March 26, 2015 · 8:04 AM

So that’s why Boom flopped in Gainesville.

How credible can a piece suggesting that Florida can win the SEC East this season be when it doesn’t mention the Gators’ need to improve at defensive celebration?

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12 responses to “So that’s why Boom flopped in Gainesville.”

  1. heyberto
    March 26, 2015 at 8:12 AM

    He must’ve seen the tape from the 2007 UGA game.

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    • pete
      March 26, 2015 at 8:17 AM

      LOL! That was my first thought. I wonder how this will be viewed the first time they get a celebration penalty?

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      • Bones McCoy
        March 26, 2015 at 8:55 AM

        True. Tim Tebow and Johnny Football were the only non-Alabama/Auburn players to get a pass on this from the SEC officials.

        I don’t see either of them on this year’s Gator roster.

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  2. PatinDC
    March 26, 2015 at 9:22 AM

    That is pretty unbelievable. Of all the things . I just hope they continue to work on practicing their celebrations and not that other stuff…like tackling.

    ““We went back and watched some of last season, there’d be a lot of great plays being made, defensively, but then you would see, at times, celebrations being individualized. Running away from each other,” Collins said at a media session. “The big focus for us this spring is coming together and celebrating together. We give out different awards every day to them. The guys that celebrate other people … we celebrate that. Not just ‘Look at me, look at me,’ but, ‘Look at my buddy. He just made a play. Let’s go get excited about that.’ “

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  3. Scorpio Jones, III
    March 26, 2015 at 9:31 AM

    Fox Sports, huh…wonder if the writer has actually been to Gainesville?

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  4. Macallanlover
    March 26, 2015 at 10:24 AM

    I am on Collins’ side on this, I was once so disgusted with the individual showboating of some of our players (and resulting penalties) that I wrote a note to CMR that players should have 2-3 seconds to find a teammate to embrace/high five/low five/hug to celebrate together. And that it should start in practice to ingrain it. He wrote me back that while he didn’t like the penalties, he didn’t want to curb enthusiasm. I still disagree with him on that, and don’t feel it is curbing enthusiasm at all, just recognizing the team contribution necessary for any successful play to occur. It is a mindset, one that we seem to have in almost any other area under CMR.

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  5. Reservoir Dawg
    March 26, 2015 at 10:30 AM

    Forget it, Senator. It’s Hogtown.

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  6. 69Dawg
    March 26, 2015 at 11:04 AM

    The idea that an opposing player doing the Gator Chop is a penalty for taunting but a Gator player doing it to the opposing crowd or to an opposing player is just good clean fun, has always made me mad as hell.

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  7. AusDawg85
    March 26, 2015 at 1:25 PM

    So was their OL blocking each other really just premature celebrating?

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  8. Mayor
    March 27, 2015 at 11:41 AM

    Let’s be objective about FU’s 2015 chances for winning the SEC East. Last season FU went 7-5 including a victory in their bowl game against East Carolina. If Georgia had shown up in JAX and beaten FU in the WLOCP for the 4th time in a row like the Dawgs should have, FU only would have won 5 regular season games. The Gay-Turds wouldn’t have made it to that Mickey Mouse bowl to play a directional school opponent and pad their record. They would have finished 5-6 in the regular season–end of story. Protestations to the contrary notwithstanding I don’t see a better team coming out of Gainesville this year. Sorry. Looking at the big picture, maybe it’s about time for the Florida Gators to “return to the mean.” And what is that mean, really? While they had Steve Spurrier followed up with Corch at the helm (two of the greatest college football coaches of all time, like ’em or not let’s at least be honest and admit it) they had an unprecedented (for them) run of success in college football that lasted over 20 years. Never happened before in the 100+ year history of FU football. But now those guys are gone. I’m saying here that when the Gay-Turds “return to the mean” they go back to being the Florida Gators of before–the Florida Gators that had never won an SEC Championship in football, the Florida Gators that would have winning seasons, but barely. The upcoming 2-3 years will be critical for the FU football program IMHO. Are they going to return to their more recent greatness or are they going to return to their long term selves, i.e. mediocrity? I’m betting on the latter.

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  9. BigAL
    March 27, 2015 at 1:32 PM

    So if UF does win the East, then can we get rid of “He’s a good man”?

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