Post game discussion Gators vs half assed u

Physical football. Go Gators!

 

i think he’s going to be VERY good very soon for us

 

I respectfully disagree when it comes to fsu. Florida has spent years “taking the high road” - too many scenarios to count. Rub it in. Make them feel it. Empty their stadium. Go for 2. Onside kick it up 30. Taunt. Call timeouts.

we need some fire and some rivalry juice around here. Especially in the portal era where rivalries are dying. One of my biggest criticisms of Billy (other than playcalling) is the lack of swag. We’re Florida. Not bama. We will never be bama. We need to let the kids pick horrible trap music over the PA. Switch up the unis. Talk a little trash. And back it up. And the last few weeks they’ve backed it up.
This team fought hard and had to listen to so much garbage (sometimes from me lol), had to watch other teams celebrate on their field… let them have a couple moments. Maybe moments that won’t come when we are 11-2 and competing for a playoff spot and then it’s biz as usual… but right now it’s not usual so give other teams the biz

 

As a supporter of my team, and living in The Belly of the Beast in Knoxville as I do, I always stick to my dad's dictum: "When you lose, say little: When you win, say less." It serves me well.

The players are another thing. They are the ones whose sweat, blood and months of toil are on the line in this most bitter of all our rivalries. Theirs is the sweetness in victory, the gall in defeat. They, more than almost any here, have been asked to restrain, to channel, to focus their efforts, their emotions, their aggression, their capacity towards the single goal of victory. When it is theirs, I don't begrudge them the ecstatic release of primal joy. They stand on the objective, victorious, and mark their moment. There are rules around this, codes, to be sure. They chose to plant the flag, the symbol of their team and school. It' is a gesture utterly familiar to soldiers, to whom we make so many allusions in this game of football. Planting the flag wasn't violent towards anyone, destroyed no property, degraded no person; It was simply the trophy moment that has always been the mark of the battle winner: to raise the flags on the contested field. The opponent has the opportunity, the obligation to prevent it during the contest. Someone wins; someone loses.

If those that don't play the games but make the rules that govern the contests are to decide that planting a victory flag in an opponent's field is outside the bounds of acceptable conduct, so be it. Our world seems increasingly uncomfortable with the binary nature of victory, in war or in sport. The generous nature of victorious American men-at-arms has caused us to develop, IMO, a lack of appreciation for the savage nature of the effort required to gain magnanimity in victory. Someone has to lose. Everything in our nature screams to exult in defeating a foe in a hard-fought battle. And the instinct to honor the valiant foe, to be generous with our terms of surrender, is a good and noble thing, and I generally applaud it.

But not when it comes to the people we played last Saturday. They lost. We won. Raise that banner high, boys. I'm good with it.

 

Kromenchoke just got sacked again.

 

It's not another day at the office. These kids have never beat FSU before. If a game means something, let it mean something. Celebrating beating a two-win FSU team tells them "We despise you guys so much that we get the same joy out of beating you as beating a ranked team." Which we do.

 

OMG!!! Ha ha ha ha.

I do wonder how his spleen is after that.

 

I know, but I couldn't figure out how to work "trolls" into that one.

 

What about ash-holes?

 

Oddly enough no call on us. Thought for sure we would get flagged.