To be fair, I can understand the lack of faith in the Gators under Will Muschamp. The media and the other coaches have given the Gators the benefit of the doubt ever since Little Timmy Tebow left town, and the Gators have not met the lofty expectations that everyone has for a perennial top-10 recruiter of talent with top-10 facilities with top-10 net profits with a top-10 fanbase with some of the most sought after coaches in the game. The Gators of the past four years look like the Georgia and FSU teams of the past several years. The only new variable is Kurt Roper. Maybe Mike Summers. If all the talk is correct about Roper and Summers being the right coaches with the right fit for the personnel, then we have a valid reason to be optimistic about a 10-win season.
Like I said, my thing here isn't "reasonable", it's emotional. Everything you say is right, E-...and for me, right now, completely beside the point. Were I to stick with reason, I'd be going back and forth again, seeing/agreeing, torn between the disappointment this Coach must have felt/shared with us--for the work of OCs he himself chose and set parameters for, after all, btw--at the same time pointing out that his DEFENSES have been all we asked and hoped for*.
No. I'm DONE with all that for now. As done weighing, considering, arguing points of subtlety as I am with "ball-control", and "shorten-the-game", and "taking/holding the lead late", and "defense making it stand up".
Oh: And I'm also done with "vanilla offenses", "not showing future opponents much early on". I wanna see our "new offense" open it up in GAME 1. "Don't show too much against the early, weaker teams on your schedule"? There's something to be said for giving them all something to think about, worry about, too, spend time and effort trying to prepare for, all the while not knowing when, how or even IF it all may actually be used when you face us (not to mention seeing if we can actually do it, with strangers trying their damnedest to stop us)...But most of all, best of all, it'll be a whole lot more fun and satisfying to watch. To live with.
"Let's GO for it!"
Whether we're talking about a play, a game, or the whole damn season, that pretty well sums up my whole attitude at this point. Like "Stumpy" on The Simpsons, "That's the bullet-point I suppose I'm going for here...".
Guess I'm back to "Master of the Obvious" (or "Captain Obvious", if you prefer).
Five days to the start of College Football, 2014...a few more to "Only Slightly Less Important Than Life Itself".
(*By the way, this fat f*ck on the SEC Network, whose only qualification seems to be that he's a former member of some recent LSU defense, in a feature-piece rating the Best Defenses in the Conference this season, left the Gators off the list entirely. The VOLS made the list.
There it is: Sure, great to be way-underrated and all, but that is just ridiculous! I mean, there ARE a few things we never stopped bein' good at...and we do have a little talent on that side of the ball, too. D not the issue for us.
35 points a game or better. That's what the offense needs to put up. Not just to win. I wanna see us rip some folks this season--rivals. preferably. Step on their necks. KILL 'em. Shut every flapping mouth out there. Is that too much to ask?)
