Well, howdy. I don't have alot of time for message baords, so longtime Vol, 1st time poster. I had my share of crow growing up in Gville, from Tee martin getting blown-up by an offside Alex Brown 400 times in 1 game. From Peyton's losing streak, Joey Kent getting slammed by Wright. The Jabar drop in 2000 I was almost beatup at a Gator Bar....but this last flare up has me worried...and not....'Fulmer too conservative, Spurrier owning us, UF and Meyer peeling off titles and a winning streak against us worried. Living in Gville has me worried that our team, fans and Football program as a whole may be nuked into oblivion in The Swamp. 1st off, we have alot of talent, 2ndly, our additions to recruting and defensive staff will help us win titles of our own soon....but the jury is out on Lane and IMO he has been an embarssment so far.
A guy who didn't know the rules ealry on for himself, a guy who now has made a guy angry in Tebow and Meyer with a track record of annihalating those who dare throw smack around especially rivals, just ask UGA and FSU.
The Vol-heart in me is glad we added some fire to this, Spurrier came to Gainesville in 90 and promised to deliver yearly whippings to UGA and that rivalry needed that and he backed it up. UGA did it to UF to add fire to that serieis and it backfired by dancing with the stars last year and they got a 59-10 beatdown... I think this was ill-timed, ill-informed and ill adised. ADD fire to UT-gators by thrashing them, winning East championships,SEC and BCS titles etc....UF is where we want our program to get back to. They have great academics, win titles, and while they may recruit aggressivley...they don't flasout cheat like Bama, FSU, Miami, Okl or OHIO st.
Look at our BBall coach, he saw where UT could go, embrace the best coach and improve on what he does and prey on his weaknesses... Billy D, challenged him on the court and in recruting and we own them now.
That's all. Just get your facts straight when throwing down smack and have a plan or a track record to back it up, he has neither so far....I'm not even sure he is the right guy.
Who's the right guy? The right guy, frankly, would have been someone like Urban Meyer. Someone who won a lot of games at Bowling Green, then put up a perfect season at Utah, and then after all that scratching and clawing got the job at Florida ... where he won two national championships in his first four years.
Rural Kiffin has no status, no standing, no résumé. He was born the son of longtime NFL assistant Monte Kiffin and hasnt done anything to shopw me he can do this.
Look, the guy could flop at Tennessee, a passionate recruiter like Zook who babysits the program until the next legend comes along....thats how UF did it....nobody wanted to follow Spurrier so they got a recruiter to buiold for the next Champ coach..
I'm not ripping him for his passion. Want to win at the highest level in college football? Then you better have some killer instinct. Meyer has it. The entire Georgia sideline celebrated a touchdown against Florida in 2007 by running onto the field, and Meyer retaliated one year later by winning 59-10 and calling two late timeouts to rub it in.