Dan Mullen says he’s found college football’s secret sauce.
“That’s how it works,” a frustrated Mullen said. “I’m gonna be honest with you, this is how it works too, when we sell out the stadium, we win a championship. It doesn’t go the other way. It’s not we win, you sell out. You sell out, you win. Go watch teams that have built programs. That’s how it works.”
If that’s really the case, why not give tickets away to make sure you fill the place every week? If that’s really the case.
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Yeah, but what does Timmy have to say about it? Looking forward to the rant about kids on social media being why the Gators aren’t winning championships.
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From this day forward, he will work harder to convince Florida fans to buy tickets You will never see anyone work harder to get people in the seats.
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What’s this really all about? Trying to drum up attendance to justify his exhorbitant salary?
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Recruiting environment would be my guess.
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Shouldn’t Timothy be a professional at this point in his broadcasting career, and not a cheerleading former player? Everyone knows he played at FU but he seems to not have grown since graduating and traveling the country.
It is the SEC Network, should other programs not have the right to expect some professionalism and balance from a forum that operates under the umbrella name for 14 teams? Marcus Spears seems to get it, Maria gets it, who is evaluating Timmy’s performance?
Gets old. When Laura Rutledge gave the stats for the Ga?FU series before the game in JAX, she only cited the stats since 1990. No mention of the past 8 years being 4-4, or UGA leading the all time record. How do they get to do that biased slice of info and have it both ways on the conference network? Now she has the bod to not make me as bitter as the Tebow slant, but come on, man.
Let’s step our game up SEC, because it does matter more. I stopped watching Gameday due to the WWL’s bias, why should I have to watch it on the home area broadcast? Of course, FBomb sets the tone for bias, perhaps that is what gives them the right.
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Amen to that!!!!!!!!!! Maria was the best & most professional host. Laura is smart, but she’s still just glorified eye candy.
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And if we’re being honest… Maria is smart, classy, professional, and she’s eye candy too.
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It’s not an agenda or bias, they’re just lazy and work off of the previous year’s notes. Not much changes year or year, so it just keeps getting recycled.
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Not sure if the network is behind the bias, it would be hard for the staffers to fight off Tebow, or say not to Laura to anything. I am putting it clearly on them for arranging those stats in a biased way, but the network should make sure it doesn’t happen again. It was 4-4 over the last eight, it will be 5-5 in the last decade (maybe 6-4), it might be just one more year but the narrative of “ancient history” has been blown away. Time for everyone to move along, all the relevant characters from the 90s are long gone. I have now heard FU has now won 3 of the last 5 ignoring the 5 UGA wins bracketing those last five. Liars figure, amirite?
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“say no” to Laura, I know I might stutter to get that out in certain situations.
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Don’t care what she looks like, she’s an immediate channel change whenever I hear her voice.
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It’s the whole State of FL, I promise you (I live in Tampa and travel all over) that they (media, stores etc.) brainwash everyone here to only see teams from the State. You can’t go to any store and buy merch from another team that’s from outside this State especially FL. School teams, you wont see logos from the State of GA. I can’t even catch a Falcons game down here (on cable)! Florideans live in a fantasy world, when it comes to football, it started in 1990 and all they’re programmed to know is that they’ve always competed for championships every single year since their beginning. My bad for the rant, so great to be a Dawg and especially down here!
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Yeah, remember all of those Miami sellouts in 1980 that really laid the foundation for Schnellenberger? For proof of Mullen’s concept, just look at all of the championships South Carolina has won. That’s what utterly delusional fan support gets you.
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I respect the fan support at USCe. They have been great for decades with very little to show for it.
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A regular Rudy Russo that guy.
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“Build it and they will come”……they were wrong??
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Mullen will be gone after year 3.
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Oh, come on, no he won’t. He’s a better coach than they’ve had there since Urbz. Plus he clearly fits right in, personality-wise.
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He is a terrible recruiter of top flight talent, and is already cracking under the pressure of heading up a big time program. He isn’t going to last long, bud.
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Already cracking in his first year with a weak team of mostly not his own recruits? LOL. You realize before the WLOCP he was on the short list for COY candidates in the SEC, yeah? Somehow a little correction to the mean = cracking under pressure? I guess we’ll find out. 🙂
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Just based on his reactions/interactions on (and off) the field the past few weeks, I think he feels required to be a bigger personality than is comfortable to bring attention and attitude and momentum back to Gainesville. I could be wrong, but I don’t remember him being Super Douche Coach yelling at the other team/coaches and dancing on the sideline in Starkville. Maybe he is being himself, but if not, that’s a bad place to be in Year 1.
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He’s the same guy he was at State. Just a different colored visor.
