I’ve heard my fair share of what I like to call “coach speak” over the past couple of years covering UF sports.
I’m talking cliché, meaningless phrases with no substance to them like, “We’re just focusing on what we can control,” or, “We have to play how we’re capable of playing.” Anything that came out of former football coach Jim McElwain’s mouth over the past three years would suffice.
But when I found out McElwain’s successor, first-year coach Dan Mullen, used the phrase “herky-jerky” to describe a recent scrimmage, I almost did a double-take from the comfort of my parents’ home in South Florida.