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DEL.ICIO.USMeyer ready to raise the bar
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Mark Bradley
By the usual standards, Urban Meyer had a great first season. His Florida Gators beat Tennessee, beat Georgia, beat Florida State, beat Iowa in the Outback Bowl. But Florida also managed to miss the SEC title game because it lost to Steve Spurrier, which meant the old measures didn’t fully apply.
Did losing to Spurrier and South Carolina affix a small asterisk to an otherwise heartening season? No, said Meyer. “A big one.” So give him credit for candor.
Also give him credit for being cool — literally. On Sunday he addressed the Atlanta Gator Club wearing khaki shorts. In his prepared remarks, Meyer bluntly told the gathering of 600 that Florida was “not a great program.” (He added: “We’re going to get there.”) He also conceded the drought — five years and counting — since the Gators last played for the SEC championship was simply unacceptable.
Is this the year it ends? (Preseason consensus has Florida No. 1 in the SEC East and among the nation’s 10 best teams.) Not willing to clamber onto a Donnan-like limb, Meyer went mum. Asked by a Gator Clubber about the odds of Florida playing in the Georgia Dome on Dec. 2, the coach said: “I’m not going to answer that.”
Earlier, in a quickie interview conducted outside the Cobb Galleria Centre, Meyer said he’d put his team “right in the middle of the pack” in the East. But middle-of-the-pack is where the overmatched Ron Zook kept finishing, which is why Meyer now has his job.
Last season, Meyer said, was “a learning experience for everyone involved.” His vaunted spread offense didn’t function nearly as well in a conference where defenders can really run. (The Gators finished 61st nationally in total offense.) Many believe the smallish dropback passer Chris Leak is the wrong sort of quarterback to oversee the spread, a notion with which Meyer quibbles.
Asked if Leak would be the guy he’d choose if college coaches got to draft players, Meyer said: “I’ve got to be careful how I answer this. He had a great spring, so I’d say he would be. But we’ve got to do a better job of doing what he does well.”
There are places where going 9-3 would buy a first-year head coach a hasty extension — hello, Charlie Weis — but Florida is no longer one of those. The Gators expect greatness from all their teams. Indeed, Meyer was scheduled to address the Atlanta Gator Club on Saturday, April 1, but the convocation was postponed because that happened to be the date of the Final Four.
“Are we now a basketball school?” said Meyer, who sat in the RCA Dome as the Gators took their title. “We’ve got a volleyball coach who has won like 15 SEC titles in a row, and she thinks we’re a damn volleyball school.” And the football program? “Everything is in place to win.”
The schedule is harder: Florida faces road tests at Tennessee and Auburn and Florida State. But recruiting seemed to go swimmingly, and Meyer has gotten glowing reports on offseason conditioning. “We’re not having to convince guys to work hard,” he said.
This could well be a return-to-glory season for the once-mighty Gators, but if last year convinced Meyer of anything it’s that the SEC has more skeptics per capita than any league in the land.
“I wasn’t quite prepared for the opinionated officials,” he told the crowd, and then he recounted a moment from the Georgia game.
The Bulldogs had cut a 14-point deficit to four and the Gators, needing a play to change the dynamics, faced fourth-and-inches. So Meyer told the nearest ref, “If we don’t get the [Georgia alignment] we want, I’m going to burn a timeout. I’ve got a fake punt called. And he looks at me like, ‘You’re running a fake punt?’ “
Long story short: The fake punt worked and Florida won and the official stopped with the incredulous looks. And that’s the nature of the business. Win the SEC East and nobody will look askance at this coach and his spread offense. Lose to Steve Spurrier enough times and Urban Meyer will be looking for work.
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By reality check
June 11, 2006 11:14 PM | Link to this
Recruiting won’t help this year. Florida’s schedule is one of the toughest in the nation. Leak is a great quarterback, but not a great fit.
Meyer and Florida may or may not turn out to be great. I am still skeptical about the spread option, Georgia’s bowl game notwithstanding. Meyer does seem adaptable and probably about right when he says they are in the middle of the pack.
Did he really cry at a press conference?!!!
By Lane
June 12, 2006 12:53 AM | Link to this
“There are places where going 9-3 would buy a first-year head coach a hasty extension — hello, Charlie Weis”
Difference is Meyer took over a team that everybody including those close to Meyer said was a NC contending squad.
Bud Meyer (Urban’s dad on Urban’s decision to select Florida over ND) - “Florida is a better place to win at right now”.
