Florida Football Spring Practice Opens March 14: Gators Will Have Open Practices March 16, 17
by Andy Hutchins on Feb 22, 2012 11:28 AM EST
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Florida's closed practices have been a thorn in the side of media members who see no reason for the cloak of secrecy that Urban Meyer draped over the Gators and Will Muschamp merely tailored to look more like Nick Saban's in his first year as Florida's head coach. So this is good news: Florida's spring practice begins on March 14, and there will be open practices on Friday, March 16 from 4:25 p.m. to 6:35 p.m. and on Saturday, March 17 from 12:55 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., giving fans and media members a chance to see Muschamp and the rest of Florida's coaches drill players for the first time in at least a few years. The practices will be free and open to the public.
The bad news? That's during the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament, and there's virtually no chance that the practices won't conflict with a Florida basketball game. Either the Gators will play on Thursday in a "second round" game and then, likely, on Saturday in a "third round" game, or they will play on Friday in a "second round" game. If they want to hold out hope of seeing both practice and the NCAA Tournament games in whole, fans' best bet is to hope for Florida to play late in the evening on Friday.
But for fans who want to support both teams, there will be a choice; for media members who will be on the road and covering the Gators at a sub-regional site, the practices come at the least opportune time, because while they will still whine about the lack of openness and access, fans are just going to tweet, "BUT MUSCHAMP OPENED PRACTICE WHERE WERE YOU?!?!" back at them.
To which I say: Well played, Coach Boom. Well played.
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I refuse to acknowledge those first couple games as “first round.” The games that are being played when the field is set, count. Those other games, yeah … leave it to the little fish to actually count that crap.
As for football practices being open to the public. Yeah, that’ll work.
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Yep. I was just about to comment about how he put the rounds in quotes. Very nice. Absolutely retarded that almost every team automatically advances to the “second round” without ever playing a game. Also, whoever made the call at CBS to not renew Gus Johnson’s contract is an idiot. How do you let that guy walk? Unbelievable.
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It makes no sense at all. Second round my … yeah. Not at all. The Gus Johnson thing still makes no sense to me. Kind of like the aforementioned bracket round thing. No sense at all.
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Well played indeed Coach Boom
I for one would rather go to the Football practices now that Yeguette’s injury suddenly makes the Gators Saltine Cracker thin. I doubt those boys make it far in the tourney. Good team though. It’ll be interesting to see if Boyton and Beal stick around.
Motion Pro-Style Offense, featuring multiple TEs and Multiple WRs ... yep that's orange and blue football, via Brent Pease and Chris Petersen.
Boynton doesn't have anywhere to go
He’s too short to play SG and he has zero PG experience. He could test his market internationally, but I think he’d have a tough time filling a professional role other than bench scorer over seas.
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by Chekhov's Spread Gun Option on Feb 22, 2012 2:42 PM EST up reply actions
I agree
but these kids make some pretty bogus decisions some times when those “agents” start tossing around dollar figures.
Motion Pro-Style Offense, featuring multiple TEs and Multiple WRs ... yep that's orange and blue football, via Brent Pease and Chris Petersen.
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