Postgame Press Conference 8/31

A reminder for all who don't come around often: There will be no calls, directly or indirectly, for a coach to be fired.

Leaving this up for the reminder.

 

They really aren’t that young. Cohesiveness and working together is nonexistent though.

 

Still painful

 

Yeah, E.T., I knew Gator Nation would quickly tire of poor performance and losing year 2. I feel for the fan base because the squad was clearly good enough to compete if not beat Utah, but not when drive after drive is sabatouged by one mistake after another.

I hate the patience with coach is wearing thin as suggested reading this thread.

UT is up 14-0 late in the second. However they hardly look unbeatable.

Not giving up on the Gators myself.

 

I think it's very possible Utah went ultra conservative in the second half not wanting to make a mistake to give us an easy score. There wasn't much in the first half where our O showed they could score lots or any points. Utah's D was playing solid so what I'm saying is I think the second half D was more of Utah playing safe.
Keep in mind we were playing against their 3rd stringer, and their best TE didn't play. We had basically zero sacks, forced no turnovers. Now, having said that, outside of the 70 pass play, we held them to 200 total yards and that was very positive. I believe our D will continue to improve as the year goes on and imo already is better than last years team.

 

Uh …

 

Coach Prime - 2025??

 

That would fall as a violation under the above-mentioned rule about suggesting or predicting, directly or directly, humorously or seriously, that it might be a good idea to look in a different coaching direction. Consider yourself chastened.

 

How would we know that? Apparently whatever discipline that we do have isn't worth a hill of beans....the Special teams have been FUBAR since day one and STILL doesn't appear to have been addressed. Whatever is being preached is somehow not filtering down to the congregation.

 

I mean surely we all expected that from the fanbase, did we not? I figured the Napier Kumbaya-fest on this board since the bowl game fiasco died down would last until the first ugly loss, and it has. Gator nation is great, but not patient with bumbling results and that last game was the poster boy for bumbles.

My Bama Brother told me during the game that our team did not look well coached. I told him to shut the hell up, but I couldn't disagree with him too much.

As a fanbase, I hope we are over-reacting to this disheartening loss as much as we did to the great win we had in game 1 last year. We will see in two weeks if the Gators really want to play for this coaching staff or just going through the motions.

 

Creed 4 catches in first half. Kid was born to play in the slot.

 

So we need to win 19 in a row to match Spurrier or 25 in a row to match Meyer. Got it

 

Assuming MacNeese is a gimme, the UT game is shaping up to be one of the bigger games in CBNs early career at UF.

 

If history has taught us anything, it’s never underestimate the ability of Tennessee to snatch victory defeat from the jaws of victory when playing UF. I just hope the coaching staff doesn’t gameplan around it.

 

No gator fan would voluntarily post this

 

We have some real winners in our base.

 

Not sure where this came from, but I think you may be missing context sir.

https://www.gatorcountry.com/swampgas/threads/heavener-theft.583937/

Six weeks ago, a group of people (some wearing FSU gear) broke into the Heavener Center and stole (among other things) a #3 jersey from the locker room, trying it on in front of the camera.

I am going to assume the #3 jersey was reprinted at some point.

Now we have a game-breaking penalty for having 2 #3 jerseys on the field. The irony is real.

Two time UF grad here, and lifelong Gator sunshine pumper and occasional booster.

 

My apologies for jumping on that post if you’re a pumper but with so much negativity the past two days I saw no reason to bring up a break-in to our own football facility. Yeah, I saw that news a few weeks ago and hoped it would disappear from the news stream.
Two time alum here, too. Sorry to jump on your post. My bad. It’s just way too negative around here it’s killing me.

 

the defense seemed to play way better

 

No one here is really calling for a coach to be fired. A coach will do that to himself, if this staff puts together performances just like the one we saw Thursday night. Pile up some losses and inevitably that is what is going to happen. And this frustrated fan-base is not the one at fault for that.

A lot of us have PTSD from past coaching failures and are able to sense this upcoming trainwreck already. I know it ticks off the "Insiders" here because us non-subscribing plebes can call it with our lesser football knowledge.

My personal opinion, is to just screw it, and stick with Napier. Let him learn on the job and let this staff earn their damn salaries. This program is under construction for the next decade anyway, and we hinder that by shuffling coaches and staff. I am actually thankful for NIL this time, because in situations like ours, we can rely on that to have a shot at hanging on to some recruits. We at least got that carrot to dangle while this program hovers within the average category.