Weis inherited a team that according to everybody had 4 win talent at best.
So in sum Meyer took a NC team down to 9 wins and he’s lucky Georgia was w/o their starting QB or else he would have only won 8 games. Weis took a 4 win team and doubled their expected win total.
Weis also had the leverage in that he could have had his pick of NFL jobs at the end of the season. Let’s just say such options weren’t exactly open to Meyer after his first season on a big stage.
By Lane
June 12, 2006 12:56 AM | Link to this
“There are places where going 9-3 would buy a first-year head coach a hasty extension — hello, Charlie Weis”
Difference is Meyer took over a team that everybody including those close to Meyer said was a NC contending squad.
Bud Meyer (Urban’s dad on Urban’s decision to select Florida over ND) - “Florida is a better place to win at right now”.
Weis inherited a team that according to everybody had 4 win talent at best.
So in sum Meyer took a NC team down to 9 wins and he’s lucky Georgia was w/o their starting QB or else he would have only won 8 games. Weis took a 4 win team and doubled their expected win total.
Weis also had the leverage in that he could have had his pick of NFL jobs at the end of the season. Let’s just say such options weren’t exactly open to Meyer after his first season on a big stage.
By Doug
June 12, 2006 07:19 AM | Link to this
No way the Gators win the SEC this year. They have the toughest schedule I have ever seen. They get UT, UGA, South Carolina plus the 3 best teams in the West, LSU, Auburn and Alabama and would then have to beat one of those 3 again. If they went 13-0 and didn’t get in to the BCS game I would lead the protests and I’m a Tennessee fan.
By GatorFan96
June 12, 2006 07:32 AM | Link to this
Hey Domer - Big difference between 9-3 at UF last year and 9-3 at ND last year was the teams’ schedules. Besides USC, ND played a bunch of patsies.
By Steve
June 12, 2006 08:10 AM | Link to this
Yes, the UF schedule dwarfed ND’s, and does even more this year. Meyer is doing everything right in Gainesville. He had a tremendous and large recruiting class this year, and another is well on the way now. When he has the players that fit in his system, and they adopt the accountability he demands, there will be no stopping the Gators. Those who expect Meyer to fail are just “whistling past the graveyard”.
By Mart
June 12, 2006 08:14 AM | Link to this
I love it. NBA finals is ongoing, NASCAR is in full roar, Braves are imploding, school just let out, and we get an article on SEC Football. It’s about time.
By BOB
June 12, 2006 08:30 AM | Link to this
2008 IS WHEN THE GATORS WILL BE GREAT…AND THEN EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER.
By BOB
June 12, 2006 08:30 AM | Link to this
2008 IS WHEN THE GATORS WILL BE GREAT…AND THEN EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER.
By BOB
June 12, 2006 08:30 AM | Link to this
2008 IS WHEN THE GATORS WILL BE GREAT…AND THEN EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER.
By BOB
June 12, 2006 08:30 AM | Link to this
2008 IS WHEN THE GATORS WILL BE GREAT…AND THEN EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER.
By Bryan G.
June 12, 2006 08:58 AM | Link to this
I like that Bob is playing the “wait until next-next year” game.
Florida could be a top 10 team and lose four games this year. The schedule is brutal. They play UGA, LSU, Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, South Carolina and FSU. Ouch. That is seven loseable games for any team in the country. I’d guess Florida will go 4-3 in that group of seven games. (they play Alabama, LSU, Auburn, and Georgia consecutively).
I’ll say this: if Florida loses two games or less, they probably are one of the top 5 teams in the country hands down.
By McDonoughDawg
June 12, 2006 09:22 AM | Link to this
When Florida wins the SEC in football without “The Old Ball Coach” at the helm, then write a column. Otherwise, Florida is an also ran of the highest order.
By G8rdad
June 12, 2006 09:33 AM | Link to this
Lane- All of your comments are valid-up to a point…You have a firm grasp on the obvious but ignore some other salient points, such as first year transition of coach and new system, as well as injuries on our side, not just your sainted QB. Add to that the schedule at UF vs ND and your argument is out the window, where it belongs… Oh, one more thing:it’s the players on the field that didn’t get it done(not the coach), didn’t buy in completely, and weren’t tough enough mentally and physically-all of which will not be an issue this year, even with the toughest schedule in the nation….
