T&L Spring Previews: GatorsOnline.com's Nick De La Torre Previews Florida
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🗓️ 28 March 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A Super Talk Mississippi Media Production. |
| 0:06.6 | We're headed to Florida for today's installment of our spring previews. Nick DeLotori |
| 0:10.8 | joins me. He's from Gators Online, which is the On3 website covering Florida. |
| 0:15.3 | Got a really good crew down there covering the Gators. And I mean, we know the situation down there in Florida, right? Year |
| 0:22.8 | three of Billy Napier, the first two years have not gone according to what Florida fans |
| 0:27.4 | would expect from their program. What's the mood, though, of the program and those within the |
| 0:32.4 | building going into this year three? Yeah, springs is time for when hope springs eternal, right? |
| 0:40.1 | All the stories that spring are happy and positive. |
| 0:43.9 | That's the case in Gainesville. |
| 0:46.5 | There's a lot of newness, three new coaches on the defensive side of the ball, |
| 0:51.2 | including Ron Roberts, who was Billy Napier's |
| 0:54.6 | defensive coordinator at Louisiana. |
| 0:57.6 | So there's a lot of hope. |
| 0:59.1 | I think you get that hope because of the new coaches. |
| 1:02.6 | You get that hope because you have a 23-year-old quarterback coming back in Graham Mertz, |
| 1:08.6 | who, you know, I questioned the take even when Florida took him last year. |
| 1:14.9 | You know, what are you doing going to the Big Ten, namely Wisconsin? |
| 1:20.0 | This is an offense and an expectation of offense that Steve Spurrier built that Urban Meyer tweets, |
| 1:26.8 | but, you know, raised to new levels. |
| 1:29.3 | And Wisconsin can't spell pass and has no interest in it. |
| 1:35.0 | And Graham Mertz certainly exceeded all those expectations. |
| 1:38.9 | And there's such a history of quarterbacks in the second year of the system coming out of the transfer portal. |
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