Kirby Smart acting like an ass
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Refresh my memory. What big time recruit did Smart pull in the 2016 recruiting class that wasn't already either committed to UGA or a heavy lean to UGA when Richt was fired? I know the answer but I get the feeling many don't really follow recruiting that closely especially the recruiting of other programs.
No more so than your team. Since 2001, FSU has started in the AP top 10 and finished outside of it 5 times. Exact same number of times as UF.
So FSU was highly ranked in the preseason for 8 years and they play Wake 8 times a year? You're a fan of hyperbole, huh?
Sure you don't want to put some more stipulations on that first? Like "What highly rated recruit with a double vowel in his name has Smart signed?"
No one takes FSU seriously, even after they finally did what was expected of them for beating Syracuse and Duke finally for a season. Losing to FSU is embarrassing for us
You clearly don't pay attention to roster or recruiting if you have to ask that question.
It might pain you to admit (and I suspect from your posting style that you won't), but any sane rational fan of any school in the country would take Jimbo's production right now. I don't care how he got there, only that he got there. Jimbo is an elite judge of talent and recruiter and as long as he is at FSU, FSU is going to be competing for titles. He took a program that was in terrible shape and won a title in his 4th season. An added bonus, he held the Gators new coach on the ground and made him eat boogers....get used to it, bc until your coach puts down the donuts, gets off the couch and hits the recruiting trail, that is going to continue to happen.
Yea most people would take losing an average of 3 games in the worst conference in football and once championship since 1999 which was over one of the worst NC opponents in BCS history in the Big east... especially over a school success like Florida
I love Noles posts towards me, the most biased la la land mu*****as on the earth talking to ME like im biased or unruly about my team lol. Noles live in their own little world, I learned that in the most painful way on your board to the point where they took my trolling ONE THOUSAND % serious and used it against me. GOT EM GOOD BOYS
and hey sport, most coaches spot elite talent pretty well, they just don't get them
I love Noles posts towards me, the most biased la la land mu*****as on the earth talking to ME like im biased or unruly about my team lol. Noles live in their own little world, I learned that in the most painful way on your board to the point where they took my trolling ONE THOUSAND % serious and used it against me. GOT EM GOOD BOYS
and hey sport, most coaches spot elite talent pretty well, they just don't get them
Jimbo spots them and gets them...
and if it is so easy to find them and pick them, why did Urban toss Werner aside to pick up Powell?
You do realize Meyer has 3 national titles and is one of the GOAT college coaches right? The only active coach even close to as good or better than Meyer is Saban.
Urban obviously has never had problems getting who he wants, guy.
He even had to swoop in and land our best QB ever and one of the greatest ever from the coach I played for in the end... and it's a good thing he did... because whatever he sold him on, couldn't have POSSIBLY been as great as it ended up for him and his favorite school growing up.. and believe me when I say this, Tebow was very close to going to Bama with Shula for various reasons.
it's funny to think about now that Urban had to go through Saban twice for two of them.. Saban hates that guy
Not really anything for me to be proud or ashamed of. I'm just stating facts. Whenever people talk about how FSU was highly ranked "every year" and disappointed I can only assume they're talking about 2002 and 2004. Apparently "every year" means those 2 years.
Well...thank you for proving my point I was trying to make to numbers.
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Yes, and the same thing you accuse Jimbo of...needing to win with a once in a lifetime QB and overwhelming talent is pretty much the story of Urban Meyer at Florida. Look at the OSU players drafted this year and tell me that Urban does more with less or some other silly such thing. It is a shocking that that OSU didn't beat everyone on its schedule by 50 points.
Take it up with your fellow poster who has taken the opportunity to make every one of his posts in a Kirby thread about FSU and Jimbo. If you guys don't want Jimbo and FSU posts, don't mention them.
That 2006 UF team was one of the best coaching jobs I have ever seen in my life. Meyer won that national title with mostly guys that Zook recruited. Meyer has won with his guys and he's won with other people's guy. Leak was a good QB but he certainly wasn't once in a lifetime. Didn't Meyer also win a national title with his 3rd string QB?
