It's the 8th game of his first year. I don't believe we can draw that conclusion just yet. You are entitled to your opinion and I am entitled to mine. A lot of great coaches have a bumpy season or so in their careers. We really must give him a minimum of 3 years to get his program installed and time to build it through recruiting and player experience. If at that point, we look this dreadful then I'll agree with you. I think making any conclusions at this point, other than we are not very good, is premature.
Go Gators!!! Sent From Shane's iPhone Go Gators! & Skol Vikes! On Oct 30, 2011, at 8:58 AM, Charles Simpson <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the foreboding sense is we may have hired another Zook, if that is > the case no amount of recruiting classes or roster enhancements will bring us > back. We're seeing what appears to me as a poorly coached team. > Charlie > > On 10/30/2011 9:50 AM, Steve McKibben wrote: >> >> And there were just as many times that Brantley had time to throw and >> nowhere to throw to. >> >> No one likes losing, but for a lot of people who follow the team year round, >> where we are right now is no surprise. >> >> Most educated predictions had us going 8-4, if everything went as expected. >> Some things that didn't go that way: >> >> Losing both starting corners from a year ago - one kicked off of the team >> and one with an injury that just won't heal. >> >> Losing the only QB on the roster with experience early in our first tough >> game. His backup who had only played sparingly, also got hurt in that game, >> so when we went to take on the #1 team in the nation at their house, we did >> so with a QB that had never taken a snap in a college game before. >> >> For those of you that say we are just as talented as (fill in the blank), >> you may not be aware of the number of tranfers/expulsions that we've endured. >> >> Saban was 6-6 his first year at 'Bama. Yes, they were on probation, which >> limited his roster numbers, but circumstances have given Muschamp and staff >> the same kind of numbers to work with, and a number of the players left are >> NOT a fit in any offense other than the spread option. >> >> Yeah, it sucks losing four in a row, and there's really no excuse for all of >> the false start and delay penalties. We'll be back. And I think this staff >> will get us there. But it won't happen overnigtt. Next year will likely only >> show incremental improvement, so buckle in, load up on drugs, do something >> else on Saturdays - whatever you need to do to get through it. The Gators >> have seen much darker days, and no team is immune from having their turn on >> the downside of the cycle. If fans of any rival teams taunt you particularly >> cruelly take note - they'll get theirs. >> >> Like we used to say leaving the stadium during the really bad days, "It's >> great - to - a Florida Gator"! >> >> Steve Mc >> >> >> >> In all fairness to the receivers, there were several times in the second >> half that they were open, but the ball was thrown badly. Now, that might be >> the blame of the O-line not protecting Brantley, but >> the receivers were doing their job. >> >> Randy >> >> >> -- >> 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 -- 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
