On Jan 6, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Oliver Barry wrote: > Of course it took Spurrier 6 years to get us to a MNC. It only > took Meyer 2. > Spurrier did lay the foundation for Meyer though. > Or could we say it was Ray Graves or even Charlie Pell who laid the > foundation?
Agreed, but we were also SEC Champions 5 of those 6 years (I count 1990) (and 1984) (and 1985). Meyer has reached or eclipsed Spurrier's heights in a far shorter time span, but the years that we are not playing for a MNC, we weren't even SEC East Champions. It as if it is one extreme or the other. As much as I love Ray Graves, I'd have to go with Pell. After Graves, Dickey tore up whatever foundation we had. We had some good years with Galen, even though the recruiting did fall into the toilet. One nice thing about Zook, even when he was losing games, he was still an effective recruiter. -Zeb --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
