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Post by wahhappen on Feb 7, 2024 23:47:00 GMT -5
If Zook can make a career out of 7-win seasons, and you can’t get one in three tries, GTFO.
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Post by wahhappen on Feb 2, 2024 20:29:49 GMT -5
Meanwhile, in the real world, Ike Hilliard is going back to the NFL while we continue to dick around in make believe land.
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Post by wahhappen on Feb 1, 2024 15:08:07 GMT -5
Because this is such a joke I didn't bother to really read the fine print. This guy is a kicking specialist. He's not an NFL special teams coach, he's a kicking coach. So we hired another analyst and now as STC pointed out, have a "department" consisting of 2 off field analysts who again aren't allowed to coach on gameday, so really he can't be in charge of the secret word, he has to prep someone during the week on how to enunciate the phrase "pickle pants panda wearing pickled pants" under high pressure situations. Probably simulating crowd noise and stuff. Might even use VR goggles depending on the special teams department's budget. I really have to question Cajun Willie's intelligence or opinion of the Gator fanbase. Obviously he is making staff changes to try to placate the masses, but he's literally trying to do it in a way that maintains his approach which to date has been a colossal failure. Our football program has turned into a sociology experiment. It is almost out of hand how ridiculous it has become. If I had the time and resources, I would hire a team to do a "Hard Knocks" documentary series on the upcoming season. Only, instead of using that format, it would be in the mockumentary style of "The Office," "Parks and Rec," etc. to capture the lunacy. I think it would make a nice addition to the Netflix catalog right next to "Swamp Kings." To the point of the secret word... Not only can the new guy not be in charge of the secret word on gameday, adding a second person to the "department" now exponentially increases the odds of additional confusion and conflict. However, I have heard it on good authority (because Napier is maniacally evaluating the evaluation of the fanbase's evaluation of the evaluation process) we have already implemented weekly games of "telephone line" amongst the player coaching candidates to determine which one is best suited to execute the order during crunch time. On a positive note, it will be extremely valuable having Houston's kicking expertise on staff. Mondays should consist of the kicker trying to remember to the best of his ability what it felt like in the moment with his mechanics, what the ball felt like coming off of his foot, the timing of the snap, hold, kick operation, the wind, any pressure felt from the rush, etc. It should be a real confidence boost for his first kick of the next game after he gets "coached up" two days later. Edit: In the example above, I described a typical Monday practice session based on playing games on Saturdays. I did not factor in that the Sunbelt plays games on Thursday and Friday nights just as often. Therefore I suppose those conversations may occur earlier in the week. I don't know. I don't have experience playing on Thursday. Is there film Friday and practice on Saturday?
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Post by wahhappen on Feb 1, 2024 11:34:43 GMT -5
Because this is such a joke I didn't bother to really read the fine print. This guy is a kicking specialist. He's not an NFL special teams coach, he's a kicking coach. So we hired another analyst and now as STC pointed out, have a "department" consisting of 2 off field analysts who again aren't allowed to coach on gameday, so really he can't be in charge of the secret word, he has to prep someone during the week on how to enunciate the phrase "pickle pants panda wearing pickled pants" under high pressure situations. Probably simulating crowd noise and stuff. Might even use VR goggles depending on the special teams department's budget. I really have to question Cajun Willie's intelligence or opinion of the Gator fanbase. Obviously he is making staff changes to try to placate the masses, but he's literally trying to do it in a way that maintains his approach which to date has been a colossal failure. Our football program has turned into a sociology experiment. It is almost out of hand how ridiculous it has become. If I had the time and resources, I would hire a team to do a "Hard Knocks" documentary series on the upcoming season. Only, instead of using that format, it would be in the mockumentary style of "The Office," "Parks and Rec," etc. to capture the lunacy. I think it would make a nice addition to the Netflix catalog right next to "Swamp Kings." To the point of the secret word... Not only can the new guy not be in charge of the secret word on gameday, adding a second person to the "department" now exponentially increases the odds of additional confusion and conflict. However, I have heard it on good authority (because Napier is maniacally evaluating the evaluation of the fanbase's evaluation of the evaluation process) we have already implemented weekly games of "telephone line" amongst the player coaching candidates to determine which one is best suited to execute the order during crunch time. On a positive note, it will be extremely valuable having Houston's kicking expertise on staff. Mondays should consist of the kicker trying to remember to the best of his ability what it felt like in the moment with his mechanics, what the ball felt like coming off of his foot, the timing of the snap, hold, kick operation, the wind, any pressure felt from the rush, etc. It should be a real confidence boost for his first kick of the next game after he gets "coached up" two days later.
