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Discussion in 'RayGator's Swamp Gas' started by tilly, Sep 16, 2024.

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  1. Yes. I get this thread. I lived through page 136

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  2. No. I have no idea what is going on. This place is weird.

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  1. tilly

    tilly Superhero Mod. Fast witted. Bulletproof posts. Moderator VIP Member

    Good morning.
    We are halfway to 136!!!!
     
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  2. Skink

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    Curious - why do you keep associating the flop with Steve Spurrier?
    SOS would never do something so classless.
    Having Danny Wuerffel come off the field and sending in Kresser to chunk a pass is in no way even remotely similar to having a player flop on the ground with a fake injury to delay the game. But hey, we’ve already beaten this to death right?

    Lane Kiffin couldn’t carry Steve Spurrier’s jockstrap
     
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  3. Skink

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    I have a lot of respect for @tilly so won’t buy into the ‘mancrush’ barb, but I wholeheartedly agree with everything else in your post
     
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  4. Wanne15

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    Probably just didn’t have the players to be successful. He didn’t stay very long and without a legit qb, you can’t win in the nfl. Belicheck wasn’t any good after Brady left either.
     
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  7. paidinfull

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    What Richt did was illegal, disrupted play, and we’re lucky it didn’t break out into a brawl. Faking injuries to get a timeout is disrupting play, and should be illegal if it isn’t. Our flop did not disrupt play, it sped play up. Danny didn’t flop, he left the playing field. He did not disrupt play. You’re doing some pretty nutso mental gymnastics to try to equate these things.
     
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  8. thom1507

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    There is a difference. The NCAA rulebook actually addresses faking injuries with the intent to stop the clock or delay the game. Right now, it has no teeth in that the only avenue is for the opposing team to submit to their conference for any levy of fines. Appeals process approved for football players called for targeting in the second half - NCAA.org

    I agree with Danny in this. Hobbling off the field but otherwise not affecting the pace of play is more akin to faking a handoff to me.

    I still wonder what everyone sees in Lane. He is a good OC, but been a mediocre HC at best. His current program is closer to Norvell's FSU than Kirby's UGA in my book.
     
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  9. paidinfull

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    I don’t think Desanto Rollins loves him.

    What Spurrier had Danny do did not disrupt play. He didn’t fake an injury to try to get a timeout because he didn’t have his team prepared to play ball. Lane had his player fake an injury to buy him time because he wasn’t prepared to play. They are NOT even remotely the same thing. “The flop” was also not used to disrupt play because we were unprepared to play ball, we just wanted the ball back, so we let the other team score. Neither of these things are even remotely similar to having a healthy player fall down on the field to get an injury timeout. Not even remotely similar.
     
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    One day we can post on current events again. Sigh.
     
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  12. Skink

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    At first glance I was terrified that this was a pimple erupting
     
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  13. paidinfull

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    Page 136 is about as played out as short arms and debose jokes. Almost as dumb as thinking Kiffin is even remotely similar to Spurrier.
     
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    Doug Dickey may not have ordered the flop personally (unknown?), but he was the HC standing on the sidelines when it occurred. And no, IDB SS wouldn't have left his star QB in a position of needing a few yards to break the all-time NCAA passing record. Those yards and that record would have been in the bag long before scUM started dragging their heels on O to keep JR from getting another shot at setting the record, when they threw in the towel on even trying to get into the EZ. FTR, I always viewed the way DD wasted the talent in the UF backfield that he had inherited from Ray Graves was one of the greatest failures in UF coaching history.
     
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    Dickey took a team that went 9-1-1 and promptly went 4-7 with them. Given how long he hung around and did absolutely nothing with our team, I still consider him our worst ever
     
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    It's entirely subjective based on individual opinion, thus why I say it doesn't matter. I said I love the shit talk, thus I loved Spurrier. The Meyer timeouts the next year after the UGA whole team celebration was amongst my favorite moments under Meyer.
     
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    Gymnastics on par with judging a coaches entire personality based on a player faking an injury.
     
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  18. paidinfull

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    I was no fan of Kiffin long before he started coaching his players to fake injuries for free timeouts. It’s just another notch in his belt.

    I also don’t really care that he did it, but trying to act like Spurrier did the same thing is just stupid.
     
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  19. gatorwalrus

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    Dickey: 58-43-2 overall, 28-28-1 SEC
    Napier: 13-16 overall, 7-11 SEC

    Napier has more resources and talent. He is SIGNIFICANTLY worse by any objective measure.
     
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  20. army_gator03

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    IIRC, Miami had a choice between acquiring Daunte Culpepper or Drew Brees for Saban’s first year. They went with Culpepper who just came off knee surgery over Drew Brees who had just had throwing shoulder surgery. Hindsight is 20/20, but it was the wrong decision. Culpepper was still having knee issues and ended up getting hurt again. He never played again. Saban had to work with Joey Harrington who was an absolute bust as a QB in the NFL. IMO, Saban didn’t like that he didn’t have full control over who was on his roster. In college, he has that full control, which is likely why he jumped back to college after just two seasons in the NFL.
     
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