He’s competent and a winner. That said, winning with an underdog is a lot different that winning at a front-runner. I’d say he still has to prove he can out-recuit Saban, Kirby, Richt, Gus, and Taggart for the horses he’ll need to win at UF. ESPECIALLY now that we’re where we’re at.
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After watching their game this weekend, I’d say his plan is to make UF an underdog so he can get back to his comfort zone. I’d be ok with that.
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I know I wasn’t saying he wasn’t competent, nor that he cannot win. I was referring to his personality and “little man” attitude that cannot allow him to say when he is just beaten. Not sure how that now staying real will play out, and his not being likable will work with recruiting—although Urbie was despised by AD staffers as well. There is also a different kind of personna of athletes that end up in Gainesville, different from Starkville. The thug factor is higher, he may have been in Gainesville before, but he wasn’t the guy who had to manage things when the late night call comes. We will see. If his defense stays talented, and he finds his QB, they will be a handful.
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Stoops at KY should get Coach of the Year, IMO
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He definitely dies fit right in. I live in Jacksonville and one of the local sports radio stations has a weekly gator report show that has Mullen and another guy talking about the past weeks game and the game coming up. So this past week I just happened to listen in for a bit during a drive across town because I enjoy me some gator tears as much as the next Dawg. The delusional thoughts that come out of Mullen’s mouth regarding the ass whipping they took in Jax is almost sad. The best thing he mentioned was of course about the goal line stand they made in the 2nd half. According to Mullen, that stand consisted of 8 plays (in reality there were 6) and ended with the Dawgs getting 0 points. I bet by next year in Jax the story will be about the miraculous 27 play goal line stand that ended with the gators getting 17 points.
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Saw a picture of the Swamp on Saturday.
Look at the Gator stands with their game against Mizzou. A lot, we mean alot of empty seats.
One of the guys in our group commented about it, and expressed Mullen could be in trouble already.
Mullen is not coherent.
Grantham? Defense travels is the modern day expression. So does this mean that the Gator DC now “travels”.
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Did you see Neyland? I know it was Charlotte, but they had to be south of 60K in there.
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I looked out of curiosity at the ticket prices on stubhub for UF/LSU tix and they were LOW!! Must be the biggest bunch of bandwagoners ever.
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Florida football…losses are never our fault.
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I’m really surprised that he’s doubling down on this after he dogged out the fans after the Mizzou loss. Over on Swampgas — where everybody is a big “Dan Fan” — they were almost uniformly pissed about his postgame comments. Can’t wait to read their reactions to this one this evening.
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There were lots of empties on the blue side of Jax too, and not just in the 4th quarter.
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“one on one…and the speed and with the speed they have, it is difficult to defend…one of the reasons they have been ranked in top 5 past two years”.
Words from UK Coach Stoops after the game against the Dawgs.
Want to go back and look at one of recent post this past week.
Second sentence.
“Speed kills”.
Well, damn guess we were spot on again.
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I like Stoops. He tends not to BS too much. He also finally understands how to win a little at UK. They will be competitive while he is there.
Alas, I wonder how long that will be.
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Stoops certainly seems to be doing a good job. The question is whether he wants to continue to do that job in Lexington is another question. With the Ohio roots, would he be a candidate when Corch decides he has a medical issue?
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I think he is no better than third there. Guy at Iowa St, then Day. I wonder whether he would be the man at Kansas St.
Everyone says Venables, but I wonder…
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Not sure Venables has HC interviewing skills, he has bombed on several openings before. Heck of a DC though…and making good bank for it.
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Because it’s not about winning.
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Do you think Chaney will get the play book stretched out his week and remainder of season, more so for the SECCG?
At some point he has to understand along with Pittman. there is a X and O issue inside the 5 … 8 plus plays in back to back games… and the Dawgs have trouble pushing it across the goal line.
Hint, use that frosh QB. He saw one play earlier in the season.
The young man is 8 games in plus spring and fall.
Can not keep settling for 3’s.
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Someone should send them that! “You guys, you do realize there’s an X and O issue inside the 5? And we have trouble pushing it across the goal line?” I mean, fans like you, Will, gotta realize we’re all in this together and your duty is to make sure they get your sage coaching advice.
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I agree, Gas. We should never question Chaney. Ever.
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There’s questioning and then there’s stating the painfully obvious as if everyone is blind…i.e., “dumb” questions.
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I sense a Tony Barnhart column in our future.
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Will Trane= Mr. Conventional Wisdom? He might alter-ego away, but the obvious dumbshittery will out regardless, maybe? I like it.
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In other words, it’s not a matter of asking them if they’ve noticed. It’s a matter of asking them why in the hell it keeps happening.
