Sophomore RB Jeff Demps may have bailed on spring practice this year, but that doesn't mean he's not paying attention at all to his football obligations.

After one week of spring practice, UF coach Urban Meyer agreed to allow Demps to concentrate solely on track this spring. But Meyer said Demps is still participating in football-related activities, just not practicing. And he won't play in the spring game.

"We meet with him four days a week,'' Meyer said. "He lifts with our strength coach and he’s still doing change of direction drills. It took us about two months to get the straight-ahead (running) out of him (during his freshman year last season). Because football is not just straight ahead, it’s changing direction. His first month, he wasn’t very good and the last three months he was tremendous. So he comes in and does change of direction drills in the strength room, he does offensive meetings with coach Carter (Kenny, running backs coach) and then he runs track.''

Last June, Demps set a national record in the 100 meters with a 10.01 in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Olympic trials.