"Talk of the Town": Ripping Finebaum a new one, again

[O-town Gator]

I'd love to do the same thing to those morons at the Orlando Slantinel for some of the drivel they keep publishing, but they're beyond reproach.

Anyway, the good ol' Slantinel tipped me off on this doozy by none other than Paul Finebaum, who seems notorious for drawing the ire of Gator Nation and being nothing less than vitriolic towards Urban Meyer: http://www.al.com/sports/press-register/pfinebaum.ssf?/base/sports/1253610942151040.xml&coll=3

Anyway, allow yours truly to have at it.

We got it all wrong.

No, sometimes things don't turn out as we expect.

We all thought Nick Saban would be the man who would slay the great Urban Meyer. We figured it would probably happen next year in the SEC championship game. We figured after a beating by Alabama (sans Tim Tebow), perhaps Meyer would begin to doubt his decision to hang around in Gainesville and start looking for greener pastures.

Maybe YOU did, but Gator Nation sure didn't. And "slay" Urban Meyer? Give me a break - Kiffykins didn't do a damn thing! Wishful thinking from your pea-sized brain, Finebaum - let alone letting your Bama homerism show through.
As far as your last sentence, perhaps you need to be taught another lesson from Buddy Martin since you didn't learn diddly-squat the last time he was forced to set the facts straight and educate you on the truth.

But whoever believed the Urban-killer would be Lane Kiffin?

Only an idiot like you, and perhaps delusional UcheaT fans drinking the Kiffin kool-aid.

Yet, that's what happened the other day in the Swamp and it might have been the most significant development of the year in the SEC. There is another one developing as well: Florida may not even be the best team in the SEC (more on that in a moment).

Umm, hate to tell you this but you didn't see Florida firing on all cylinders this past Saturday. Don't hold your breath, either. We haven't yet let the cat out of the bag as far as facing the rest of our SEC opponents go.

With the whole world watching, Meyer appeared to be a mere mortal Saturday in the most ballyhooed 30-point mismatch in world history since David vs. Goliath.

Meyer isn't stupid, Slimebaum. For crying out loud, his undergrad degree was in Psychology. He knew Kiffin was calling no joy and didn't forget his pre-season buffoonery either, so it was pointless for him to poke the gorilla with a stick on his part. We found a way to win, but it wasn't to the Vegas bookies' satisfaction - and too bad if it wasn't that way, as far as I'm concerned.

Meyer's team may have won on the scoreboard. However, Meyer's biggest loss as a coach may have occurred when he was unable to wipe the smirk off Kiffin's face.

At least Kiffykins wasn't singing Rocky Top all night long, as he boasted about just after UcheaT hired him. So there, Slimebaum.

Gator fans cheered in the wake of the victory, but deep down, most probably left the Swamp disappointed and frustrated.

Only the jaded fans who still expect every Gator fan to genuflect in front of any image of Steve Spurrier, who expect nothing but a RUTS-type blowout as an acceptable win, and expect nothing less than perfection out of these kids. However, that doesn't speak for the majority of Gator Nation.

Kiffin was the first person CBS wanted to interview after the game. Have you ever seen the loser interviewed first after a college football game? Kiffin just started running his mouth and trotted away happy as a lark.

What do you expect? Kiffin is a buffoon and a show-off who'll say anything just to get attention and stir up media morons like you and your ilk.

Asked later in the locker room about his famous utterance of singing Rocky Top all night long after beating Florida, Kiffin quipped: "We didn't hum but I will come back for the basketball game with Bruce," Kiffin said, referencing Bruce Pearl, the UT basketball coach who has a 7-1 record against Billy Donovan, who also has two national titles in Gainesville.

He can't explain why his team lost, so he goes and changes the subject to Bruce Pearl and basketball. Kiffykins, you're a wuss as well as a jerk.

And while Kiffin continued to play his role as the mouth of the South, Meyer was the defensive one. At 45 years old and one of the most feared coaches in the game, he suddenly looked old and over the hill. He parsed words. He acted truculent. He looked like a loser instead of a winner.

No, YOU'RE the one acting truculent, Slimebaum. Meyer tells it like it is and if that still rubs you the wrong way, then up yours. He's not the fool you seem to take him for. In spite of some of the obstacles thrown in his path, he chose to push them aside and find a way to win. That's the sign of a wise man, but you're too blind and too obstinate to see that. You're blinded by your immense hatred of the man, and others see just that (never mind the fact that you can't seem to take constructive criticism, either - when the truth was thrown at you after that last charade, you got all defensive back then, too! You fool nobody, Slimebaum.)

Was this Meyer's frustration with himself, his team, the pressure of being unable to grant his fan base their fervent desire to beat Kiffin by 50? Or was it the realization that his football team just ain't that great?

None of the above. In spite of the fact that his WR depth chart was depleted and he had three guys playing with the flu, he still got the result in the end that he aimed for, albeit not to the extent that he would have preferred. Still, it's the "W" that counts when all is said and done - but again, you can't see it that way because you're blinded by hate.

If the mighty Gators had to struggle against mediocre Tennessee, a team that lost the week before to UCLA at home, how are they going to fare in three weeks at Tiger Stadium or against Georgia or against Alabama on the first weekend in December in Atlanta?

"Struggle"? BS, and I shouldn't have to tell you what that stands for.
And if you're worried about our performance going forward, lest you forget, we came back like the Phoenix rising out of the ashes after the Ole Miss loss last year. Not to sound redundant, but we haven't yet seen what this Gator team is capable of.

Picking football games is like to trying to guess the weather, but Alabama has as much a claim right now to be the top team in college football as anyone else.

So is Alabama ranked too low at No. 3?

I was talking to Tom Luginbill of ESPN Friday about the state of college football and he sent out a warning about USC and several other schools.

"I've been studying the actual coaches' film of the top 10 teams and Alabama is the second best team in the country behind Florida," said Luginbill, who is recruiting director of ESPN. This week, he is sticking with the Tide at No.2.

However, after seeing Florida struggle against Tennessee and Texas edge Texas Tech, could Alabama make a claim as the best team in the nation? The Tide has looked better than anyone else and we haven't even seen the Tide's A game yet.

So says YOU, Bama homer.

Obviously, that question will take care of itself down the road. The story of this past weekend was Meyer's failure as a punk-slayer. He may have won the battle, but he lost the war. He had fans of all SEC schools united for one cause. They wanted him to take the spoiled brat outside to the schoolyard and give him the beating of his life.

Instead, big bad Urban let Kiffin escape with barely a scratch.

Again, hogwash. Kiffin went away the loser, and got his share of taunts from Gator fans in the form of the f-bomb and an Al Davis poster. Trust me, Kiffykins got his.

This may not be the beginning of the end for Meyer's reign of terror in the SEC. But it might be a good idea to mark the date just in case. The fall of most great empires doesn't occur in a single act.

Screw you, Finebaum. The only way Meyer's empire will fall is the day he decides to retire from coaching our beloved Gators, enjoy his lake home in Alachua County with Shelley and call it a career once and for all.

For Meyer and Florida, I think history may prove the turning point was letting Kiffin run off the field Saturday still running his mouth as opposed to seemingly being carried off on a stretcher.

Let Kiffykins run his mouth. He's only setting himself up for another reprimand from the SEC commissioner as well as continuing to make himself look ridiculous - just like you're doing with your idiotic ramblings at your computer.