Yes, we do have more underclassmen than the schools you mention. Nor did we just lose Tebow. We lost what, 11 players to the NFL? We also lost more than that in Srs. Some of those lost were juniors, like Pouncy. Our Gatorade Player of the year does have campus time, as Steve mentioned, but not game experience. Our fabulous recruiting class? All are still freshmen some of whom are starting. We are a young team by anyone's imagination. A team that lots of people thought would be great, and they are, but aren't as great as thought. The lack of experience is obvious. They're young, mostly, and no amount of "coaching them up" is going to make up for that. We'll just have to do the dreaded "wait until next year" until they get better. As Randy also said, I'm not giving up on them. They'll be fine.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: John Vega <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:39:19 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [gatortalk] Talk about the fake On Oct 12, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Steve McKibben wrote: > Go back and tell me the last year that we redshirted everyone, or > even half of our incoming freshman class, and we'll talk. > > Fact is we sign more than twenty every year because fourth and > fifth year players are becoming more and more scarce - due to all > of the various types of attrition you mentioned. Veteran is a relative term. I assert that there is no factual basis for the claim that we have substantially fewer upperclassmen (or more underclassmen) than any top-level football program in the country. I will go further and say that this "50 to 55" underclassmen and "this is a young team" excuse is used in lieu of "this is a lousy team" or "this team has problems." Do we really think that we have more underclassmen than Oklahoma? Alabama? Auburn? Nebraska? -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 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- 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 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
