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Whatever the decision is, announce it!

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Here is my opinion. We can all have our opinions on what needs to happen. Whatever those in charge decide to do, the one thing I firmly believe, is that some announcement needs to happen sooner rather than later. If the decision is made to give Billy another year, then announce that in order to do the last amount of damage to the current recruiting class. If the decision is to move on, then announce that. At this stage, waiting does nothing positive for any one involved, IMO.
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Football The UF Standard

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I’ve only posted a few times, but I’m here because I don’t understand. And my apologies ahead of time for the length.

Ok. It’s 1990. I am a student way over the traditional age and have been at UF for almost two years. UF just hired Coach Spurrier. And one August morning I, and the rest of Gainesville, awaken to the news that two young ladies have had their lives cut short at the hands of another. Classes had not been in session for long, and the football season had yet to begin when the horror we know as the Gainesville Murders ended the lives of five. We were grief stricken, angry, fearful - I was terrified to walk to my classes at night, was even afraid in my locked dorm at North Hall. Irrational fear. Thank goodness for the young men of UF who were there to escort us ladies to evening classes.

Why do I begin here? Because not long after that Coach SOS and the Gator’s football team hit the field. They brought excitement to the campus and were winning games with a fifth string QB. But that’s not all they were doing. For a few hours most Saturdays that fall I was able to forget the grief and the anger and the terror and just enjoy cheering on my team. I fell in love with my school, and I became passionate about Gator football. That’s what that 1990 team did for me. I’ve never looked back; never wanted to.

Fast forward to today. I really do not understand what has happened to this program. I don’t understand why we are so accepting of failure. The fans didn’t create some mythical bar - that bar was raised by Spurrier and continued with Meyer; they raised the bar and we fans know what UF is capable of providing. We aren’t getting that, haven’t seen anything like those years in more than a decade.

Look, I can’t tell you an X from an O; I just know what I see on the field and rely on this forum to provide the play by play. I need someone to enlighten me, nicely, please and thank you, on why our priorities have seemingly changed? I really don’t want to hear that the college football landscape is different; we all know that. But survivors survive. They adapt and produce because it’s how they are wired and they don’t present excuses for failure.

Sadly, it seems we live in a world of excuses. I truly would like to know if I were Muschamp or McElwain or Mullen what you would tell me on why the standard is different for CBN, and if it isn’t different then why are we seemingly ignoring that standard? If I’m sitting across from those that make the coaching decisions for Florida I would ask why does the narrative keep changing in order to line up with the results? What is so different about CBN that we throw everything we have at him and then are silent when things go south of expectations?

I don’t always like what I read on here, how ugly we can be to one another, but I get that frustration. I really do. We are the University of Florida. This school should excel at everything. Want to be called the everything school? Then be the everything school. Adapt. Change. Fight like hell to get back to that standard. In everything.
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The University of Florida’s True Identity

gator1776
We do not have the requisite structure or mentality at our University or in our athletic program (AD/UAA) to be a competitive football team anymore.
We probably just need to accept this reality and walk with our wallets and they’ll either get desperate and fix it or we will take our rightful place as an academic institution in the SEC that’s competitive once every 10 years like Vanderbilt.

Either way, I’ll be damned if I’m paying championship level booster fees anymore to be a bottom dweller.

This is our real identity, we are not a football school anymore and may never be again.
But hey, there’s always gymnastics in lacrosse.
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Tools That Kill People Must Be Banned According to GatorTheo, In This Thread We List Things That Therefore Must Be Banned

gator1776
Lets help @GatorTheo out and list all human inventions that lead to the death of humans when used for their designed purpose.

I'll lead off:
Knives
Bows
Crossbows
Spears
Swords
Cars
Trucks
Semi-trucks
Motorcycles
Bicycles
Boats
Trains
Planes
Spoons
Forks
Vaccines
Football
Skiing (water and snow)
Space Flight
Backhoes
Bulldozers
Rollercoasters
Amusement Parks
Processed Foods
Swimming Pools
Alcohol


Please add any human made tool that can, in its regular use, lead to a human's death so we can get this list to Washington so the government can ban them.
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Kammie SNL appearance a violation of equal time election policy

BillytheC
justthenews.com

FCC Commissioner on VP Harris’s SNL appearance: 'clear and blatant effort' to evade Equal Time rule

"The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct — a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election,” Carr wrote on X.
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Football Georgia is built different

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140K views · 4.6K reactions | Kirby Smart loves to beat the Gators | Georgia Bulldogs

Kirby Smart loves to beat the Gators.
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Imagine celebrating like this after beating a 4-3 gators team with their 3rd string qb.

May not be this year, may not be next year, but one day the rolls will be reversed and I hope the coach makes the "Gator Stomp" and Urbana timeout look like child's play.
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Analytics and Deep Passing

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ABC showed a stat that DJ had the 2nd most completions over 30 yards in the entire country despite being a part time player. They also said that UGA was tied for last in the SEC at allowing passes over 30 yards. Any reason why we only attempted one deep pass while DJ was in? I was calling for us to go deep at least once per drive and was screaming like a crazy person when we scored on the long TD to Mizell.
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