Takkle Top 100 football player shot

A member of the Florida Gators football team, Matt Patchan, was shot in the shoulder Friday night while at a Tampa area park. All reports say that Patchan is doing well as Florida Coach, Urban Meyer issued a statement that Patchan is expected to fully recover. Patchan, however declined to comment on the issue. Patchan is 25th ranked player in the Takkle/SI Football Top 100. For highlights of Matt in high school check out the Takkle Top 100 Football rankings. We wish Matt a speedy recovery and hope he can dominate in his first season with the Gators this fall!

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Signing Day - Takkle updates: Florida Gators - T.J. Lawrence

Good News For The Gators

Florida finally got some good news. Receiver T.J. Lawrence from Lakeland, Fla., picked the Gators over Michigan, South Carolina, Virginia Tech and Florida State. Besides, no one at Florida should get too upset about today's events. The Gators still have safeties Will Hill and Dee Finley coming in, and they've already got offensive lineman Matt Patchan and receiver Carl Moore on campus.

Plus, the NCAA cleared Florida coach Urban Meyer on Tuesday of any wrongdoing for those telephone chats he had last year with Moore's girlfriend, who now attends Florida on a gymnastics scholarship. - si.com

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