By G8rdad
June 12, 2006 09:34 AM | Link to this
Lane- All of your comments are valid-up to a point…You have a firm grasp on the obvious but ignore some other salient points, such as first year transition of coach and new system, as well as injuries on our side, not just your sainted QB. Add to that the schedule at UF vs ND and your argument is out the window, where it belongs… Oh, one more thing:it’s the players on the field that didn’t get it done(not the coach), didn’t buy in completely, and weren’t tough enough mentally and physically-all of which will not be an issue this year, even with the toughest schedule in the nation….
By G8rdad
June 12, 2006 09:41 AM | Link to this
Macdonough Dawg-
Your comments don’t say much about your Dawgs when an “also ran” can beat your beloved Dawgs(and not just last year, either)… Deal with it-Y’all couldn’t have beaten us even if we were playing our second team QB either, and you won’t this year either when Tebow gets through with them…
By atp
June 12, 2006 09:42 AM | Link to this
Gators always have and will continue to put things in a “Gator perspective”. Others due it, but the Gators will always be the best at it. I attended a luncheon at UF one time and kept a count of how many times the guy used the word “Great” in reference to the university, 52 in a 20 minute speach! So let’s break down the 2005 season in a perspective other than a Gator one.
Lost to Alabama 31-0; lossed to LSU (LSU if I recall was sloppy and Meyer cried). Won the 2 traditional patsy openers ( the ones that Spurrier used to suspend players who would be fresh for Tenn.), beat Tn. who ended up 4-7, beat KY, beat GA (ask a Gator who DJ Shockley is and they would have no idea), beat FSU (lost 3 ACC games), lossed SC SpurrierCocks, beat VANDY at home in 2OT, I can’t remember the rest. Great season, it’s GREAT to be a FL Gator. Meyer will win his share and he’s banking on Leak (who in the Chris Leak recruiting diaries predicted 4 nat. titles at UF)to finally win a championship. The key for UF this season is for Leak to be the man. How can a freshman QB, Tebow, who was home schooled adapt to 90K plus quickly. Go Gators!
By G8rdad
June 12, 2006 09:42 AM | Link to this
Macdonough Dawg-
Your comments don’t say much about your Dawgs when an “also ran” can beat your beloved Dawgs(and not just last year, either)… Deal with it-Y’all couldn’t have beaten us even if we were playing our second team QB either, and you won’t this year either when Tebow gets through with them…
By G8rdad
June 12, 2006 09:44 AM | Link to this
Macdonough Dawg-
Your comments don’t say much about your Dawgs when an “also ran” can beat your beloved Dawgs(and not just last year, either)… Deal with it-Y’all couldn’t have beaten us even if we were playing our second team QB either, and you won’t this year either when Tebow gets through with them…
By BrooklynGator
June 12, 2006 10:00 AM | Link to this
14 out of 16! I don’t have to explain that now do I, doggies!?
By Realistic Ricky
June 12, 2006 10:09 AM | Link to this
Lane,
You puppies just won’t let go of that injured QB excuse, will you? The thing that no one has explained to me yet is what DJ would have done to stop those two first quarter TDs by the Gators, since DJ only plays on offense. If you are going to play the “what if” game, then what if the Gators do not drop the ball (and it was a drop, as none of your ferocious defenders had touched him yet) on UGA’s five yard line just before halftime? You probably think DJ could have brought the puppies back from 21-3 down, but I think not. As for the “Evil Genius”, you puppies should worry more about your own game in Columbia and less about his trip to Gainesville this fall.
By no1g8r
June 12, 2006 10:44 AM | Link to this
I listen year-in, year-out, during the Summer, to the “mighty Dawgs” talk about how much better they are than the Gators, and about how the Gators were a “flash in the pan” under Spurrier. The statistics show otherwise:
Over the past:
10 yrs: UF win % over UGA: .800 20 yrs: UF win % over UGA: .750 30 yrs: UF win % over UGA: .552 40 yrs: UF win % over UGA: .513 50 yrs: UF win % over UGA: .572 60 yrs: UF win % over UGA: .544
In the past 16 years, UGA had a solid win in ‘97 over UF, and a marginal win over a coach who had already been fired and was a lame duck (Zook in ‘04).
In 2005, UGA had only Steve Spurrier to thank for allowing UGA to win the SEC East. If not for Spurrier’s Gamecocks beating the Gators, 1st year UF coach Urban Meyer’s Gator squad would’ve taken the SEC East.
The pieces are in place for the Gators to be a solid team this year. The Gator schedule is brutal, which may be the only thing standing in the way of an SEC championship this year.
