Stuart Mandel jumps on the woe-is-Florida meme. And, boy, am I enjoying Jamie Newberg’s wistful summary:
“People don’t realize how poor [Florida]’s roster is offensively. They need a complete overhaul,” said Newberg. “They need to really attack that side of the ball with this group, or it’s going to set them back another year.”
Darn shame, that.
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Couldn’t happen to a nicer team. Maybe they’ll have to resort to running the Tech offense.
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A catastrophe of this magnitude can’t be fixed by the signing of a great class the next recruiting cycle. Anyone remember how long Kiffin’s lone bust of a recruiting class at UT took to recover from?
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Ask again after this next season. Though if two top 5 classes and a ton of starters back can’t do it…
(That being said, UT is hurt by a serious lack of talented in-state players. Florida, sadly, doesn’t have that problem.)
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Don’t tease us with this..
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I have looked deep into my soul to find sympathy for the gators and I have only found darkness. May they fall into a recruiting abyss.
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Yeah, that sucks, hahaha.
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McElwain has a monster uphill battle in front on him, in which he’ll need a bit of luck to turn the program around within 2-3 years. Regarding the overall talent, Muschamp boldly stated at his exit press conference (paraphrasing), “don’t let the new coach come in here and make excuses, and tell you that I left the cupboard bare for him, because that definitely is not the case.”
Fact is, as mentioned the O side of the ball down there is a total disaster, and ironically enough Muschamp is now trying to sway UF leans to AU due in part to the mess of a roster he left behind.
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When Travarious Robinson left for Clemson W/O a lake, the slide into the Abyss became a certainty.
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I love the Gators’ 2015 class and hope their recruiting classes continue to be dumpster fires now and into the future.
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How does Jeremy Foley keep the long knives at bay in the Sunshine State? The Irving Myers fiasco of the leave of absence in 2009, then the return shortly thereafter, and then the resignation after the 2010 season left the program with gaping holes and did little to help Muschamp. Then Muschamp did little to help Muschamp over four seasons. Now the recruiting pipeline is in need of priming.
Is this agent Foley? If so, thanks Jeremy. If not, then thanks, Jeremy.
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Foley’s previous mistake was asking Spurrier for a resume.
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Oh, no! Tell me it ain’t so, Joe….uh..Jeremy.
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Joke will be on us if we can’t beat them in JAX this year…
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Too many pleats in Coach’s khakis for Pahokee. Uphill indeed.
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I think it is totally appropriate and within the bounds of good taste to gaze in wonder at the truly remarkable job Agent Muschamp has done for us. Brings a tear to my eye…
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Indeed, but the unexpected victory last fall over certainly put a damper on things. I chalk it up to what I used in co-ed kickball, in which I wouldn’t play TOO hard (e.g. throwing the ball really hard at others, trying to jack home runs every at bat, etc); but also not obviously playing too easy either, in which I’d come off as some chauvinistic jackass to the ladies, which they’d view as shameless patronizing on my part.
Thus, in essence, I’d treat it as if I was involved in some point shaving ring—playing just hard enough to seem convincing, but not exactly trying to win the thing. I think this is what Muschamp tried to do with us, but unfortunately we raised him by playing the worst football game since the infamous ’99 AU game.
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Agreed. Muschamp must of been thinking “Why can’t they stop the run? I’ll run it again and SURELY they will stuff it this time”.
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Right. You might recall that one CBS camera caught him yelling “what are you doing?!…he (Harris) can barely throw a damn football!” over at our sidelines. Unfortunately those obvious remarks, which almost exposed Muschamp’s cover, fell on deaf ears among the UGA coaching staff.
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This made me laugh…until I remembered the losing thing.
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So how in the Sam Hill did they shred us like that! Ruined a great trip with Adrian.
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A thousand years can come and go and the mother of all hurricanes can descend upon Gainesville. For good measure, toss in a few level 13 tornadoes yet none of them will match the sheer, utter destruction Agent Muschamp has wrought on the vermin there. Yet, none of that will compare to the devastation he will unleash on the plains! Warbuzzards indeed let it be written and let it be known after After Thor the God of Thunder there is Agent Muschamp the God of Destruction.
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McElwain said he could make his dog into a good QB, he better get a uniform on Bud because he might have to.
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Funny. Was this the same offenses that gashed us to the tune of 400+ on the ground last October?
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I was beginning to think I had slept through a year and we had beaten them in Nov 2015. The kool aide drinkers here have some short memories. Laughing at the lack of talent on a Florida team that shredded your team seems like a bad idea to me.
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It’s the same kind of fluffing we did around here before Kiffin waxed us his one year in Knoxville.
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I’m always deeply appreciative of your editorial advice.
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You’re certainly welcome. I find it is generally best to win before you trash talk.
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Again, Georgia is 3-1 in its last four games in Jax.
You have a funny way of defining “trash talk”. You don’t think Florida’s having an off year recruiting? Is Newberg’s observation incorrect? Or is it just that I’m not supposed to take notice of that because Georgia lost to Florida last season?
Perhaps you should start a blog of your own to show us the right way to discuss Georgia football.
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First, yes we are 3-1 in the last four games. However, we are 5-9 in Richt’s tenure.
Second, I did not direct anything toward you, or your blog. You post what you find and that is appreciated. I was commenting on the people who are crowing about how bad Florida sucks and how Muschamp had destroyed their team and generally acting like we were on some 12-0 tear against them, not coming off an embarrassing loss to an unranked, poorly coached, no talent Florida team.
Finally, it seems to me that I am the one who is being accused of not discussing Georgia football properly.
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I haven’t accused you of anything here. As far as I’m concerned, at GTP all discussion of the non-trolling variety about Georgia football is apropos.
As to your point about direction, I’m not really seeing where the comments you claim to be responding to are very much different in spirit than my post. YMMV, of course.
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So we can’t enjoy the misfortunes of a rival because they beat us? How utterly depressing.
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Well no, they’re losing a few offensive linemen and one of the rbs.
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A recruiting class doesn’t mean shit if you get the right guy as HBC. Now I have no idea if they have the right guy, but I remember what the wrong guys at did with great recruiting classes. Not much.
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At UGA. UGH. typing skillz are slipping.
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I would agree, but amend your first sentence to say “One recruiting class….” To the good Senator’s point, Florida’s offensive woes got beyond just Muschamp’s offense. There is a paucity of talent on the offensive side of the Gator roster right now. One good recruiting year is not going to turn that around, but one bad one won’t make it too much worse either.
To that point, Florida has five OL commits right now, which is a step in the right direction. Skill players aside, a good team offensively has to have a good offensive line. The pick up of Scarlett and Williamson might pay dividends too.
Florida will have to recruit well for two or three more years before my Gators return to an elite program.
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418 yards rushing will be a focal point for our defense during the 2015 pre-season, as Knowshon’s shredding of the Gator defense was during the 2008 pre-season.
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