Posted by Dave as College Basketball, Florida Gators at 7:07 PM EDT on March 17th, 2008

What happens to a coach when his team wins two titles in a row and then fails to make the tournament the following season? Well, he may go a little overboard, and may forget how to handle things when he, uh, actually doesn’t win.
Coach Billy Donovan, feeling like his players had settled into a state of complacency and entitlement, banned them from Florida’s $12 million facility. He also told them they couldn’t wear any Florida attire.
“Probably in some respects the confetti is still falling down around them,” Donovan said Monday. “When you have great success like we’ve had, I think it’s very, very easy to become complacent and to lose sight of how good things are around here and to have an attitude of, ‘I’m at Florida. This is just what’s going to happen.’”
I’m not saying the man’s gone completely overboard, but he’s sure close; his team is loaded with freshman and sophomores, and they lost three players last year to the NBA Lotto. Note to players considering jumping to Florida: Don’t do so if the team has just won a title; you’ll be stripped of your clothes privlidges, and those facilities that may have been a factor in choosing where to go. . . well, you won’t practice on those, either.