Well he should get a scholarship from the Gators, him accepting would be the bigger question.
The last time we took a highly touted QB out of Mississippi it turned out well. Shane Matthews.
Both points well-taken--Buchanan's a good one, no doubt about it, and I expect this staff to turn its attention to grabbing up "the next big-time Gator quarterback" with the same determination and efficiency with which it has dealt with our (soon-to-be-former) difficulties at running back. However, there is a bigger point, part of a larger frame-of-reference, that I want to address here.
Ideally you want "balanced squads" able to "rise organically" out of your recruiting, conditioning and redshirting processes...E-, you once made an interesting point about how this sort of thing seems to run its course among certain coaches over a certain period of time at a given location and program before exhausting itself--that, though it may vary some, I think you put "6 years" as the average "peak period" of interest, efficiency and success. I may have the exact time-span wrong, but the concept would seem to have a certain validity, in empirical terms.
Still, whether out of naivete or determination, it seems our current Head Coach is building for long-term success rather than just the one "cycle". I find it interesting and stirring that he seems to be aware of and operating along all three required tracks--short-, medium- and long-term planning necessary to have the structure of the next cycle taking shape even as he and his staff ensure talent and depth developing in staggered-fashion along the way, able to be "plugged in" where needed, and therefore maximizing both the individuals' and the team's success. Will Muschamp, if he can now maintain a degree of stability on his staff and continue to be passionately energized with the tasks at hand, has a chance to be that "exception to the rule", all too rare nowadays, of a big-time coach who moves in, stays and becomes, in a sense, the "face of the program".
For all his quick success (or maybe partly because of it), Meyer never managed it, though for a time we wanted to
believe he might be that man, eventually--and of course Zook
wanted it but it was never going to be. No, Spurrier was the closest we've had, at least in the "modern era", and
he had a zillion factors--in timing, personality, situation, history and subsequent events--that gave him special advantage in this regard. The very fact, however, that Coach Muschamp appears to be making his way so steadily--following Meyer in the face of both great and sudden success on the one hand, and stunning ineptness, loss of interest and a kind of "distracted betrayal" on his way out the door, on the other--yet somehow landing us on our feet and "hitting the ground running", the "worst" (worse than we ever knew, it turns out) now over and all of us more or less confident and optimistic about the future, says a great deal about the man--both as a Head Coach, from a football standpoint, and as a leader. That goes double,
quadruple, for his players. Out on "the rubber-chicken tour", Coach Boom is telling the fans and boosters, when they inevitably ask if he's planning on being here awhile or going to move on when someone else comes calling, his answer is simply, "I'm home." It gets big applause--but in his case, I am really coming to believe it.