Urban wins 2006 with overwhelming talent, a once in a lifetime QB (Tebow) pulling Leak's *** out of the fire and a once every couple of decades offensive player in Percy Harvin.
Urban is a better recruiter. Spurrier is UFs best coach. Spurrier was more consistent. Outside of the two championships, Urbans teams were very beatable. They still are. No way they should have lost a game in 2015. That OSU team is one of the most talented college teams in memory, in terms of NFL talent.
That "3rd string" QB btw will be on some team's NFL roster this fall
What overwhelming talent on that 2006 team? Not many players on that 2006 UF team had long NFL careers. To this day that 2006 year was one of the best coaching jobs I have ever seen. Tebow and Harvin were true freshmen and Leak was the starting QB. Tebow came in on situational plays. He didn't throw the ball much in 2006. Did Tebow contribute? Yes but don't make it sound like he was the reason UF won a national title. Meyer is one of the GOAT college coaches. It is what it is.
Other than that Mrs. Kennedy, how was your trip to Dallas?
Oh...and other than the one year where Jameson was surrounded by stellar talent, Jimbo's team were and are very beatable. Just ask Ga Tech, NC State, WF and a host of other teams
I was working for a paper in Jacksonville when Tebow was a senior at Nease and got to interview Tebow after he spoke to the Jacksonville Rotary Club. His speech was two days after 'Bama just pasted UF in Meyer's first year, and the thought at the time was that 'Bama was actually leading for him. During our interview, he got a text from Meyer reading something like: "I wouldn't be recruiting you so hard if I didn't need you. SEC Champs, Heisman, National Champs, it's all there for us at UF." The guy is just a great salesman.
Found the story online. This was pretty cool for me, two years out of UF's journalism school, talking to Tebow and his parents. It's even cooler in hindsight. I also got to interview the '06 Gators hoops team at the start of their tournament run as a 3 seed in Jacksonville. A pretty big crowd showed up to watch their shootaround, and when they huddled up afterward, everyone in the stands started a rhythmic clap. When they broke the huddle, the place exploded. After, they all stuck around to sign autographs and talk to the fans. They just seemed like really good kids.
And your point is what exactly? UF doesn't win the 2006 national championship without Chris Leak either. You know the Leak that actually was the starting QB that year. It also doesn't change the fact that both Harvin and Tebow were also just true freshmen in 2006 as well.
Again that 2006 season was one of the best coaching jobs I have ever seen.
You can keep spinning it however you want but Meyer has won 3 national titles with 3 different QBs. I would say 3 QBs with all different styles of play. The fact that he has won 3 national titles is all that really needs to be said. Not many coaches have won 3 national titles, especially in such a short time span.
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LOL!! Yes Jimbo losses to inferior teams all the time. GT this year was a horrendous loss. I'm sure Houston had much more talent than FSU as well.
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Read more...post less. This is precisely the point I was making. Jimbo gets denigrated repeatedly on this site for being a recruiter and an average game day guy. Guess what! So is Urban. Who cares? No one really should, b/c any team in the country would take the production, except for bitter UF and perhaps Mich fans who don't want to admit their primary rival has a great coach.
We just won the East with a middle of the pack roster!... and without a QB!
sadgator'll put his money on Mac.
LOL. Really? Talk about homerism at its best. Meyer is a much better coach than Fisher. Meyer has 3 national championships at 2 different programs. He took a non power school to a BCS game while at Utah. Hilarious that your trying to compare Meyer and Fisher. There is no comparison.
I think it's fair and as Bilas said, restricting transfers is the same as a non-compete out in the real world so if that is what they are doing then the players should get paid.
Meyer has been a head coach for ~15 years. Fisher has been a head coach for 6. So I would agree that there is no comparison.
Well he was right about all of them, actually even more happened.
I think Leak also has the most wins as a starter ever at UF
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