“It’s only right to finish what I started with my brothers. 1 more year. Go gators,” Florida offensive lineman Martez Ivey wrote Thursday night on his Twitter account to announce his return for his senior season.
The 6-foot-6, 315-pound Ivey started 31 of the 36 games he has appeared in his three seasons in Gainesville. This past season he played guard and tackle.
Some decent coaching from Dan Mullen and staff can only help these returning seniors. Good coaching is something all the players have been shorted on for several years.
Very cool! He is going to grow by leaps and bounds now with competent strength coach, and his life and career will benefit from this decision for years to come!
Long way to go for the gators. If all goes well, they could be relevant again by 2020.
Wally – You mean relevant like the Noles – let’s see, 6-6 and bowl eligible counting a game against a D2 program that shouldn’t have counted, your hand-picked replacement coach for Coach Bowden leaves because he’s fed up with Tally and oh yeah – you roll in the 40-something recruiting class for 2018?
Only thing that has made the Noles relevant in the past 10 years is the rapist Winston and the adminstration and police that covered up for him. But what do you expect from a school that has a real clown degree??? FSU is a joke of a school.
Whose side are you on, Wally? We may be a little slow on the uptake out here where I live, but I’m beginning to get the idea you don’t like the Gators much.
Wally Butts……As an older Gator I remember a very successful Georgia coach Wally Butts back then…..are you related?
Yeah, that’s who I immediately thought of too, Jasper. Man, Wally Butts, Ray Graves, Bear Bryant, Shug Jordon…..but this one is a crank, I suspect.
Sounds like another one of those guys who got stuck at FSU bc he couldn’t get into Fla and is now bitter about it.
Hell mkf….I couldn’t even get into Florida myself when I graduated HS. And now I are one, go figure.
Not sure why everyone is jumping on Wally for his comment. He probably is a troll and a Nile’s fan but what he said is a realistic view of where Florida is.
I kind of like the guy’s moxie, actually. At least he’s not long winded about it, and besides, he’s got a cool screen name that resonates with us old farts anyway. And, I have to admit, LT, at this very moment….right now…today…this is in fact where Florida is at. Difference though, the rest of us are looking at where we’re going to be next regardless of the last 6 years. Sure, it’s OK to look back at the past buddy, but just don’t stare at it!
The guys with enough talent to actually have a thought in their heads about going pro early now will all be much better off to play one more year for the Gators. They all got shortchanged (except our RBs under Seider) by the unbelievably bad McNuss staff that has been soaking up millions for doing nothing. A very smart decision by Ivey, he will have some highlight tapes after this coming season that aren’t the ones for our opponents. Dan’s staff knows what a dumpster fire they inherited from McYet and are already running balls-out to bring Gator football back. Expect big changes in 2018.
Good news for Coach Mullen & our Gators! Glad Martez will be back for his SR year. The OL with Hevesy running the show & the new strength coach may get better in a hurry. We certainly need a dominant OL. The change to spread O will be interesting. Go Gators!
My opinion is that he and Jefferson made the correct decision, they both will be better off coming back for their senior season. They both played decent but neither has reach the potential that was seen for them when signing. I think both of them realized it as well and they will have a better future at the next level.
Boom. Exactly, this is about Cece and Martez and much less about team. Cece has played the best of the two but both need to have better seasons heading into the draft.
True David, it doesn’t matter what the reason is though, as it still benefits the team. I guess in these days, youngsters with the potential those two have must look out for themselves in any event, though I will say that this NFL early draft thing sure is putting a hitch in a lot of team’s get-a-longs.
Well that’s two five star linemen (Ce Ce and Martez) that the Gators will have back for 2018. What great news. I wish the Wyoming wild man would have chosen to stay too.
So do I Tim, he would have been a real force on this years “D” (actually next year).
Ivey sucks, and that’s why he’s coming back. He’s assured of starting at UF because UF’s offensive line still sucks. Now we hear the excuse of the “strength and conditioning” coach… Do you need a coach to make you work hard? No, you don’t need a coach to make you stronger, you just need to put in the time, and effort, to want to be the best. Lifting weights is not rocket science, and the guys who coach it are far from being the brightest bulbs in the world. This nonsense about savage being the answer is just another, in a long line, of delusion that makes absolutely no sense. For those of you who actually think, instead of believing the B.S. spouted during the off season. ask yourself if you would actually need someone to make you stronger, quicker, or more agile. It’s not the “strength and conditioning coach. Having the ability to spot someone or display a lack of neck is not important. Florida’s players have no one but themselves to blame if they aren’t working hard. Period. Ivey was just vastly overrated coming out of high school, and Savage isn’t going to change that fact.
Well Buddy Rho, as we used to say in the Army a long time ago, “That’s certainly one way of looking at it”. I’m taxing my brain though, as feeble as it may be, to come up with the logical and cognitive pattern of thoughts that led you to that conclusion. Maybe take some of the affect out of it and take a mulligan?
Wally Butts has it wrong. The team that won’t be relevant till 2020 is FSU after hiring a Ron Zook ype coach with an expensive buyout who FSU with its worsening budget deficits cannot afford to pay. FSU is stuck in the mud for years.
Let us all hold hands, unite, speak ill of FSU, and hope you’re correct Emoryjones. I try very hard to be a better person in order not to hate opponents, ie, maintain good sportsmanship, but nothing would give me more pleasure at this age than to watch them come off their self appointed perch for a few years. Well, there is one thing, but again, at this age the FSU stumble is more likely.
I think the jury will be out on Taggart, however. Apparently everybody in the world wants to play for him, despite his overall record, which is said to be attributed to his willingness to take weak programs to the top. Maybe so, maybe not. Let’s see how great a magician he actually isn’t before we lay the Ron Zook curse on the poor guy. Know whud I mean Verne?
Great news for next year’s offense! Continuity on the line of scrimmage will build on past success.