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They arguing whether UF is a Top 10 school in the country
 
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Manny brought in Brenda Tracey a few weeks ago to talk to the team. She was raped while in college by 2 Oregon St. Football players. She talked about various things such how it affected her life and so on. I remember seeing multiple players retweet her tweet and thanked her for sharing her story.

Mullen on the other hand......although he says hes against all that stuff his actions even up till today show otherwise

If you think things like this dont go unnoticed....
 
Canes2082 said:
Manny brought in Brenda Tracey a few weeks ago to talk to the team. She was raped while in college by 2 Oregon St. Football players. She talked about various things such how it affected her life and so on. I remember seeing multiple players retweet her tweet and thanked her for sharing her story.

Mullen on the other hand......although he says hes against all that stuff his actions even up till today show otherwise

If you think things like this dont go unnoticed....
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TheOriginalCane said:
When I was at UM, I was a tutor for the Athletic Department. Keep in mind, this was during the years when Alexander Wolff called our program a criminal enterprise, when he told Tad Foote to shut the program down.

And outside of a specific instance I know about (which went through The Honor Council) involving 2 players in a test situation who were accused of looking at another student's test paper, for which they were NOT found guilty, I can tell you that nothing like what just happened at UF ever happened at UM when I was there (and I heard PLENTY of the "other" stories about behavior at parties, clubs, etc.). Players that I worked with, both individually and in groups, stayed for the entire time they were being tutored. And these were "supposedly" among the worst-behaved and "most criminal" of the Miami football players who ever attended The U.

Some of you know Dr. Anna Price, she kept a tight rein on the Academic Support program. It wasn't just some kind of "keep the kids eligible" boondoggle. If you ever went to her office, she had photo after photo from years worth of athletes who were proud to have GRADUATED, some of whom may have been the first in their family to graduate from college (as I was too). Dr. Price would devise individual study plans for every athlete, based on ability and coursework, and some had to do "more tutoring" while others required fewer hours. And the players did well. Miami had eliminated most of the "jock majors" and a good percentage of the athletes were in the School of Business with me. ****, I remember a group project that I did that included both QB Craig Erickson and LS George Michael, we got an A.

The bottom line is that Miami (and JJ's approach to the issue, after Schnellenberger had let too many academic issues slide) has a very legitimate, genuine, and individual approach to helping athletes transition from (often lesser) high school academics to college academics. I tutored Hi-C when he was academically ineligible due to Prop 48, and I helped him to make up for his lack of higher level HS math classes, so that he could handle Business Calc.

A lot of detail gets overlooked when people comment on academic support and tutoring. When I was at UM, the athletes didn't disrespect me or other tutors because they knew they would have to deal with Dr. Price. I knew when certain players were "not played in a game" because they had "broken a team rule" that basically involved not doing their required study hall/tutoring hours.

Anyhow, I know that the NCAA APR rules are something that has arisen over the past 10 or 15 years, but I can tell you that UM has been serious about academic support for the athletes since JJ took the job as head football coach in the 1980s. And people need to stop making excuses for poorly-behaved athletes "because they are young and dumb". I know that people can ***** up sometimes, but most of these college athletes grew up playing at least one sport that uses conformity and discipline to build teamwork and production. The team-sport athletes do better when the rules are enforced, as opposed to people making excuses for them. I've seen our football team, in particular, struggle when there is "star-treatment" given to certain players.

But, sure, we are going to keep hearing stories out of Gainesville about how "no charges were pressed" or that a person being choked "could talk and breathe". Think about that, and then think about why you rarely hear the same kinds of stories at UM. I'm not saying they NEVER happen, I'm just saying that UM does a better job of ACTUALLY dealing with these problems than most schools do. The Gaytors (among others) are a school that tends to react to problems, they do just enough to get by. UF is one of the schools that treats academic support as an "eligibility maintenance" program. Doesn't matter how many athlete study halls they build (they are just trying to compete with other SEC schools), the effort is not genuine and the outcomes are evidence of that.
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Another reason to love UM. Thank you for sharing.
 
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mirvin88 said:
They aren't even top 35 academically. Dumbasses don't understand how that ranking is calculated. Academics accounts for about 11-15% of it.
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You'd think they'd be happy being the top PUBLIC university in Florida academically, but no, gotta shoot for the moon and make people question your sanity.
 
Gaytors' defensive depth chart:

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Breaking down UF's fall camp depth chart: Defense

Swamp247 provides a rough outline of what Florida's depth chart on the defensive side of the ball looks like one week into fall camp.
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This one is my faaaaavorite:

NICKELBACK
Depth Chart:
Trey Dean, SO
John Huggins, RFR*
Christopher McWilliams, RJR^

* - Hasn't practiced yet this fall due to family issue.
^ - Injured during fall camp.


Nickleback suuuuucks.





This one is also funny:

CORNERBACK
FIELD
Depth Chart:
CJ Henderson, JR
Jaydon Hill, FR
Chester Kimbrough, FR
Overview: Henderson's got his side on lockdown, and as with most spots in the secondary going into 2019, the real question marks are about the depth behind him. Hill or Elam could fill in in a pinch behind him, so don't get too locked into the field or boundary designations here. Kimbrough's a little slight build wise to think he could fully handle the physicality of the SEC as a true freshman.
_______________
BOUNDARY
Depth Chart:
Marco Wilson, RSO
Kaiir Elam, FR
Overview: While we're only listing two players on the depth chart here, it's worth noting that Trey Dean could slide over if there are any issues, bumping someone else into the starting nickelback role. Still, Wilson looks great this fall and Elam is probably the first man up at cornerback should anything happen to either Wilson or Henderson this fall.



So read the highlighted sentence again. Then look at the 2 footnotes above. We should give a prize to anyone who can figure out who the "someone else" is who would be "bumped" into the starting nickleback role. The injured guy? The guy who strangled his tutor? Or the 3 true freshmen?





And the safeties. Oh, lord, the safeties:

FREE SAFETY
Depth Chart:
Donovan Stiner, JR
Shawn Davis, JR
Overview: Stiner has been the real constant at safety, with coaches constantly praising his football IQ and ability to understand the defense and how to pattern-match the offense properly. That's an underrated quality and could lead to him starting the majority of the games again this fall. Davis continues to plug away in that regard. If it finally clicks for him, he could be a difference-maker in the secondary.
STRONG SAFETY
Depth Chart:
Jeawon Taylor, SR
Brad Stewart, JR^
Quincy Lenton, RJR
Overview: Taylor is limited in fall camp to non-contact work due to a shoulder injury, but he's a fairly likely starter at this point given that Stewart has continually dealt with off-the-field issues. As of Friday, Stewart was also missing practice due to a seeming injury, something that will need to be monitored going forward. Bottom line: Florida's depth at safety is extremely thin at this point in fall camp.



Good lord, we need to put 5 WRs/TEs on the field for every play and just throw the ball constantly. We won't even need to worry about our OTs, our receivers are just going to be running free all over the field.
 
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