I hate to say it, but I’m about ready to give up. Florida’s got all eleven starters on the defensive side of the ball coming back, along with the GPOOE™. The Gators’ schedule this season is, shall we say, less than challenging.
But there’s more. Everything’s coming up roses for these guys.
- Carl Johnson looks to have dodged a bullet. “Insufficient evidence” means it’s more than likely he’ll be suiting up in the orange and blue this fall. How nice for him.
- Seemingly out of the blue, the SEC granted a medical redshirt to senior kicker Jonathan Phillips. As the article notes, that means Florida returns its three key special teams performers as well in 2009.
- It doesn’t sound like motivation will be too much of a problem this year, either. Thanks, Junior.
I need a drink.
Maybe they’ll put all the focus on destroying Lame’s Viles and overlook us.
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Doesn’t it seem like when things are good in Gainesville, things are really good? It’s like a well-oiled machine at this point. I’ll take you up on that drink, Senator. Here’s to a meteor hitting Ben Hill Griffin Stadium when the Gators and Vols play on September 19th.
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I doubt we’ll get a meteor, but if the SEC has a sense of humor, it’ll assign Penn Wagers & Co. to the game.
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Yep, unfortunately, we just live currently in a time of gator upswing. But:
A) We are too good of a program to be dominated ala ND-Navy. Streaks here and there are to be expected, but this isn’t a Cubs sort of thing. The pendulum will swing Gators, so enjoy it now.
B) h/t to someone else, but once Miami and FSU get back on the upswing, UF won’t have the pick of the litter of Florida talent
C) and I know that Gator fans are still going to scream “16/19! we own you!” but I still find their view of history to be entertaining. That despite a 16/19 run, it took that run just to get the series W/L to under 10 games and they are STILL behind. The post-1990 gator fans won’t see it this way (the pre-1990 ones might), but until they break even in the series, we own them.
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No Senator Penn Wages is the sole Ref for the UGA/UF game. He is the only ref that can ignore all calls against UF and invent calls against UGA. He even does it when calling a game in Athens. Who can forget the “oh we didn’t know he was eligible” call last season. The a’hole doesn’t like us and the SEC knows it but won’t do a thing, after all the head ref is a GT guy. That seems fair. Why couldn’t they have hired an FSU grad?
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Oh Penn Wagers… our greatest enemy, yet perhaps… out greatest friend?
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There are a number of games I wouldn’t mind seeing a meteor hit. I use to let my Gainesville, FL relatives know that if during the Auburn/Florida game a hurricane struck just the exact center of the stadium where the game was being played and managed to seriously injure all the players, I might not feel too horrible. Maybe.
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Attn. Bill Cervone has dropped charges on nearly every UF player that has been in trouble. No coincidence he is a big time UF supporter either.
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Bryan:
“C) and I know that Gator fans are still going to scream “16/19! we own you!” but I still find their view of history to be entertaining. That despite a 16/19 run, it took that run just to get the series W/L to under 10 games and they are STILL behind. The post-1990 gator fans won’t see it this way (the pre-1990 ones might), but until they break even in the series, we own them.”
Just keep telling yourself that. And drinking heavily. Reality will fade away. . .
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