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 30, 2024 15:29:35 GMT -5
Don't forget that in a pinch RDB has Montrell Johnson in the wildcat ready and waiting to go. Yes, finally a complete back who can run, block, pass, and catch snaps through the legs of a QB. The defense won't know what we're going to do.
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 30, 2024 12:02:37 GMT -5
Oddly, when I go to the official website of the athletic department, I get a 404 Page Not Found error when I try to look up the football coaching staff. Really don't need the "404 Page Not Found" part, all it needs to say is ERROR. They finally succeeded in breaking the system. Not even AI could bare the thought of displaying the garbage they wanted to put up on the site.
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 29, 2024 22:11:27 GMT -5
gatorswire.usatoday.com/2024/01/27/florida-broke-even-in-transfer-portal-per-the-athletic/Fun trend developing where in the conclusion of most articles they admit the entire proceeding article is "a bit of a stretch." That's accurate is by "bit of a stretch" you mean pure bullshit. To wit: “It’s probably a bit of a stretch to say the Gators didn’t lose more than they gained in the portal,” wrote the Athletic’s Manny Navarro, “but we’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and put them in this category because Napier also picked up two young former blue-chip recruits in linebacker Pup Howard (South Carolina) and 2024 Alabama cornerback signee Jameer Grimsley.” Billy Napier’s seat only got hotter as the transfer portal opened, but he’s done a decent job recovering from what many viewed as insurmountable losses. Before drawing final conclusions, you also have to consider that Napier was able to convince Mertz to stay another year. While it doesn’t show up on the stat sheet as a portal win, he kept Mertz from jumping into the portal or going to the NFL draft. The fact we have the best QB in program history since Tebow back for unfinished business should hold as much weight as any commits out there.
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 29, 2024 12:04:06 GMT -5
So, I am not putting any research into who our on field coaches are, but does anyone know if Mark Hocke is one of them? I understand he is really wanting to learn how to do this coaching thing, so it would make sense for him to be out there.
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 28, 2024 21:44:27 GMT -5
I have to think RDB is just fucking with us at this point.
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 26, 2024 10:20:23 GMT -5
I think it further illustrates the point that you don't have to be a great AD to find success at the University of Florida. I maintain the opinion that you almost have to be trying to fail in order to see the results we have had since Stricklin took over. It is nearly impossible to be so horrible. Even Foley, as bad as he was, had better success and maintained the public perception that he was good at his job.
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 25, 2024 20:38:22 GMT -5
Oh, its a fact alright, we are killing it in the Walk On market! This TE is all the way from Cali-forn-aye, and he's coming all this way because he wants to, not just because of some relative before him! Yes! A true Gator, not one of those high profile athletes that are just in it for the winning, NFL prep, and the money!
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 25, 2024 12:43:10 GMT -5
Yes, and also the fact that it is very loosely defined as “news” when it comes from your own pushed media outlets. As Mike Meyers said in “So I Married an Ax Muderer” "Mom, I find it interesting that you call 'The Weekly World News' 'The Paper'. A paper contains facts."
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 25, 2024 12:10:41 GMT -5
If I didn’t know any better, seeing those stats side-by-side looks like comparing UF’s athletics success to those of Mississippi State.
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 23, 2024 21:45:50 GMT -5
Here is a real response to an announcement of landing Titus Bullard:
“Billy is on fire.I better not hear another person say BIlly is gone next year with that schedule we won’t win 2 games.We are getting so much talent never seen before in Gainesville.We will dominate next year watch out.Go Gators.”
Number 1, WTF? And B.) Yeah, Billy is doing great at “landing” the legacy recruits. Totally on fire. And three, wow. Did you hear that ‘93 through 2008 Gators? More talent never seen before in Gainesville. I’m not even sure this belongs in this thread.
