Bianchi: Gators blow out FSU, now try to convince themselves Tulane’s Jon Sumrall would be a good hire

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on November 30, 2025. Posted in Columnists, Florida Gators, Florida State Seminoles, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Opinion, Social, Sports.

GAINESVILLE — The Florida–Florida State rivalry died Saturday night at The Swamp, and the body barely twitched. Oh, sure, technically the game was played. The helmets clacked. The bands played. The mascots waved. And, yes, the Florida Gators, behind bulldozing running back Jaden Baugh’s 266 rushing yards, ended their nightmarish season with a dominating 40-21 victory over Florida State — if you want to call surviving this mudslide of a football season a victory of any sort. Let’s be honest with ourselves, with our neighbors and with whatever football gods we deeply wronged over the past...

Bianchi: Scott Frost schools Bill Belichick in Bounce House beatdown

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on September 21, 2025. Posted in Columnists, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Social, Sports, UCF Knights.

Bill Belichick didn’t wear his famous hoodie on Saturday, but maybe he should have. Perhaps it would have prevented the severe case of Frost bite he received at the Bounce House. On a humid September afternoon in Orlando, Scott Frost took back his career with a resounding 34-9 victory over Belichick’s North Carolina Tar Heels. Frost didn’t just win a football game; he rewrote the first chapter of a narrative about who he is and what UCF can be. And the irony of it all? He did so by outcoaching the man who for decades was considered untouchable. The genius. The legend. The six-time Super...

Bianchi: Gus Malzahn quit UCF to save himself, but on Saturday he saved FSU

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on August 31, 2025. Posted in Columnists, Florida State Seminoles, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Sports.

Can you believe it? Can you conceive it? Somehow, some way, the Gus Bus turned into a freight train on Saturday, smashing through Florida State’s every doubt, every insult, every scar from a season ago while leaving the big, bad Alabama Crimson Tide sprawled on the tracks. Florida State 31, Alabama 17. Let that marinate for a second The same Seminoles who were the laughingstock of college football last season – 2-10, dead last in the ACC, couldn’t score on a PlayStation if you handed them the controller – just completed a field-storming, glory-swarming mauling of the No. 8 team in the...

Sadly, there are no winners in investigation of Gators basketball coach Todd Golden | Commentary

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on January 29, 2025. Posted in Columnists, Florida Gators, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Opinion, Sports.

When it comes right down to it, we all know that sports are all about winning and losing. Every game we talk about and nearly every issue we debate are based upon the basic premise of who was the winner and who was the loser. It’s a very simple process: All we have to do is look up at the scoreboard at the end of game to declare a winner and loser. But this is not a game we’re talking about now; it’s lives and careers and families and reputations. It’s a saga involving one of the hottest young coaches in college basketball — the University of Florida’s Todd Golden — and an investigation...

Days of Alabama, Georgia dominating SEC and college football are over | Commentary

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on January 5, 2025. Posted in Columnists, Florida Gators, Florida State Seminoles, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Miami Hurricanes, Opinion, Sports.

It’s over, Georgia. It’s over, Alabama. Your dominant, dynastic days of ruling the SEC and reigning over college football are a relic of days gone by. No longer can you stockpile talent with the confidence that your second- and third-string five-stars will wait patiently for their turn. The transfer portal has enabled “lesser” programs to shatter your glass ceiling, and NIL payments have further redistributed the wealth. Sure, you’ll still be good — great, even. But your era of absolute dominance, where you stood unchallenged atop your league and your sport, is a thing of the past. The...

Scott Frost is back at UCF, but can he recapture the Christmas magic he once had? | Commentary

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on December 9, 2024. Posted in Columnists, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Opinion, Sports, UCF Knights.

It’s Christmastime. It’s that time of year when we have warmth in our hearts, a spirit of togetherness and the urge to reconnect with loved ones. A time to express gratitude for the people who made us what we are. A time to rediscover the magic of coming together once again. The perfect time for Frosty the Showman — aka Scott Frost — to load up his pyrotechnic offense and dashing sideline demeanor to make his triumphant return to Orlando. Everybody sing along: “Frosty the Showman, made UCF dreams come true, With a playbook bold, of Black and Gold, He’s back to start anew! There must have...

Another loss to Georgia, DJ Lagway’s injured and Billy Napier’s luck goes from bad to worse | Commentary

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on November 3, 2024. Posted in Columnists, Florida Gators, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Opinion, Sports.

How do you not feel bad for embattled Florida Gators coach Billy Napier? For some reason, a song from Hee Haw – the old cornpone country variety show – popped into my head as I looked down on the field Saturday and saw the grim-faced Napier as his injured quarterback DJ Lagway was carted away with an inspired Gator team leading mighty Georgia. “Gloom, despair, and agony on me,Deep, dark depression, excessive misery.If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all,Gloom, despair, and agony on me.” That song pretty much sums up what could be Napier’s fateful final season at Florida. If it...

Private equity firms would run college football much better than school presidents and ADs | Commentary

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 13, 2024. Posted in Columnists, Florida Gators, Florida State Seminoles, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Miami Hurricanes, Opinion, Sports, UCF Knights.

As a college football fan, the initial inclination is to recoil at the very idea of our beloved sport getting into bed with a private equity firm and selling its soul for a massive influx of new cash to help fund the expensive impending revenue sharing with athletes. The No. 1 objection you always hear is this: “If a private equity firm gets involved by loaning billions of dollars to college athletic programs across the country, then those firms will have the power to tell college athletic directors and presidents how that money would best be spent.” Question: Is that really such a bad...

Coach Prime runs Gus Bus off the road, wrecks UCF’s big day | Commentary

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on September 29, 2024. Posted in Columnists, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Opinion, Sports, UCF Knights.

Pump the brakes. Slow down. Not so fast. Not yet, UCF Knights. Not even close. Sorry to say, but you are just not ready for Primetime. Literally, figuratively, athletically. Deion Sanders — the man who was once known as “Primetime” but now prefers to be called “Coach Prime” — brought his Colorado team to his home state of Florida on Saturday, dominated the Knights and left a big pile of Buffalo chips all over UCF’s coming-out party. This was supposed to be UCF’s big day – a chance for the Knights to show the nation what they are all about; a chance to run the ball right down Coach Prime’s...

After ‘Canes thrash Gators, Billy Napier’s hot seat is now flaming chair of condemnation | Commentary

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on September 1, 2024. Posted in Columnists, Florida Gators, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Miami Hurricanes, Opinion, Sports.

The Florida Gators haven’t lost a season-opening game at home since 1989 when, coincidentally, the coach back then – Galen Hall – was fired four games later. This is not to say Billy Napier will be fired as UF’s coach anytime soon, but Saturday’s humiliating 41-17 season-opening blowout loss to the 19th-ranked Miami Hurricanes at the Swamp certainly didn’t instill much confidence that Napier’s team will be any better this year than it’s been in his first two losing seasons at UF. “Miami outplayed us and they outcoached us,” a disappointed Napier said afterward. “It’s embarrassing to be...

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