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Pitts Back

DRU2012

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That’s all.
But that’s enough!
(Feel me?)
I doubt we’ll see any repeat of their last visit to The Swamp (streak-breaker). Now MY main specific focus will tend to be on the Gator Defense:
You KNOW the CFB Playoff Committee will be evaluating us AND the game’s score and outcome through the prism of ALABAMA’S lopsided win LAST Saturday.
However, I don’t like doing that (and it can be fatal for a TEAM to be thinking along those lines!); neither do I think it is particularly valid OR “fair”—but it IS “human”, much as they’ll deny it.
(REPEATED-CLICHE ALERT!!! : )
“Just WIN, baby!”

...Then again, it IS difficult to leave Trask’s well-deserved Heismann candidacy out of the discussion here, too: So although the above still applies, Mullens (at this morning’s presser) fielding questions regarding play calling and how long they leave Kyle in there in the event of a “big lead” by early in the 2nd half, as usual “saying all the right things” at the right time and in the right way, AND finally Trask HIMSELF having repeatedly, similarly deflected attention away from himself and back to teammates and THE TEAM (and I don’t doubt his sincerity), I won’t even begin to hazard a guess as to the “ifs, when’s and HOWS” of the game plan and how it might be adapted in the event of this or that scenario.
Yeah, best to stick with the above cliche after all, I figure—for our own sake let our attitude and outlook be dictated by ANOTHER “cliche” I’ve been apt to repeat of late:
Apply the old “K.I.S.S.” principle in this simplest of ways.
 

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The Gators proved that they can be fine without Pitts; however, we definitely need him against teams in the caliber of Alabama. Dan Mullen took a team with a mix of 3 and 4-star athletes and made them competitive against other teams comprised of 3 and 4-star athletes. With superior coaching Mullen did beat a team of 3, 4 and 5-star athletes at Georgia, and he beat them with half a game of Pitts. I think the Gators will absolutely need Pitts in order to hang with Alabama.
 

DRU2012

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The Gators proved that they can be fine without Pitts; however, we definitely need him against teams in the caliber of Alabama. Dan Mullen took a team with a mix of 3 and 4-star athletes and made them competitive against other teams comprised of 3 and 4-star athletes. With superior coaching Mullen did beat a team of 3, 4 and 5-star athletes at Georgia, and he beat them with half a game of Pitts. I think the Gators will absolutely need Pitts in order to hang with Alabama.
Agreed. I may not “like” it, but I sure as HELL can’t argue with your reasoning.
We’re getting closer, though...
I can’t say I’m real “confident we can match up with Alabama all over the field”, but with “the two Kyle’s” operating at or near their best, PLUS THE REST of those “coached-up 3-, 4- (and maybe a COUPLE of now-borderline 5- ?) Star players” I’d put us up against ANY of “the Elite teams” RIGHT NOW, at least on offense:
On a good day, our whole TEAM (even the defensive squad) “peaking” down the stretch I’m thinking we MIGHT be able to OUTSCORE ANYONE!!!
It’d be exciting (maybe even FUN) finding out, dontcha think??!
Hey, after we fumbled then blew the lead at TAMU, I can’t say I was among those who saw THIS possibility coming.
I am proud, encouraged and (more than ever) HOPEFUL at both the current road we are on AND what appears now to be our building momentum towards FUTURE SUCCESS.
I’d have to see a WHOLE lot more progress here and now in order to expect (let alone predict) our beating the Tide and then going on to sweep the Playoffs and win a Natty THIS season—but we ARE on track: We’ll be “in the mix” after this campaign, no matter HOW it all actually plays out.
 

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We’ll discuss coaching, recruiting and where “potential” and “growth” figure into all of that and more another time
...For now, I’d only offer an example like this kid Kitna—a “ROYAL” football-pedigree, with freaky physical gifts at QB and probably rated at just “3-stars” mainly due to the “back-country” rating of his highschool’s competition, having already brought himself up to (NEAR-) 4-star status even before committing to UF...You look at his “highlights” and EASILY IMAGINE what he might become under Mullens’ tutelage.
More and more we’ve got a whole staff that can reasonably make similar choices and projections all over the field...
And “success BREEDS SUCCESS”:
The better we do now, the further we go and the more media attention we earn, of course, the more our “recruiting” will REFLECT that success. We’ll win more and more of those “5-Star Battles” out there—and not HAVE to “settle” for the “possible diamond-in-the-rough” we hope to “Coach-UP” to the desired level.
Let KIRBY try and do that (I’m betting he ain’t as good at it as Coach Dan—and we’ll begin to pull away there in coming seasons).
One more caveat:
UK has had a LOT of adversity of late—it was already a “big let down”-season for them. They came INTO 2020 with pretty high hopes of establishing themselves as “AT LEAST the 3rd-ranked in the SEC East” program—They THOUGHT they’d possibly be playing for 2nd or even FIRST in the East for this game—but then Covid, and rescheduling and all the rest set in...Then Schlarman’s illness felled him AND they were down TEN PLAYERS for Alabama...We all saw the results there, but OUR side needs to remember that healthy, UK’s ideal attack matches up WELL, at least on paper, against us and some of the breakdowns we saw against Vandy last weekend.
So once again “into the breach, my friends!”:
“ALL” we need to do is look after our OWN sloppiness and inattention to fundamentals, clean things up, GET THE PLAYS IN ONTIME, GUYS!
We are quite capable of blowing this particular edition of Kentucky football OUT—and JUST as capable of bumbling our way into an unnecessarily close game too!
It is up to us: If the week’s practice was truly as sharp as the Coach’s CLAIM, we SHOULD be able to put this one away in the 2nd half. I’m not big on picking scores, but I won’t be shocked if it is still close at the half; I DO look for Trask to do some more “Heismann campaigning” in the SECOND half though, ‘cause that’ll appear necessary in the 3rd quarter—and Mullens, Grantham, the two Kyles and all three SQUADS will required to respond.
Just the way things go with this particular Gator team. Exciting, fun, FAR TOO “INTERESTING”, if you ask me. We need to become a tad more “boring”—as in “steady”, consistently efficient/dominant.
 

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