Monthly Archives: April 2021

New Football Coach (Analyst)

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The Florida Gators have added Tyson Summers to their football staff as an analyst, as reported by Matt Zenitz of AL.com.

Summers most recently served as the defensive coordinator at Colorado from 2019-20. Before that, Summers spent one year as a quality control coordinator for Georgia after a two-year stint as head coach at Georgia Southern, where he compiled a 5-13 record.

The 40-year-old, Tifton, Ga. native has a total of 19 years of coaching experience, primarily on the defensive side of the ball given his time as a coordinator and a position coach in the secondary. He also has a year under his belt as a co-special teams coordinator.

Summers played linebacker at Presbyterian College in South Carolina from 1998-2001, and began his coaching career in the high school ranks immediately after his graduation.

Florida often utilizes analysts to assist the coaching staff on the opposite side of the ball from where they have experience coaching. Most notably, former UF defensive analyst Garrick McGee was hired last year after a long career coaching quarterbacks and coordinating offenses. After one season of helping Gators defensive coordinator Todd Grantham prepare gameplans and study opposing offenses, McGee was promoted to quarterbacks coach for UF.

With that being said, it wouldn’t come as a surprise to see Summers work with head coach Dan Mullen and Florida’s offensive coaching staff moving forward, in order to prepare for the intricacies of defenses the team sees week in and week out throughout the 2021 season and beyond.

Getting Ready.

Weather

 

Thanks to Mike’s Weather Page.

CSU forecast for the 2021 Hurricane Season. Above average with 17 named storms, 8 hurricanes, and 4 majors. Lack of El Nino and warmer waters are big reasons. 
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Urgent Call for Action

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Mission:  The Florida Senate Appropriations Committee will ‘hear” House Bill 1 on Friday morning (April 9th), at 8:30 a.m.  If passed, the bill will add felony status for vandalism of monuments in Florida….what we have been fighting for years!

How to Help:

*** Use our “Widget” to send emails and phone calls to Appropriations Committee members ***

The widget will offer a pre-filled email that will automatically be sent to all Senators on the Committee and users like its ease of use.  It is also supposed to provide the ability to send a video or connect you to the senator’s office.

(we are not recommending attending the committee meeting for multiple reasons)

Background:

For years, the Florida Senate has blocked ANY efforts to protect ANY historic monuments in Florida.

This year, on the heels of the violent “George Floyd” riots (aka ‘peaceful protests’) around the state this summer, Florida Governor Ron Desantis announced he wanted an anti-riot law that included penalties for vandalizing monuments passed this session.

The bill has passed the House, and along the way attracted opposition from the radical groups that we have seen in our fights around the state:  Anti-fa, BLM, Socialist Democrats, CAIR, etc., etc.  Republic legislators got to see firsthand the hate spewed by the actual advocates of violent riots as they defended their tactics that we have been watching for years.

Under pressure from the Governor, the House Bill (HB 1) will be heard in one senate committee (Appropriations) before going to the Senate Floor for a vote.

THEY will be sending thousands of emails, and we need to give some support to this “vehicle” that gives us what we want – felony crime status for monument vandalism.

We have activated our new WIDGET to allow you to quicky send a message to all of the Senate Appropriations Committee members, and view this is an opportunity to tell them the bill doesn’t go far enough!!!!

Why?  It still doesn’t stop radical blue cities from taking down monuments like Orlando, Fort Myers, St. Augustine and Pensacola, NOR does it give “CITIZEN STANDING” to sue, which has thwarted efforts to seek justice in court.

The widget offers you a preformatted email you can customize.  There is also an option to call the Senate Appropriations Committee Members if you choose.

We believe this is a “Consequences Bill”.  It doesn’t prevent anything but, if a vandal is captured, the consequences are greater.  The media has tried to make this a “Confederate Monument protection Bill” but the multi-hundred-page bill only dedicates a few lines to monuments, and doesn’t even use the word “Southern” or “Confederate”. 

As we know and others are learning, the attacks on the civic landscape just started with our monuments, even Lincoln, Washington, Columbus and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. monuments have been targets of these radicals.

Please share this email with other concerned friends and family.  This will be a great win for us if HB 1 passes!
-Thank you

Volleyball named as 8th Seed

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Florida was awarded the No. 8 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, the Division I Women’s Volleyball Selection Committee revealed Sunday.

The Gators extend their streak to 30-consecutive NCAA appearances, the third-longest active streak in the nation (Penn State – 40, Nebraska – 39).  

UF – which earned a Top-16 seed – is rewarded with a first-round bye and will take on the winner of Creighton (12-3)/Morehead State (16-1) on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. ET.

Florida finished the 2020-21 campaign with a 19-3 record in the SEC-only format, good for second overall in the league.

Last season, the Gators made their way to the program’s 26th Regional Semifinal – falling to No. 7 Minnesota in five sets.