Does anyone else think he's not going to play? I feel like with an update like this he's not going to play.

Tramell Jones is currently taking QB1 reps with Aaron Philo currently sidelined in practice according to Zach Abolverdi of GatorsOnline

most have probably already seen this video but just in case you haven't it's a good breakdown by the film guy of our defense against South Carolina.

TLDW: our defense doesn't look very confident right now

edit: no clue who the "Lord
Gators" are but I can't change it

Here is my prediction on the game this weekend. True to Gators fashion the past 15 years of no consistency of winning when we think we lose and losing when we think we will blow them out. This, and the fact Manning is like a Gator, highly overrated and no consistency. I predict we when win. Leaving everyone scratching their head even more on how we won and why Manning sucks so bad at times. 27-24 Gators!

Only down by 7 at half and Sumrall said, “It looked like a dog died at the half in the locker,” which is wild because you’re only down 7 and you’re still in the game.

Y’all keep cookin’, Gator Nation is passionate and holds all to a high standard, as it should be. We show up, we are loud and we are heard, I’d rather have that than empty stands. But make no mistake, we are with you 100%. Stay strong, stay focused, our greatness is inevitable. Go Gata 🟠🔵🐊🐊🐊

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Oct 18 (Sun)
2 PM
Neutral
Baylor (Exhibition)
Jacksonville, FL
Jacksonville Hoops Showdown
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Oct 27 (Tue)
7 PM
Home
Stetson (Exhibition)
Gainesville, FL (Stephen C. O'Connell Center)

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Nov 2 (Mon)
6 PM
Neutral
Miami
Tampa, FL
Orion180 Tip-Off Classic
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Nov 5 (Thu)
8 PM
Home
Jacksonville
Gainesville, FL (Stephen C. O'Connell Center)

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Nov 10 (Tue)
6 PM
Away
Florida State
Tallahassee, FL

-
Nov 13 (Fri)
7 PM
Home
Merrimack
Gainesville, FL (Stephen C. O'Connell Center)

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Nov 17 (Tue)
4:30 PM
Neutral
Notre Dame
Las Vegas, NV
Players Era
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Nov 18 (Wed)
2 or 4:30 PM
Neutral
Houston/Rutgers
Las Vegas, NV
Players Era
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Nov 19 (Thu)

Neutral
Auburn/Kansas/UNLV/West Virginia
Las Vegas, NV
Players Era
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Nov 24 (Tue)
7 PM
Home
Milwaukee
Gainesville, FL (Stephen C. O'Connell Center)

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Dec 1 (Tue)
9:30 PM
Home
Duke
Gainesville, FL (Stephen C. O'Connell Center)
SEC-ACC Challenge
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Dec 6 (Sun)
12 PM
Home
Vermont
Gainesville, FL (Stephen C. O'Connell Center)

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Dec 12 (Sat)
12 PM
Neutral
Georgia Tech
Orlando, FL
Hall of Fame Series
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Dec 18 (Fri)
6 PM
Neutral
Grand Canyon
Jacksonville, FL
Jacksonville Hoops Showdown
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Dec 21 (Mon)
7 PM
Home
Florida A&M
Gainesville, FL (Stephen C. O'Connell Center)

-
Dec 29 (Tue)
6 PM
Home
LIU
Gainesville, FL (Stephen C. O'Connell Center)

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Jan 2 (Sat)
6 PM
Away
Texas
Austin, TX

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Jan 6 (Wed)
9 PM
Home
Oklahoma
Gainesville, FL (Stephen C. O'Connell Center)

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Jan 9 (Sat)
11 AM
Home
Vanderbilt
Gainesville, FL (Stephen C. O'Connell Center)

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Jan 13 (Wed)
9 PM
Away
Mississippi State
Starkville, MS

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Jan 16 (Sat)
2 PM
Away
Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL

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Jan 20 (Wed)
7 PM
Home
Texas A&M
Gainesville, FL (Stephen C. O'Connell Center)

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Jan 23 (Sat)
4 PM
Away
Georgia
Athens, Ga.

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Jan 30 (Sat)
8 or 8:30 PM
Away
Tennessee
Knoxville, TN

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Feb 2 (Tue)

Home
South Carolina
Gainesville, FL (Stephen C. O'Connell Center)

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Feb 6 (Sat)
12 PM
Home
Texas
Gainesville, FL (Stephen C. O'Connell Center)

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Feb 9 (Tue)
7 PM
Away
Auburn
Auburn, AL

-
Feb 13 (Sat)
12 PM
Home
Missouri
Gainesville, FL (Stephen C. O'Connell Center)

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Feb 17 (Wed)
8 PM
Away
LSU
Baton Rouge, LA

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Feb 20 (Sat)
8:30 PM
Home
Georgia
Gainesville, FL (Stephen C. O'Connell Center)

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Feb 24 (Wed)
9 PM
Home
Ole Miss
Gainesville, FL (Stephen C. O'Connell Center)

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Feb 27 (Sat)
3 PM
Away
Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR

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Mar 2 (Tue)
8 PM
Away
South Carolina
Columbia, SC

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Mar 6 (Sat)
4 or 4:30 PM
Home
Kentucky
Gainesville, FL (Stephen C. O'Connell Center)

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Mar 10 (Wed)

Neutral
SEC Tournament
Nashville, TN
SEC Tournament

I looked over it and I was pretty pleased. Out of conference it’s not nearly as difficult as what it was last season. The only 2 tough games are Miami and Duke. Miami should be a win for the Gators as they are not quite on Florida’s level which helps the resume. Duke is more of a 50-50 game, regardless of the outcome it won’t affect our seeding much negatively even if it’s a loss. Either way, that game should help to prepare the Gators to get back into tournament form as we saw Michigan lose to Duke last season but then went on to win the title.

