Gainesville

Gainesville, Florida, 1990.

On the 23rd of August, students Christina Powell and Sonya Larson were preparing to start their freshman year at the University of Florida.

They are the very vision of hope and happiness and joy for the future.

His capacity for violence and his appetite for violence was more than anyone I had ever encountered.

A reign of terror had been unleashed.

A serial killer the press dubbed the Gainesville Ripper was on the loose.

Danny Rolling was taking the lives of innocent victims all over town, making him one of the world's most evil killers.

Gainesville, a university city in inland Florida.

Going to miss you at the Warfel event?

Yeah, I'm actually in Mississippi right now visiting my grandkids, and then I'm going to get back to Gainesville Thursday, get on the team plane, fly up.

Yeah, I won't be able to make it this year.

Great event.

That was Shane's last two years playing for the Gators.

Yeah, it went Shane, then it went Werfel, and then at that point it was just like they replicated.

They have a cloning machine in Gainesville somewhere where they just kept making the same guy over and over again until they made a robot in Tim Tebow, and then it changed even more.

But, yeah, Shane, legend of the game and really deserves a ton of credit for helping build Florida back to what it is because I don't think folks remember Florida leading up to Spurrier Wasn't good.

Go to Athens this year.

Bring Georgia to Gainesville next year.

Instead of going to Atlanta.

We'll see.

Matthew, yeah, I've seen that float around, too, on social media.

I remember when Kirby threw shots at Summerall at the Coach Roast.

It was at Spurgers in Gainesville earlier this year.

You're starting to see that make the rounds again.

The speculation was always going to be there, and we have to still talk about it, even though as much as I don't want Coach Beamer ever gone, because I want him to win here, sure.

us like everyone um the idea that that the bye week was going to be spent looking for other head coaches and candidates and whether or not he was going to be fired on the bye week depending what happened in Gainesville you know they were a 14 and a half point favorite we all thought it was going to be like this nightmare they go in there and kick their ass and the next thing you know Now you're going to Tennessee with something else more to play for.

And what you were able to do during the bye week was spend time trying to re-recruit not just your current recruits, not just the guys you're trying to flip like Nate Canva, but also your team.

And very few staffs have been out ahead of that more than South Carolina has dating back to as early as 2024.

Maybe not against the point spread, but beating Tennessee.

They went to Florida and won in Gainesville the week prior.

It's a team that seems to be finding its way a little bit under Shane Beamer.

Yeah, and you look at both these teams, and they're sitting in basically the exact same spot.

since then, how's that been going?

How's it been since old Thunder Dan left Gainesville? They have hired back-to-back Sun Belt champions to run their program.

And I'm talking about they are performing exactly... like a Sunbelt coach should perform in the SEC.

Florida's a joke of a program, Clint.

Hopefully we'll continue to go down if they'll continue to have us.

And second consecutive, too, heading down to Gainesville to take them on.

Other non-conference, you've got the America East and Metro Challenge.

You've got UMass Lowell, which will be the home opener, a week from Thursday on the 5th of November, and then a week from Sunday on the 8th, you'll head to Albany to take on UAlbany.

Let's get to the calls here before I choke to death.

Linda in Gainesville is up next.

Well, good afternoon, Paul.

How in the world are you this afternoon?

One in Athens.

One in Gainesville.

Go back to Jacksonville and play.

We'll see, man.