It’s well after midnight, pitch-black somewhere on Interstate 10 in the Florida panhandle. A Greyhound bus that left Mobile, Alabama late the night before takes up most of the right lane on an ...
“Oh with all the motor homes and RVs and fans everywhere, people throwing stuff at your bus, it was cool. Georgia people were throwing beer cans, Jack Daniel’s bottles, rocks, you name it ...
It was the first game away from McKethan Stadium for Florida this season. The team packed up and boarded a bus early, providing a new batch of circumstances for the top-ranked team in the country.
Less than 48 hours after landing in Orlando from Lexington, the team was back on a bus heading to Jacksonville and the Gators had to refocus.
It is times like this when Urban acts like he has just seen the bus go over the side of the cliff with all his players in it. Except he calls it “a train wreck.”
He’s really fast, really quick, shoots the heck out of it, when he gets off the bus he’s in range, he can shoot it from anywhere,” points out White. “They do a great job of getting him looks.
The hour bus ride really concerns me. We were kind of ambushed at Alabama last year and got there late so we had guys rushing to put their pads on instead of thinking about the first play when we ...