The veteran coach is ready to move forward and turn the page to 2021. But the epic struggles of the 2020 Gators’ defense — capped by a 55-20 Cotton Bowl loss to Oklahoma — remain fresh in the collective memory of the Florida fan base and affixed in the school’s record books.
“I want to talk about this year and moving forward,” Grantham said. “The issues and reasons before are really irrelevant now in the sense that it is what it is. We’re going to play good this year.”
The Gators staged their fourth of 15 spring practices Wednesday a year after the coronavirus pandemic canceled them and shuttered the program for more than four months.