The Dawgs are faced with either playing pirouette man, Joe Tereshinski (or is it Tara Lipinski?) or playing a freshman at QB. I think the Dawgs face a bigger uphill battle towards the SEC East title than Florida does.
By no1g8r
June 12, 2006 10:55 AM | Link to this
I listen year-in, year-out, during the Summer, to the “mighty Dawgs” talk about how much better they are than the Gators, and about how the Gators were a “flash in the pan” under Spurrier. The statistics show otherwise:
Over the past:
10 yrs: UF win % over UGA: .800 20 yrs: UF win % over UGA: .750 30 yrs: UF win % over UGA: .552 40 yrs: UF win % over UGA: .513 50 yrs: UF win % over UGA: .572 60 yrs: UF win % over UGA: .544
In the past 16 years, UGA had a solid win in ‘97 over UF, and a marginal win over a coach who had already been fired and was a lame duck (Zook in ‘04).
In 2005, UGA had only Steve Spurrier to thank for allowing UGA to win the SEC East. If not for Spurrier’s Gamecocks beating the Gators, 1st year UF coach Urban Meyer’s Gator squad would’ve taken the SEC East.
The pieces are in place for the Gators to be a solid team this year. The Gator schedule is brutal, which may be the only thing standing in the way of an SEC championship this year.
The Dawgs are faced with either playing pirouette man, Joe Tereshinski (or is it Tara Lipinski?) or playing a freshman at QB. I think the Dawgs face a bigger uphill battle towards the SEC East title than Florida does.
By no1g8r
June 12, 2006 10:55 AM | Link to this
I listen year-in, year-out, during the Summer, to the “mighty Dawgs” talk about how much better they are than the Gators, and about how the Gators were a “flash in the pan” under Spurrier. The statistics show otherwise:
Over the past:
10 yrs: UF win % over UGA: .800 20 yrs: UF win % over UGA: .750 30 yrs: UF win % over UGA: .552 40 yrs: UF win % over UGA: .513 50 yrs: UF win % over UGA: .572 60 yrs: UF win % over UGA: .544
In the past 16 years, UGA had a solid win in ‘97 over UF, and a marginal win over a coach who had already been fired and was a lame duck (Zook in ‘04).
In 2005, UGA had only Steve Spurrier to thank for allowing UGA to win the SEC East. If not for Spurrier’s Gamecocks beating the Gators, 1st year UF coach Urban Meyer’s Gator squad would’ve taken the SEC East.
The pieces are in place for the Gators to be a solid team this year. The Gator schedule is brutal, which may be the only thing standing in the way of an SEC championship this year.
The Dawgs are faced with either playing pirouette man, Joe Tereshinski (or is it Tara Lipinski?) or playing a freshman at QB. I think the Dawgs face a bigger uphill battle towards the SEC East title than Florida does.
By Mel
June 12, 2006 11:37 AM | Link to this
There is no way UF wins the SEC this year, due to their schedule and the spread option, which will not work in the SEC with fast LBs and Chris Leak’s inability to run the ball. UGA will win the east and beat Auburn in the title game.
By 2N4YEARS
June 12, 2006 11:44 AM | Link to this
My name says it all…something the Gaytors haven’t seen in this decade. Thing is, as fustrating as it has been more than not on that GA-FLA Saturday, UGA hasn’t needed to beat FLA. While UGA has played in 3-SEC Title games in the last 4 years, with 2 SEC Championships to show for, all the FLA fans can say is “we’ll, we beat them. 2004 was the ONLY time in the last 4 years that UGA didn’t play in the SEC title game, and we beat FLA. I’d rather go ANY year, even if it means we drop 1 or 2 games, and even if one of those games is dropped to FLA. Even when FLA won the NC in ‘96 they didn’t go undefeated. Spurrier NEVER went undefeated, so there was, EVERY YEAR, at least one team that could say “hey, we beat them”.
By uga4ever
June 12, 2006 12:51 PM | Link to this
UF has always had an advantage come time when they play Georgia. People say it is a neutral site, but Florida only has to travel 1 hour to get there and UGA 6 hours. In 2010, when they change the schedule where Florida comes to the dome one year and UGA goes to Jax the next year. Then, it would be considered neutral. I don’t know what it is about that game that gets in Georgia’s players head. Florida hasn’t been superior talent wise. I am not going to be obnoxious towards Florida, like they are to us. You guys have beaten us 14 of the past 16 years. That is mighty impressive. Congrats to you. But, it is a new season coming up and time to start a new streak of our own.
