Florida furthers college football misery with loss to Utah in opener Another overreaction imho. I don't understand why so many people including national sports writers can't see the rebuilding project that was Gator football, and how Napier is changing the culture here. Just because it's not a year one or year two turnaround, doesn't mean he doesn't have a plan and is implementing that plan.
Nobody denies BN has a plan and is implementing that plan. But, evidence from data-driven analytics is clearly showing HIS PLAN is not working. And just so you know, if culture trumps scores, Navy or Army would be awarded NC over GA last year.
Culture doesn't trump scores, but it does usually come BEFORE scores. Look at Mike Norvell. They got worse before they got better, and it's because he completely cleaned house and got high character kids who also bought into what he wanted to do. You didn't start seeing results until year 3 (last season). Napier is definitely doing that right now, but also stockpiling much better high school talent than Norvell has been able to get. This was the first game of Napier's second season, against a top 15 team at their place. It's so ludicrous the criticisms I'm hearing.
I think UF needs BN to be successful. I think it’s probably going to take a little more time than Gator nation has shown patience for in the past.
An unranked team losing to the #14 team at their house is pretty much expected. That is our reality until we can prove we are something other than an "unranked team".
Yo, an unranked team, picked to win 5 games by Vegas and a team Vegas picked to lose the contest. Again it's not losing but how you lose.
I saw dumb mistakes, penalties, missed assignments, a reciever tripping himself on a key play, horrendous special teams…. we looked like a team that Spurrier used to beat up on as the Gators first game. Everything you’d expect from an unranked team, that’s my point.
It is kind of funny how we all pretty much saw this year as a throw away, win 7 and be happy but want to fire everyone after the first game. I've rationalized this to myself as saying, hey I would have have been fine if we lost a clean game and looked like we knew what we were doing, but that's probably not true either. I've always proudly thought that UF has the worst fanbase, at least we haven't let ourselves down in that regard. Anyway, back to agonizing over the Utah game and thinking Billynis in over his head.
If we played the teams most of the top 25 played, we'd be 1-0 too. In fact if we played uga's first five games we'd start 5-0 and then the narrative would be quite different wouldn't it? But the reality is we'd still be rebuilding.
Lincoin said that in the long run, people were about as happy as they decided to be. I suppose the same can be said about being miserable. FTR, I'm not "happy" about Thursday's performance, not by a long shot. But I refuse to embrace the misery or to infect others with it. The freshman is right, carry on.
We have really no choice but to be patient with a 23 million buyout. My hope is that he will see the need to hire an OC and ST coach which will only happen after the season. If he does that even if we have a losing season, then I think we can hold onto the majority of recruits. If however there is no change and we have a losing season then I'm not sure we are able to hold off all the negative recruiting that will no doubt occur. Worse case scenario, losing season, no hiring of OC/ST coach and losing key recruits will set this program way back that will take a very long time to recover.
You wish, and I wish, too. Although Norvell is actually an offensive guru, unlike BN. Also, whether Norvell can work out for them or not is still in question. One year in a very weak ACC doesn't mean much. I sincerely hope they win 9 games every year, however. Otherwise if they got Prime it might be game over and they may really be back. BTW, if our culture was really that bad, why didn't BN do what coach Prime do?
Because it was unheard of prior to last year and we would have been talked about being 2-10 last year. Plus we don’t pkay in the no defense conference
Two points: BN seems to be at least somewhat of a recruiting maven, unlike Norvell. And Neon Deion hasn't quite re-invented CFB just yet. FTR, people were going nuts around here for a while, fretting about not being able to field a team with all the departures/bootees. If you go by how depleted we were at the end of the year, they may have been right.
