No.
Well, you know, I say that. But I have to confess I don't really know. Not like I'm any sort of expert on it. What I can say is that you looked a lot slower than us, out of shape, and just plain not as athletic as the Gators. And the difference wasn't close. It was big, especially in terms of your defense versus our WRs.
That Florida's WRS were faster was not necessarily totally unexpected, though the degree of difference was surprising. What really surprised me was Florida's defensive line and secondary able to completely shut down the UT running game. I didn't see that as much the RB's fault, more the UT offensive line not being able to deal with Florida's speed and strength.
Spurrier used to comment all the time that he had no trouble selling the skill players on coming to Florida so as to display their abilities to NFL scouts. It was the linemen that were the key and he had to work hard to convince them that, notwithstanding the fact that his system was not exactly comparable to NFL playbooks, he could turn them into pros.
My suspicion is that UT has no problem convincing some stout RBs to come to school there. But I would have thought as well that the offensive line players in particular would be higher caliber precisely because UT's offense is much more similar to an NFL scheme than has been Florida's.
