Steve, See my reply to Shane. I appreciate your work and efforts to provide us with the news articles..... I can easily delete any thing I don't want to read and would rather have the opportunity to make the decision because of your good contributions to make this news list worthwhiie. Don't let small minded and oboviously computer challenged jerks cause you to regret your contributions to your fellow Gators.
Eddie Williamson ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve McKibben To: Gatornet Admin ; [email protected] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 10:17 AM Subject: [gatortalk] Re: For Randy & Jerry B. in Regards to Daily Gainesville Sun Posts 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
