Florida Gators football

Florida Recruiting: Inaugural Early Signing Day Preview Tomorrow marks the first early signing period for college football recruits. Prospects from around the country will be shutting down their recruitment processes, signing, and early enrolling to their program of choice. Dan Mullen was introduced as the 27th head coach in Florida Gators history just three weeks prior to the inaugural signing period. Despite seven de-commitments from the Gators 2018 recruiting class since the arrival of Mullen

They called their concoction ‘Gatorade’.” “1967: PROVEN ON THE FIELD” "The Florida Gators varsity team, led by legendary coach Ray Graves and fueled by Gatorade, win the coveted Orange Bowl for the first time in their history, beating the favoured Georgia Tech. In the game Gators running back Larry Smith has a 94-yard touchdown run setting an Orange Bowl record. After the game, Georgia’s coach Bobby Dodd tells Graves, “We didn’t

Tebow was born in the Philippines to his parents, Bob and Pam Tebow. They were serving as Christian missionaries in the Philippines during the time their son Tim was born. Even though Tim was born in the Philippines, he grew up in Jacksonville, Florida. Tim has four other siblings: Katie Tebow, Robby Tebow, Peter Tebow, and Christy Tebow (TIM TEBOW). All of the Tebow children were homeschooled by their mother Pam, and while they were going through school their mother worked to instill the family’s

bottles of Thirst Quencher. Gatorade had been in football since the athletes were doing strenuous exercises, they “continually battled dehydration in the Florida heat” (Wickford). Our bodies sweat system relies on “salts to pump water onto our skin to evaporate and cool us off” (Wilcox). But is Gatorade as healthy as they make it out to be? Gatorade says that their drink was “born in a Lab” (Jim F). In early summer of 1965, a University of Florida assistant coach sat down with a team of university

Minor League Baseball player. He had switched from the National Football League to play baseball for the Minor League team of the New York Mets. He had switched sports because the Patriots wanted him to change his position from quarterback. He told them that he couldn’t picture himself as anything other than quarterback before he made the switch. When Tim Tebow switched there was a big controversy on why he switched. Many football fans believed that he had only switched because he had enough

Why not Water? “Sports drinks such as Gatorade promise better athletic performance, but in some cases they’re not really necessary. Water does the trick in many cases” (Kent). Gatorade is the most commonly sought after sports drink by athletes. Gatorade uses effective advertising to encourage consumers to buy their product. With the use of professional athletes and other celebrities, Gatorade’s ads persuade people everywhere their product is superior to consuming water. In this ad, Gatorade uses

Tim Tebow is a pro star athlete. He played football in college and then played in the NFL. He now plays pro baseball. Tim Tebow is also very religious. Tim Tebow also runs a foundation called the Tim Tebow Foundation. Tim Tebow is a very positive role model. Tim Tebow is a positive role model through his actions of creating the Tim Tebow Foundation, supporting opportunities for kids with special needs, and being a star athlete. Tim Tebow impacted many people through creating the Tim

Analysis) College Football is American Football played by student athletes at universities and colleges around the Nation. In American Football they have a Quarterback, in most cases, the Quarterback is the leader and focal point of the Football Team. At the University of Florida, they had a guy named Tim Tebow. Tim Tebow was the Heisman winning and Star Quarterback for the University of Florida Gators, but was also well known for his public display of religious faith on and off the Football Field. On

Meyer has been a college football head coach for 14 seasons and has amassed a record of 154 wins with only 27 loses, resulting in an 85% winning percentage. (www.sports-reference.com, 2016) The Wall Street Journal

Florida Recruiting: Making Florida fun again In a few weeks, the Athletic Director for the University of Florida, Scott Stricklin, will announce the new head football coach for the Gators. One huge focal area for Stricklin is finding a coach that will implement an offensive scheme that matches the Gators' need. The certain type of offense that many are calling for in Gainesville is the spread option philosophy, while also running run/pass option attacks (once seen under Urban Meyer). Currently