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Florida Vs. Tennessee Game Thread: Gators Seek Revenge In Shiny Duds

Tennessee Volunteers at Florida Gators, Feb 11, 2012 4:00 PM EST


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One time, Florida went to Tennessee and lost a road game at a presumably bad team in January without being very competitive. Today, the Gators seek revenge on a newly Jarnell Stokes'd team in Gainesville — and Florida will be wearing Nike Hyper Elite Platinum uniforms that may spark some discussion.

I will be at the game and recapping it afterward.

Kickoff Time

4:00 p.m. Eastern

TV, Radio and Streaming Information

The game will be broadcast regionally on the SEC Network. You can also watch it streaming online through Watch ESPN. The radio broadcast will also be available on the Gator Radio Network or on Sirius 220 and XM 199.

What to Watch For

Patric Young had only a decent game in Knoxville, and will have a sizable task on his hands in Stokes, who has a strained wrist but is expected to play. Rocky Top Talk warns that the Vols are terrible on the road, which, uh, seems familiar. And Florida's three-point shooting was bad against Tennessee in the teams' first meeting, and even worse against Kentucky on Tuesday, so let's hope for a rebound in that respect.

Game Thread Guidelines

Try to remember that, despite how emotional watching a Gators game can be, there's no reason to be abusive. Rant, curse, or exult if you must, but keep the personal attacks to a minimum.

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Comments

Uniform FAIL

Those are disgusting – I can barely watch….especially with Tennessee’s orange in there too!

Not again! We can’t get swept by Tenn. Looks like everyone has figured out Billy’s O take away the 3 and we suck! Smh

the problem is instead of the Gators playing today, some scrubs put on some old Ohio State uniforms from 1994 and took the floor instead.

Also, the kid wearing Erving Walker’s jersey is terrible. I saw him trip over a sprinkler head (apparently) at midcourt and turn it over to spark a 4 on 1 easy bucket for Tennessee.

Hopefully SOME good will come of this game in that we’ll never have to see these ridiculous uniforms again.

What happened to Patric? He used to be physical and dominant. Now he looks timid and shitty….

we have turned the ball over 12 times trying to force it into him too.

He’s not going up with any authority anymore. Nor is he getting any defensive rebounds.

Yup

That and no Yeguete is responsible for the rebounding disparity so far.

Hopefully he can come back in the 2nd half.

I think his ankle is bothering him.

You might be right.

:(

Wow. This is nuts.

Billy is too calm!

We need Boom down there right now to light some fires!

Eff this game!

(Unless we comeback and win)

(Unless we comeback and win)

(Unless we comeback and win)

I didn’t catch that. Could you say it one more time?

Very impressive. Triple-post from the phone.

/hangs head in sadness

Nothing to be sad about. I’ve pulled the double post before, but never a triple.

Prather should be playing more I think.

this type of loss is a killer

Hopefully Billy will recruit a real PG next year. Walker don’t cut it.

I find more fault with Murphy.

Until a minute ago, he had as many rebounds as Erv. For a small team we needed and should expect more from him.

Agreed but I think we would be leaps and bounds better with physical pg who has size to defend. Oh and who doesn’t take idiotic 3s at the wrong time.

so, what we basically need is Beal running point?

Wilbekin?
what they need is

a true center and/or power forward
murph isn’t strong enough or quick enough
this is a typical situation with billy
always an unbalanced team
we have too may small players
(every tennessee starter was as tall or taller than ours)
including time when erv was guarding his 6’5" counterpart
next year we have more guards coming in
need someone to make patrick better everyday in practice
and shore up interior, offense and defense

Wow.

So...

I wasn’t able to watch it live. Probably a good thing.

Consider yourself lucky.

ewwwww, the stink of it

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