Maybe it's not quite fair to Spurrier to say it took him 6 years to reach a MNC and Urban only 2 because of the mess with the championship system beginning with the Bowl Coalition in 1992. The coalition, a confluted mess consisting of way too many bowls and conference tie-ins, was narrowed down to the Bowl Alliance in 1995 to include the Orange, Sugar and Fiesta Bowls with the SEC, Big 12, ACC, Big East and 2 at-large teams contributing to create a national championship game. And I'm sure we all remember who went to the first Bowl Alliance game in 1995...Spurrier (even if we did get killed).
So maybe it did take him 5 years to get to a MNC game, but the process has been tuned and re-tuned for the last 13 years to try and avoid a playoff series. I really don't think there's any comparison to Spurrier and Meyer. I'm just grateful that they've put us in contention for a championship, mythical or not. Wanda ----- Original Message ----- From: Jay Cicone To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:55 PM Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] [SUN]: Comparing Meyer's and Spurrier's legacies (Dooley) Well said, Zeb. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Vega Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 5:54 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
