[gatortalk] RE: [gatornews] [SUN]: Coaches select eight Gators to All-SEC first-team

[keith]

<<On the third team from Florida were tight end Aaron Hernandez>>

 

Hernandez on the third team?  Are they crazy?  Let's see what they say after playing Florida and Hernandez tears them up. 

 

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Subject: [gatornews] [SUN]: Coaches select eight Gators to All-SEC
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From: "Shane Ford" <goufgat...@bellsouth.net>
Date: Fri, July 17, 2009 8:28 am
To: gatorn...@googlegroups.com (GatorNEWS)

Coaches select eight Gators to All-SEC first-team

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Florida's Tim Tebow, left, and Brandon Spikes were named by league coaches to the All-SEC first team.

 

By Pat Dooley
Gainesville SUN Staff writer

Published: Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 1:16 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 1:16 p.m.

 

Rather than tell you which Florida football starters were named to the Coaches' All-SEC preseason team on Thursday, it would be easier to tell you who wasn't.

A total of 16 Gators were named to the three teams by the coaches. LSU, with 10 players, had the second most. Eight of those 16 Gators were named to the first team.

They included the two senior starters who decided to return for one more season of college football — quarterback Tim Tebow and linebacker Brandon Spikes.

Both of the Pouncey twins — Mike and Maurkice — were named to the first team along with defensive end Carlos Dunlap, the most valuable defensive player in the BCS national title game. Other first-teamers included cornerback Joe Haden, punter Chas Henry and return specialist Brandon James.

There were 10 first-team preseason selections that were on last year’s first-team coaches All-SEC postseason team — Tebow, James, Spikes, LSU's Charles Scott, Alabama's Terrence Cody and Rolando McClain, Georgia's Rennie Curran, South Carolina's Eric Norwood, Tennessee's Eric Berry and Kentucky's Trevard Lindley.

Florida players on the second team were offensive lineman Carl Johnson, running back Jeff Demps, strong safety Ahmad Black and place-kicker Jonathan Phillips.

On the third team from Florida were tight end Aaron Hernandez, linebacker Ryan Stamper and cornerback Janoris Jenkins.

Coaches were not allowed to vote for members of their own teams and there were only three players who were unanimous selections — LSU's Ciron Black, Tennessee's Eric Berry and Alabama's Julio Jones. That means Tebow was not a unanimous choice.

Jevan Snead of Ole Miss was the second-team pick, and the third team had a tie between South Carolina's Stephen Garcia and Kentucky's Mike Hartline.

The media's preseason team will be announced on July 24, the final day of SEC Media Days.

 

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