By JM
June 12, 2006 12:53 PM | Link to this
Brutal schedule + scattershot running game + depleted offensive line = 8-4.
By joe
June 12, 2006 01:40 PM | Link to this
2n4years i am surprized by your comments “something the Gaytors haven’t seen in this decade” you need to go back and read your SEC championship history book. Gators won it in 2000, but i forgot UGA fans didn’t start caring about football until 2001.
By joe
June 12, 2006 01:41 PM | Link to this
2n4years i am surprized by your comments “something the Gaytors haven’t seen in this decade” you need to go back and read your SEC championship history book. Gators won it in 2000, but i forgot UGA fans didn’t start caring about football until 2001.
By Bryan G.
June 12, 2006 02:02 PM | Link to this
No1g8r…UGA people say that Florida was a flash in the pan under Spurrier and it’s true. Let me ask: How many SEC’s have you won without Spurrier Coaching? How many national championships? Answer: zero. The decade of the 90s IS Florida football because there has been no other success to speak of.
Also, look at your winning percentages. Take out the Spurrier years and UGA is 43-25-2 against Florida, a 34% winning percentage for UF.
I’m not saying Meyer isn’t going to do great things. Truth be told, though, I bet you guys would trade wins over UGA for SEC Championships. I’ll take our two in the last four years (and our 12 overall…you guys have a LONG way to go for that) over beating you guys any day.
Truth is that UGA is the best program in the SEC today with the most wins in the last ten years of any school. Yes, Florida has our number, but you guys are still trying to get to where we are—atop the SEC.
By 2N4YEARS
June 12, 2006 02:06 PM | Link to this
OK, Joe. So I stand corrected on the ‘00 SEC Champ. The rest of my post still stands. Besides, Spurrier has a better chance going to the SEC game w/ S.Car than your Gaytors do.
By T Robb
June 12, 2006 02:08 PM | Link to this
Gator fan here - uga4ever, I’m with you. How about we go to a home-and-home?
By joe
June 12, 2006 02:17 PM | Link to this
all UGA people say if you take out the Spurrier years you guys have nothing, but why should we have to take him out he is part of the school. I am only 28 years old so all i know is that UGA was the team of the 80’s we were the 90’s and as it stands right now you guys are one up on us for the 2000’s. if all goes well we will be tied after this year. Also one more thing bunch of UGA fans say if Shockley would have been playing UGA would have won. if i remember correctly Skockley lost 2 games to florida for you guys correct? didnt he throw interceptions when he came in for Greene in the dual headed QB role. I cant wait until OCT!!! all is good but man i love living in Atlanta and beating UGA everyyear.
Also you guys keep saying stuff about other then spurrier, you guys are still 3-1 since he left.
By gdawginkalamazoo
June 12, 2006 02:20 PM | Link to this
no one g eight r,
Bryan G and 2N4YEARS Pretty much wrapped a little noose around your snapper and put one of those rubber bands on it (kinda like the crocodile hunter does-and yes this analogy would apply since your official mascot is a crocodile).
Now slink back into that cesspool you call home and watch your genius coach earn his nickname this fall. Crybaby!
By PeachtreeCornersDawg
June 12, 2006 02:30 PM | Link to this
Hey uga4ever, I love that you’re playing the “wait till 2010” card. Think you could make us look any more pathetic? The game should stay in Jax because it’s not a homefield advantage for either team. The tickets are distributed equally, and the extra few hours of travel for the Dawgs isn’t enough to explain away the losses. UF didn’t complain in the 80s while we dominated them every year in the Gator Bowl, and we shouldn’t be whining now that they’re on a little bit of a run (and yes, this run is a drop in the bucket when you consider the overall series). And let’s not forget what happened when we went to home-and-home in the 90s for a couple of years. I don’t even want to talk about it.
By braxton
June 12, 2006 03:14 PM | Link to this
I still think Spurrier and the gators are the only team to every score 50 in Athens.
What makes it even sweeter was that he put his starters back in at the end so he could get 50, leaving not doubt that he new that stat.
Read aand weep Geogia historians.
By braxton
June 12, 2006 03:15 PM | Link to this
I still think Spurrier and the Gators are the only team to every score 50 in Athens.
What makes it even sweeter was that he put his starters back in at the end so he could get 50, leaving no doubt that he new that stat.
