What Excites You the Most about the 2023 season

I can’t wait until lsu and geor are the only two questionable games and Kentucky usce are thre scores wins like they should be. Kentucky is decent but not what I consider good. If you can’t beat them, there’s a long way to go to play with the big boys.

 

Muschamp was so overrated as a defense guy. Maybe good enough for Texas in the big 12, but he was mediocre at best at 3 stops in the SEC

 

As much as I hate to say it-their qb is really good, if they beat LSWhoo the only losable games left are scUM, klimpsin and the Gators- they play a cupcake schedule

 

If they go undefeated they are in but I doubt it. They weren’t tgat good last year.

 

They will lose to lsu, Clemson and the Gators

 

UT won in Gainesville last in 2003.

 

btw, that’s not Molly Hatchet, just some dudes renting the name, Danny Joe Brown would be appalled, sorry.

 

'22 is over and forgotten

 

wow ever since they made pot legal optimism has sky rocketed. I saw somewhere I think ESPN somebody said we go 3-9, we have people here saying 10-2. I think it is somewhere in-between. If we go 7-6, I will be over joyed.

 

He might be, but Danny Joe played with some of the guys on stage (Bobby Ingram, lead guitar on this clip owns, the rights to the name Molly Hatchet) before he had to leave the band again due to his health complications. Unfortunately, similar to Lynyrd Skynrd, all of the original members of Molly Hatchet have passed on.

 

Even with little to no depth last year and one of the worst defenses the Gators have ever fielded we were one play from beating Tennessee in their house. Kentucky was easily winnable and the Vandy game was one in 25 year disappointment that we should have easily won.

That's a 3 game swing with the depleted defense we had last year.... that 9 wins. I know it's speculation but that was not the "new normal" to loses to all 3 of those schools, that was the perfect storm... anomaly.

So, yeah, someone has to be HIGH AS A KITE to think we only win 5 or 6 games this season. I actually think we're closer to 10 wins that 5 or 6 wins. 8 is the rock bottom for me to have confidence that we keep this 2024 class together. 10 wins and we add some talent to that said recruiting class.

 

The schedule is rough. Even if we are better on the field, 8 wins would be absolutely amazing. Even 7 wins would be a good season with this schedule.

 

I think Pearsall will be dynamite at PR. If one of the new guys takes it from him we'll be rocking.

 

just to take the other side of that argument we beat Utah by 3, usf by 3 and mizzu by 7 so that could have easily been 3 more loses by that logic.

Hope we get 7 wins, 8 would be a big step forward. Tough schedule right out of the gate.

 

Out defense gave up over 400 yards against USF... Our defense was our weakest team, along with an unsatisfactory special teams play. And our offense sputtered in some easy games, but not becasue of our running game. There were several times we had wide open receivers and the QB lever say them... And even still we lost to Tennessee becasue one play... Ketuckly get offensive freebies, and Vanderbilt was that defensive meltdown. All of those games we winnable even with the subpar defense we had last year.

I like the upgrades we've made to the defense and it will be much improved, I also think our passing game will surprise many people... other SEC teams.

Point is... as dysfunctional as we were in passing game, and on defense, I feel that we have shored those two parts of our game.

I hope we save this thread so we can see if I was right or if you were more correct. It all comes down to educated guessing at this point, but I think we're more like an 8+ team becasue of untested players on the depth chart.

 

And we crushed USCe 38-6... then USCe crushed Tennessee 63-38 the very next week... and they beat Clemson too.

And beating a healthy #7 ranked Utah by 3 points is not a bad thing... that was a great game for us.

And Missouri had UGA on the ropes for most of that game, so they had their moments too. The same Missouri that lost to UGA 26-22... no slouch.

 

Who is the coach for Special Teams? On the UF website that I just looked at, no on-field coach is listed as having responsibility for Special Teams. Not even as a secondary duty. NOBODY.

Let that sink in a moment. Is it just an oversight? I know what my eyes told me in 2022.

There is one support staff guy, the "Game Changer Coordinator" whose duties are Special Teams. And, yeah, it's the same guy as 2022.

Cynically, I'd say kickoff returns have to do only one thing to improve their result 95% of the time: Call a fair catch and start at the 25. Last year I got so tired of watching guys run the ball out from inside the 5 - only to get tackled inside the 20, and/or a holding penalty for the same result - that I could just scream.