It’s time.
It’s hard to ignore the signs, everything pointing to a Vol beatdown on the Gators, it’s set up perfect, or is it?
While I’m sold on UF QB Richardson as an athlete, I’m not sold quite yet on him as a passer. Everyone keeps speaking about his growth, and while that should be the norm, most still believe Mullen to be a good to great QB coach. How much will losing Mullen hurt that growth?
On the other side, I do believe in Hooker and second year under Heupel should be able to turn another page of the playbook loose in Hooker’s hands.
UT has the edge on offense. Duh, right? UF has the edge on defense. Duh, right?
Let’s talk defense, biggest question is how big of a leap does the defense take this year? Will Heupel slow the offense just enough to allow them to collect their breath? That’s the difference in 7 wins vs 9 wins imo. Kiffin learned to slow just enough to not run his defense into a losing situation. The result? Ole Miss won 10 games in the regular season for the first time ever. Heupel can do the same. UF’s defense still has playmakers and should be at least decent if not good.
2nd year with coaches is the “magic year”where the good coaches have their most improvement. We will know at the end of the 2nd year in most cases if “that’s the guy” for a program. Meyer, Saban, Richt, Smart, etc all saw their biggest jump year 2.
This IS the year, everything aligns for a Vol win over Florida. Everyone keeps saying they have to see it to believe it, definition of faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things unseen. Do you have faith?
UT 38 UF 30
It’s hard to ignore the signs, everything pointing to a Vol beatdown on the Gators, it’s set up perfect, or is it?
While I’m sold on UF QB Richardson as an athlete, I’m not sold quite yet on him as a passer. Everyone keeps speaking about his growth, and while that should be the norm, most still believe Mullen to be a good to great QB coach. How much will losing Mullen hurt that growth?
On the other side, I do believe in Hooker and second year under Heupel should be able to turn another page of the playbook loose in Hooker’s hands.
UT has the edge on offense. Duh, right? UF has the edge on defense. Duh, right?
Let’s talk defense, biggest question is how big of a leap does the defense take this year? Will Heupel slow the offense just enough to allow them to collect their breath? That’s the difference in 7 wins vs 9 wins imo. Kiffin learned to slow just enough to not run his defense into a losing situation. The result? Ole Miss won 10 games in the regular season for the first time ever. Heupel can do the same. UF’s defense still has playmakers and should be at least decent if not good.
2nd year with coaches is the “magic year”where the good coaches have their most improvement. We will know at the end of the 2nd year in most cases if “that’s the guy” for a program. Meyer, Saban, Richt, Smart, etc all saw their biggest jump year 2.
This IS the year, everything aligns for a Vol win over Florida. Everyone keeps saying they have to see it to believe it, definition of faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things unseen. Do you have faith?
UT 38 UF 30
