGators on Jul 14, 2011 1:57 PM EDT up reply actions

lol

Yeah I should have given him props for that as well.

Nice one Bull.

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by Gatorbuc15 on Jul 14, 2011 2:29 PM EDT up reply actions

motivation

This should serve to be a major motivating factor to the Gator squad….gone is the automatic respect that came with two national championships. any swagger now must be earned.

All SEC will mean something. Expect to see a big change when they hand out the awards.

by Chuck Meyer on Jul 14, 2011 12:32 PM EDT reply actions