A bowl game seems to be almost a given for this year’s team. It wasn’t long ago when that seemed like a long shot. The expectations are high again in Gainesville. Let’s see if these Gators can live up to expectations!

There is a bit of that old Al Davis – “Just win, baby!” – swagger in Jon Sumrall, whose four teams at two different whistlestops prior to Florida (Troy and Tulane) produced 43 wins, four trips to conference championship games, three conference championships (2 Sun Belt, 1 American) and one trip to the College Football Playoff (Tulane 2025). Just because Florida is a step up in competition, Sumrall has the same championship expectations that he had coaching in the Sun Belt and

The Gators have been wandering in the football wilderness long enough to know every cactus by name. They have cycled through coaches, quarterbacks, coordinators, athletic-department philosophies and enough hope to fill Lake Alice.

Former Gator Xaivian Lee is seeking a fifth season of eligibility (Photo by Chris Spears) “Chaos, when left alone, tends to multiply.” – Stephen Hawking Even before this most recent slew of losses in court rooms across America the NCAA was taking ineptitude to unprecedented levels but in the aftermath of Friday’s ruling in Colorado by Federal Judge Charlotte Sweeney all hell has indeed broken loose. Hand it to the NCAA. They did predict this would happen. What they didn’t d

So here we are again, and in a few days Jon Sumrall saddles up for his first fall camp as a Gator, report day Aug. 4 with practice starting Aug. 5, two scrimmages on tap for the 15th and 22nd, and the whole operation pointed at a Sept. 5 opener against Florida Atlantic. And he’s doing it without a starting quarterback, still choosing between Aaron Philo and Tramell Jones Jr. — or, as he keeps reminding everybody, maybe not choosing at all just yet.

(Photo by Chris Spears) There is this scene in the classic movie “Cool Hand Luke” in which chain gang inmates Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) and Dragline (George Kennedy) are forced into a boxing match to settle their differences. From the very beginning, Dragline is simply too big, too powerful. His punches keep knocking Luke to his knees, but Luke refuses to quit. Bloodied and severely beaten, he can’t get to his feet but keeps swinging weakly, hitting nothing but air. I thou