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Will Meyer replace Tressel as coach of the F---eyes?
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jd_gator
Gator Fan
That is a good question. Last season I ran that scenario past alot of friends whom are f***eyes fans only I used the Tressell retirement example. This was before he had his image reduced to that of a jackal. They were like I don't know or I doubt it. Unfortunately I live here in Ohio, born & raised, but hate em. Their fans are so spoiled & have such an aura of self/osu entitlement it makes me want to choke em. They think that all he is going to get is a five game suspension and everything is going to be fine. They don't realize that the ncaa isn't done with them yet. Herbstreit spoke out against Tressell & the fans in C-bus have literally ran him and his family out of town. IMO I don't think Tressell will be fired but UM is going to rebuild under Hoke & if he loses a couple it might be lights out. I feel he will be on a short leash because he embarrassed the heck out of Gene Smith. Will Urban come back to where he started coaching as a grad asst? I sure hope not because then I will be torn. I think Urban is great but despise osu. Thanks for your patience in listening to my rant but I hate those guys. Go Gators!!
Gatorfan24
Gator Fan
I really hope he doesn't have to coach that group of criminals.
austingator
Gator Fan
I had hoped if Meyer ever went to another school he'd go to Notre Dame and not OSU. In the end, I really just want to see him coach again when he and his family are ready.
I hope (and believe) Meyer would turn any such overtures down at this point. I say this because I, like most Gators, accept his resignation and the reasons he gave for it (it explains so much about his behavior, as well as events surrounding our program, the last season-and-a-half or so); to turn around and take the OSU job now would call all of that into question.
Maybe we're all naive, but for now I choose to continue my high opinion of his honor, motives, and priorities.
(However, I DO think Tressel may very well be out of there before the summer...events are starting to spin ever more quickly beyond control, and the OSU-braintrust seems bent on self-cleansing ahead of the NCAA-hammer. At what point will "cutting off an arm to escape slow death in the desert" seem the only hope?)
Maybe we're all naive, but for now I choose to continue my high opinion of his honor, motives, and priorities.
(However, I DO think Tressel may very well be out of there before the summer...events are starting to spin ever more quickly beyond control, and the OSU-braintrust seems bent on self-cleansing ahead of the NCAA-hammer. At what point will "cutting off an arm to escape slow death in the desert" seem the only hope?)
Urban Meyer would have been a great candidate as Jim Tressel's replacement...in 2012 or 2013. If he takes the job now, he will be that much further away from his daughters' volleyball games at Georgia Tech and Florida Gulf Coast, and the Gator Nation will revolt that he abandoned us for the F*uckeyes.
I would have been okay with him going to tOSU in a couple years--give him time to relax from coaching, maybe time the move to be when the daughters have established themselves in college and in their sports. On top of that, if tOSU gets NCAA sanctions, it would only make a stressful job that much more stressful.
I would have been okay with him going to tOSU in a couple years--give him time to relax from coaching, maybe time the move to be when the daughters have established themselves in college and in their sports. On top of that, if tOSU gets NCAA sanctions, it would only make a stressful job that much more stressful.
Exactly.
(Now, regarding the outcome of that other sport some Gators were engaged in this afternoon and which a few of us were following with some interest, anyone else recognize that same feeling down the stretch that we felt all too often in close games against inferior opponents this past football season? The MSU game, for eg., was VERY similar--down to our coach's former young protege out-coaching him, while our "superior talent" bumbles, stumbles, fumbles and in general stinks up the joint when the game is on the line. A shame, the way things were lining up for the Final Four--but "Oh well, nice little run, boys--now lets' see what Chomp & Co. have got going over where it really matters!")
(Now, regarding the outcome of that other sport some Gators were engaged in this afternoon and which a few of us were following with some interest, anyone else recognize that same feeling down the stretch that we felt all too often in close games against inferior opponents this past football season? The MSU game, for eg., was VERY similar--down to our coach's former young protege out-coaching him, while our "superior talent" bumbles, stumbles, fumbles and in general stinks up the joint when the game is on the line. A shame, the way things were lining up for the Final Four--but "Oh well, nice little run, boys--now lets' see what Chomp & Co. have got going over where it really matters!")
Basketball is an entirely different animal. There are only five players on the court at once out of 13 scholarships. In football there are 11 at once out of 85 scholarships, 105 roster spots. In basketball I am less surprised about the #20 team beating the #5 team than in football. Also in basketball you play the same guys more than once a year, see Kentucky and Florida. I am proud of the Gator basketball team making it to the Elite 8. I am somewhat proud that we got a bowl win over Penn State--I would be more proud if we did not look so ugly in our wins or losses.
Well said, E-.
Now, I understand the allure of the "Cinderella", that whole "Hoosiers"-thing, but two caveats are being raised this time around:
First, that "just 5-players"-reality means, due to a number of factors, that the whole "Cinderella-story" isn't so unusual or rare after all--one or two really top young guys and/or a good little supporting-cast-of-a-team getting hot at the right time and, well, we seem to get one or two going deeper than anyone expected every year now...this time the big surprise from last year (Butler) is BACK, so maybe they're not some "little David facing Goliaths" after all, lazy sportswriters be damned.
