Lawrence Wright
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Why would it help UT?
Our schedule is middle loaded. Playing it in the first 3rd of the season is not really any different than playing it in the back 3rd. Unless the angle is that it hurts UF. Which gets back to my original opinion. UT needs to step their game up.
I went to UF '93, '95, and '97, and the pregame atmosphere and in-stadium pulse wasn't close to '01 ... completely disregarding the end of game/postgame.
Considering the middle of our schedule currently consists of LSU, Vandy, South Carolina and Georgia, you already know what the answer is.
UF won't agree to move the game just to make life easier for UT.[/QUO
Truth be told, I can give two terds when we play uf, I just like to argue. That been siad why should we care what uf schedule is?
I went to UF '93, '95, and '97, and the pregame atmosphere and in-stadium pulse wasn't close to '01 ... completely disregarding the end of game/postgame.
Not to mention the fever-pitch national buzz
The '01 game was awesome from an atmosphere perspective. All UF had to do was beat an 18 pt underdog team, then throttle LSU again (they beat them at LSU 44-15 earlier in the season), and they play Miami.
Beating UT (Fulmer) would've simply been icing on the cake.
Ours is too. I don't expect South Carolina to be a Top 10 team every year, but UGA and LSU aren't all of a sudden going to suck like Kentucky.
Our game is perfect where it is. And last I checked, at this point in the season no one has the East wrapped up.
Disagree about '97...we wanted to rip Peyton's heart out and feed it to him. It was Africa hot that day, but the atmosphere was no worse than 2001.
But to your point, you think the game should be moved because the atmosphere is allegedly better later in the season?
Did anyone ever see UF have the WR run behind the QB at the snap? It was pretty confusing and opened up more options. They probably won't use this vs. LSU, and I didn't see it vs UK.
If UT played UF in November, all (most) of the UF trickeration would be in the open.
Yes '97 was intense, I believe it poured rain in the second half of that one, and it was awful. That game was special because of the insane preseason buzz - you all had just won an NC, we had Peyton as a senior. I contend that there was never more hype than that 2001, though, which was essentially a playoff game (though we proved that theory wrong in the end).
perhaps, I'm dwelling on the 2001 situation too much.
s/n: also why ncaaf needs playoffs