By no1g8r
June 12, 2006 03:28 PM | Link to this
I guess if you want to just toss aside all of the wins of the winningest Florida coach in the series, it’s only fair that you also toss out all of the wins of the winningest Georgia coach in the series.
If you’re going to throw out the Spurrier era wins, you pretty much have to throw out the Dooley era wins as well.
But to do that you throw out over half of the games played in the series…that’s seems pretty pointless.
The current 14 out of 16 streak that Florida currently owns is unprecedented in terms of %wins over that time frame. To put it into the persective of the average recruit, Florida has won all but 2 games since most of your recruits strapped on their first helmet.
While Georgia owns the overall record for wins in the series by 10 games, that edge was accomplished in the period before 1950, 56 years ago (the senior class of ‘50 is about 88 years old today!). During that span UGA held a 22-5 record against the Gators.
In the period since then, 1950-present, UF holds a 31 - 24 edge.
Since the start of the Vince Dooley era, UGA’s winningest coach, to the present, UF holds a 21-20 edge. That’s close enough to call it a rivalry, and a fair enough comparison as it includes the era of both Georgia’s and Florida’s winningest coaches.
Fans who say that Florida has an edge because the game played in Jacksonville must completely forget the Dooley years, when Vince’s teams routinely won in Jacksonville. Now that UGA is on the other side of the W-L ledger, folks are crying about wanting to move it.
I remember when it was a home-and-home series in the mid-90’s. I was at both games. In Athens, I was able to move from my end zone seats down to the 50 yard line at halftime for the remainder of the game. The view was pretty good from there. It sure was nice of all those Dawg fans to leave early so that us visitors could enjoy the game from a better vantage point. :)
By gdawginkalamazoo
June 12, 2006 03:30 PM | Link to this
braxton,
are you looking to be the only person to post the same thing 50 times on this blog?
By braxton
June 12, 2006 03:39 PM | Link to this
gdawginkalamazmoo,
Must be a Georgia grad running the IT department at the AJC.
By gdawginkalamazoo
June 12, 2006 04:05 PM | Link to this
Here you guys go with 14 of 16. Evidently you are newcomers to the blog. Welcome aboard. Now, we have already gone through that tired old boring “history of the series”. Most gators on here “live” for the annual beating of the Bulldogs. That is fine and dandy. Most of us Bulldogs live for an SEC championship. So we would gladly trade an annual UF loss for one of those SEC trophies. Now before you go off and start saying that we are satisfied with the SEC trophy and not ambitious enough to go after an NC, well you pretty much have to win the SEC before you do anything else so we just start by taking care of that. Despite our record against UF, we have played for the SEC crown 3 out of the last four years. We have won two. How many have you gators won? And I mean SEC championships not games against UGA since that is evidently the only thing matters to you guys at this point.
braxton,
No I don’t work in the IT department at the AJC. But if I did, I would have to take responsiblity for you posting 50 times. The fault would be mine because all of the NERDS FROM the NORTH AVE TRADE SCHOOL WORKING FOR ME would be to blame.
By Bryan G.
June 12, 2006 05:51 PM | Link to this
no1g8r…
Spurrier isn’t just Florida’s most successful coach, he’s your only successful coach. Take Dooley away, and UGA has won more SEC titles all time than UF (7 to your 6) and as many consensus national championships (1 to your 1). Take Spurrier away and it would be 12 to 0 and 2 to 0. Got it?
The point is simple: UGA has a history of football success and Florida has a single decade of success.
By Whopper Dawg
June 12, 2006 08:51 PM | Link to this
It nevers ceases to amaze me the annointment the Meyer has recevied from the national media. He may be the second coming, but he is not there yet. To project FLA as a national contender and the elite SEC team is extremely premature. FLA was close, real close to a five to six loss season last year, and if not for a blown call in the bowl game (onside kick), could have easily lost that too. Meyer may get there, but he is not there yet. To quote Urban after last year’s FLA/Kentucky game, “For those of you interested, that is how is supposed to look”. Let’s earn it first, because it didn’t look that way against mid to upper level SEC teams. Maybe it will, and then talk if you must. However, I suspect that you may need to save some hankies, if Meyer is going to cry after every tough loss.
See you on the field.
Go DAWGS and to hell with Tech.
A woman’s pet and a man’s threat - Whopper Dawg
By whopper hawg
June 13, 2006 01:52 AM | Link to this
that’s ghey whopper dawg.