I guess all the others were worse. Who would Cam have beaten for the worst 12?
Oliver Barry CRS, GRI Real Estate Broker Crye-Leike, Realtors 964 Main St Nashville, TN 37206 Mobile: 615-972-4239 Office: 615-650-7447 bar...@realtracs.com > On Mar 11, 2024, at 2:01 PM, Hhsgator <hhsga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Surprised Cam Newton is not on this list. > Helen > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 11, 2024, at 1:36 PM, Shane Ford <goufgator...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> -- >> -- >> 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) >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "GatorNews" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to gatornews+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:gatornews+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gatornews/5FC54410-F3DE-4AEF-BB26-C9DB6574C38C%40gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gatornews/5FC54410-F3DE-4AEF-BB26-C9DB6574C38C%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. >> <image0.jpeg> >> >> >> >> So, if I do this list again in two or three years, it could have six or >> seven new names on it. At least. >> >> Players come and players go, and we are all rooting for laundry. But >> sometimes, the split is less than amicable. >> >> And sometimes it gets repaired. >> >> That's why I had a difficult time with Emmitt Smith. He left Florida early, >> which was fine. Then, he told the media in Dallas he was more of a Seminole >> and Hurricane fan than a Gator. >> >> Then, he was back in the fold and the Ring of Honor. Now, he's mad at >> Florida again for, well, this column is not about the politics of this state. >> >> Anyway, let's get to the latest Dooley's Dozen, the 12 worst divorces for >> Gator football. >> >> Brock Berlin >> >> >> -- >> -- >> 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) >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "GatorNews" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to gatornews+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:gatornews+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gatornews/5FC54410-F3DE-4AEF-BB26-C9DB6574C38C%40gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gatornews/5FC54410-F3DE-4AEF-BB26-C9DB6574C38C%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. >> <Brock-Berlin-2001-3-e1657737573220.jpg> >> Andy Lyons/Getty Images >> Man, what a big deal it was when Spurrier signed him. I even have a picture >> of my infant daughter being held by Rex Grossman and Berlin (it was my >> wife’s idea). He was the top recruit in the nation. >> >> But Grossman was just better and Berlin transferred to Miami. There, he beat >> the Gators in an epic comeback at the Orange Bowl in the second game of the >> season in 2003. After a Miami touchdown, he did the Gator chomp/throat slash. >> >> Then, he beat Florida in the Peach Bowl, although that was more about >> Florida’s coaching staff lying down than anything. >> >> Trevor Etienne >> >> >> Matt Pendleton/Gainesville Sun >> This is complicated, like most divorces. Schools were after Etienne after >> his freshman year to jump in the portal, but he came back. Everybody loved >> him. >> >> But the money was too good to not transfer to Georgia. >> >> That is one bitter pill. >> >> It got worse when he said on a podcast, “I could either be RB2 on a losing >> team or go somewhere and possibly be RB1 and win a natty.” >> >> He’s not wrong. >> >> But he had better be happy Brandon Spikes doesn’t have any more eligibility. >> >> Charley Pell >> >> >> -- >> -- >> 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) >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "GatorNews" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to gatornews+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:gatornews+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gatornews/5FC54410-F3DE-4AEF-BB26-C9DB6574C38C%40gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gatornews/5FC54410-F3DE-4AEF-BB26-C9DB6574C38C%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. >> <Gators-script-helmet-e1682527461565.jpeg> >> Scott Halleran /Allsport >> Nobody did more to build the infrastructure of Florida football than Pell. >> He started Gator Boosters, organized Gator Clubs around the state and forced >> his coaches to attend them and improved every aspect of the stadium from the >> weight room to the south end zone expansion. >> >> Pell coached in some of the biggest wins in Gator history in the early 1980s. >> >> But you know what happens when you cheat. You get a divorce. Especially if >> it happens multiple times. >> >> Emory Jones >> >> >> Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports >> He was going to be the next great quarterback at Florida, Dan Mullen’s first >> recruit. And when Kyle Trask was finished, he was anointed. >> >> But Jones knew that everybody wanted Anthony Richardson in there and when >> Mullen was canned and Billy Napier was named coach, Jones jumped into the >> portal. >> >> He ended up at Arizona State, then transferred again to Cincinnati. >> >> His record as a starting college quarterback was 9-15. Just thought I’d >> point that out. Maybe I’m the one who is bitter. >> >> Terry Dean >> >> >> USA TODAY Sports >> Let me start this out by saying that Spurrier and Dean have patched things >> up and are friends today. >> >> But back in 1994, whew. >> >> Dean, the quarterback for the nation's No. 1 team, was not only benched for >> Danny Wuerffel, but he was also ostracized from the team. >> >> I'll never forget Dean standing in his locker area after the game telling >> the media that Spurrier had told him he would get pulled if he didn't play >> well. >> >> We never got