Florida ended the 2024 season on a hot streak and is attracting genuine positive preseason attention for the first time in a while. And yet, this year’s might be the quietest spring practice session I’ve seen in some time. Florida’s annual spring game is Saturday, but it is not exactly the culmination of a wave of increasing attention.
In one sense, it’s entirely explicable. There are two things that generate excitement in spring practice: stars and position battles. Will last year’s standouts progress in their development? Who will come on strong and win a contest for playing time?