shime's pre-game excuse thread. bravo.
Trent Whittemore couldn’t crack the starting lineup in an average WR group. I wish him the best of luck but he needed to go. Opens up a scholly for a recruit or a transfer portal player that can hopefully contribute more than Trent.
Correct. Slot receivers & possession receivers is what we have. We don’t have anybody who can take the top off the defense or somebody who can take a small gain into a large gain. That type of WR is coming in Mizell and Wilson & hopefully portal help.
Whittemore was better than the shizshow we saw this season outside of Ricky P and Shorter. Coaches just have their preferences.
He’s not better than Henderson, Reynolds, Frazier or Douglas either.
Agree to disagree. Those guys haven't shown much(or maybe it was lack of QB) in their time to shine. They didn't shine.
Well Henderson, Reynolds & Douglas all have more catches, yards and TDs then him. All 3 of them are also faster. And Douglas is just a true freshmen and Reynolds a redshirt freshmen. I don’t expect Reynolds to contribute much here at UF either and is a transfer candidate as well but he is better than Whittemore. This was Whittemore’s 3rd year at UF. He’s had ample time to show something.
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Lot of good that did playing him ahead of one who had near equal stats during an injured freshman campaign on what was one of our better offensive passing stats in a while. Now both are gone and one could have been used in the last game when only 1 WR caught passes until like the 4:00 minute mark of the 4th quarter.
I’m sure more WRs would catch passes if the QB had better than a 33% completion percentage. And like the thread title stated we were down 5 WRs to begin with so not sure what you were expecting. Neither Whittemore or Reynolds were ever going to contribute much at UF. Whittemore was already in his 3rd season and hasn’t done much.
But the point, he was better than all else in the field last Friday night outside of Ricky P.
Because his 3rd season was under a new staff that did not like him for whatever reason. The same staff that thought it was smart to keep the 33% completion QB in the game.
Well he wanted to leave. When the receiving corp was healthy he couldn't crack the lineup. And so he decided to bail out on his teammates prior to the season ending.
Yeah it was a chump move on his part but at the same time when you had past success under a past regime but the new one doesn't give you the time of day is it worth risking injury?
Past success? I think that could probably be debate-able. He really didn’t do much under Mullen either. 29 catches and 2 TDs in 2 years under Mullen. That’s pretty average IMO.
His year one was a short season where the team only played conference games and he was injured for half the games. Also missed 4 games last season.
Honestly Henderson has been pretty average as well. Our WR core by SEC standards is pretty average. Think of the Spurrier and Meyer days and the WRs that were on those teams. These guys we have would be lucky to see the field on those teams.
No argument from me on that.
Yeah I get we had a ton of WR out...that didn't explain throwing the ball in the dirt like 8 yards in the flats lol.
