LET'S BE COMPLETELY HONEST ...

Great coaches recruit great players and coach them to be a great team.

Good coaches may recruit great players and coach them to be a good team.

Good coaches may recruit good players and coach some to be great players and be a good team.

 

SOS & UM say hi!!

 

90 and 91 teams were defined by GREAT play on BOTH LsOS.

Remember these names? Mark White, Hesham Ismael, Cal Dixon, Jim Watson, Tony Rowell, Huey Richardson, Mark Murray, Darren Mickell, Brad Culpeper, Tony McCoy, William Gaines, Harvey Thomas, Kevin Carter.

Chris Bromley, Mike Brandon.

 

I’m glad we’ve gotten to the point where WE KNOW what we’re going to do. It’s been a long time.

 

If you recall, Tebow was just an change-of-pace backup alternative to Chris Leak the first year. Meyer took us a championship with Leak doing most of the heavy lifting as the starting QB.

 

Yet somehow, Galen Hall only went 6-5, 6-6, 7-5 in his 3 years before SOS while Spurrier went 9-2 in his first year...which only proves my point that a great coach is better than great recuiting.

 

We had some missteps on offense and defense in a few games early on, but it looks like the coaches are fixing the early deficiencies... but we still have more to learn. We left points that we should have had against A&M, but as I said we are moving in the right direction... I think Toney is finding a better balance of zone to man/press on the back end and that's a good news.

All we need to do is figure out a way to put quick, consistent pressure on opposing QBs at a higher percentage. This QB from USCe is mobile and fairly accurate if we give him all day long to pass the football we're in trouble. So we have to find some stunts up front and mask some blitzes to disrupt his rhythm, while playing some man/press on the back end.

 

I’ll take 8-4 and a bowl win. Can’t lose to Georgia, Kentucky, Tenn, and FSU in same year.

 

Great coach by far!!!

 

And look where it went after Tebow moved on

 

To be completely fair (I hate that word)…. Spurrier inherited an epic defensive roster. And he used it to win a lot of games. And there were players on offense.

that said, he’s the Greatest Gator Ever.

 

Those years were a roster impacted by probation. Galen was digging out of that when he got canned for silly stuff.
Not saying Galen was anywhere near the coach SOS was, but he did very well when the NCAA wasn't screwing us.

 

All good points in this discussion, regarding coaches and the players, who actually suit up and play the game.

Just my 2 cents... our biggest liability this year is threefold: 1. New regime - implementing a new system and culture. 2. A QB that single handedly lost some games through inconsistent play-complete with injury and confidence issues. (I do love the kid and he's improving.) 3. A really weak defense with a few good players. But most couldn't be more out of position if they were on the bench!

I love our kids and appreciate their efforts. But no sports expert would rank our defense good. Especially with statistics at the bottom of the barrel. Our QB is a work in progress and is currently one with elite 'potential'- often a dreaded word.

You can't win games with a suffering and inconsistent QB. And a suffering defense! Are our players as good as Georgia's? Why was last year pretty bad? Two inconsistent QB's and one suffering QB whisperer.

It has taken Nix four years to get better. AR is early in his development with improvement noted. Our schedule is really tough this year as well.

Beat the Gamecocks!

Go Gators.

 

A great recruiter and a great coach is better than just a great recruiter I guess?

 

Do you realize how handcuffed Hall was dealing with probation? He did a great job to have that record. He would never have been fired if he didn't pay his assistants out of his own pocket. He had us becoming a winner in spite of the ncaa.

 

Exactly. But since we won that title, I think it’s easy to forget how rusty that offense looked. It definitely wasn’t the spread option that got us that title.

 

It took Nix 4 years to move to the weak-ass PAC whatever. Make him play SEC defenses (see UGA to start the year) and he’s the same old Bo.

 

UF had the second worst probation behind SMU and Galen never had a losing season....he did an incredible job.

 

He is like Emory Jones. He looks good with middling and worse competition and then hits his ceiling HARD.