November 9, 2007
Florida inks game with Toledo - fixed games optional
Urban Meyer and the Florida Gators have signed a home game to open the 2013 season with the Toledo Rockets of the MAC. The August 31, 2013 game will be played at the The Swamp.
For the Rockets, the UF game is a chance to recruit and take home a nice payday.
"This is a great opportunity for our football program to play against one of the best programs in the country," said Mr O'Brien. "Our players will be excited to play the Gators, and it's also a game that will create a lot of interest for our fans. We also look forward to gaining some exposure in Florida, which is a state where we have recruited student-athletes and hope to recruit more in the future."
For the Gators, Toledo represents a tune-up game prior to the September 7, 2013 matchup with the Miami Hurricanes.
Comments:
Spartacus
posted on November 9, 2007 12:59 PM — 72.25.84.228 — link — abuse?
said:
Now before anybody goes and tries to stress the notion that, once again, Florida has done all they can to line up a soft non-con schedule: the strategy seems to be excellent!
I can understand why they might not want to give somebody like Pete Carroll an all expense paid recruiting trip to Florida (let alone the showcase on the field) and would rather let Toledo try and haul players out of Florida. But, the real beauty is that Florida gets to travel into Ohio and recruit there. There must be something that the Gators were pretty impressed with when they went up against Ohio State last year - and have decided to launch an all out recruiting blitz on the state of Ohio. Pure genius!
Tommie Trojan
Spartacus
posted on November 9, 2007 4:27 PM — 72.25.84.228 — link — abuse? said:
Relax Ben - it's all a big conspiracy to recruit players away from the Buckeyes. That's what "fixed games optional" means. They're for sure gonna schedule a long running series that takes Florida up to Ohio every other year.
Tommie Trojan
Diggs the Mountie said:
posted on November 9, 2007 9:13 PM — 138.162.0.44 — link — abuse?
Didn't "gatorhippy" scoff at the idea of WVU and Colorado inking a home and home earlier in the year? Then Florida goes out and pulls this?
Man, would I love to have the rolling laughing emoticon right now.......priceless.Way to man up Florida
grcunning said:
posted on November 9, 2007 9:40 PM — 71.72.42.64 — link — abuse?
every team schedules at least one mid-major per year, and most schedule two
I agree with Spartacus about Fla recruiting in Ohio. I read an article recently about recruiting. They talked about what states current NFL players are from.
Ohio was 4th, behind Ca,Fl, and Tx. The difference is that in the other 3, the talent gets split between several schools.
In Fl, they go to Fla, FSU, Miami, and now SF.
In Tx, they have Tx, Tx Tech, A&M
In Ca, they have USC,UCLA,CAl,Stanford, etc
In Ohio, there is just OSU. Its smart business for Florida to come up to Ohio and try to grab some guys, particularly for the O-line. We've got a lot of pretty big corn fed boys up here. They aren't sprinters, but they can throw a pancake on you in a hurry.
If Florida does come up this way, I'll have to grab a couple of tickets, I've got family in Bowling Green. Could be pretty ugly, but I love watching the Gators play.c-dogg said:
posted on November 9, 2007 10:34 PM — 76.188.147.246 — link — abuse?
grcunning (#13)
My sister lives in Bowling Green.
Great High school football here in Ohio. I know....I've played it & see it weekly. Ohio State has no Ohio college competiton for these kids.
Go Canes...Get some recruits!!
Tomcat said:
posted on November 10, 2007 3:37 AM — 69.150.79.102 — link — abuse?
#13 You might want to check this out
Texas has 10 Div I-A schools also
Look at Oklahoma and Oklahoma St They are mostly kids from Texas alot of QB's go out of state including
Drew Brees-Purdue
Chase Daneil-Missu
Drew Tate-Iowa
Michigan, Bama & Ole Miss also have QB's from Texas
If you look at NFL rosters it gets rediculas how many are from Texas, get a copy of Dave Cambells Texas Football magazine and its plum mind boggling.
Michael Strahan
LaDamion Tomlison
Adrian Peterson
Shawn Rogers
Roy Williams
Preist Holmes
Drew Brees
Vincent Young
Nathan Vasher
Quentin Jammer
Cory Redding
Derrick JohnsonJohnboy said:
posted on November 10, 2007 9:11 AM — 75.109.243.154 — link — abuse?
Hey call Arkansas--they had four teams weaker than Toldedo on their schedule.
Houston Nutt and Frank Broyles and the experts at putting patsies on the schedule.
Look close at Arkansas' record?? and you will
see 6-3 but it should be 2-7 becuase of the 4 paid patsies.MUCH of their ?Heisman Trophy yardage came from the FOUR PATSIES! Come one, play school yours
size or quit pretending to be a coach!Make you you get this msg to Houst Nutt!
Mr2Bits said:
posted on November 9, 2007 10:56 AM — 66.89.151.21 — link — abuse?I'd like to see a home and home with a Big 10/12 or Big East team sometime.