Happy? No. Prepared to consider Napier for a fourth season today? Yes. Despite what the “five seasons no matter what!” crowd says, Napier’s seat is scorching hot … and so is Stricklin’s.
I think the larger point is a good one- schedule matters. A mediocre team can have a good record against a crap schedule. A mediocre team can have a lousy record against a strong schedule. No one doubts we were mediocre- the problem is that the schedules are only getting harder.
if we lost 92 to 0 against the only ranked teams, we played, no, I would not be any happier with Napier.
Tough call, their offense was hard to watch, very hard. Of course so was UF's defense and Special teams.
Iowa, even if their schedule was garbage they racked up twice as many wins. 10-4 passes an eye test better than 5-7. A losing record sucks no matter how you look at it.
Your analysis could have just listed one stat and told the story. POINTS AGAINST. If we could just had their defensive performance, we would have been looking at a VERY different season and maybe even SEC championship game.
It’s sad to me that we are comparing UF against a team that had one of the most inept offenses in college football history. I know we’re not comparing the offenses, but to even put the two teams in the same conversation makes me realize how far we’ve fallen.
Well, if we held the opposing teams to 14 points like Iowa, Missouri, LSU, Arky and UGA would have been wins Well, if you are holding teams to 14 points per game, aside from getting more offensive opportunities, that is the level of defense we had in '06. With opponents scoring 14 pts. per game, that would have resulted in 4 more wins and maybe 2 more that would be close so maybe 11 wins.
Yes, if we held teams to 10 pts like Michigan and scored 43 like LSU, we would have had a really good year.
Well regardless of the scores and records the Iowa fans, players and coaching staff had to live in Iowa so clearly Florida is the real winner here.
You could look at it that way.... Or.... you could look at it that it could be argued that despite our record, we are better than a 10-4 team from a P5 conference. Question for everyone here: Do you think we would have beaten Iowa if we had played them last year?
Exactly; and, sadly, there is little optimism that we are getting stronger. Hopefully, Napier and the team prove us wrong.
We lost to some mediocre to bad teams. We probably win more than 5 with Iowas schedule but we don’t sniff 10
I don't think you appreciate how bad the Big 10 West was. UF had as many wins vs top 25 ranked teams as the ENTIRE BIG 10 WEST, and the 1 win was divisional Minnesota over Iowa. The Big 10 West was a G5 division.
