Well I truly believe we need a coaching change. Maybe our only hope is bama rolls us enough that boosters start to get in foleys ear and say count your losses and buy the contract out. The list of coaches that I would like to see us go after if the axe falls is Mullen, call me crazy mark stoops what he has did with ky is unbelievable, Spurrier if he is not close to retiring, and James franklin I think he would dump Penn state for us.
I'm afraid I'm just about to the same place, man. I LIKE Will Muschamp, admire and appreciate his fiery emotion and way he has taken that high energy, pride, AND the idea of each player's sense of "personal responsibility", and made them all part of the same thing: accountability, to themselves and to the team, fans and program. That said, obviously does NOT automatically translate to the product on the field. OK--we missed the first game and it's still early in the season, we could still "correct" things and turn out to be better than we showed against UK (and the Wildcats really MIGHT turn out to be "that good", too), but it just doesn't feel that way. Assuming things are how they look and feel, then the BEST we can expect is mediocrity. That's been a mark of every Muschamp team since he got here: Even his/our best season since arriving, the 11-and-2 one, a very good defense obscured the stench of a really BAD offense--two extremes still coming out a "wash" (and let's be honest, absolute HELL to watch: that should have been the warning to our Coach that things HAD to change for the better, and FAST if he was going to be successful here long term--if he was going to get the opportunity to do so). Last season was the same but without the decent defense, injuries notwithstanding. I mention all this because the talk among fans, even up-beat never-say-die ones is by now not "Lets see what happens..." etc but rather "Well, they better show up and at least play well..." You'd be hard-pressed to find many Gators who even EXPECT this to be close against the Tide, let alone think we will (or even "might") win it. He ISN'T gonna get another one of these "maybe we're close to beginning to get good again" seasons. And if this week's game goes the way we all fear, even expect it will go, well, as I've noted, it may be that the only thing that keeps him here may be the simple fact that it IS still "early in the season". Hard to find anyone, anyone we'd want anyway, let alone convince them to step in now (especially if they're working with a successful program early in their OWN season). That's just the START of a long list of problems, NIGHTMARES really, that begin to pile up the moment you begin to face that reality now.
As for that whole business of "who how and when", well, I'm gonna wait, let everyone throw their names and ideas out there--that could be "the only game in town" for us soon enough!
Knew it could come to this--just hoped otherwise--and thought that it'd be something that gathered slowly, came on as a possibly promising season turned out otherwise. But here we are. Ever hear of a "must compete" (as opposed to a "must win") game? And are such "lowered-expectations" from the heights we soared just a few seasons ago even acceptable themselves? Frankly, outsiders can say what they want, go hang themselves for all I care. I don't WANNA go back to "hoping we can show well"; I am proud and GLAD we are so impatient, that we find the whole idea of not being in the thick of things at the very top, year in/year out, unacceptable, grounds-for-firing. Only way we get back there--and Will Muschamp KNEW that when he came here. (Hell, Urban Meyer's rep and image had already fallen far here after one YEAR of apparent distraction and disinterest--and that was BEFORE he pulled that "My heart, my family!...psst--Hey kid, I may be going to OSU--Never mind the Gators, wanna be a Buckeye?"-routine from his UF Athletic Dept. office!) You come here, we'll give you every tool and advantage, not to mention MONEY there is, and the kind of wild, rabid loyalty that can lift you and yours higher than the moon...But don't f*ck around, and make no mistake: You better have the real goods.
