Bitching, Moaning, Venting--and Questions No One Is Asking

[DRU2012]

If you have complaints, here's the place, and now's the TIME...
I've been pretty open already about some of mine.
I look forward seeing yours now here.
But it is that last, those "questions no one is asking" (at least thus far) that are starting to eat at me...
For example, why HAVEN'T we seen Jones, Lagway's 4-Star back-up who came on so hard in summer camp (all the way from "4th and beyond" on up to solid "clearly a comer" by Week 1)?
I mean, haven't we arrived at "just in case" yet?
As for questions surrounding DJ himself, well, they have (and continue TO) multiply so much and so widely that I wouldn't know where to BEGIN; they may well soon require a thread all to themselves!
I have so many more, but let's start there, see where they take us, see what OTHERS have to say and to add here.

 

[DRU2012]

Don't know bout y'all, but me personally I am SICK TO DEATH of witnessing our somewhat less than brilliant Coach bumble his way through ANOTHER post-loss presser.
"Why didn't you kick the 3 on 4th down that still woulda kept you within one score relatively early in the 4th quarter?" The near-incoherent response I suppose was the best he can do with the level of analytical depth he has at his disposal.
Here it was again...Billy Napier: Big heart. Limited depth of thought.
It is time perhaps to reintroduce the concept of "The Peter Principle" (look it up--from a 1969 book from Lawrence J. Peter and Raymond Hull): It is the (somewhat satirical, but sadly often all too explanatory) proposal that "everyone rises to their own level of incompetence". Its commentary was originally aimed at the corporate world--but more importantly not only does it offer insight across wider analysis of our society, the way college football has (and CONTINUES TO) developed, its corporate aspects themselves are more applicable here than EVER:
It often takes the form of "backhanded compliment"...For example, here:
"Billy Napier would make a SUPERB HIGHSCHOOL COACH".
The implied (and by now in my view all too accurate) point being that he has risen way beyond the level his mind and talents were (and ARE) suited for, and we are presently (sadly and frustratingly) stuck with the resulting consequences.
According to The Peter Principle, those "consequences" most often inevitably manifest as MEDIOCRITY.
I see little need to elaborate further here--only to REstate, in this context, my total and complete aversion to seeing/hearing one more word outta the guy's meally-mouth supposedly explaining "how CLOSE we are" and all the rest.
"Sir: At THIS level you are judged by WINS and losses. 'You are as good as your record SAYS you are.'...'Just WIN, Baby!' The rest is mainly WINDOW DRESSING--valuable only in recruiting insofar as wooing young players' FAMILIES' approval"... But with these losses (especially this latest against a top in-state rival) we are now leaking, HEMORRHAGING all those prized and promising recruits recent hopes once rested upon.
The one (SORT OF) "positive" here is that this does in some ways "clear the picture": a lot of the complexities comprising the "tangled web" of worries and concerns, the threat of the very things now descending in a growing torrent upon us with this growing string of LOSSES does go a long way towards SIMPLIFYING what our choices really come down to NOW: There seems less and less reason to wait--IF there are moves we see, want and CAN in fact accomplish.

 

[Leakfan12]

Did someone make a deal with the devil in 2005? A booster or someone in the Athletic Department because we wanted to return to the Spurrier days and we got Urban Meyer who won 2 National Titles and after he left, the Devil collected and then some. Was Meyer the devil?

 

[DRU2012]

Did someone make a deal with the devil in 2005? A booster or someone in the Athletic Department because we wanted to return to the Spurrier days and we got Urban Meyer who won 2 National Titles and after he left, the Devil collected and then some. Was Meyer the devil?

Maybe "The ANTI-Coach" (yeah, I considered, then purposefully rejected obvious first choice after the hyphen there--settled on "-Coach" instead)...He came in, seemingly brought us the realization of all our dreams, then with similarly sudden turnabout flipped-the-script and was gone--leaving the team and program in shambles.
But no matter WHAT, by now I'd say we've paid the price! But have we truly learned a lesson?
What exactly was, IS that "lesson"?
Whether we "paid for our sins" or not, can we, WILL we turn the page and (FINALLY) get "IT" right??!
Which brings us to the NEXT, and for our immediate purposes perhaps the most important question of ALL:
Is "The Right Guy" even OUT THERE?
I have to think EACH of us has at least one individual that comes to mind:
When it comes down to it, is there really a slam-dunk, head-and-shoulders above the rest target candidate for "NEXT Gator Head Coach"?
Never mind the drawbacks and difficulties, just in terms of "the guy that FITS, in every way"...
IS there one???
THE "ONE"?

 

[DRU2012]

I just did an early Monday morning tour of the best of the major Gator-sites, and it was an even worse experience than expected--and consequently OVER sooner than expected as well:
Like so many others, I am simply SICK TO DEATH of the whole damn THING! Not just the putrid offense, or Billy's place in it: Bad as it is, deep as it goes and hopeless as Gator Nation finds itself, in this program and administration he is hardly alone in terminally dumb-assed, thick-headed stubborness: As things stand, just firing Billy leaves the same cabal in charge, Scott Strickland still point-man in the search and decision as to whom to pursue as his replacement.
Escambia (who always has accurate, valid and well-researched reasons underlying his positions) insists that at least for the moment for solid (as I understand it) CONTRACTUAL reasons we CAN NOT FIRE Scott Strickland. If that IS presently "true" in practical terms, then I propose we DAMN well find a way for the ghostly "Gator Money Men", that evasive group of "powers-that-be" once collectively falling under the rubric "BOOSTERS", THIS time must not just come up with buy-out cash but more importantly.somehow circumvent Strickland's participation this time--to as great extent as possible ELIMINATE him from anything but an official, "rubber stamp" role in choosing our next Head Coach. He can ANNOUNCE it, even sign the papers: Play "the Role"--but that has to be the limit here this time.
For now, I REMAIN disgusted, just fed UP at even listening another MOMENT to the vacant rationalizing that comprises Napier's pressers.
Even the online fan sites have been reduced to a cacophony of loud quacking!
Myself included, I'm afraid. Until this HAPPENS, until that page is TURNED, there's little else to say or DO.

 

[DRU2012]

Simplify?
Alright--I will reduce it to three words:

BILLY MUST GO.