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"Florida head football coach Urban Meyer knows preseasons like 2009 don’t come along often, that preseasons like this one for the 2010 campaign are more the norm.
Last year at this time, the Gators were coming off their second national championship in Meyer’s four years in Gainesville, and with quarterback Tim Tebow returning with a bunch of talented athletes on offense and virtually everyone returning in the defense’s two-deep, the coaching staff didn’t have to do too much teaching and two much motivating.
But now that three players – Tebow (Denver), cornerback Joe Haden (Cleveland) and center Maurkice Pouncey (Pittsburgh) – were first-round choices in last spring’s NFL Draft, six other players – middle linebacker Brandon James (New England), defensive ends Jermaine Cunningham (New England) and Carlos Dunlap (Cincinnati), safety Major Wright (Chicago) and wide receiver Riley Cooper (Philadelphia) – were also drafted, and another three (WR David Nelson with Buffalo, KR/PR Brandon Spikes with Indianapolis and LB Ryan Stamper with Detroit) signed on as free agents, and with a huge (27) and talented recruiting class now on campus, Meyer and his staff (which has two new members in Teryl Austin and D.J. Durkin and Stan Drayton rejoining the staff) are back to doing what they like – coaching and teaching."
Read more: http://www.gatorcountry.com/football/article/meyer_is_back_to_coaching_teaching/9582#ixzz0wG8xzkgA
Last year at this time, the Gators were coming off their second national championship in Meyer’s four years in Gainesville, and with quarterback Tim Tebow returning with a bunch of talented athletes on offense and virtually everyone returning in the defense’s two-deep, the coaching staff didn’t have to do too much teaching and two much motivating.
But now that three players – Tebow (Denver), cornerback Joe Haden (Cleveland) and center Maurkice Pouncey (Pittsburgh) – were first-round choices in last spring’s NFL Draft, six other players – middle linebacker Brandon James (New England), defensive ends Jermaine Cunningham (New England) and Carlos Dunlap (Cincinnati), safety Major Wright (Chicago) and wide receiver Riley Cooper (Philadelphia) – were also drafted, and another three (WR David Nelson with Buffalo, KR/PR Brandon Spikes with Indianapolis and LB Ryan Stamper with Detroit) signed on as free agents, and with a huge (27) and talented recruiting class now on campus, Meyer and his staff (which has two new members in Teryl Austin and D.J. Durkin and Stan Drayton rejoining the staff) are back to doing what they like – coaching and teaching."
Read more: http://www.gatorcountry.com/football/article/meyer_is_back_to_coaching_teaching/9582#ixzz0wG8xzkgA
