We are not holier than thou

Paraphrasing Danny Weurffel when he fakes an injury:
"Football is a game of deception. This is no different"

 

Deception like press man and backing into zone or blitzing sure. Falling on the ground to stop the clock is straight up cheating. Sure they all do it but it should be eliminated. Stopping a tempo offense by faking injury just says you can’t stop it with skill, so cheat.

 

Shane Matthews stated he's stolen signs (during the game) going back to high school. He said they did it at Florida. Oh my goodness, say it ain't so.

 

If you can see it, I don’t feel that’s cheating. Paying someone to film practice or banging on a trash can is dif. …. And we are the holiest of holy. I’ve never seen something so holy. We are so holy, you just won’t be able to believe it we are so holy. Nobody could ever be so holy.

 

I guess Danny had in mind Proverbs 26:19. "So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?"

 

Maybe it's just the parent in me, but there's no such thing as a rule without a consequence. If there's no consequence, don't call it a rule. For recreational ball, pick up games, and probably even up to high school sports...I get it, play with integrity (I don't even like faking like you caught the ball when you know you didn't). Everything above that is a business, and I understand different people will draw their lines differently. Mine puts college ball on the business side of things. Use the rules and technology to manage the behavior you want to see in the game.

This goes in the same category of notifying the ref that he missed some of your grabbing of the other player's jersey or letting him know that you didn't actually catch the ball.

Go GATORS!
,WESGATORS

 

Notre-Dame haven't done sh_t since 1988. Almost 37 years ago. Maybe it's Notre-Dame that has Wake Forest's trophy case in the last 40 years.

 

If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t tryin. But make the rules where cheating isn’t encouraged.

 

wonder if it’s become more of a strategy since they quit stopping the clock after a first down.

 

Cocky lot? I don’t recall that in the 60s 70s and 80s. Hopeful? You bet.
Our teams didn’t win any championships, but we had players who worked hard. Stevie boy played quarterback for us in 64, 65, 66. He didn’t plan on losing when he walked on the field. Cocky? Maybe.
His best year was his last, and he had some really good players around him.
69? Old Ray surprised the population with that team. Cocky. Or just competent?
Dickey had a rep for recruiting and he should have done it in 76. We blew a good lead against UGA THATS for sure.
79 was Pell’s first year. Hard to be cocky when you don’t win a game. One thing he did was put enormous psychological pressure the players. Subsequent years, the players really got it on but admitted that sometimes Pell had them so riled up it hurt their actual,performance…afraid to make a mistake. But..we won.
Very first team meeting he called, one player showed up wearing a shirt with another university’s logo on it. He made the player take it off and said this crap will never happen again. He had to take it off immediately, in front of his teammates. The winning started the next year. 84 was his best year and he was canned in the middle of it.Lots of excellent players. Cocky? Maybe..They planned on lining up and beating up opponents and did just that. That is called competitive. After our offensive line mauled the Auburn Tigers that year, BO JACKSON said…they ( our offensive line) beat the crap out of us.
Pell made $75000 a year.
Hadn’t won a single championship but our determination was a champion’s, that is certain.
Mediocre until 90 when Stevie returned as coach.
We had Emmitt. We had a very good defense because our head coach was a defensive guy. No big offense.
Old Emmitt heard we hired a head coach who loved to pass and said bye bye. We started winning big under SOS and everybody was Cocky then. You know the rest. Just because we didn’t didn’t win titles doesn’t mean we didn’t have some serious talent certain years BEFORE spurrier. It also got us scorched by UT in his first year.
THAT GATORS ARE COCKY bullshit from sportswriters was just a way to put us down. We didn’t win championships but we competed hard. And the rest of the SEC was freaking jealous that we have a sweet state that people actually like to visit. Anybody vacation in Tuscaloosa? No. Just a redneck way to put us down. Nothing more.
We haven’t had sustainable success since Urban. No kidding. The bile that is spewed by foes and so called Gator fans is psychotic.
Want to win? You bet you’re behind.
Want to trash every part of our athletic programs the minute they don’t win? Screwof. Who needs you.

Not that anyone cares about women’s sports but we played our way into the softball World Series with a team predicted to be in the cellar. We brought in a world class former player as a hitting coach, and we knocked the ball out of the park. We complained that we couldn’t recruit worth crap, and we brought in one of the best classes ever. This year we brought in a championship pitching coach along with five recruits, and 3 transfers for another go at it.
Moral of the story is don’t be blinded by our crappy performance on the football field for these 2 1/2 years ( and the brilliance and incompetence of Dan Mullen). We are Gators. We have pride. We may be down but we ain’t out. GO GATORS.