Random broadcast dude thinks Florida’s got a real chance against Georgia this year because Steve Spurrier always beat Ray Goff.
No, really.
Oh, yeah, there’s also Kirby Smart isn’t Nick Saban, so at least this guy has followed some football this decade.
I’m really looking forward to the Cocktail Party.
Get The Picture 
What he described happened ONCE. One time did Georgia have the better personnel: 1992. We lost by 2.
Every other year that SOS coached against Georgia, he had the better team. That includes 1997. We won by 17. It took ten years (2002) before you could make the argument that we were on equal footing in terms of roster strength and by that time SOS had moved on.
It’s been a very long time since our roster was this much better than UF’s. 1982 might be the last time. We did ok in Jax that year.
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Sorry, we won by 20 in 1997.
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yep….UF favored by 20 & Dawgs win by 20. Agree, Spurrier coached teams have nothing to do with today’s teams. Agree also on the talent thing that stuff by Spurrier was just him running his mouth back then, probably using it for recruiting reasons.
Other than that, the “random broadcast dude” had some points.
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This is pretty much how I see it. Ray recruited talent well but many of his talented recruits saw little PT on the field. I remember SOS’s comment about us having the ‘better’ players during recruiting evals but he had the players when it came game time…or something like that. Man, do I really want to have a loooonnng run of wins against them.
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In 1992, we did have the Heisman runner up, a wr SI had predicted would be an all-pro while he was still in HS and the best passing qb we’d had in a few decades. The snark wasn’t made up but it was definitely dickish, but that’s SOS. Terrible winner. But for that he’d be pretty universally liked IMHO.
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Doesn’t it feel good to know that Grayson Lambert made him quit?
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I hadn’t thought about that in that way, but yes that is pretty damn funny.
If you can’t stop Grayson, who can you stop?
Is USCe’s 2016 DC employed anywhere??
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For Spurrier’s last season, the Gamecocks’ “co-defensive coordinators” are listed as Lorenzo Ward and Jon Hoke. Yup, it took two people to construct a defense that bad. And yup, they’re both still working (though not as coordinators).
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I hated Spurrier but respected the hell out of his play calling. He was on another level when he came to UF. Hell he won the ACC with Duke. Him quitting after getting blown out by UGA was just cowardly IMO.
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Spurrier felt after getting beat an inferior team that he should quit because he wasn’t earning his money !
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Spurrier said every time I took the field against Georiga I knew we had an advantage upstairs and if we ever lost, which WASNT MANY it was MY FAULT!
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believe in 97 the gators were favored by 20 and we beat them by 20
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These people still live so much in the 90s to give them comfort that it’s hilarious. I guess we were the same way in the 90s about the early 80s.
When Kirby applies the beatdown to Dopey Dan this year, I have a feeling Jort Nation’s eyes will finally be open.
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No, they are too far gone down the rabbit hole. We could beat them by 50 and they will swear they had the better team. If it had not been for that “lucky bounce” we got that added an extra yard on the punt, they would have beaten us.
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I guess we were the same way in the 90s about the early 80s.
Our own new-found self-awareness is a great side effect of this whole renaissance. Kirby has it, too, and it gives him the upper hand.
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Not really, ee. We’ve dominated the Gators series except for that 15 year stretch with SOS and into the 00’s. Their 15 years of relevance ended 10 years ago, but they just don’t realize it.
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These people are fucking delusional.
DELUSIONAL.
Fuck these motherfuckers.
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Took a quick look at his twitter feed. He’s an idiot… 🙂
Enough said.
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We also don’t have the great RB’s we used to have…
Ok so maybe we don’t have a 1-2 punch like Chubb-Michel but we do have a kid by the name of Swift who might be the best back in all of CFB this year. His backups are a proven hard runner in Herrian, two former 5 star recruits, and a 4 star freshman. I’ll take that stable of RB’s over what FU has.
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And with an O line my 85 year old mother could make yards behind our RBs should make them pay.
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That’s funny. I have a funny feeling Franks is going to cough it up on his 5 again when he sees UGA LBs run through his OL at light speed.
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Lot of FU folks whistling as they walk past the cemetery.
They won’t allow their minds to make a distinction between reality and wishful thinking because reality is a bitch.
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I haven’t been to the cocktail party in many years, and I’m so glad this is the year I’m returning. What a glorious beat down we’ll get to see in person.
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I’ve half a mind to fly down to Jacksonville from Baltimore this year, ticket or not, just to hear the sobbing of the swamp lizards. Sweet music.
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Small world, I work in downtown Baltimore
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No shit? Do you go to those UGA game watching parties at Huck’s American Craft? I caught wind of that on FB middle of last season but I never made it down there for a game.
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Unfortunately no, we moved to the area last year and had a baby shortly thereafter. Will try it out this year though
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It would only be competitive if we started our second string against them. Even then I would bet on us.
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“ Never insult the crocodile until you get across the river. “ Let’s laugh about a beat down after we win it. Words taste bad when you have to eat’m. Ask the goaters. They know, but still do it. Not good.
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^^This is exactly how I feel. I remember all those years in the 90s and early 2000s when Georgia fans would run their mouths for a year about how they were going to beat Florida only to watch another bed crapping in Jacksonville. After the game, Georgia fans would say the same things Florida fans are saying now; “we were really the better team”, “if not for the (insert takeaway, lucky bounce, fumble, etc.) we would have won”.
After the win is the time to talk about how good you are and how bad they are.
