True freshman Iverson Clement just made the move from running back to safety to help the depth at safety. He may be new at it, but he apparently already doesn’t look like a running back playing safety.
He looks like a safety.
“He came in and locked in,” sophomore cornerback Brian Edwards said. “Being versatile and being able to have speed, at first nobody knew he could hit, but one day in practice I guess they threw it over the top and he came over and knocked the guy out. He can hit, man. He’s a good guy and can play.”
Cornerback Marco Wilson said Clement is a welcome addition in the secondary, although he eventually will go back to running back at some point.
“That guy, I like his attitude,” Wilson said. “Although he came in as a running back, he just wants to play on the field. That’s what you like to see out of guys. It doesn’t matter where they’re putting you at. If they put you at kicker for anything, you want to get on the field and help your team as much as possible and that’s what he’s doing.”
Musical Gators
Edwards and sophomore wide receiver Kadarius Toney have some talent off the football field. They’ve composed a song called “Drip Day.”
“Oh yeah, it’s coming out soon,” Edwards said. “That was the first song we released.
“It was just me and him in the dorm one day and we like music so we’re listening to a beat and we went ahead and made the song.”
Edwards is hoping rapper Kodak Black takes Dan Mullen up on his Twitter offer and visits the Gators sometime this fall.
“Oh that would be nice,” Edwards said. “He’s a big Gator fan, so it would be nice to have him.
“A lot of players like his music. It would be good to have him in this atmosphere.”
That fan’s familiar
Senior long snapper Ryan Farr had a little fun during Fan Day on Sunday, pranking his teammates by dressing in disguise and then standing in line to get their autographs.
Some recognized him, some didn’t.
“It was awesome,” he said. “Went undercover, under the name of Jeff, and got some signatures from the guys. And most of them didn’t catch on until the very end.
“I know all the guys. They all know I mess around, so I was just kind of keeping my head low and just having some fun with it. You’ve got to have a little bit of fun during camp, especially my last time around.”
Townsend confident
Although there’s been nothing official from the coaching staff yet, it appears another Townsend likely is going to be the punter this season — Tommy Townsend, the younger brother of Johnny Townsend, now a rookie with the Oakland Raiders.
“In my opinion, yes (I’m the guy),” Tommy Townsend said. “I do think so just through all the practices and meetings. I’m fairly confident in my abilities and I think the coaches see that, too. Obviously nothing official has come out yet, so we’ll just wait and see.”
Townsend has averaged 44.8 yards a punt in preseason camp, which looks good, but he’s not happy with it.
“I’m just excited for the season,” he said. “I feel like I’m going to blossom. I feel like I didn’t do as well as I could have and I’m still averaging 44 yards a punt, which isn’t absolutely horrible. I’m just ready for the season to get out there and show what I can do.”
Like I said, I don’t think we’ll miss a beat in the kicking department. Averaging 44+ right now, depending on the line and game pressures, I’m sure we will see that steadily go up. How about some info on the place kicker?
Gator-6: A piece to look back on here.Freshman kicker Evan McPherson has not been made available to the media.
Thanks….
Gator 6. They had a story on the freshman placekicker recently, I believe. Could have been another site. Not exactly sure. Tight race between the freshman and Powell, with the freshman having a much stronger leg and the accuracy not being that much different so far. I would figure the freshman gets the job game one.
Roger copy.
It is good that Edwards is helping Toney channel his creative side to a better purpose. But they and people can call pure RAP, “music”, all they want. It isn’t. It is mostly poetic and cultural language put to rhythmic beat(s). Show me the musical cords in instrument and voice in most RAP “songs”. Not there. Most background to rap is technically produced sounds by non musical instruments. RAP is a form of cultural language art put to rhythmic beats that are mostly repetitious and similar in nature. Not music. Art is pure to me. So is “music.” RAP is not music. But it can be pure art in itself. It just is not music. Now, down off my artistic soapbox and back to sports.
I agree with you and , well put!
THAT’S RACIST!
Don’t make me defend TampaGator now!
Really? That’s what you got out of the article? A discrepancy in theirs and your definition of music? Lol. I bet your house is clean, organized and spotless the way you agonize over what most people would call minutia. Not criticizing. Just think it’s funny and would love to see your house.
Never thought of it that way, Dallas — hillarious! All I know is that my wife just said if I don’t clean up that dung pile of a Garage/Gator man cave/Gator TV room right pronto, she’s gonna disconnect the satellite receiver before Sept 1st. I can always watch it in the house replete with A/C, I guess…..it’ll probably be over a hundred down here in Salado anyway….but that’s no fun. Golly, I’m sure going to miss her if she does that!
All this machinery
Making modern music
Can still be open-hearted
Not so coldly charted
It’s really just a question
Of your honesty, yeah your honesty
One likes to believe
In the freedom of music
But glittering prizes
And endless compromises
Shatter the illusion
Of integrity, yeah
Savage is good! These guys look chiseled and big!
Agreed! As least this season it looks like we will compete as men vs. men, rather than boys vs. men like last season. I will be very surprised if we get pushed-around like we did last season.
Is it just me or is this Iverson Clement the kind of player championship teams need. I know we lost the one guy to police issues but it looks like it just opened a slot for a guy to show us what he can do.
I will be a little nervous about the kickers early but by late season they should be solid.
The info I read is that music really helps athletes get into a state of flow so glad to see Toney rapping instead of some other things. Maybe they will come up with a sugar bowl something that gets everyone lit up.
Don’t shoot me pat ..Tom petty is great but I’m not sure it produced the effect last year we all hoped it would. Maybe some recruit coming up Will deliver music that does the trick.
I’ve always thought that a little Glen Miller over the loudspeakers would probably stir things up.
Yeah, that’ll stir things up all right…. :-J
You mean ‘In the Mood’ and ‘American Patrol’ doesn’t get your juices flowing, Rog? Good Lord, there’s nothing left to believe in! OK, then…how about a little Wayne Cochran and the CC Riders?
Look, I love a good Glen Miller tune as much as the next guy…..but I don’t think the 20 year old college football players can relate… just a hunch 😮
OK, I’m down to my last two contributions to this discussion: Moe Bandy, or the Dave Clark Five!
Well according to Tampa Gator it isn’t music so I don’t think it’ll do the trick (eye roll).
Nunya. Roll your eyes all you want.
The Webster definition of music:
“vocal or instrumental sounds combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion”.
RAP is vocal, but is not sung in harmony or in tune to instrumental cords. And RAP is not instrumentally based. Therefore, not music in its purest form. But it is art. Good and bad.
Nunya. And I think some RAP does the trick for a football stadium environment. But the Tom Petty song just was not a perfect fit for today’s stadium environment. The thing South Carolina does at the start of games gets a crowd going.
Don’t know what So Carolina plays before games but you can’t beat VaTech playing Enter Sandman by Metallica
Some real music for Savage to play in the weight room: Chicago’s hit “Feeling a Little Stronger Every Day”
Iverson Clement wants to play!!! I love this selfless move. He’s a great running back, on a team of great running backs. He sees a void in the secondary and says “I’ll do it!”. Great for him and great for the team!
I will say again, “Gator Country” by Molly Hatchet!!!
Now that’s an idea I can support!!! “a little bit of that chomp chomp for ya…”