Meyer: Unprecedented Sunday practice a necessity for moving forward

Florida coach Urban Meyer said Monday that his decision to hold an unprecedented Sunday night practice after the devastating loss to Ole Miss was based on a pressing need to get around the players, deal with the loss as a team, then get ready to move on to the Arkansas game this week.

“I had to get around the players,'' Meyer said. "We all had to get around those players and kind of have closure to a bad day.It was impressive the way they came out. We had a solid team meeting and made it real clear it’s a long football season.’’

Since Meyer arrived four years ago, Sunday's have been reserved as an off day. The team practiced for approximately 90 minutes, and Meyer said there was also a team meeting where players and coaches had an opportunity to get some things off their chest.

"I liked the way we approached it,'' Meyer said.

The Gators are taking today off, so players were off-limits to the media.

Comments

[Satan]

Beautiful!
Coach Meyer is doing my dirty work now ... Sundays aren't meant to be spent with your family or in worship ... not at a football factory!

Hey GKN-I forgot you are a Cane. Ha ha. It was great watching your fans cry at the end of the game in the SWAMP. So much talk, such little action. Nice field goal. Nice loss to the Tarheels. Your coach is garbage. Your program is going nowhere...It's all about the U. Ha ha

[gkn]

National Championships
In its history, Florida has won 27 total team titles, 16 of which are NCAA championships, and 185 individual national championships. Florida is also the only team to hold both major championships at the same time (as the 2006 BCS Champions and the 2006 and 2007 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions). The Gators basketball team repeated in NCAA Men's Basketball in the 2005-2006 season and in the 2006-2007 season being the first time since Duke in the early 90's.

Men's
Basketball - 2006, 2007
Football - 1996*, 2006*
Golf - 1968, 1973, 1993, 2001
Swimming & Diving - 1983, 1984
Outdoor Track & Field - 2004^, 2005^
Women's
Golf - 1985, 1986
Gymnastics - 1982*
Soccer - 1998
Swimming & Diving - 1979*, 1982
Tennis - 1988*, 1991*, 1992 (ITA & NCAA), 1996 (ITA & NCAA), 1997*, 1998, 2003
* indicates a non-NCAA championship. ^ indicates not an official championship; finished second both years when Arkansas was stripped of its championships for recruiting violations.

[gkn]

Whoever you are at least I put my initials as an ID.You know you can always get some professional help.And by the way there are more important things in life than college football.