Granted there are many problems on offense but this teams issues go much
deeper than that. The head coach who is supposed to be an defensive
genius has put an average to mediocre product on the field that checks
up short at critical times. The special teams ain't so special and there
is an overall lack of discipline and self control across the board. In
other words imo this isn't the type of problem you fix by firing a
couple of assistants.
*Losing to Vanderbilt has turned up heat on Muschamp*
*Florida head coach must fire offensive coordinator to try and save
his own job*
Mike BianchiSPORTS COMMENTARY
/7:02 p.m. EST//,////November 9, 2013/
GAINESVILLE --- This was absolutely Zookian in nature.
Actually, this was worse than any loss Ron Zook ever endured.
Much, much worse.
It was homecoming, but it may well have been a coach going.
Can*Florida Gators*
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/sports/college-sports/florida-gators-ORSPT000172.topic>coach
Will Muschamp survive getting hammered in a bumbling, stumbling 34-17
loss to*Vanderbilt*
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/sports/vanderbilt-commodores-ORSPT000000297.topic>---
the first defeat to the Commodores in 22 years? Can he survive what is
almost sure to be the Gators' first losing season in 34 years? Can he
survive what will be a massive home beat-down from powerhouse*Florida
State*
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/education/florida-state-university-OREDU000030.topic>to
end the most miserable season in the modern history of the program he
grew up idolizing?
But there was some good news: Vandy just saved the Gators a trip to
Shreveport.
I have written that Muschamp, who won 11 games last year, should get
another year to try to get his program back on track, but losing to
Vandy might well have turned his coaching hot seat into an electric
chair. To save his own job, Muschamp needs to fire offensive
coordinator Brent Pease by the time he holds his weekly news
conference Monday.
"I'm a lot harder on myself than y'all or anyone else in Gator Nation
is going to be," Muschamp said when questioned about his job security
and fan unrest. "I need to do to be better, and I don't need to hear
any fan from the outside telling me what we need to do with this
football team. I can assure you of that. ... I'm a competitor. I don't
like losing. I certainly don't like the product we are putting on the
field, and that's my responsibility.
"I'm not asking for anybody to be happy. I'm not asking anybody to
give us a pass. This is the real deal. This is the*University of
Florida*
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/education/colleges-universities/university-of-florida-OREDU0000153.topic>.
I'll guarantee you my expectation is as high or higher than anyone
sitting in those stands."
Painted on the wall behind in the team meeting room where Muschamp
spoke was the motivational message:/"Create An Edge. Be The Edge."/
On Saturday, the Gators fell off the edge.
And Gator fans are ready to jump off the ledge.
Muschamp better quickly do something to appease the fractured fan
base. If he survives, he should go hire former UF quarterback Kerwin
Bell --- the passing-game guru and head coach at Jacksonville
University --- to be his offensive coordinator. Bell has the nation's
No. 9-ranked FCS offense --- and he's at a non-scholarship program.
Or instead of an Honorary Mr. Two Bits at every game, maybe the Gators
should have an Honorary Offensive Coordinator. This year, Florida's
offense is ranked 110th in the country. Injuries or no injuries,
that's inexcusable. Committing four turnovers and scoring only two
touchdowns on Vanderbilt's pitiful defense is equally unacceptable.
Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley has said Muschamp's job is
safe, but that was a couple of weeks ago. That was before the Gators
lost to Vanderbilt at home for the first time since 1945.
That's right, 1945 ... when Jackie Robinson was still in the
minors,*Fidel Castro*
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/politics/fidel-castro-PECLB000910.topic>was
studying law at Havana University, U.S. Marines secured Iwo Jima,
10-year-old Elvis Presley finished fifth in a singing contest at a
county fair in Mississippi and Steve Spurrier was six months old,
throwing his pacifier across his playpen and completing passes to his
teddy bear.
Even at that age, Spurrier could coordinate an offense more complex
than Florida's rudimentary attack of today. When Spurrier coached the
Gators, the offense was called the Fun 'N Gun. Now it's called, The
Fun Is Done.
Spurrier named the Swamp, and Vanderbilt drained it.
On Homecoming.
Or should we say Home Leaving?
Fans were booing and leaving the stadium at the outset of the fourth
quarter with Vandy leading 31-10. This Gator offense has it backward.
It is supposed to take the road crowd out of the game; not the home crowd.
After losing to Georgia last week, Muschamp got into a verbal
altercation with a UF fan as he left the field. After losing to Vandy,
he said fans have a right to say whatever they want.
And are they ever.
Said Chris Andres, a Gator fan from Deltona as he filed out of the
stadium Saturday:
"When I get home, I'm going to start up a website --- BringBackZook.com."
/*[email protected]* <mailto:[email protected]>./
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