"f you call me Teez, you know me," Florida cornerback Teez Tabor said earlier this week, explaining his decision to ask the Gators to refer to him as Teez in the official media guide. "If you call me Jalen, you just know of me."
That — a simple statement on the value of a nickname, and the reasoning of using it instead of a given name — is as powerful a thing as Tabor will say all year.
Tabor is already clearly Florida’s front-facing standard-bearer, to the point that his Twitter account drew plenty of fire when Tabor had the audacity to voice opinions earlier this summer, and his tweaking of Tennessee — a team that he did not play against in 2015 — has made headlines three separate times this offseason.