This Is...The Swamp | The Power of Belief

Tommy, thank you for this early Christmas present, my good man. I really like this style of video production... ground views especially.

I wish you and yours a great Holiday season, my friend.

 

Thank you. Merry Christmas to you and your family too, my friend. Have safe trip.

 

This is an amazing production. So proud of those young men. They are building something special. Show that to every recruit, every potential transfer portal player.

 

It’s about more than football. Adversity doesn’t build character; It reveals it.

 

TommyVee, thanks for finding and sharing. Got online first thing this morning, Christmas Eve. What an uplifting present to share. Thank you. Merry Christmas to my fellow Gators!

 

Absolutely Awesome!...Thank You for sharing Tommy!...Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

GO GATORS!!!

 

Fans had a difficult time buying into or even understanding the "process" CBN kept preaching patience on. I think part of that comes from the very limited access inside the program and locker room. Great to see some of those scenes in the video. The players have really bought in and care about each other.

Biggest take for me was the bye week in which the players talked about getting back to winning the one-on-ones. Early in the season, we didn't look like we had the "dudes" that could win their one-on-one battles. Clearly a tale of two seasons since the bye week.

 

Glad to hear you say that
Have a safe trip home..
Merry Christmas!
Go Gators!

 

Thanks for posting. That was well done and enjoyable.

 

Catnip for Gators! Love it. We found ourselves and are going to build on it with good momentum.

 

Love this! The commitment, the desire and brotherhood! How these guys love playing for one another...
Great to get a little insight into the locker room, the magic happening there that brought about what we saw on the field!

 

That’s an amazing film. Of all the great moments, the one that truly put me inside the head of a player was Jaden Baugh talking about carrying the football and how the crowd noise goes away, returning as soon as the play ends.

Seeing this also explains why the guys never stopped playing hard for Billy, throughout all the losses over the last three years. He seems so different with the players than in the coachspeak pressers.

 

These are usually very good. This was great. Thanks for posting it.

 

Each of those well-spoken young men said their words with emotion and conviction. Dike seemed on the verge of tears during his last discourse.

There were some more low points after the A&M game that weren't shown. Obviously, hope is not the expectation of success, but the thing to which you return, to to start the work again, maybe with worn out tools.

"Hope is not a course of action." we used to say in the Army. It's a powerful thing, a force-multiplier, an over-the-horizon glow that draws you from the dark of despair. But it is only the basis for a plan to move forward and upward, a foundation on which a plan rests. Because no plan survives first contact, hope knows there will be setbacks.

As fans, we want to see the scoreboard reflect the light of victory. As an alumnus, I want to see these men demonstrate in their futures that, because of their time as Gators, they became better equipped to thrive in society. They have been given a great gift. Victory isn't assured out here, and losses sometimes, oftentimes, outweigh wins. I hope they have learned enough about themselves while Gators, to cling to hope, yet to know that a course of action must be built on top of it.

 

Makes me sad for players who are lured away to portal by voices around them.

And appreciate even more the guys who would never break the bond and stick it out.

 

Brilliant!

 

No right answer. How many times do we see people leave great work situations for the allure of some desired title, or comp number, or package...leaving what might have been a better thing...or maybe not. As employers who find more talented people are compelled to make room for them on a payroll/budget at another's expense. And sometimes, it works out, other times it doesn't. As married couples - who promised many things - retract those promises for "reasons." It's life. I hope Jack Pyburn, et als, still grew as people and were taught something that either helps them in life, or causes them to see their mistakes. Me? I hope he regrets leaving, is envious of what he had in his hands. I don't wish him ill, but neither do I wish him success there either. "The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on. "