Florida’s first day of official practice brought a near scare when it was announced that wing Will Richard would be missing two to three weeks with an injury.
Fortunately, it’s not something that’s expected to nag him much moving forward and is only a minor inconvenience for him as he’s unable to compete in what should be some valuable early season practices for a team with a lot of new pieces looking to gel.
Richard was the first player to commit to the Todd Golden regime after a productive freshman season at Belmont. Listed at 6’5” at Belmont (though mentioned as more like 6’4” from people around the Florida program) Richard was a big piece of a quality Belmont team that finished last season 79th in the NET Rankings, an excellent finish for a team that actually had some at-large consideration in the back half of the season before the poor metrics of the Ohio Valley Conference dragged them down.