Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, but do not expect a love-fest to break out in Gainesville. Kentucky and Florida gave us an instant classic last year, a 106-100 shootout in Rupp that was so good it forced the SEC to admit they messed up by only scheduling it once. They fixed that mistake this year. We get a home-and-home, the way it should be between two top SEC teams. The first round is going to be hostile.
We caught up with Benjamin Henderson from Hail Florida Hail to get the pulse of the Gator fanbase, and one thing is very clear: They have not forgiven Denzel Aberdeen.
The “hornet’s nest”
When Aberdeen transferred to Kentucky, Gator fans were annoyed, but they understood the business side of it. Then his dad did an interview, and everything changed.
According to Henderson, comments about Aberdeen wanting a coach who “believed in him” did not sit well with a fanbase that watched Todd Golden develop him from a Mike White benchwarmer into a rotation piece on a title team…