"To the fans and everybody in Gator Nation, I'm sorry. I'm extremely sorry. We were hoping for a Southeastern Conference Tournament championship. That was my goal, something Florida has only done three times before and not since 2007.

"I promise you one thing, a lot of good will come out of this. You will never see any player in the entire country play as hard as I will play in the NCAA Tournament. You will never see someone push the rest of the team -- most notably Erik Murphy -- as hard as I will push everybody -- again, Erik Murphy most notably -- in the NCAA Tournament.

"You will never see a team play harder than we will in the NCAA Tournament. God Bless."

son's death.  I simply do not understand why you continue to run the same old lame ass smack talk here.  This Gator board has some of the nicest damn people that I've had the pleasure of ever knowing on any sports board.  They are funny, informative, tolerant to high degree and fairly damn reasonable.  I don't know why you continue to try and jab them in the ribs with this constant trash talk that is not warranted or welcome.