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The qb sneak on Saturday was a joke…however how many thousand were in the stadium all knew what was coming.
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So you got bludgeoned by Missouri at homecoming I’m front of all the bull gators because 37F was empty? I guess that’s plausible.
OR
Your team lost to its biggest rival by 19 closing the door on any chance of winning the East(for probably the next 10 years), pouted about it and had a shitty week of preparation for an SEC winless Missouri who you thought was overmatched, got another shitty pep talk before getting smoked by said overmatched team, and started looking for another excuse because surely it’s not you.
Yea…it’s the fans
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Dan says it. That settles it.
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Florida is a lot further away from being on-par with us than Dan Mullen will ever admit. If we drub them again next season (no reason to think we won’t), the psychological shift will be complete.
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All I can say is that I was glad they were ranked, for national perception reasons, because I didn’t think they were a top 25 team at all. We all know we should have beaten them worse, but they’re just revealing their true selves now, IMO…better than FSU but only about as good as Miami.
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Keep talking Danno.. keep talking..
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What else has he really ever done on his own? I mean he isn’t “Butch bad”, but was he really the best hire they could have made? Too early to know, but seems more sizzle than steak to me.
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Winning consistently at Mississippi State is worth something, though, yes? Don’t forget how competitive the West has been–playing that schedule. he’s done more with less than Texas A & M and LSU the last few years…won 9 or more games there four times.
I don’t wanna sound like a Mullen fan–he’s a Gator then and a Gator now, and I hate the Gators. But just objectively-speaking, the guy clearly can coach a little, IMO. No, I don’t think they could have done better given how badly McElwain left things.
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I think over time, we have overestimated what he really did at MSU. Game changed in about 2005 and when the SEC became the undisputed national bully they benefitted from trickle down effect.
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Well, but other programs –Arkansas, for example– did not benefit.
Long and short of this: Does gastr1 think Mullen wins an NC at UF? Hell no. He’s not good enough.
Does gastr1 think Mullen wins an SEC Championship at Florida? Only if everyone else is down, but I wouldn’t totally rule it out.
Does gastr1 think Mullen wins 9-10 games consistently and Florida and avoids Boom/McElwain/Zook-like disasters? Yes, I think he does that. And he sticks around a while because of that.
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I’m not sure the Gator Nation, who still thinks college football started in 1990, is going to be happy with consistent 9-10 wins.
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Ed Zachery.
FWIW, Mullen won 10 games once at MSU (a minor miracle, though Dak Prescott certainly helped), 9 games three times, and never lost less than 3 games in a season. He had a 65% winning percentage, nice but nothing Earth-shattering. Plus, his best team let Tech win the Orange Bowl, so I hate him for that alone.
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I hope the Gator Nation is miserable with 9-10 wins. I hope Mullen stays for 15 years, gets his ass whipped regularly by one or more of his biggest rivals, has an annual faceplant, scares the shit out of his fanbase by eking out a win over an in-state American Conference opponent, keeps Todd Grantham around far too long, hires a moron as an OC, but can continually keep enough sunshine spread around for Gator Nation to think “This will be the year we win the East” only to have their hopes dashed the last Saturday in October.
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You could be right, eethomas. By “a while” I’m thinking 5-9 years. I will submit, though, that if he gets blown out by us every year and can’t beat LSU or some other rival either, it will be the shorter of that range.
I have zero issue with him being UF’s coach because I don’t think we’ll lose to them unless half of our offense is injured. And even then–which half. 🙂
And let’s be honest: he’s perfect. We need them to be competitive while we kick their butts each year– we need that game to be high stakes for the team to be battle-tested, so to speak.
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Disagree with none of the above. I never meant he wasn’t competent, nor couldn’t coach a lick. As I said above, he has some personality things that will not allow him to be great, imo, but he will make them better if he can manage the job and makes good coordinator decisions. It isn’t a slam dunk for him just because he did OK in the West. Not only is the East decent, he still has LSU to deal with every year. 🙂 Might have escaped a beating this year, but the Cajuns are a major reason the West has been perceived so highly, even in their off years.
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You were right all along, yeah. Dan Mullen = Florida’s CPJ? I can get behind it.
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This is what a head coach looks like when their ego is bruised.
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Not to mention showing his ass for the post game handshake with Kirby. No class at all.
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There is something there. They truly do not like each other. I honestly believe Kirby took it easy on McElwain and Butch in 2017 because there is no animosity.
He gets a chance, Kirby may Spurrierize Mullen.
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“Spurrierize” perhaps a lexicon candidate? “Got to play all 60 minutes”, you have been warned!
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I can’t wait to see how all of this negativity in Gainesville translates on signing day. Unless Mullen closes the talent gap, we are going to dominate the Cocktail Party for years to come.
