How Does Billy Save His Job?

What if Miami turned out to finish 12-1?

 

Who cares? If we had looked competent and got beaten by talent that would be one thing. Even in that scenario there would be questions about why Cristobal was able to do better. But that's not what happened. We looked incompetent and that shouldn't be the case year 3.

 

Sorry but don’t agree. I know my wait and see opinion isn’t popular right now but is what it is. As I have said in other threads, the major donors putting up the money to the UAA and the Collective will make the call either way.

 

And we finish at 8-4? My guess is Georgia would beat Miami by 25 points. I don’t think we’re that good.

 

It looks like Boar's Head is having a special on that Iberico ham.....Listeria gives it a tangy flavor.

 

No such product exists so no listeria.

 

Will there be special "must be productive responses" rules for this thread?

We're one week past the point of the masses screaming their lungs out about firing the coach and selecting his replacement. Apparently this is the part where some among those masses try to convince themselves that there's a chance for success.

 

The biggest problems for billy…
1 arguably his best off and def players transferred
2 he can’t recruit off or def linemen
3 his offensive is too conservative
4 we have not shown any improvement in year 3
5 we have no chance at beating UGA or Texas in year 3

After his 3rd losing season it’s going to be tough to retain him.

 

Yes, if we lose, it's always because we're bad. Can't give Miami any credit for being the better team.

 

Hopefully he can't. Just 10 more games is going to be painful enough. Another year or more is going to be really tough to bear.

 

I can give credit for Miami being a better team. Unfortunately that's still a direct and unfavorable comparison to us. So I'd follow the praise of Miami with a) we didn't just lose, we were dominated and looked bad doing it and b) they are analogous to us in their location, recent history, and the third year of a new and somewhat disappointing coach looking to finally turn a corner. We literally compete for the same recruits and portal transfers. This wasn't UGA or another established program who has had our number recently, but an in state rival in a mirror position to ourselves who then totally and surprisingly outclassed us. And after a summer worth of new hires, new talent, and a coach's confidence this was his best team yet. The consternation seems clear and justifiable to me.

 

That's cuz we've heard from so many Gator fans how crappy they are.

 

I’m reading all this and thinking one thing. He has one chance. If he puts in Lagway and wins most of his games, he’s earned the right to stay. If the same happens with GM (it won’t), he’s earned the right to stay because he got GM and he got DJ so if he wins with them, no choices. Everyone will be feeling a lot better.

Anything less, well we have to say what less is. There are way too many variables still for people to have such hard stances.

 

Wait . . . what was the purpose of this thread?

 

Actually, thinking about your comment for a minute and doesn't it strike you as odd? Until recently, I almost never heard a Gator loss described as us being "bad." If anything, the team that beat us wasn't necessarily the better team, but those darn refs, or the weather, or they cheated, or it was a fluke, etc. I've been a Gator since the 80s too, and we've had a long and glorious capacity to see our our team as the good guys and heroes of our own stories, even when the scoreboard didn't show it. So extrapolating from that, it seems to me that either something significant and rather fundamental has changed in prevailing attitudes towards our own team, OR maybe these days we were just bad.

 

Our “generational talent” has played 1.2 games here. Pump the brakes a little on that one

 

Well that’s because there still is. I’m as disappointed as anyone right now, but it was a week 1 game — totally giving up hope based on 1 game is just a bit overdramatic don’t ya think?

 

That stands to reason. Kiffin is a more proven and accomplished head coach.

 

Kiffy hasn’t really proven or accomplished much to this point