Former Florida Tight End Announces He Will Transfer To Louisville

by Mike Rutherford on Jan 4, 2012 4:55 PM EST in Football

Former Florida tight end Gerald Christian has informed the Palm Beach Post that he will be transferring to Louisville.

Christian, who played mostly tight end (but could play fullback or linebacker) at UF, had four catches for 72 yards and a touchdown in 2011 before leaving the team in October. The touchdown came against Kentucky.

Christian was rated as the No. 2 tight end in the country coming out of high school by Rivals.com.

Scout.com reported earlier this week that former Gator wide receiver Robert Clark would also be coming to U of L, but the Post says that may not be the case.

Scout.com’s Louisville site reported, citing sources, that Clark has committed to the Cardinals, but that is unclear. Clark declined to reveal his plans when contacted today, and Dwyer coach Jack Daniels said he is not sure what Clark will do.

Perhaps he noticed the crop of young wide receivers on the current Cardinal roster. Who knows. I'd still love to have him.

Anyway, the Christian news is terrific for a Louisville team that will lose its likely main contributors at tight end - Stephon Ball and Nate Nord - to graduation after the 2012 season. Christian will be eligible to play in 2013.

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Whoo! Whoo!

“You sound like a big Choo Choo Train.” – Bobby Boucher

by tacosaucegood on Jan 4, 2012 4:59 PM EST reply actions

Pants are now officially off...

And they’ll stay that way through the weekend until I find out what Dawson, Brown and Harvey-Clemons are doing…

by FredoKY on Jan 4, 2012 4:59 PM EST reply actions

Pants will be off for an extended period of time. Harvey-Clemons will not be making his official visit to Louisville until January 20th. Hopefully we land atleast 2 out of 3!

by CardsMS6531 on Jan 4, 2012 5:11 PM EST up reply actions

Good point. A she might not get over it so well. We all know how persnickety they can be.

by Carolina Cardinal on Jan 4, 2012 6:26 PM EST up reply actions

SHE will not be happy about my pants being off at work today...

but she’ll deal with it :)

by FredoKY on Jan 5, 2012 10:06 AM EST up reply actions

Who was that last transfer we got from Florida that had a touchdown against Kentucky? Seemed like that guy was pretty good too...

by chango on Jan 4, 2012 5:23 PM EST reply actions

Roger Clark. But it was Gerald Christian who had a touchdown against Kentucky.

by CardsMS6531 on Jan 4, 2012 5:31 PM EST up reply actions

Whoops! I meant Robert Clark.

by CardsMS6531 on Jan 4, 2012 5:32 PM EST up reply actions

Bushell had an INT against UK

by guyngreen on Jan 4, 2012 7:23 PM EST up reply actions

DAYumn.

by Justin Gingey Smith on Jan 4, 2012 5:24 PM EST reply actions

Have I already told you how much I love Charlie Strong?

Huge mancrush right now

by ebhardwick on Jan 4, 2012 5:25 PM EST reply actions

Jacksonville

I always thought Jacksonville was north Florida. Wrong! It’s Louisville!!

by cbcard on Jan 4, 2012 5:28 PM EST reply actions

Charlie Strong

applause *

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by LORD KAYOSS on Jan 4, 2012 5:49 PM EST reply actions

Charlie Strong is unbelievable. The real deal.

And it simply cannot be anything but the power of his personality that these recruits love. I am very happy with the future of Cardinal football right now.

by Carolina Cardinal on Jan 4, 2012 6:04 PM EST reply actions

Slow clap.

by Jason G on Jan 4, 2012 6:47 PM EST reply actions

This has absolutely NOTHING to do with this thread, save football

but as soon as I saw it, I had nowhere else to turn. It’s glorious. And it involves our football team.

by centre_card on Jan 4, 2012 7:06 PM EST reply actions

Hahaha

I love how the RB is about to have the look/body language like you know he’s saying “awww mannnn… you’re an idiot.”

by guyngreen on Jan 4, 2012 7:24 PM EST up reply actions

if you look at Teddy, he looks over and his shoulders drop like, "Are you shitting me?"

by David Lyons on Jan 4, 2012 7:28 PM EST up reply actions

Or is that Dom?

by David Lyons on Jan 4, 2012 7:30 PM EST up reply actions

I don't see the sidelines

We’re in White

by guyngreen on Jan 4, 2012 7:35 PM EST up reply actions

And I'm just plain lost...long day, I guess. Wow. And I watched it as it happened.

by David Lyons on Jan 4, 2012 7:58 PM EST up reply actions

That's NC State in red

by ebhardwick on Jan 4, 2012 7:36 PM EST up reply actions

ole boy saw the ice cream man

by DanOH66 on Jan 4, 2012 7:54 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

Dude really has a great quick first step

by cbcard on Jan 4, 2012 10:24 PM EST up reply actions

I think it's wonderful that the University of Florida recruits 4 stars for us,

develops them into quality players so they can transfer to UL when they’re productive players.
University of Florida = the new farm team for University of Louisville

by David Lyons on Jan 4, 2012 7:26 PM EST reply actions 1 recs

wow...

And that’s all I have to say about that

by DanOH66 on Jan 4, 2012 7:52 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

lol nice!

So we are the new “U” and florida is our farm club… LOVE IT!

by BirdsWithTeeth! on Jan 4, 2012 8:13 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

They are transfering here because they couldn’t get playing time at Florida…

Yes, that is Spike Lee.

by TheRealSlimShady on Jan 4, 2012 10:41 PM EST up reply actions

no shame in that

by irish2705 on Jan 4, 2012 10:57 PM EST up reply actions

Why do I get the feeling that you're the kind of guy who'd tell your kids that Santa

wasn’t real at age 4? No fun at all.

by David Lyons on Jan 4, 2012 11:04 PM EST up reply actions

Can't have qualms with an honest man

But can with a man you uses the word “qualms”?

My dad never told me that Santa existed… he worried if he told me of someone around Christmas who brought joy to the world and gave us gifts, then I might not still believe what he taught us about Christ. He is a preacher, by the way.

by guyngreen on Jan 4, 2012 11:21 PM EST up reply actions