into the locker room again. And that was it for Dean, who had >> been recording his thoughts and actually turned it into a book detailing the >> pain of that season. >> >> Urban Meyer >> >> >> Jim Brown-USA TODAY Sports >> You knew this one was coming. The Meyer split from Florida was so weird it >> was almost comical. He resigned, then came back, then resigned again. >> >> Meyer told me on "Another Dooley Noted Podcast" that he regretted everything >> about the way he left Florida. But the bitterness was not as much that he >> and Florida divorced as much as it was that he remarried so quickly. >> >> There are still people to this day who are convinced that Meyer planned to >> go to Ohio State all along. >> >> I think the Gator Nation, which for a long time was split on Meyer, has >> softened enough to put him in the Ring of Honor. >> >> Will Grier >> >> >> Ed Zurga/Getty Images >> Some quarterbacks leave because they don't get enough playing time. Some >> don't like the coaches. >> >> And then there was Grier. >> >> That solemn press conference when it was announced he was suspended for a >> year for taking a banned substance was mind-numbing. Florida was 6-0. How >> could he do something like that? >> >> It didn't get any better during the offseason when Jim McElwain and a >> meeting with Grier and his father and let them know he wasn't in Florida's >> plans. >> >> The whole thing was weird. >> >> Antonio Callaway >> >> >> Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports >> This was not a bitter divorce. It was just a sad one. >> >> Callaway was one of the best receivers and returners to ever play for >> Florida. I still get chills thinking about the 2015 Tennessee game. >> >> But he couldn't stay out of trouble. The end came when he was suspended for >> the 2017 season and declared for the draft. >> >> Unfortunately, his issues followed him to the NFL. He only played in 25 >> games, one more than he played in at Florida. >> >> Darren Hambrick >> >> >> Brian Bahr/Allsport >> It is never good when a relationship ends in violence. That was the case >> with one of the best athletes to play in the history of the program. >> >> You probably know the story of Hambrick going after a teammate at a team >> dinner in the Superdome. He disfigured Anthony Riggins with broken glass >> after an argument over a card game on the team bus. >> >> Spurrier kicked him off the team, obviously, and Hambrick went to South >> Carolina and played against the Gators. >> >> Good player. Bad dude. >> >> Jeff Driskel >> >> >> Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports >> Driskel was the quarterback of a team that went 11-2 and still is considered >> one of the most vilified quarterbacks at Florida. >> >> Maybe it was the early ESPN piece about how he was the next Tim Tebow. Maybe >> it was the bad turnovers in a crushing loss to Miami in 2013. >> >> But when he broke his fibula against Tennessee, that season went south fast. >> Still, when he returned, he was hampered by a bad offensive plan and fans >> wanted Treon Harris. (They got him and then he got suspended.) >> >> After playing in the Birmingham Bowl, he transferred to Louisiana Tech and >> threw for 4,000 yards and is still in the NFL. >> >> So, he got the house in this divorce. >> >> Dan Mullen >> >> >> Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports >> Where do we start with Dapper Dan? The implosion was not like anything I >> have ever seen, from being this close to a playoff berth in the COVID season >> to getting fired before the next season was even finished. >> >> But the real bitterness is in the aftermath. >> >> Not only did Mullen leave a roster with massive talent craters behind that >> Napier is trying to clean up, but Gator fans have to see him on TV all the >> time. >> >> It's like a Housewives episode. >> >> Aubrey Hill >> >> >> Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images >> This was a tough one because Hill, an excellent wide receiver at Florida, >> was so happy to be back at his alma mater. In fact, he came here to coach >> with Muschamp on Christmas Eve of 2010, leaving Miami behind. >> >> But when his name came up in the Miami recruiting scandal, Florida was quick >> to act and let him go right before the 2012 season. He also received a show >> cause for two years from the NCAA. >> >> I talked to Aubrey several times in Gainesville after it all went down. The >> whole thing broke his heart. He passed away after a quiet battle with cancer >> in 2020. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Sent from Shane’s iPhone >> Go Gators! >> >> -- >> -- >> 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) >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "GatorNews" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to gatornews+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:gatornews+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gatornews/5FC54410-F3DE-4AEF-BB26-C9DB6574C38C%40gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gatornews/5FC54410-F3DE-4AEF-BB26-C9DB6574C38C%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > > -- > -- > 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) > --- > 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 gatortalk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:gatortalk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gatortalk/4B7D66D4-916B-4EBC-B61F-5FA74B42C64B%40gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gatortalk/4B7D66D4-916B-4EBC-B61F-5FA74B42C64B%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- -- 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) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GatorTalk" group. 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