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It’s Florida, they have the attention span of a gnat if they’re bored and anything that isn’t Spurrier or Urban bores them. Florida isn’t Starkville. There are other things to do besides go the Walmart on Saturday if the product isn’t entertaining.
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There is?
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Gator rasslin’
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Other things to do? There’s more to do in Gainesville, GA than in Gainesville, FL on a Saturday.
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You forgot about the Cafe Risque out on the highway.
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That’s Alachua not Gainesville 🙂
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Troubling that you know that.
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bahaha.
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You can’t miss all the billboards between Lake City and Ocala!
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I’ve driven that stretch a few times, just never put it in my GPS, or thought enough about it to put it on my bucket list. 🙂
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I’ma disagree with that…..
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As long as we’re fessing up ……
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I love it. We’ve beaten the Gators 4 times in the last two years. Stomped them so badly last year, they fired their coach and then lost at Mizzou. Beat them by three scores this year (when for some reason they thought they were the better team) and they wind up losing to Mizzou again. At home.
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Lose to USC jr. this weekend and the wheels he just got in place will start to roll off again.
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You can be sure I’m pulling for Sackerlina.
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How is that formula working for Nebraska right now? They still hold the nation’s longest sellout streak.
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They even hired a coach with a National Championship
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Mullen’s statements are unusually dumb, even for him.
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In my own humble “never been in the arean” opinon, Florida lost Saturday because their players lost interest in their season after losing to UGA last week and dropping out the SEC East race.
That’s a coaching problem. Not an attendance problem.
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So what is Mullen’s strategy to win Road games? Score more points than the other team, or something like that?
Asking for a friend.
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Some people wanted this guy to be our coach. Idiots.
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I’ve got to own up. I was one of those idiots. I allowed myself to be influenced by a family member who reeked of cowbell and completely overlooked the fact that not only was DM an expat Gator, he was Tim Tebow’s QB coach! How could I have been so blind?
I can only offer my sincerest apologies to Dawgnation and throw myself wholeheartedly into hating anything Florida with renewed passion….
(I still hate auburn more)
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Forgiven, GC … I feel some of the same shame for supporting David Shaw. While I think Shaw is a hell of a Coach, I’m not sure he would have been as successful in a tougher neighborhood with significantly raised expectations over Stanford.
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You reckon any of the Tom Herman supporters will fess up? That guy has turned out to be a real ass clown and so far can’t coach either.
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I never was a Tom Herman guy myself. The fact that he was associated with Corch disqualified him for me (same problem I had with Mullen).
I thought Shaw had the temperament, the past performance and the recruiting chops to be successful.
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You can hate on corch but he’s 2nd this century and he’s got at least two big game wins over #1: 2009 SECCG and 2014 playoff.
Not bad.
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No doubt Corch is a great coach … also, no doubt I can’t stand him.
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You talking to me?
I haven’t decided to eat crow on that guy yet. He did beat OU and gave WVU all they wanted.
I think he’ll be ok. Jimbo may make it tougher.
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Don’t bust the Gator fans too much. I remember how nice it was during the Goff years to sit anywhere you wanted in Sanford after the 1st quarter when section-Nazis quit checking ticket stubs.
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No Dan, this is not at all how it works. In fact, you’re dead wrong.
If this is how it worked, then SCU wouldn’t have such an empty trophy case.
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He’s not wrong, he’s just complaining to the wrong people. When you milk your alumni/fans like cows, over time this is the game day experience you wind up with.
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Mullen is stiff and can’t “yeet”. Butts in the seats can’t fix that.
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Dan wasn’t there for many cocktail party losses, so he will soon learn this is what the gator nation does after they lose that game.
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It’s really that simple…
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Correct me if I’m wrong here (I’m not) but shouldn’t Dan know firsthand form his time in Starkville that selling out a stadium has fuckall to do with winning a championship?
If we’re lucky, the Florida fanbase will continue to lap up this leak in the septic tank and think it’s well water. Like drinking sewage, the ensuing infection will take a while for that program to recover from. Wonder if they still think the better team left Jacksonville with a loss…
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They do.
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This guy is so full of shit.
Did anyone listen to his post game presser? 100% all blame on the players. Absolutely no accountability for himself or his coaches whatsoever.
He’s making millions, and its the kids fault.
What a shithead. I am so thankful we don’t have this asshole piece of garbage as our coach.
And re: filling the stadium, you nailed it Senator. Give the tickets away if its that important.
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I live south of Hog Town and we had an ad in our local paper from UFAA listing tickets for sale for the remaining games. Now these maybe returns but I was surprised to see the game with USCe listed.
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