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The Boys from Old Florida: Inside Gator Nation | 
 enlarge | Author: Buddy Martin
Publisher: Sports Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 997570
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 1582611734
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.332630975979
EAN: 9781582611730
ASIN: 1582611734
Publication Date: September 1, 2006
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Product Description
In The Boys From Old Florida, Buddy Martin takes the reader beneath the surface of Florida football as, without bias or sugar coating, he skillfully excavates the truths behind "The Gator Nation."In this book, Martin, a Florida native, has chronicled the real stories of Gator coaches and players through their own eyes and in their words over a 55-year period since 1950-and not all are valentines. All but one of the coaches interviewed were asked to leave or move up by the school. Some players became estranged or never really felt appreciated. Yet, others are forever grateful for their experience as Gator players and feel a sense of brotherhood.Liberating moments such as the arrival of Ray Graves come to life through the words of some-body who experienced it firsthand. Martin's fresh investigations have bolstered his sharp memory of those moments as they unfolded, including Graves' firing after a fairy-tale season with his "Super Sophs."
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 Response to the above review March 3, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Just so you know, "The Boys From Old Florida" is in the process of being updated. The publisher will have a "National Champioship Edition" out in the fall of 2007. -- Buddy Martin, author
 GATORS, 2006 NATIONAL CHAMPS!!! February 16, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I got this book for Christmas and by the time I read it (Feb) it was totally outdated. Gators-National Champs 2006!!! Too bad for Buddy Martin that he didn't wait till after the 2006 season to write this thing.
The book is an interesting and in-depth look at Gator football over the last 50 years. Being born in 1980, I didn't really have much of an appreciation for the history behind the UF football program even though I've been a Gator fan for my whole life. This book takes you through the years of trials and successes that lead to the powerhouse that is now Gator football. Basically the history is broken into "era's" under each of the coaches from the last 50 years [The first 50 years are briefly discussed in the intro to the book, but not much info there]. So, divided up into chapters such as "The Bob Woodruff Era" through the "The Urban Meyer Era" the book tells the tale of what made each period special.
The one complaint I have is that not enough information on a lot of great players (Emmitt Smith) was included in favor of more information about the character and idiosyncracies of the coaches. Even though each phase of Gator football has been somewhat defined by the coach of the time (Steve Spurrier), I thought more about some of the players and teams should have been included. Also, simply including some tables with the starting offense and defense for each year would have been really nice. Most players of the past weren't mentioned at all in the book.
Martin talks a lot about how it is going to be so hard for anyone to ever live up to the excitment of the 1996 season in the book. As I said, its too bad he didn't wait until after the 2006 season to write this!
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