Totally took the day OFF--even from (most) Gator stuff, at least up til now, with less than an hour left before midnight...
BUT: I admit to a large (if under quiet control) growing excitement regarding a by-now fairly widespread rumor of some major news on the administrative horizon that may be pending.
It began with my one true "personal insider" telling me Monday that my well-known complaints and concerns regarding certain such issues "may be about to be addressed in spectacular fashion", then hit the online podcasts in similar "Gator insider hints at major changes"-style fashion on Tuesday--and overnight has spread wildly all today from there, STILL yet to be specifically revealed.
If you've heard about it (and the only way you would not have is if you had determinedly shut down ALL monitoring of such sites since the weekend), then, like me, you probably have a favorite potential scenario that transcends the usual "hope we get this or that guy"-bs.
I admit it: A belated gift of some particularly encouraging organisational move at in-game offensive approach, preferably in the guise of a particularly unexpected individual pacing the sidelines or sitting upstairs with headphones clamped upon him would be a welcome surprise and relief--the perfect "cherry on top" of an otherwise quite satisfactory addition to all our OTHER once-"pending" 2025 onfield needs.
We have already somehow been gifted with the most generous present of all--the one that has been so prominently MISSING last few years, it seems, for Gator fans: HOPE.
HOPE is what I had planned to voice my deepest thanks for here--and that is STILL what has so notably shifted the way we feel about our program, team and its future.
But there is still that one question hanging out there, the one about whether it will all really make a fundamental DIFFERENCE...and hence, all it took was one small hint dropped in a certain place and way on Christmas Eve, and 24 hours later here we are: Waiting for the "other shoe to drop".
Or at least subsequent word on what we somehow missed out on.