Tomorrow night’s “final home game”

for Gator basketball---against Alabama---

will GUSH with emotions…

three Florida seniors—all starters—

will be celebrated…

Vernon Macklin…Alex Tyus…

and the exceptionally popular

Chandler Parsons…

But DON’T FORGET “the Anthony Grant effect”…

It is “homecoming” for Alabama’s coach…

Born in Dade County--Grant starred at Miami Senior High…

Anthony was a Stetson “assistant coach”…

THEN, for 10 impressive seasons, he was

Billy Donovan’s sidekick at Florida…

After a national championship in ’06—Grant

became a “head coach”---going to

Virginia Commonwealth…

A year later--after the Gators won

a “second straight” national championship—

Donovan “accepted” an NBA job—as coach

of the Orlando Magic…

Florida athletics director

Jeremy Foley was about to hire GRANT

to REPLACE “Billy D”… Foley’s “company jet”

was on the tarmac in Richmond---he got “a cell call”

from Donovan’s wife, Christine…

a “deeply emotional” Billy D

wanted to “back out” on the NBA---

and STAY with the Gators…

Foley “accepted”—he took off from Virginia

without seeing Grant… In ’09,

Anthony was named Alabama coach…

His Crimson Tide is this season’s

“king of the SEC West”---Donovan’s

Gators are “No. 1 in the SEC East”…

They’re tied for the top conference

record at 11 and 3…

Tuesday night with be TREMENDOUS…

If you LOVE “legitimate emotion”

---focus “eyes—ears—and hearts”

on the O-Dome…

I’m Hubert Mizell, and that’s what I think.