Florida may forever be a relic

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lawgator1 said:
I have no respect for Bianchi, writer here in Central Florida, but this article of his, expounding on what Saban has had to say about UF, seems pretty spot on.

Florida's NIL collective is disorganized, even now, and the money we keep investing in coaches, expecting a turn around in 24 months, is just not going to work anymore. And we are comparing new coaches to what Spurrier and Meyer did, and without resources comparable to other teams.

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Mike Bianchi: Nick Saban isn’t wrong when he says it’s a Gator problem, not a Napier problem

Is this the week? If the Florida Gators lose to UCF in six days, is this the week when they once again start from ground zero? When they fire their old coach — Billy Napier— and hire a new one? When they tear it all down? When they totally rebuild their roster? When they likely spend more than...
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Thing is, I have been up there a few times in recent years, and the university is different. I'm not complaining, its a much better academic institution than when I went there. Tougher to get into. More productive and focused. But that student body now seems far less interested in football than 30 years ago. And so does the school, itself.

I just think we may have reached a point where the momentum is not there to invest the time and money to try to be competitive again. We may easily be the next Nebraska. A legend to the old timers, a perpetual also-ran the rest of the way.
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NIL is changing the landscape. The rich are going to get richer and Florida is not alone. It'll boil down to a dozen or fewer teams and if you are one of those, you'll be the Harlem Globetrotters. The rest will be the Washington Generals. There will be better parity though in those dozen teams. College football as I knew it (born '57) is pretty much gone. The uniforms, helmets, field, fan gear - all look the same as a decade ago, but you really have a semi-pro team using college stadiums as a venue. Loyalty to a school by a player can't exist if the player hits the transfer portal a couple of times. Sort of like Henry T. as an example.
 
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ptcarter said:
NIL is changing the landscape. The rich are going to get richer and Florida is not alone. It'll boil down to a dozen or fewer teams and if you are one of those, you'll be the Harlem Globetrotters. The rest will be the Washington Generals. There will be better parity though in those dozen teams. College football as I knew it (born '57) is pretty much gone. The uniforms, helmets, field, fan gear - all look the same as a decade ago, but you really have a semi-pro team using college stadiums as a venue. Loyalty to a school by a player can't exist if the player hits the transfer portal a couple of times. Sort of like Henry T. as an example.
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College football hasn't been a quaint game played by "student-athletes" for the "love of the game" since at least 1980.
 
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05_never_again said:
College football hasn't been a quaint game played by "student-athletes" for the "love of the game" since at least 1980.
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I was going to use Vanderbilt as an example, but that was a lost cause before 1980. Take a middle of the pack team, like Mississippi State. They will never have the NIL resources as the "big boys". In the pre-NIL days, they could land a Dak Prescott, but I don't see him going to a school like that now if he was coming out of high school.
 
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ptcarter said:
I was going to use Vanderbilt as an example, but that was a lost cause before 1980. Take a middle of the pack team, like Mississippi State. They will never have the NIL resources as the "big boys". In the pre-NIL days, they could land a Dak Prescott, but I don't see him going to a school like that now if he was coming out of high school.
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Dak Prescott was a very lightly-recruited guy. Miss St could still land a recruit like him today; actually, they were by far the biggest name school who was interested in him (at least as a QB). Epitome of a diamond in the rough.

Miss St never has had the resources to compete with the big boys, pre or post-NIL.
 
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ptcarter said:
I was going to use Vanderbilt as an example, but that was a lost cause before 1980. Take a middle of the pack team, like Mississippi State. They will never have the NIL resources as the "big boys". In the pre-NIL days, they could land a Dak Prescott, but I don't see him going to a school like that now if he was coming out of high school.
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He wasn’t highly recruited…so they could land his type. KEEPING him however?
 
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Most classless, disgusting program in the nation. I hope they lose every game, every season for eternity and their piss bomb throwing fans have to sob theirselves to sleep every night.
 
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DaddyChad said:
Most classless, disgusting program in the nation. I hope they lose every game, every season for eternity and their piss bomb throwing fans have to sob theirselves to sleep every night.
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Their fan base in the 90's gave opposing visitors hell back then. Their enthusiasm for their program was off the charts and add in pregame festivities at the purple porpoise and they'll be rowdy.

Was there for the '93 game and the epic collapse of '95. Never witnessed the urine bombs.
 
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ETV said:
Their fan base in the 90's gave opposing visitors hell back then. Their enthusiasm for their program was off the charts and add in pregame festivities at the purple porpoise and they'll be rowdy.

Was there for the '93 game and the epic collapse of '95. Never witnessed the urine bombs.
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I’ve dealt with all kinds of opposing fanbase fans. I can safely say Florida are the worse. Georgia fans can be obnoxious but they’re nowhere close to the Ahole factor of Florida. That fanbase can’t suffer enough imo.
 
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DaddyChad said:
I’ve dealt with all kinds of opposing fanbase fans. I can safely say Florida are the worse. Georgia fans can be obnoxious but they’re nowhere close to the Ahole factor of Florida. That fanbase can’t suffer enough imo.
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I can say the only time I've ever had to resort to fisticuffs over a football game was because a UF fan attacked me at a bar in LA. He must have been 20 or 30 years my junior at the time and made the mistake of his life. I had the whole bar singing Rocky Top and he took exception to it. I was allowed to stay and complete my time there. He lost a lot of dignity and then had a bouncer rough him up again on the way out.
 
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ETV said:
Their fan base in the 90's gave opposing visitors hell back then. Their enthusiasm for their program was off the charts and add in pregame festivities at the purple porpoise and they'll be rowdy.

Was there for the '93 game and the epic collapse of '95. Never witnessed the urine bombs.
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I've never seen one nor heard even a credible second hand account of one. Pure fiction.
 
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