What? One major program's team playing another? Anything could happen. It's not like I'm asking for a middle-of-the-road FCS team to come onto the home field of a traditional power and win. :-)
Rob Sent from my iPad > On Nov 26, 2013, at 1:38 PM, "Oliver Barry" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’ll be shocked (pleasantly) if we just give them a good game. > > Oliver Barry, CRS, GRI > Bob Parks Realty, LLC > REO Department > 1517 Hunt Club Blvd > Gallatin TN 37066 > Phone: 615-826-4040 > Mobile: 615-972-4239 > [email protected] > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Rob Alexander > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 11:59 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [gatortalk] FW: [gatornews] Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post > GatorNews, courtesy of JunoGator > > If it were me, I would probably have cut our losses after the GS game. But I > have a lot of faith in Foley, and if he really believes that Muschamp can be > the coach that we all want him to be, then I'm content to wait and see what > happens. I've said before that I really like Muschamp, and I really want him > to succeed, and that hasn't changed. I have changed my mind about whether I > think he actually will succeed -- I don't think so -- but I would like > nothing better than to be wrong about that. In the meantime, I can think of > nothing that would be more satisfying right now than if this team picked > themselves up, dusted off the pity, and shocked the world by beating FSU. Go > Gators!!! > > Rob > > > > Sent from my iPad > > On Nov 26, 2013, at 11:00 AM, "C.Simpson" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think I'll go with what I read on the saturdaydownsouth site. Muschamp is > probably not as bad as the record indicates this year and probably not as > good as the record last year so that leaves him somewhere about average. The > question then becomes is average good enough for UF. > Charlie > > On 11/26/2013 10:15 AM, Oliver Barry wrote: > We are in accord, Juno. I appreciated Muschamp doing so well last season. > That “most important one” being pretty danged important. > He certainly still has some rough edges, but I can live with most of it. I > could live with it better if he’d start winning again. > I also appreciate your sending us the news from South Florida every day. I > read most of it. It helps me get the day started if I’m angry early in the > morning. J > Dave George? Putz! > > I’m so, so happy to see Scottie Wilbekin back in the lineup. Maybe we’ll > have some good Gator basketball news these next two weeks. > We’ve got some tough competition starting with the evil ones from Tallahassee. > > > Oliver Barry, CRS, GRI > Bob Parks Realty, LLC > REO Department > 1517 Hunt Club Blvd > Gallatin TN 37066 > Phone: 615-826-4040 > Mobile: 615-972-4239 > [email protected] > > Juno Gator strongly disagrees with the following column before he even reads > it. Juno thinks: > > Will Mushchamp needs to show growth in the robustness of offensive > philosophy as well as improvement of player development on both sides of the > ball. He might also need to more frequently rotate young and other > non-starting players at important positions other than defensive line and > cornerback. > > Coach Boom needs to (1) to continue to better inspire players to treat > rivalry (and bowl) games as extra special, (2) to better motivate players and > his assistant coaches to perform better at the beginning of all games (3) > grow as an in-game clock manager. > > Coach Muschamp must also continue his strong recruiting. He must maintain and > transfer to the players his passion and focus on each play. He must make > staff adjustments in philosophy if not in personnel which may personally for > him be tough. > > But the good man (even if he played for UGa) has shown he can bring in, and > will play top talent from the get go. He deflects praise and accepts > responsibility for disappointments of the team, the team's other coaches or > its players. Oh -- and he doesn't walk over to frat row to fight with any > boys over there. > > He won every regular season football game (but the most important one) and > got us into a BCS bowl a year ago. While this year's njuries have pounded the > team in strategic spots repeatedly. Team leading first string players at wide > receiver, halfback, fullback, safety and cornerback have been lost for games. > Quarterback, defensive tackle, defensive end linebacker, and offensive line > are lost fro the first stringers all the way down to walk-on, in some cases. > > This is a type of misfortune JunoGator has not seen since I partied my way > through my first freshman quarter of watching gator football in 1979 -- at > least I had half time pass outs and quarts of Jack Daniels to comfort me > during games back then. > > Considering all that, how could we, the Gator Nation, not recognize the self > inflicted wound that showing impatience with Muschamp would become? Coach > Boom is still developing into whatever kind of successful coach he will > ultimately be judged to be. > > Why will any championship able coaching candidate not pause should he > consider the unrealistic expectations and impatience the GatorNation would > show with our HBC position by letting Will Muschamp go after this year? > > If "Champ" turns things around next year and The GatorNation is embellished > by having a loyal HBC with a program which is strong and on track. > > If (heaven forbid) Will Muschamp proves not up to the task, Jeremy Foley can > take this next year to identify and attract a premier replacement to whom he > can offer a team which is talented, a loyal and reasonable athletic director, > and a generally supportive base -- albeit with high expectations. > > Go Gators > > Thanks for my JunoGator rant. Lets SHOCK the Semi's > > Dave George: It’s time for Florida to fire coach Will Muschamp > BY DAVE GEORGE - PALM BEACH POST STAFF WRITER > > " > > > HOOPS: Wilbekin reinstated > GAINESVILLE -- Late last week, No. 15 Florida topped Middle Tennessee State > by double-digits without a point guard, but coach Billy Donovan’s offensive > gamble lasted just a single contest. > > Florida -- shorthanded with just seven available scholarship players -- will > receive a much-needed boost Monday against Jacksonville (7 p.m.) as point > guard Scottie Wilbekin returns to action following a six-game suspension. > > “He’s done everything. I’m really proud of him,” Donovan said. “As I have > mentioned before, he has really stayed on course since last spring.” > > <mime-attachment.jpg>(Courtesy gatorzone.com) > UF's senior point guard, a preseason all-conference pick and one of the top > defensive guards in the country, was suspended indefinitely June 10 after > violating team rules for the second time in eight months. Donovan actually > gave Wilbekin the option to transfer, but the senior chose to earn (and > fight) his way back onto the team. > > “He’s grown up in a lot of ways. I think that he obviously made some poor > choices last year. You would hope that situation would have been kind of an > eye-opener for him, with his level of accountability and responsibility to > himself and to his team,” Donovan explained. “For whatever reason, that > experience, those first three games last year, did not register with him at > all, at the level I wanted it to. And I think with the situation we put him > in the spring, as it related to him having to work his way back on the team, > not doing anything in Summer B or Summer A with our team, going through the > conditioning in the month of August and September away from our team, slowly > getting him back. The biggest thing I’ve noticed is a total change in his > attitude, his behavior. Scottie was never ever a bad kid. It was of kind of > like a warrior mentality, like, ‘I’ll take anything on. I can deal with it.’ > And I think he’s gotten a lot more humble. I think he has a much, much better > understanding of how his actions and things that he does impact not only > himself, but other people. I really have seen a great growth in him.” > > Wilbekin, who averaged 9.1 ppg. and 5.1 apg. in 29 starts last season, > returns at an important time for Florida. Freshman point guard Kasey Hill > sustained a high-ankle sprain in last Monday’s win over Southern, forcing > Donovan to juggle as many as four guys at the position during Thursday’s > 20-point win over MTSU. > > Hill remains in a boot except during rehab activities and is expected to miss > around a month with the injury. > > Following Monday’s road tilt with JU (2-3), Florida (4-1) faces a brutal > schedule over the next three weeks: home vs. FSU, at No. 13 Connecticut, home > vs. No. 2 Kansas and vs. No. 21 Memphis in Madison Square Garden. > > > > > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GatorTalk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GatorTalk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GatorTalk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GatorTalk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GatorTalk" group. 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