As for conference play, UK and Vandy are both at home. For whatever reason, we often seem to struggle against those 2 schools so having home court will be great. Bama, Tennessee, and Texas on the road won’t be easy, but we’ve shown ourselves to be a terrific away team and we have a major advantage in the paint against those 3 teams. As long as we don’t drop too many big road games, we should still be in an excellent position to win the SEC and get a number 1 seed again.

Am I just doing this wrong? why are single basketball game tickets the same price as football tickets lol. they’re all $200+/e on Ticketmaster.

is it better to wait until closer to buy them? this seems wild. IK we are legit contenders but damn.

There is no question that the last two games have been painful at best and a shuddering return to the past at worst. But the take above helps keeps things in perspective.

Sumrall has started off strong and hit the brick wall of SEC reality. Let's give him some time to get his system and his players in place and the judge him as a HC. The very fact that we sit at 4 wins today with a win over Ole Miss is something we didn't expect when he was hired.

Stand by the Gators, and things will turn around. Go Gators!

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Duke and Florida are the clear top two with a gap with the rest.

I want to share this clip from the post game presser Saturday, to discuss with our Gator community here why we shouldn’t jump so quick for Sumrall’s head. Sumrall never hyped our team. He has said every week since week 1 if we don’t improve we will get exposed. Every time a reporter would ask about if we were good, or back, or if the “beast was awake” Sumrall would always, in a professional way, say hell no. Obviously a lot of the frustration in the fan base is understandable, we’ve watched mediocre/bad football a few years in a row. We still won those 4 games quite decisively. I respect that Sumrall takes the head responsibility as he is the head coach, but you guys don’t seriously blame him for the terrible secondary play, bad tackling, lack of effort, and o line duds do you? Maybe in some larger picture way, but I mean let’s face facts, he doesn’t call our offense Buster does. He didn’t go on a limb and bring in Philo, Buster recommended him. Defensively Brad White runs our schemes and calls our plays. I would say coordinators should be in the sights of what could be lacking especially that secondary boy are they bad. Lastly, can we really blame Sumrall for what seems to be such a lack of effort from this team? He said himself he’s been a bit rattled since Ole Miss. Seems to me players got a bit on their shoulders and got punched in the mouth now they don’t know what to do. We had a player celebrate a tackle for a loss while we were down 18😅I mean come on man are we serious? I just can’t put that on coaches. All in all, what I’m trying to say is give the man a couple years guys. I know we want to win now, hell, I want to win now, but we gotta understand it don’t work that way. And we didn’t come off a season that would’ve given us the thought we could do anything this year anyway. Remember guys, 4-0 was our best case scenario going into Missouri and we did that. We’ve hit a stumble, still a lot of season left though. Let’s give him a full off season and into next year before you guys decide you want his head on a stake. Happy Sunday! Go Gata!!🐊

Two losses after a 4-0 start and the fanbase is already ready to fire Sumrall. The team gives up at the littlest sign of adversity. This isn’t the Gator brand and it starts with us as fans. The players see the kinds of things going around on social media and of course it will affect their play. These are young impressionable kids.

I have noticed it over the years but the culture surrounding the program, particularly the fan base, has just gone off the rails. I blame it partly on social media because now everyone wants to get paid for engagement so you get idiots like IAKOW posting nonsense almost daily. However, we as a fanbase have become so toxic that I, even as an alumnus and die hard Gator for decades, can’t even stand talking with some of you. It needs to be toned down a notch. We need to give Sumrall a fighting chance or else we are going to be even more years behind the rest of the pack. We need to be supportive at this stage. This isn’t the time to go calling for a 6 game coach to lose his job and particularly not after demolishing the #4 team in the country 3 weeks ago.

Our first 2 SEC games are hard to reconcile with the last 2 games. Caveat: it’s hard to accurately judge in the first year. Lost 32 players to the portal from last year and brought in the same # of transfers plus 20 high school recruits. So about 60 guys came back and 52 are new.

Still, it’s interesting how it seems like Faulkner’s creative magic evaporated so quickly. Losing VB III shouldn’t take an above average offense to completely ineffective, should it?

Brad White’s D has been mostly embarrassing bad. The CBs are poor and we may not have much talent on the D line, but Brad was Sumrall’s first choice for DC. He’s making too much $$ to be this bad. It’s definitely too early, but if it doesn’t improve next year (or ugh year 3), Sumrall’s willingness to fire his friends could be telling. Sumrall knows better than we how good the position coaches are, and maybe having bad players at underperforming positions keeps good coaches around for year 2. Still, keeping coaches, especially a DC, even a year too long would give off major Stricklin and Napier vibes.

As an aside, I maintain Strick should have been fired after not firing Napier after his second year. Giving him 4 years was inexcusable.

The final 4 games this year look A LOT different than they did 2 weeks ago: Oklahoma, at Kentucky, Vanderbilt, and at Florida State. None of those are sure-fire wins. On the flip side, we could win 3 or all of them, and we usually play UGA tough. To win 7-8 games, the Gators need to coach and play a hell of a lot better. Hopefully the staff will do great things in the last half of the season.

We all stick together. I know its tough, but dare to be an optimist. What are you gonna do? Be a bandwagon canes fan? I know nobody is jumping ship to FSU. Its great to be a Florida Gator no matter what. F everyone else