Billy Donovan was “21 and 13” last season---12th straight year his basketball

Gators “won 20 or more”…but---GREATNESS was missing… Florida was

“shy on depth”---at times “physically overmatched”…YES, we ARE spoiled---

thanks to the Gators of ’06 and ’07---back-to-back national champions…

With “GUSHING MEMORIES” of Noah---Horford---Brewer---

Humphrey---Green---and Richard… As UNIQUE as they were GREAT…

But—GOOD NEWS---I say “this season’s Gators will be “the strongest”---

“winningest”---“most entertaining” since “Jo-kim and Friends”…

Florida is DEEP with experience---a returning starting lineup---

Chandler Parsons---Kenny Boynton---Alex Tyus---Erving

Walker---Vernon Macklin… Plus an emerging sophomore---6-9 Erik Murphy…

THEN, “THE FRESHMEN”---energetic, imposing 6-9 Patric

Young…6-9 CODY LARSON… 6-6 Casey Prather…a lightly-touted

but fiercely-competitive 6-foot-7 Will Ye-GET… AND, one more---a local kid from

“The Rock”---with “point guard potential”--- Scottie WILL-bu-kin … THE ROOKIES

could repair two “areas of need”---defense and rebounding… Donovan is pushing to

produce “better 3-point shooters”… These Gators “ARE going

to be GOOD”---question is, “HOW good?”… GOOD enough to handle Kentucky?...

Good enough to survive a highly-combative SEC EAST?... We will see---and I

PROMISE, “it’s going to be FUN to watch”….I’m Hubert Mizell, and that’s what I think.