Florida basketball “OVER-achieved”…

29 wins…SEC champion…

NCAA Elite Eight…

When it ended---“Quiet Time” expected…

Didn’t happen…

“Breaking News” came often---and LOUD…

Larry Shyatt---Billy Donovan’s

top sidekick---departs to be a

head coach again---at age 60---going

back to Wyoming… Billy D would

LOSE “his entire staff”… Rob Lanier returning

to Texas… Richard Pitino “going home

to Daddy”---at Louisville…

Then---a “late-night SMACK”…

Erik Murphy and Cody Larson---

at 6-10 and 6-9---are “expected” to

“plug gaps” next season…

Florida loses “three starters---
all BIG GUYS…

BUT---Murphy and Larson got arrested…

“Felony charge”---trying to break into a car…

Donovan’s “off-season WORK LOAD”

got HEAVIER… Some good news---he hired

TWO helpers with head-coaching experience---

John Pelphrey (Arkansas)…

Norm Roberts (St. Johns)…

As for the “kids in trouble”---

rumor is, “new information” COULD

lead to charges being DROPPED…

If that happens---AND Billy D signs up

“one more assistant”---

the Gators can FINALLY

look ahead “WITH CLEAR EYES”…

Next season, they return “starting guards”

Erving Walker and Kenny Boynton---

plus the “main backup”---

Scottie Wilbikin…

If Murphy and Larson ARE cleared to

play---they will join 6-9 Patrick Young

as “insiders”… Donovan “expects”

to mix in a BIG newcomer or two…

Billy D will be “deep” AND “potent”

with GUARDS… Brad Beal---a signee from

St. Louis---was among America’s

“best four” HIGH SCHOOLERS …

There’s STILL ANOTHER---a DANDY---

Rutgers transfer Mike Rosario…

6-2… good shooter…LEADER…

and he is “Jersey Tough”…

Future looks SHARP---IF

this Gator off-season will AT LAST

“slip into hibernation”…

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