Gators Football

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It is now official; the Gator football program has a new offensive coordinator to replace the fired Brent Pease. Gator coach Will Muschamp announced Thursday that Duke offensive coordinator Kurt Roper would officially be the new Florida offensive coordinator starting in January.  He will also be UF’s quarterback coach. Roper …

Gator great and ex-NFL player Terry Jackson was destined to be a Florida Gator. A native of Gainesville, Jackson grew up in a Gator household. To be more specific, he grew up in a house where both his father and older brother played football for the Gators. His father, Willie …

Sturgis strives for consistency during season’s final weeks Florida’s struggles on the football field this season spanned nearly every position group on the team, but one of the biggest drops in production from 2012 was the kicking department. The Gators struggled to replace two-time All-American Caleb Sturgis, using three kickers …

Emmitt Smith Part 4 Wrap Leaving the game of football was one of the hardest decisions Emmitt Smith ever had to make. After having one of the most successful careers in NFL history, Smith finally decided to hang up his cleats for good on February 4th, 2005. With multiple Super Bowl …

Ron Zook Audio Story (click to listen) A successful University of Florida football coach resigns after bringing a national championship and a Heisman trophy winner to Gainesville. The man who replaces him has a record over three years that many teams would see as a successful run, but a very …

Smith chose to forgo his senior year of college at the University of Florida and entered the 1990 NFL draft. After having a very successful college career with Florida, in which he broke 58 school records, Smith was projected to be a 1st round draft pick. Similar to what he …

University of Florida football coach Will Muschamp on Sunday fired offensive coordinator Brent Pease and offensive line coach Tim Davis. The announcement was officially made Sunday afternoon.   Muschamp in a release thanked both Pease and Davis for their service and there was no indication of who would be hired …

Something that Florida head football coach Will Muschamp has taken from this season is a little thing called humility. “It’s a great lesson to be humbled in life a little bit sometimes…there’s nothing wrong with that, it’s good for us.” To say the Gators were humbled a little is an …

[jwplayer config=”News-video file=”wruf/FSUcutsfield.mp4″ html5_file=http://fms01.jou.ufl.edu/wruf/FSUcutsfield.mp4] FSU linebacker Telvin Smith took part in Florida State’s “Sod Cemetery” tradition on Saturday after FSU’s 37-7 win over the Gators by cutting a chunk of sod from Florida Field. Meanwhile, the Florida band played the Alma Mater in the background and the crowd ironically sang …