I know I'm not the only one who's sorta been checking in, hoping Escambia94 will have started his "Countdown", in whatever form, to give us SOMETHING to "play" off of here until summer practice kicks in around late-June--not really fair on our part, I know...I mean, it's not like I'VE got much to offer right now. On a certain level, I guess "no news is good news" if it means our guys are staying out of trouble and hopefully "taking care of business", as the case may be. Could be this is what a team full of responsible, hard-working teammates looks like, as opposed to one overloaded with selfish headcases and prima donnas whose members keep finding trouble "out there". We'll see...Nice thought, anyway.
I'm not much of an NFL-Draft guy, certainly not like these people who hunker down with snack food and beer and follow it all religiously; 1 hour of Sportscenter last night to catch up with an overview was about my requirement AND limit. However, the one thing we can say, with the draft in its later rounds by now, is that Coach Muschamp's point about how, from both a coach's AND a fan's POV, where and how many of a program's players ultimately go in the NFL-Draft, after 4 years there, is a pretty damn accurate barometer of how strong the actual talent they had to work with was there at the time. Our string of "1st Round picks" finally broken, more than that it gives the lie finally and officially to those supposed "Top Rated Recruiting Classes" that it was said Meyer & Co. brought in 3 and 4 years ago. It wasn't just us, either: Being out here in Longhorn-country, it is interesting watching them come to terms with a similar reality (there have been a number of on-going similarities in our two programs over the last few years--interesting all the more in that Texas' "designated-Head-Coach-In-Waiting" jumped to the Gators how and when he did)--and having to watch players from many of their Big 12 rivals, especially QUARTERBACKS, going early while NO ONE from UT(west) is called. Much bitter and bewildered hand-wringing has ensued.
Anyway, that's about all I got right now. Anyone else? Anyone know how to fold paper-money into little Origami-football-players?
I'm that bored and restless. I need Gator FOOTBALL!!!
(PS--I didn't have to watch long to find myself with steam hissing out my ears from immediate and repeated exposure to Mel "The Live (?) Wobble Head" Keiper, and the RE-realization of his absolute idiocy...this guy is so wrong so often, always hyping the front-runners his draft-junky-pals all feed each other, you gotta re-evaluate a choice that agrees with him even when he's just mouthing everyone else's follow-the-leader "conventional wisdom", right? Any such thoughts of your own?)
(PPS--As I watch some of the draft-related highlight-reels of various Gators from their UF-careers as they are considered and/or actually taken by teams here in the later rounds--on in background while I'm doing other things--I am struck once again by the thought that our OC's the last few years have been completely unimaginative FOOLS: Y'all know who and what I'm talkin' about here, too, Nameless and Weis each had their own "issues", shall we say? I mean, the Steelers, in need of help at RB, just drafted Rainey with the 164th pick, and watching his "reel" as the Steeler-fans oohed-and-ahhed loudly in the background was frustrating as it brought it all back...for one thing, you could TELL which regime a play was from, who had probably called which plays--a "best of" Dives and Bubble Screens That Worked, in the earlier years, then all improvising-in-the-secondary once he got a decent hole off-tackle or bounced it outside himself LAST season...Can you imagine what we MIGHT have done with a healthy and well-coached O-line, plus a proper mix of both the power and speed that WAS available to us had the OC ever managed to extract his head from his ample @$$ last season?!!)
I'm not much of an NFL-Draft guy, certainly not like these people who hunker down with snack food and beer and follow it all religiously; 1 hour of Sportscenter last night to catch up with an overview was about my requirement AND limit. However, the one thing we can say, with the draft in its later rounds by now, is that Coach Muschamp's point about how, from both a coach's AND a fan's POV, where and how many of a program's players ultimately go in the NFL-Draft, after 4 years there, is a pretty damn accurate barometer of how strong the actual talent they had to work with was there at the time. Our string of "1st Round picks" finally broken, more than that it gives the lie finally and officially to those supposed "Top Rated Recruiting Classes" that it was said Meyer & Co. brought in 3 and 4 years ago. It wasn't just us, either: Being out here in Longhorn-country, it is interesting watching them come to terms with a similar reality (there have been a number of on-going similarities in our two programs over the last few years--interesting all the more in that Texas' "designated-Head-Coach-In-Waiting" jumped to the Gators how and when he did)--and having to watch players from many of their Big 12 rivals, especially QUARTERBACKS, going early while NO ONE from UT(west) is called. Much bitter and bewildered hand-wringing has ensued.
Anyway, that's about all I got right now. Anyone else? Anyone know how to fold paper-money into little Origami-football-players?
I'm that bored and restless. I need Gator FOOTBALL!!!(PS--I didn't have to watch long to find myself with steam hissing out my ears from immediate and repeated exposure to Mel "The Live (?) Wobble Head" Keiper, and the RE-realization of his absolute idiocy...this guy is so wrong so often, always hyping the front-runners his draft-junky-pals all feed each other, you gotta re-evaluate a choice that agrees with him even when he's just mouthing everyone else's follow-the-leader "conventional wisdom", right? Any such thoughts of your own?)
(PPS--As I watch some of the draft-related highlight-reels of various Gators from their UF-careers as they are considered and/or actually taken by teams here in the later rounds--on in background while I'm doing other things--I am struck once again by the thought that our OC's the last few years have been completely unimaginative FOOLS: Y'all know who and what I'm talkin' about here, too, Nameless and Weis each had their own "issues", shall we say? I mean, the Steelers, in need of help at RB, just drafted Rainey with the 164th pick, and watching his "reel" as the Steeler-fans oohed-and-ahhed loudly in the background was frustrating as it brought it all back...for one thing, you could TELL which regime a play was from, who had probably called which plays--a "best of" Dives and Bubble Screens That Worked, in the earlier years, then all improvising-in-the-secondary once he got a decent hole off-tackle or bounced it outside himself LAST season...Can you imagine what we MIGHT have done with a healthy and well-coached O-line, plus a proper mix of both the power and speed that WAS available to us had the OC ever managed to extract his head from his ample @$$ last season?!!)
