Everyone else has thugs. Why can't we? Either Dennis Erickson, Chip Kelly, or Urban Meyer had the right idea. Train thugs early, win college championships or go to the NFl, profit.
Ok--I know you are frustrated, angry and cynical, E-, and this level of disgruntled outrageousness is the closest thing to "fun" we get to have this season (and you do it so WELL, my friend)--However, I ALSO know (or at least I THINK I know) that despite everything you don't REALLY buy into this idea...
Personally, I think Muschamp was on the right track with this team, at one point seemingly on-the-way to seeing we had a team and program that would win "doing it the right way", building and running a Defense at least, and in truth, the whole Gator organization in diametric opposition to the kind of "no choice but to surrender to the Dark Side if you wanna win it all" rationale that the scumbag coaches at "win-at-any-cost"/"glad-to-look-the-other-way" programs by now accepted, indeed well-entrenched at their schools in look-the-other-way conferences...
It CAN be done, but it takes courage, patience, and tough, unwavering determination to "get there", to carry on over rough waters and through powerful resistance from within and without in order to succeed without yielding to compromise. It may well be the "final irony" that the same "refuse to be anything BUT..." in our Coach that showed so much promise in building that Defense, and what seemed for awhile commitment to the very combination of dominant superiority and respect for themselves and each other that he preached must underlie their rise, may also have contained the same seeds of unwavering obstinacy that now clearly characterize the extreme stubbornness and inflexibility that manifests on offense as inability to adapt and evolve to even the most formulaic plans to stop it--that same stubbornness that kept everyone from the top down in complete denial of the obvious failures rampant throughout the team and program, and even now appears to keep the Head Coach from firing an inept and repeatedly unprepared OC.