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 23, 2024 13:55:57 GMT -5
It is absurd how a large portion of the fanbase is bending over backwards to defend Napier and the current state of the football program. There seems to be this unfounded belief that things are turning in the right direction. There is no evidence of improvement, but apparently the secret formula is just more time to build the team his way. It is crazy how blind some are that cannot see that "his way" is outdated and ineffective. Even if we use his own mediocrity as a measuring basis for success, he is underachieving in every area conceivable. But, hey, maybe we will magically transform once these mystical future changes are implemented. It's a perfect storm, I've been talking about the perils of lowering standards since Muschamp but I always thought it was accepting mediocrity, like 8-5 every once in awhile. This is accepting absolute trash and pretending it's "not that bad" or "not my fault." The result has been and will continue to be predictable. This is what infuriates me the most. The narrative of "spoiled fans" (which I have never agreed with for too many reasons to get into -- we all get it on this board) has evolved to the point where we are considered spoiled unless we lower expectations to what they were before Spurrier arrived. What if the new Ford Motor Company CEO came in and told the board that they need to lower expectations. Why? "Because things weren't always so great around here before the Model T." That attitude is why we are now considered a rival to a team we once beat 31 years straight.
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 23, 2024 13:13:40 GMT -5
If only there were a school he has previous ties to that is in desperate need of an offensive play caller with an incoming young and talented QB he could cultivate... Oh well, that does not exist. We obviously have all of those items under control as demonstrated in Stricklin's latest round of media interviews. Otherwise we would have seen the maniacal RDB act before this news hit the mainstream media.
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 22, 2024 13:23:44 GMT -5
It is absurd how a large portion of the fanbase is bending over backwards to defend Napier and the current state of the football program. There seems to be this unfounded belief that things are turning in the right direction. There is no evidence of improvement, but apparently the secret formula is just more time to build the team his way. It is crazy how blind some are that cannot see that "his way" is outdated and ineffective. Even if we use his own mediocrity as a measuring basis for success, he is underachieving in every area conceivable. But, hey, maybe we will magically transform once these mystical future changes are implemented.
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 22, 2024 12:09:45 GMT -5
“Billy is almost maniacal in the way he evaluates things. And so, when fans get frustrated with an area and they want to comment and express their opinion, they don’t ever need to be concerned, ‘Does Billy realize this is a problem?’ Because he’s probably realized it’s a problem before it showed up out there on the field.”
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Big brother will take care of you. Nothing the commoners need to concern themselves with. Just keep paying your taxes, please.
Clearly these two are thinking on a whole different level than everyone else. I cannot wait to see this plan unfold. The train is leaving the station, and it will be too late for all of the naysayers to get on board once it takes off.
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 20, 2024 10:58:34 GMT -5
Nothing to worry about. Everyone knows he didn’t stay because he wasn’t a true Gator.
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 18, 2024 11:36:50 GMT -5
If you want or need a scholarship in order to stay committed, you are not a true Gator. Get lost, bum.
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 18, 2024 8:13:14 GMT -5
They must have better facilities. Once we get the stadium upgrades completed, they will come.
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 17, 2024 17:53:05 GMT -5
I can't remember which article it was - because they are all pretty much the same these days - but Napier said something to the effect of Raymond and Spencer were actually really good at what they do, but he felt we needed to make a change at those positions. He called it a "tough decision". He really said that out loud to somebody with a recording device and/or brain to write down for the public to read. He has a history of saying things that don’t make sense. The best investment he could make is a PR person and an in ear monitor. This is true, and since he has a history of doing the exact opposite of the most logical play, his next step will be to go on a Twitter (refuse to call it X) rampage with full video reporting of how great things are going in Gainesville.
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 17, 2024 17:33:47 GMT -5
Corey Raymond expected to go back to LSU. Good luck with that shit. Guy can't coach. Or recruit. Or block. And he takes plays off. I know because I read it on Gator Country. I can't remember which article it was - because they are all pretty much the same these days - but Napier said something to the effect of Raymond and Spencer were actually really good at what they do, but he felt we needed to make a change at those positions. He called it a "tough decision". He really said that out loud to somebody with a recording device and/or brain to write down for the public to read.