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As a Georgia fan in the ’90s, I call bullshit. No Georgia fan was talking about how Georgia was the better team following the ass-beatings Florida generally dealt out in the decade. Georgia was clearly the better team in 2002 and 2003, though, so yeah, people were saying it then.
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I would say 2005 as well, but the injury to DJ changed the outcome of that game. Other than 1992, we were generally outmanned in Jacksonville. I remember going to Sanford in ’95 with a sense of dread that bourbon couldn’t even make go away. My wife and my friend’s girlfriend told us they were leaving at halftime, and if we wanted a ride back to Atlanta, we better go with them.
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I didn’t even watch the ’95 game. I do remember being optimistic about the ’94 game, after Zeier nearly carried them to the win in ’93. I think that was the last time I was optimistic about the Florida game again until 2002.
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You guys are still suffering from spousal abuse syndrome. That’s ok, you go ahead and play the humble part all you want. Nobody cares, especially the gator fans, who won’t show you any quarter regardless of WHAT you said before the game.
So, fuck those motherfuckers, they’re shit.
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Have they never heard of “bulletin board material”? I hope we have a wall with all these dumbass statements from the Florida peanut gallery plastered everywhere.
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I propose that Your Daily Gator be entered into the Lexicon that we may be able to remember and recapture this wonderful and magical Spring and Summer of 2019 in all of its glory even 30 years hence.
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Spring and Summer of 2019, The Year of the Worm (turning).
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When I hear a pundit espouse such nonsense, my first thoughts go to how he may have reached that conclusion. Buddy and others still have a bad taste in their mouths for the Texas game and can’t quite resolve it to best players not being present for that game. “There is something wrong!” about the Bulldogs because they can’t wrap their arms around a good game played by Texas while we were off our NC stance of late. Shit happened. Texas got up for us and we didn’t for them and that isn’t a good enough explanation for many people who think there is something wrong that hasn’t been expressed yet.
Some pundits don’t want to be caught with their pants down while predicting games this season so they will hedge on the Dawgs simply as a result of our last game, plus, it’s ok to get the pot stirring early because people will tune in for the next chapter of supposition during the summer and prior to Fall camp.
Then again, he gives underdogs a sense of entitlement that they can whip our ass and that is a powerful force that doesn’t normally come to the surface; that of going beyond the appearance of greater talent in front of them. So the FU players will ignore the reality and play like banshees, thinking they know what the secret thingy is that’s missing in assessments of the Dawgs. Hope is a factor that makes the beatable unbeatable in their minds; until you grab’em by the balls and pull’em to the ground of reality so quickly in the 3rd qtr that they ask for dope testing for those supermen who came out of the tunnel. That ferocity takes nearly a full qtr before their hearts and minds follow suit with their balls.
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Hope is not a plan. Kirby has the plan. Pummel the gators for four quarters. The stands will be half empty by the third quarter.
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LOL
#ftmf
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I really don’t understand the narrative that the better team lost last year. We outgained Florida by over 1.5x, outrushed them, and oh BTW had the ball at their 40 when we ran out the final call it full minute left in regulation, with timeouts to boot!!!!.
But if you ignore that and the tiny fact that we beat them by 19 (which includes a failed 2 point conversion) then yeah I guess the game was sorta kinda competitive.
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But don’t you remember? Florida held the lead for about 3 minutes in the final 25 minutes of the game. They just barely lost by 19 points.
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To hear the Gator sunshine-pumpers tell it, you’d think Dan Mullen had owned Kirby for ages and last year’s game was just a temporary anomaly. But in all his years as a head coach, Mullen hasn’t beaten a team with Kirby on the coaching staff even once. Not in a house, not with a mouse, not in a box, not with a fox. Gator fans love to accuse UGA fans of being stuck in the Herschel Walker years, but for Gator fans it never stopped being 1996.
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Um, they do realize Mullen is at Lake Oconee all summer…
Go ahead and keep telling yourselves you’re gonna win this one fu. I can see the epic heartbreak coming when the realization sinks in around halftime that its another blowout. Make sure somebody is back in Mullen’s office to pack his belongings – when he’s fired some time around the 3rd quarter a la McElwain.
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I probably am wrong but I am not so sure that Goff, Donnan, and even Richt although I cussed em’ all. The real hole that took so long to dig out was laced precisely at Ms. Jan Kemp’s accusations that nailed the Dawg house door shut for years.
Perhaps there were I am sure some wrong doing afoot as there are still yet today. What ever happed to Prop. 48 Where the rule stated you could only take a number of partial qualifiers. What is a partial qualifier anyway.
Didn’t UNC have almost the same thing occur and after 10-14 years they were absolved of any wrong unethical behavior.
But anyway back to the subject matter at hand it just came across the wire ( Senator you posted the Lizard Board yesterday where the Gayturds had already expected this ) the # 47 recruit Marcus Rosemy chose the Dawgs over the UFer’s after his official visit last week to the land of lizards. This young man hails from Fort Lauderdale. Cousin Eddie should stop cleaning out his RV. Me thinks his shitter’s already empty.
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Buddy Martin literally wrote SOS’s biography. He was a sports writer here in Florida and bleeds Orange and Blue. Biggest homer I ever seen and I’ve seen some big ones. We went to the same church and I had to put up with his Gators from 2000 – 2012. Anyway he was an old Gator and he knows we owned them until SOS came and we can own them again.
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I hope he enjoyed the first eight minutes of the 2017 game as much as I did.
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SO MANY down here are chirping and toeing this dribble buddy is expousing. What is funny is most his age aren’t chirping…he is drinking the talking heads kool aid hard!
I will REALLY enjoy JAX this year.
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