I really HATE the whole deal with us having misjudged then CAVED in response first to hurricane, then knuckling under and giving the TIGERS the home game this year--when you could SEE it coming: This was gonna "COUNT", bigtime. We lose an easy breather (had any of y'all even heard of "Presbyterian", knew they had a football team, before seeing this season's schedule?) we were gonna NEED now no matter what--and though it wouldn't have changed much regarding our offense (with the forced qb-change, at this point we may well have gained near as much as we lost in attrition on that side of the ball), but our D could have rested the "walking wounded one more week--and who doesn't think our D fully healthy and running TIGHT as it was back then wouldn't have had a better chance against a Fournette-less LSU IN THE SWAMP?!!
But no. Maybe it'll woek out for us NEXT season, when we play em at home--but whatever "puncher's chance" our fine D healthy might have had of stunning them (and everyone else) at HOME is now a game the media are tryong to make "important" while obviously laughing into their sleeves. And I can't say they're wrong to feel as they do.
That hurts.
But one thing I DO wanna see, something there was NEVER any hope for during Muschamp's tenure, and seems clearly setup for now:
At this point, the Mac-led Gators have a chance to SHOW "imagination" on offense. This is it: They have very little to lose, and a whole lot to gain that no one think they have ANY chance to claim. I WILL judge our Coach by how we come out and approach it: If they do tje same old thong, "play it safe, vanilla, hope the DEFRNSE "keeps is in it" and close, or at least makes that their clear intent from the start and all the wau thru', then frankly, he'll begin to lose me--and, I suspect, a whole lotta OTHER Gator fans. We go that route, play "not to lose" which became Muschamp's calling card here (I don't care that he may well be right--that he might be here still and right in the thick of it all if he'd gotten hands on "one of those qbs" we lost out on, or even ONE of the "highly-rated prep-studs" he gathered here had panned out...he didn't, they didn't--and he had/HAS no talent for pickin' playmakers OR OCs on that side of the ball...), and nothing short of a slam-dunk killer recruiting class brimming with "guys who can (and DO) help us right away" will buy Coach MAC more than one more season now, as result. Fair or not, after that there'll likely be SOME "hot young coach" ready to step up and in--and I'm betting the climate in G-ville will be HOT for another change by then unless practically everyone can SEE the turn-about coming.
So USE YOUR HEAD, COACH!!! The one that supposedly contains that "great offensive mind", is "creative and imaginative" in overall schemes and specific gameplanning. Now's the time.
But no. Maybe it'll woek out for us NEXT season, when we play em at home--but whatever "puncher's chance" our fine D healthy might have had of stunning them (and everyone else) at HOME is now a game the media are tryong to make "important" while obviously laughing into their sleeves. And I can't say they're wrong to feel as they do.
That hurts.
But one thing I DO wanna see, something there was NEVER any hope for during Muschamp's tenure, and seems clearly setup for now:
At this point, the Mac-led Gators have a chance to SHOW "imagination" on offense. This is it: They have very little to lose, and a whole lot to gain that no one think they have ANY chance to claim. I WILL judge our Coach by how we come out and approach it: If they do tje same old thong, "play it safe, vanilla, hope the DEFRNSE "keeps is in it" and close, or at least makes that their clear intent from the start and all the wau thru', then frankly, he'll begin to lose me--and, I suspect, a whole lotta OTHER Gator fans. We go that route, play "not to lose" which became Muschamp's calling card here (I don't care that he may well be right--that he might be here still and right in the thick of it all if he'd gotten hands on "one of those qbs" we lost out on, or even ONE of the "highly-rated prep-studs" he gathered here had panned out...he didn't, they didn't--and he had/HAS no talent for pickin' playmakers OR OCs on that side of the ball...), and nothing short of a slam-dunk killer recruiting class brimming with "guys who can (and DO) help us right away" will buy Coach MAC more than one more season now, as result. Fair or not, after that there'll likely be SOME "hot young coach" ready to step up and in--and I'm betting the climate in G-ville will be HOT for another change by then unless practically everyone can SEE the turn-about coming.
So USE YOUR HEAD, COACH!!! The one that supposedly contains that "great offensive mind", is "creative and imaginative" in overall schemes and specific gameplanning. Now's the time.