Meanwhile, a team from one of the play-in games, just "fill-ins" as much for the sake of increased revenue as for some vague idea of "symetry"--"Shouldn't even BE here!", say some--are in the Final Four! Fun and interesting or not, no one is going to convince me that VCU is one of the 4 most talented college basketball teams in America. I see that the whole March Madness thing is a brilliant, rollicking extravaganza , a part of our Spring now, and well timed, sportswise, at that--but maybe THIS is why there's a limit to how far you expand it--and maybe that limit has been exceeded.
Second, LET THIS BE A LESSON to future discussion as to a championship playoff in college football.
Despite the fact that the very complex and elaborate inter-connectedness of all the player-specialists all over the field and on both sides of the ball makes any similar kind of craziness in BCS-level NCAA Football impossible, when that day finally comes (and it will come, eventually) that we get a true play-off system, there will inevitably be those who are unhappy with it not being "inclusive" enough--and the pressures to widen the championship field will grow each year from new quarters where fans and alumni feel their program "should have and would have made it if only" etc., etc.
Y'all say "No way!" now, but I'm telling you, it'll start with maybe 8 teams (personally, I'm for 6, with BCS #1 and #2 each getting a first-round bye--it's a way of keeping the bowls and answering other opponents' objections), and the screaming will start to expand it almost immediately.
Just remember: in addition to the fact that these young bodies just can't be put through THAT many extra games at the end of an already tense, grueling season, it is also true that while the talent may be pretty even, there IS a fall-off in proven performance from the top to bottom of the first ten teams' ranked order--THAT'S what the whole season's been about. If you can't manage to be at or near the very top, then you just have to accept however the chips fall in that "gray area". Missed out this time? Next time make sure you're so good the issue isn't in doubt.
Yeah, I know, I'm WAY ahead of myself here.
But hey, our little roundball-run is over, I don't really get into either the NBA or MLB 'till it really starts looking like it counts for something, we're hardly getting ANYTHING out of spring Gator-practice--so why not a bit of reflection on the future, in light of what THIS tournament is showing us?
Now, I understand the allure of the "Cinderella", that whole "Hoosiers"-thing, but two caveats are being raised this time around:
First, that "just 5-players"-reality means, due to a number of factors, that the whole "Cinderella-story" isn't so unusual or rare after all--one or two really top young guys and/or a good little supporting-cast-of-a-team getting hot at the right time and, well, we seem to get one or two going deeper than anyone expected every year now...this time the big surprise from last year (Butler) is BACK, so maybe they're not some "little David facing Goliaths" after all, lazy sportswriters be damned.
Meanwhile, a team from one of the play-in games, just "fill-ins" as much for the sake of increased revenue as for some vague idea of "symetry"--"Shouldn't even BE here!", say some--are in the Final Four! Fun and interesting or not, no one is going to convince me that VCU is one of the 4 most talented college basketball teams in America. I see that the whole March Madness thing is a brilliant, rollicking extravaganza , a part of our Spring now, and well timed, sportswise, at that--but maybe THIS is why there's a limit to how far you expand it--and maybe that limit has been exceeded.
Second, LET THIS BE A LESSON to future discussion as to a championship playoff in college football.
Despite the fact that the very complex and elaborate inter-connectedness of all the player-specialists all over the field and on both sides of the ball makes any similar kind of craziness in BCS-level NCAA Football impossible, when that day finally comes (and it will come, eventually) that we get a true play-off system, there will inevitably be those who are unhappy with it not being "inclusive" enough--and the pressures to widen the championship field will grow each year from new quarters where fans and alumni feel their program "should have and would have made it if only" etc., etc.
Y'all say "No way!" now, but I'm telling you, it'll start with maybe 8 teams (personally, I'm for 6, with BCS #1 and #2 each getting a first-round bye--it's a way of keeping the bowls and answering other opponents' objections), and the screaming will start to expand it almost immediately.
Just remember: in addition to the fact that these young bodies just can't be put through THAT many extra games at the end of an already tense, grueling season, it is also true that while the talent may be pretty even, there IS a fall-off in proven performance from the top to bottom of the first ten teams' ranked order--THAT'S what the whole season's been about. If you can't manage to be at or near the very top, then you just have to accept however the chips fall in that "gray area". Missed out this time? Next time make sure you're so good the issue isn't in doubt.
Yeah, I know, I'm WAY ahead of myself here.
But hey, our little roundball-run is over, I don't really get into either the NBA or MLB 'till it really starts looking like it counts for something, we're hardly getting ANYTHING out of spring Gator-practice--so why not a bit of reflection on the future, in light of what THIS tournament is showing us?
woodsmit
Gator Fan
Who cares where he goes. He should have a nice life and do what he wants.
The real question should be: when will Spurrier be back.?
Coach Spurrier's response when I asked him:
The real question should be: when will Spurrier be back.?
Coach Spurrier's response when I asked him:
