You know, I think Zook was a good recruiter except for his last year. Then he had a highly ranked class but there were, I think, 5 running backs and a lot of wash-outs. Thus, Meyer had a difficult 3rd year because there was no mature leadership/talent.
It's obvious that Meyer won his first NC with Zook's players, but, he also did crappy his 3rd year with Zook's players. Yeah, I'll go with Charlie Pell, he really did a lot of good for UF in getting alumni support going that was practically non-existent previously. Of course, he got caught doing what the Bear taught him. :-) Oliver Barry, CRS, GRI Real Estate Broker Halo Realty, LLC 700 E. Main St. Hendersonville TN 37075 [email protected] office: 615-822-3509 fax: 615-822-7741 mobile: 615-972-4239 ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Vega Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] [SUN]: Comparing Meyer's and Spurrier's legacies (Dooley) 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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