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 17, 2024 17:21:39 GMT -5
]Not sure about football, but he is certainly right about college basketball these days. Just ask John Calipari how his teams have performed. He is still trying to get older quick and stay old. Yeah it works in basketball and actually applies, but here, as per usual, he's wrong and wronger. If you look at National Champs and playoff teams (at least the ones that don't get bitchslapped) the vast majority are guys who declare early because they're gonna go in the first 2 days of the NFL draft. Even the guys who get to their Senior years usually are waiting their turn behind NFL players, Upperclassmen who initially went to a NFL factory like Ohio State or UGA or Bama or Michigan (with Harbaugh) and either transfer out because they're blocked by an Aidan Hutchinson or Jalen Carter or Carson Beck or Marvin Harrison are not the same as upperclassmen who are 3rd string behind Graham Mertz or Desmond Watson. To the extent he's not completely off, correlation does not equal causation and there's a failure to recognize a very basic concept, ie. if you lose 65% of your initial recruiting class, over half of your returning starters, and your two best players including a lot of the highest regarded kids from your first 2 classes in their 3rd year and replace them with a bunch of kids who are chronologically (slightly) older and were either backups at the Power 5 level or played shitty competition, you're not really much older and you damn sure aren't better. Check this out: n.rivals.com/transfer_tracker/football/2024?school_focus=floridaWe have the 34th ranked incoming transfer class in the country with 9 kids at an average of 2.78 stars and one 4 star. Obviously that's an issue when you had there #16-20 recruiting class in the country and were 5-7 with 5 straight losses to close out the season, but here's the real problem: n.rivals.com/team_rankings/2024/all-teams/football/transferBy my count we lost 14 kids to the portal and have 9 coming in. Even worse out of the movement we lost: 1) the 2 best 2) 4 of the top 5 3) 7 of the top 10 There is absolutely no spin/pigs lipstick/sunsine pumping analysis that can possibly result in us having a more talented team in 2024 than we had in 2023. We had 22 sacks as a team last year. Princely had 7 and Scooby had 1. They're both going to schools we play next year. That's just one example. There's plenty more. It actually is kind of funny watching the false bravado as they try to convince themselves and the fanbase that this is all going to plan. I was actually not being serious. I am pretty sure Kentucky and Memphis, under Calipari, have traditionally been pretty successful fielding a starting 5 of mostly freshmen and sophomores, only to have most of them leave early for the NBA every year.
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 17, 2024 12:37:06 GMT -5
“Our overall roster is going to be older,” Stricklin said. “Older teams beat up younger teams. You look at the teams that played in the College Football Playoff; there were a lot of veterans on those teams. One of the keys in college football — really, in all college sports these days — is you need to be old and you need to figure out a way to stay old. “So we’re going to be older.” Starkville Scotty is a fucking moron. Not sure about football, but he is certainly right about college basketball these days. Just ask John Calipari how his teams have performed. He is still trying to get older quick and stay old.
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 17, 2024 12:31:12 GMT -5
And he will be one of the older guys. Starkville Scotty must be thrilled. We’re getting older! Just like the playoff teams!
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 16, 2024 12:58:07 GMT -5
Prototypical Napier QB. 72% completion, 11 yards per completion, minimal TDs, and knows how to take a sack. Should be a great mentor for Lagway.
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 16, 2024 12:41:06 GMT -5
"Billy is continually looking for ways to improve his football program." Well, that's a relief. Don’t worry. He’ll eventually hire an associate head coach to do that for him. Once he gets all of the pesky “coaching” duties off of his plate, he’ll be freed up to get things turned around.
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 13, 2024 22:54:30 GMT -5
The best part of the article is where it lists the schools he has coached at. The guy spent 3-4 years at UF, the second longest stint in his career, yet we were not even mentioned by name. Miami, South Carolina, Auburn all got called out, and we were included in the “among other schools.” But they did credit Muschamp as being a former Gators coach.
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Post by wahhappen on Jan 12, 2024 14:29:18 GMT -5
Steve Sarkisian and Mike Norvell have also quashed rumors that they might be going to Alabama. A sports writer claimed that Dan Lanning was in Tuscaloosa, right about the time that Lanning stated that he was staying at Oregon. Generally, you don't want to be the one who follows the legend. The most logical choice to replace a legend is to see if there are any previous position coaches that have been demoted in the past - ideally without previous head coaching experience -- and hand them the keys. Bet on a real "go getter" with blind passion instead of one with measurable and meaningful on field results.
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