Wide receiver Van Jefferson, who spent the past three seasons at Ole Miss before transferring to UF in January, is immediately eligible to play this season after receiving a waiver from the Southeastern Conference, the school announced Monday.
Over the past two seasons at Ole Miss, Jefferson totaled 91 catches for 999 receiving yards and four touchdowns.
On Aug. 2, the NCAA granted Jefferson a waiver to play in 2018. Jefferson needed the SEC waiver because he transferred from one league school to another.
The Gators open up the 2018 season with a home game against Charleston Southern on Sept. 1 at 7:30 p.m.
BAM !
It’s a great day to be a Gator!
Damn skippy, RS!
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood…
we’re going to dominate…. pieces are coming together folks!!!!
SEC East champs… 11-2 … and new year’s day bowl !!!
Throw in SEC coach of the year Mullen for good measures
I know its old news, but this one is worth celebrating several times.
imo: as good as most 5-stars imo. runs routes well, proven SEC production, 2 years eligibility, area of need
add that his dad being a respected nfl assistant helps with the pipeline of players coming, no doubt he communicates with his dad about the players he knows.
by all accounts, a guy that we want bigtime. Welcome Van, glad to have you on the scene!
Great news for this fine young man who has shared his knowledge and experience with the other receivers and is, truly, a person who improves the whole unit and team. Good to see the SEC finally doing what’s right for athletes.
Mullen is drawing the right kind of player to this program, unlike a certain weird freak with deformed, yellow teeth and a shark fetish who recently departed.
Jaws, your post started out so strong, with well thought out comments on the player, the team and our head coach. Unfortunately, you fell back into your overwhelming need to once again spew your personal vitriol at the past coach. We get it; you hate him. Now, give it a rest for heaven’s sake. Your continued insult campaign is a one trick pony, and the pony is dead. If you want to be taken seriously on this forum going forward, and not drag Gator Nation into the mud pit with every posting. Thanks.
And yet, bananas!
Thanks so much for clarifying with the “….taken seriously on this forum going forward.” Just curious, can one be taken seriously on this forum going backward?
BF, good question. I am trying to take his above response to my post seriously, but it’s not working..
Sage advice Dan!
Thanks Sly. At my age, sage advice is about all we have left.
Good post Dan…….maybe Jaws gets it now
More good news!
Finally, the yoke of SEC systemic oppression has been crushed! Great godamighty!
Power to the People! Right on, right on.
Congrats to Jefferson, and congrats to us, the Gator Nation! And thanks for being righteously fair NCAA & SEC.
Gators, y’all stay healthy in preseason camp. And don’t bang on each other too hard. Save some for the season. Go Gators! Just do it!
I’m loving the good news. We’ve had enough bad news recently to last several seasons. On a wishful thinking note, I’d love to get Jalen Hurts to transfer here. I’ve never seen a 26-2 qb deal with so much scrutiny from a fan base. He graduates in December and would be a perfect fit for this offense. He should go ahead and make the move before the season begins and start learning the offense(this assuming he will transfer in the first place). I can’t think of a better place for him to have a chance to stick it to the Tide. Other than that, sorry for getting off track, and Go Gators!
I’m not sure on that one, SoCal…..but I see your point. IMO only, Hurts is a better manager than he is an over all SEC QB. Now if we can’t develop a QB this year, and that’s what CDM wants, OK, probably a decent stop-gap. Have a feeling tho that it would turn out pretty much like Ziare did.
This is true, however, there is a much larger body of work with Hurts than Zaire. Couple that with what would be more practice time with this team and coaches(and the compentancy of this staff as opposed to the previous), and I’d like our chances. Unfortunately at this point, it’s all just speculation. A guy can dream though.
SoCal been thinking the same thing. At least there’s two of us.
We have too many guys in the pipeline, I think it would hurt us to bring him in. Each year we have a top recruit QB coming who expects to start his 2nd year and this could cause one or more to find another home.
Well, those are two good endorsements right there, but I just am not as enthralled with Hurts at the end of the day, like everyone else in the SEC is, and I lean towards Daz’s point too — as I did when Ziare came on board. As you said tho, SoCal, it’s just speculation anyway…..and besides, who knows….the OL may turn out to be a surprise anyway and one or more of our own QBs may just have that elusive “Ah-Ha” moment too!
I would love nothing more than to have one of our current qb’s take the job and run with it. Definitely can’t hurt to have quality depth to breed competition. Either way, I feel that Mullen will help restore the program and ‘spoil’ us with a solid offense that will only get better. Can’t wait for this season!