I’ve been paying close attention to college football for more than half of my life, and covering Florida in one form or another for more than a decade.
And I’ve come to loathe, not love, the beginnings of both spring and fall practices.
Yes, it’s a chance to see what the team I love might have in store for the season — but, more often than not, it’s just a small sample size that produces things we as fans and the collective Florida beat both overreact to, a snapshot often mistaken for the big picture.
I don’t think it’s smart to be too invested in practices in the first place.