Good choice by Brown imo, while reality says Napier/Mertz = 5-6....
Good luck to Graham vs aTm's defense, cause he's gone out injured in his last two consecutive starts....
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Good luck to Graham vs aTm's defense, cause he's gone out injured in his last two consecutive starts....
Just ready to get this game going to see how this team plays. A&M has the 2nd longest active road losing streak in the country at 10 games as their last away game win was almost 3 years ago.
Just a FYI - Emmitt Smith is this weeks 'Mr. Two-Bits' while his RB son is a grad-xfer from Stanford to aTm this year.
He can shove them Bud Lights up his **$ for all I care.
There is nothing in CFB that is more "fools gold" than a true freshman QB who has an early season great performance against an overmatched opponent. Just puttin' it out there.
In recent years some true freshman have actually did pretty good when taking over.
AR15 was fools gold in a similar way. But I really don't know if that was coaching mismanagement or just complete self narcissism. Not a true freshman but the script was the same. Time will tell. I think Lagway is the real deal if he can survive the Billy regime, and hopefully leave here as a Gator before headed to the NFL.
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Yeah right. Kerwin Bell, a walkon really sucked, didn't he?
😂Could be wrong but I think Lagway has the mental part down way more than AR.
I agree. I was so sold on AR15 and then he and the coaching staff broke my heart.
Kerwin was actually a redshirt freshman. Pell had no choice but to start Bell after Dale Dorminey suffered a season ending knee injury.Yeah right. Kerwin Bell, a walkon really sucked, didn't he?
Having the greatest OL ever at UF and 3 badass running backs also helped.
Big difference between Lagway and Mertz is that Lagway is looking downfield trying to make those plays. Those plays don’t exist with Mertz. I like Mertz a lot and respect what he’s done here but we need more from the qb to overcome our coaching and roster management shortcomings.
Great Wall of Florida. Best O line ever assembled at UF in history. Good times. It's effing sad that Charley Pell was villified for doing what Bear Bryant had gotten away with for 30 years, and what SEC coaches aspire to with the NIL in 2024. I'll bet he's looking down from the sky and seriously pissed off. He wasn't the best game day coach but he was hands down the best recruiter in UF history, bar none.
And an edit.........was a damned good coach recruiter as well. Gave Mike Shanahan his crack into the coaching profession as the offensive coordinator.
Pell and Hall both got the 1980's chitty end of the stick imo, but they were not the last to get screwed here....
Not incorrect lol - but at least it's hope after Miami disaster, and oncoming train of a season we face.
I cant remember how many of them were back for 1985 but that was a really strong team also. It was crazy how we let that crappy Rutgers team come back and tie us though. I think they only won one game the rest of the season after that. Georgia we just didn't show up for that game giving up all those big runs and if I remember right Georgia just kept blitzing us a lot and we weren't picking it up and Bell did make some nice long throws under pressure but the damn receivers kept dropping them or that would have been a different game.
That Rutgers game, I was sitting in a booster's booth over an exit on the 40 yard line. I almost threw hissy fit. It was 28-0 at halftime. Hall was a friend of Rutger's coach. Hall cleared the bench and started playing pine sitters. Rutgers scored twice and then momentum had turned and the Gators were on their heels. If Hall leaves the starters in until the 3rd qtr, it's a 56-0 blowout. I was mad as hell.
Now that Georgia game was a kick in the nuts. I was sitting in the end zone that day. Gators got inside the red zone about 8 times and came away with 3 points. Disgusting. Bell threw for over 400 yards. It was a shitshow of missed opportunity.
The Fevered Brain and I are 55 years old. Just don't ask Insta if you want your ass kicked
, him being old and all.
I'm 68. In 1984 at the FL/GA game, we celebrated by tearing down the goal posts and passing it to the top, then over the top. 😂
Freshman these days (the ones that are good) are more prepared to play college than ever. From camps in high school, coaching, money involved and early enrolment being common now it's not what it was even 10 years ago, much less like a lot of us remember from 20+ years ago.
The referee crew is throwing way too many penalties too slow the game downI'm sick of this bullshit with SC/LSU................Broadcast the effing game!
No love for USCe. But they got screwed big time. Wow. Took away a pick six and the MFer receiver with his knee out of bounds gets called in bounds on a pass reception. That's BAD suckage on the behalf of SEC officials.
I remember some around here swinging on Brian Kelly's nutsack, like sadgator.
I'm ready for the real Slingblade to take over the reins here. Billy Bob Thornton.
He couldn't do worse. It just needs a little gas.
Billy Bob coaching Boobie Myles(Friday Night Lights) doesn't count.I'm ready for the real Slingblade to take over the reins here. Billy Bob Thornton.
Let's see if the staff has any brains to clean up the receivers running free on the right side.Oh FFS. Weather delay now?
My first game was the Reaves to Alvarez game to open the 1969 season vs. Playboy's #1 ranked Houston team. I'd been to well over 50 games by the 80's.
I remember that year well. We stubbed the toe that year when Auburn played 8 defensive backs in a zone and Graves wouldn't run the ball.
I really don't remember when my first game was. But I remember watching Spurrier when he was a QB. I don't remember the year but my parents took us to the Orange Bowl when UF played Ga Tech when Spurrier was QB. I remember Larry Smith ran for like a one mile TD out of the shadow of the goal line and his pants were around his knees when he crossed the goal line. 😂
That Orange Bowl game was 1967 and the Gators beat Georgia Tech. I remember that Smith run as well.
The 2 headed QB experiment didnt work too well today vs the Aggies. Gonna have to go with someone and ride them out but it wont matter cause the defense is terrible.
Lagway definitely needs experience. I would go with him unless he is getting killed physically because this team will probably only win one more game this season no matter who is the QB.
Tim Tebow said if the entire team and staff didn't play with desperation they were going to lose.
