"Gameday Notes"

Unsure if we should be worried for the future or just said it was a powerful Michigan which they are or they played like it today. I hope they can get things fixed by Northern Colorado otherwise I worried about UT. Also they have LSU, UGA, and FSU to deal with.

This season won't be anything special. Same old same old I'm afraid of.

Leakfan12 said:

Unsure if we should be worried for the future or just said it was a powerful Michigan which they are or they played like it today. I hope they can get things fixed by Northern Colorado otherwise I worried about UT. Also they have LSU, UGA, and FSU to deal with.

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Hope I'm wrong, but just in terms of "NO IMPROVEMENT...None at all, since 1st season Mac arrived, basically..." but my answer to the question, "Should we worry?", is "Yes. Big time."
We're not only NOT gonna win any big games, let alone Championships THIS year, but anytime soon at this "rate of progress", which appears to be ZERO. Third season with this "Offense Guru" as Head Coach, and, well, you saw the present state of the thing.
Sorry: I was a total "Mac-Supporter", and I am currently at "mmmm, well, let's see what happens next"--but on the very brink of "Start the Search!". As discussed elsewhere here, we are very close to, "Find and GET another guy in here soon as we can and ACCEPT the 2 or 3 years it'll take for HIM to get us where we were counting on MAC to do--or NEVER get there, wasting however long it takes to be "safely" convinced Mac HASN'T gotten it done, and THEN start that new clock..." Imho, we CAN'T afford to wait through the latter longer process. The writing's on the wall, and that is just how it is when you take this job: "You get the money, but YOU DAMN WELL BETTER GET IT DONE!"--and "Done" means playoff annually, National Championships eventually, and thereafter BOTH regularly. I am more and more convinced Mac may well be another of these guys who either didn't get that from the start--or just didn't really care: that the money was reason enough, and then "looking good enough to everyone else" that he'll be more hireable elsewhere afterwards ANYWAY, was the capper.
Cynical, but not untrue in practical terms.
Not a lotta "honor" in college footbal nowadays, if there ever was (I personally think there was more once, but it was never "across the board"...the better the money has gotten, the less one's "word", "trust" OR "honor" have been anything but "bs and butt-covering", for most part, if mentioned at all).
But yeah, "world we live in", final analysis.

It took me a while to sober up and post here. Originally I did not plan on watching the game, but my brother was in town and we had not watched a game together in 20 years due to conflicting military duties.

I knew going into this game that the team was not ready to play. Having 10 players suspended is a sure sign of trouble off the field, and those troubles do not fix themselves overnight or on the field.

Say all you want about the offense, defense, coaching, and play calling. None of that matters if you have a team that does not work together toward a common goal of winning football games. What I saw was a collection of athletes that do not trust one another, a bunch of coaches that do not trust its players, and a bunch of players that do not trust their coaches. Without trust it matters not whether we play Franks or Zaire at QB, or if we stay in a nickel defense vs 4-3, or if we let Nussmeier or the Magic 8-ball call our offense.

That being said, I am boycotting Gator football this year. This is not about winning or losing. This is once again about keeping a loser coach with a loser coaching staff that cannot control its players. Keep in mind that there are more suspensions coming with regard to this credit card fraud scandal. There is something seriously wrong in Gainesville, and it goes well beyond the X's and O's of football.

Escambia94 said:

It took me a while to sober up and post here. Originally I did not plan on watching the game, but my brother was in town and we had not watched a game together in 20 years due to conflicting military duties.

I knew going into this game that the team was not ready to play. Having 10 players suspended is a sure sign of trouble off the field, and those troubles do not fix themselves overnight or on the field.

Say all you want about the offense, defense, coaching, and play calling. None of that matters if you have a team that does not work together toward a common goal of winning football games. What I saw was a collection of athletes that do not trust one another, a bunch of coaches that do not trust its players, and a bunch of players that do not trust their coaches. Without trust it matters not whether we play Franks or Zaire at QB, or if we stay in a nickel defense vs 4-3, or if we let Nussmeier or the Magic 8-ball call our offense.

That being said, I am boycotting Gator football this year. This is not about winning or losing. This is once again about keeping a loser coach with a loser coaching staff that cannot control its players. Keep in mind that there are more suspensions coming with regard to this credit card fraud scandal. There is something seriously wrong in Gainesville, and it goes well beyond the X's and O's of football.

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(Can't "LIKE" what you say here, E--only "AGREE"...)
"...something seriously wrong..." to say the LEAST. Bad and getting worse, while coach, fans, even players hiding behind a deepening "malaise", getting USED to mediocrity.
Everything you say is true with rehard to the latest regime, last FEW sinking staffs.
Look at other programs, week in week out. HELL, since Urban Meyer's last season here in fact, Penn St for example has sank to the very bottom in every way, taken severe penalties and by now, just 7 seasons since has gone thru all that and re-risen to already-beyond-US, "Here-They-COME", in-the-discussion status. We're still trying to get to "maybe-they're-ready", "promising" status once more. In other words, even a near-dead program was able to choose, find, and GET a more balanced and competent Coaching staff, and they in turn find, get and prepare their talent more successfully than we did--a LOT more "successfully" in every way.
I hadn't consciously decided to "boycott", you put it, but I HAD more or less "lost hope" and dissmissed their chances.
And not just for this season:
No. More like, "Until we make the cjange, and there are signs we get it RIGHT!"