Guess I'll be the first to take the plunge--albeit in the "medium depth"/"just over my head" rather than the full on "Deep End":
So yes, we have perhaps the toughest schedule in the SEC for 2023--making it of course probably the hardest in CFB this season.
That being said, while I caution continued patience, I do think Napier and his staff have made extensive progress in changing the culture in our program, and are in position to at least improve overall on the field and in our ultimate record at the end of the regular season.
Probably won't quite challenge for the East yet, but I believe we'll have a winning record.
NEXT year is where I see our growing strength, gathering momentum really beginning to tell.
For now though, Gators, go easy. Remain calm:
Take things, the inevitable ups'n'downs, in stride. The "machine" had been "driven into the ditch", to say the LEAST! Hell, we weren't even on the side of the ROAD anymore.
Thanks to Billy & Co. we are steadily putting ourselves back into position for a return.
It's gonna be a fun and exciting run, too.
But first I suspect we'll have to weather the rough and tumble abuse of one more season of spoiled, impatient and often ignorantly short-sighted modern young Gator fans and their knee jerk over reaction to any setback or adversity.
Long as Strickland and those behind him make good on their promises to give this Coach, staff and revamped team culture the time they need (and have so far used well) to renew and rebuild into a winning program once more, that is exactly what we soon will be. "Soon" being a term one has to qualify with consideration of just how much work there was to be done, and how short a period "2 or three years" really IS to get it done RIGHT.
So yes, we have perhaps the toughest schedule in the SEC for 2023--making it of course probably the hardest in CFB this season.
That being said, while I caution continued patience, I do think Napier and his staff have made extensive progress in changing the culture in our program, and are in position to at least improve overall on the field and in our ultimate record at the end of the regular season.
Probably won't quite challenge for the East yet, but I believe we'll have a winning record.
NEXT year is where I see our growing strength, gathering momentum really beginning to tell.
For now though, Gators, go easy. Remain calm:
Take things, the inevitable ups'n'downs, in stride. The "machine" had been "driven into the ditch", to say the LEAST! Hell, we weren't even on the side of the ROAD anymore.
Thanks to Billy & Co. we are steadily putting ourselves back into position for a return.
It's gonna be a fun and exciting run, too.
But first I suspect we'll have to weather the rough and tumble abuse of one more season of spoiled, impatient and often ignorantly short-sighted modern young Gator fans and their knee jerk over reaction to any setback or adversity.
Long as Strickland and those behind him make good on their promises to give this Coach, staff and revamped team culture the time they need (and have so far used well) to renew and rebuild into a winning program once more, that is exactly what we soon will be. "Soon" being a term one has to qualify with consideration of just how much work there was to be done, and how short a period "2 or three years" really IS to get it done RIGHT.