awebbf5
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Add another one out for the season. Matt Jones under went surgery today. This year really sucks , and we haven't even faced the roughest part of the schedule.
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jones done for season
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Ufgatorfan
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Can't say I'm surprised.
Yeah--just found out about it a couple of hrs ago myself...This season is REALLY cooked now. Too many different things on my mind 'bout all of this to break it all down now:
There's the question regarding all these injuries, profound ligament injuries, and where they came from. Bad luck, or something else? And what does this mean in terms of how even the staff coming around to how we best approach what's left of this season? Y'all know my thoughts, but I frankly never thought they'd see it that way long as there was the slightest chance of "turning this thing around", but now? Well, Taylor's gonna be getting the look I thought he deserved all along...but not like THIS. From the coaches' original apparent POV, we are now playing the 2nd team of what was already one of the least productive offenses in the nation (tho' I'm STILL convinced that was more philosophy than personnel-driven): You'll be getting the other guys back for an extra year in most cases after all...Why NOT bring in whomever you've got over there on the sidelines, not even consider worrying about "redshirts" from here on out if it means gettin' 'em ready for next year, and so on, doin' whatever you have to in order to open things up and getting ahead on the "shakedown" in preparing for a proper run in 2014?
Of course, none of it will mean a thing or make any difference at all unless there's a concurrent effort to open up the playbook--and seeing in that playbook some sign of life, of imagination, creativity and vision. If that ain't there, well then, the sooner we know that and make a change the better. That may be the most important question of all--and all the more needs an answer NOW, ASAP. Continue to flounder and gain nothing, meanwhile, " 'cause we've got an excuse"? Or begin our quiet, determined and hard-driven road back immediately, somehow turning bad fortune into the first steps to future success?
There's the question regarding all these injuries, profound ligament injuries, and where they came from. Bad luck, or something else? And what does this mean in terms of how even the staff coming around to how we best approach what's left of this season? Y'all know my thoughts, but I frankly never thought they'd see it that way long as there was the slightest chance of "turning this thing around", but now? Well, Taylor's gonna be getting the look I thought he deserved all along...but not like THIS. From the coaches' original apparent POV, we are now playing the 2nd team of what was already one of the least productive offenses in the nation (tho' I'm STILL convinced that was more philosophy than personnel-driven): You'll be getting the other guys back for an extra year in most cases after all...Why NOT bring in whomever you've got over there on the sidelines, not even consider worrying about "redshirts" from here on out if it means gettin' 'em ready for next year, and so on, doin' whatever you have to in order to open things up and getting ahead on the "shakedown" in preparing for a proper run in 2014?
Of course, none of it will mean a thing or make any difference at all unless there's a concurrent effort to open up the playbook--and seeing in that playbook some sign of life, of imagination, creativity and vision. If that ain't there, well then, the sooner we know that and make a change the better. That may be the most important question of all--and all the more needs an answer NOW, ASAP. Continue to flounder and gain nothing, meanwhile, " 'cause we've got an excuse"? Or begin our quiet, determined and hard-driven road back immediately, somehow turning bad fortune into the first steps to future success?
Georgia has it just as bad with injuries, but they have a deeper bench on offense. Our young talent just needs to step it up.
Maybe I should just shut up now...I mean, am I the only one left who is unwilling to settle for anything LESS than "Being the BEST"??? Again, far as I'm concerned, we are either making a serious run at SEC and National dominance, or we are building towards that run, doing whatever is necessary NOW to get there NEXT year, if and when this year's hopes are dashed--no matter WHAT the reasons. Maybe I need time, and perspective, but I'd like to think that these are now ALWAYS our "parameters"!
At least they have a bye before the UGA game.
awebbf5
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Quote="DRU2012, post: 71785, member: 2084"]Maybe I should just shut up now...I mean, am I the only one left who is unwilling to settle for anything LESS than "Being the BEST"??? Again, far as I'm concerned, we are either making a serious run at SEC and National dominance, or we are building towards that run, doing whatever is necessary NOW to get there NEXT year, if and when this year's hopes are dashed--no matter WHAT the reasons. Maybe I need time, and perspective, but I'd like to think that these are now ALWAYS our "parameters"![/quote]
Im with you dru we don't play for good bowls, we play to win championships.
Im with you dru we don't play for good bowls, we play to win championships.
Im with you dru we don't play for good bowls, we play to win championships.[/quote]
Exactly, aweb--there may be "old-timers" (there are ALWAYS "OLDER timers"--lol--part of what makes the SEC in general, and from my biased POV, OUR program, great to START with) who I understand "just support the boys no matter what", etc. etc., but this is one of those questions that is a matter of both "what it takes to get to and stay at the top", and simple "realism": What we ALL (or at least most of us, all ages and eras) now hold up as the standard to which the program, and how it manifests ON-THE-FIELD from season to season, compares. Muschamp himself has both subscribed publicly to this view, himself striving for perfection, however unattainable, and helped to make it seem reachable in the very high quality and continued improvement in his own Defense.
"Will, you came in admitting this, your relentless energy, drive and motivational factors, AND though you had some basic ideas as to it's overall shape and philosophy, bringing IN someone who could do similar on OFFENSE as you had in mind defensively, plus an overall attention to detail and discipline in all areas, was at least the implied road to a new dominance at UF. It's right there for you, for us all--if only you can find 'that guy', and let him do all that needs his expertise to accomplish on that side of the ball. When did 'mistake-free mediocrity' become the goal--and when did you begin to ignore the simple truth that only the unyielding drive for perfection and greatness in EVERY area will keep anything as complex and interdependent as an elite college football program moving forward?"
