A program turn-a-round doesn't need to be a long process...

I have a bad feeling he will be departing after this year.

 

Issa bad joke.

 

It may be a joke, but I guarantee their are some players out their having the same thought cross their mind.

Edit: For those giving me the come on man, I never said it was UF players

 

Wait, you think we get to 5 wins? Wish I shared your optimism.

 

And the list will only get longer with more losses

 

A Utah win was needed to even sniff 6 wins...

 

I remember folks dismissing Deion when he became a head coach just three years ago. I believe he coached hS ball for about five years before jumping straight to HC at Jackson St. Someone please correct me if wrong. Obviously he has a unique ability to motivate today's athletes, because his record at JSt went from 4-3 to 11-2 to 12-1. Now he took on one of the worst DI teams, completely changed over the roster (mostly unprecedented) and won on the road against a ranked team as a 21pt dog. Maybe it's just 3yrs plus a game, but the early returns suggest that Deion can coach.

This means nothing, though, in comparison with the job at FL. Turning around an SEC program against continual top tier talent is another thing.

 

Forget 3 years ago, try 3 months ago. Some are blinded by their hatred for him so much that can't step back and recognize the job he is and has been doing. Shaking up a lot of foundations of building a program that everyone knows to be true.

 

That’s almost but not quite true. There are still seven winnable games on the schedule: two unmentionable scrubs, Vandy, Misery, Arkansas, USCe, and Kentucky.* That is not a prediction, mind you. It’s just an illustration of what is still in the realm of possible.

*List subject to change based on performance during next three games.

 

I have no idea how the season is going to turn out, but the Utah game was ugly and repeated most of the same types of mental errors and poor execution that we saw last year. And this year's schedule is brutal. Hoping for the best, but I'm not as optimistic as I was Thursday afternoon.

 

I have always been a doubter and I absolutely can’t stand Dion but that win is impressive at the moment. I hope he crashes and burns in the most embarrassing fashion but damn.

 

All true and Tennessee and FSU aren’t in winnable games either. This team had the ability to win tgat last game and we don’t know how good any of our future opponents actually are. Maybe Utah is better than all but Georgia. We will see soon enough but we didn’t look promising. Maybe Tenn, lsu and clowntown are all top ten teams, maybe none of them are.

 

I can’t stand him but I wouldn’t say I’m blinded. Beating lower class teams with some top players isn’t eye opening. Beating tcu with a team thrown together in the last few months can’t be ignored. Maybe TCU is bad or maybe Colorado will run that weak conference and put the nation on notice.

 

How many people here would’ve supported going after Sanders when Mullen was fired? I doubt very many.

 

I will reassess with more data (such as the LSU-SWAC game tomorrow), but with the information we have today, the team we saw play Utah will get beaten with contemptuous ease by Tennessee and SWAC in our own house. It gives me zero pleasure to say that.

 

None

 

Utah didn’t beat us - we beat ourselves.

Is Billy perhaps too nice of a guy?

I’d like to hear some stories about him angrily turning over some tables to motivate the team.

Does he get upset?