It’s not too early, is it? I mean, college football is still more than four months away, but all these spring games and the USFL and Billy Napier’s speaking tour kind of gets you going. Or is that just me? It forced me, held me down and made me look …

The Back Nine comes at you after a great Easter weekend that included a little bit of everything and a lot of delicious food. Nobody makes holidays more special than my wonderful wife.   Sometimes, you just have to tip your cap.  You just have to say, “We did the …

Pat Dooley grades the Gators’ spring game Offense B- First half: Anthony Richardson kind of showed us why he is QB1 on this team, especially on the first two drives. He threw the ball with accuracy and ran the team with pose. Jack Miller was OK at time, but his …

The Back Nine comes at you after a weekend of baseball and baseball and a lot of watching golf. And some real tragedy that didn’t involve winning or losing games. 10.  I can’t start without talking about the terrible news of the death of Dwayne Haskins at 24, hit by …

Earlier this week, I wrote a story for GatorsWire on Brenton Cox and Alex Brown. Cox wants to break Brown’s single-season sack record of 13 set in 1999. Brown wants him to get it because that will mean good things for the Gators. All Florida fans should hope for the …

The Back Nine returns after an unscheduled Monday off because of an evil stomach virus, but everybody is OK now and our pipes are new and we keep doing a heck of a job dealing with adversity. Good times are coming.   10.  Just when you think the Florida gymnastics …

In case you are wondering where the Back Nine was this week, I was leveled – and I mean leveled – by a stomach flu that was pure evil. And then I gave it to my wife, who had to deal with it while plumbers were re-piping our house. Good …

The High Five was told a great story the other day, but since the writer hasn’t used it yet in print, I’ll wait to tell it. I can tell you that it revolves around how many football coaches Florida has been through in the last decade. Basketball has been a …

The Back Nine comes at you with eyeballs that are still bouncing from watching so many basketball games (and seeing so many bad calls): The difficult part about being a fan is that you are going to go through tough stretches no matter which laundry you are rooting for. Certainly, …

We start a new feature every Friday called “The High Five” which will be five things Pat Dooley thinks about a given subject or five bits of information about something he thinks you would be interested in. In other words, it’s fluid.   The college basketball world was buzzing Thursday …