Baltimore Sun
"He's just going to be great at Florida, probably an All-American."
-- Recruiting analyst Max Emfinger to The Tampa Tribune on Jan. 5, 1995
SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Bobby Sabelhaus can laugh about it all now. Fifteen years earlier, it felt as if his life had ended. But as he polished off an egg-white omelet and gazed out the window at the Pacific Ocean a few months ago, Sabelhaus grinned as he recounted the day someone at Florida tried to hypnotize him into throwing spirals.
In the spring of 1996, Gators coaches tried to salvage the quarterback who had arrived in 1995 as one of the most hyped recruits in Florida history. Sabelhaus' play at the McDonogh School in suburban Baltimore had convinced recruiting analysts that the 6-foot-6,...
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