Randy and Jerry, As one of the other "volunteers" I am firmly with Shane on this. When I read Rick's post the other day admonishing us to "get on the ball or resign" I thought "what a whiney little <bad word>". If I had received an email from him like the one he sent to Shane I likely would have embarassed myself by the reply I'd have sent him.
You guys make the call - either say he's right (that we need to post any and all news articles from our designated papers promptly or "resign", or tell him to....."stifle"..... Thanks, Steve McKibben --- On Tue, 9/2/08, Shane Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Shane Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [gatortalk] For Randy & Jerry B. in Regards to Daily Gainesville Sun Posts To: "Gatornet Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Gatortalk" <[email protected]> Cc: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2008, 9:59 AM I QUIT! You find some one else who has more time than me, like rhillyard here, to do this. Ungrateful....... I have 3 small kids (all under 2) at home and I don't always have time to sit down in front of the PC on weekends to post articles the minute they pop up on the website. I can do that during the week A LOT easier than I can on weekends. If I'm a day late or a little later in the day on the weekends, is it really that big of a deal? Obviously to some people it is! I had over 400 emails on Sunday to sift through and I had less than 30 minutes while they were napping to do it in. On top of all the text editing I have to do to get these in the "proper" format, I didn't have time to see who posted what from the Gainesville Sun for me. I thought I was helping, but if I'm causing people like this to have a coronary then ask him to do it. He obviously has the time and is looking for some thing to do to help out the group. I QUIT! Shane Ford GO GATORS!!!! -------------- Original message from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -------------- All these articles were sent to the group yesterday. please don'T send so many duplicates. if you can't send them the day they are published, please > unvolunteer from doing this. > > > ---------- > Sent from my Verizon Wireless LGVX10000 device. > > ------Original Message------ > From: Shane Ford > To: "GATORNEWS" > Date: Mon, Sep 1, 2:44 PM -0500 > Subject: [gatornews] [SUN]: Tailbacks impress in opener > > Tailbacks impress in opener > > By Edward Aschoff > Special to The Gainesville Sun > http://www.gatorsports.com/article/20080831/NEWS/808310267/1090&title=Tailbacks_ > > impress_in_opener > > > Published: Sunday, August 31, 2008 at 6:32 p.m. > Last Modified: Sunday, August 31, 2008 at 6:32 p.m. > > Urban Meyer wants a dominant running back in his offense, but it really > wasn't > necessary Saturday. > Florida had 11 players run the ball - six were running backs - for 255 yards > in > the 56-10 drubbing of Hawaii. > And all of it happened without UF's most consistent home-run threat from out > of > the backfield in junior receiver Percy Harvin. The first touchdown of the > game > even came off of a 1-yard run by running back/receiver Brandon James (three > carries for 16 yards) of all people. > > The Gators' stable of running backs was so active that for the first time in > a > season opener under Meyer, UF's backs combined for more than 100 yards (187 > yards on 21 carries). > > "It's going to be interesting as this thing progresses," Meyer said of the > running back rotation. "One of the great thrills of being a coach is being > able > to have some really good looking checkers to put on your checkerboard and we > have some right now, especially at running back." > > Two of those checkers were of the travel-sized addition in freshmen Chris > Rainey > and Jeffrey Demps. Rainey (5-8) finished the game with six rushes for 58 > yards > and an electrifying 33-yard touchdown in the second quarter. Demps (5-8) ran > twice for 76 yards, displaying pure speed on his 62-yard dash to the end zone > early in the third quarter. > > "We kind of like fast people around here and Demps is fast," Meyer said. > "Jeff > Demps can really run and he's not a track guy playing football. He's a > football > player." > > After cutting to the left off an excellent block up the middle by center > Maurkice Pouncey and then slipping through a tackle, the unfair foot race > between Demps and a couple Hawaii defenders was on. > > "When I broke the tackle and I saw some space I kind of knew I was going to > score, but at the same point I was thinking I had to just outrun him," Demps > said of his touchdown run. "I was running fast but I know I can run faster. I > was running pretty hard, too." > > While Rainey and Demps impressed throughout, the highly anticipated debut of > Southern Cal transfer Emmanuel Moody did not go as planned and senior Kestahn > Moore - who Meyer said had his best preseason camp - didn't even start and > had > an average day on the ground. > > Bothered by what Meyer called a sprained ankle in his postgame press > conference, > Moody ran the ball only two times for 2 yards. > > Moore, who is expected to play more fullback this season, lined up in the > backfield opposite Tebow for most of the game, but only had seven carries for > 33 > yards. > > But after the show Demps and Rainey put on Saturday, the lack of excitement > from > Moody and Moore is a mere afterthought. If the younger backs can keep up > their > big-play style, UF's backfield could be one of the toughest to contain in the > country once Harvin returns. > > UF's ground game was solid last year (200.2 yards per game) without a true > dominant running back and after the play of the two freshmen backs, this > could > be yet another season where UF uses an arsenal of runners to get solid > production. > > "For the running backs, that's good so we can just keep pounding the ball > every > game, one at a time," Rainey said. "That's all coach Meyer is looking for. We > couldn't do that for a couple years and we did what coach Meyer thought we > were > going to do. I guess we're going to get the ball a lot." > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
