Morning.
First, you are asking me some pointed questions about what I said in another thread. I'm older than i care to admit, so my memory's not the best, and since that whole thread was deleted (sensitive much?), I can't go back and see what exactly I wrote. Having said that...
1. I'm confident I did say something about no one in their right mind betting against Florida this year. And for time's sake, I won't regurgitate the reasons, as a lot of your own brethren have already made my argument for me in this thread. Summary: lot of starters lost on UT defense, UF offense arguably the best in the land, home game for UF, UT's QB and WR play is suspect, etc. Just read the other Vol posts.
2. I'm confident I DIDN'T say anything about Kiffen being worse than Fulmer. Don't remember bringing Fulmer up at all. Looking at Kiffin's track record, currently has a losing record as a head coach. A lot of you are blaming Al Davis for that, and that has merit, but AD had comments for Kiffin that he never had for another coach, mostly along the lines of being a
lying POS. But, as another poster said, there are ten or more NFL coaches that went to the college ranks and fared much better. Certainly Kiffin has that capacity, so perhaps he will eventually be better than Fulmer was. Time will tell. At least he married the daughter of a Gator.
3. Experts on your team? "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." Sun Tsu, Art of War. We're probably not experts, but we do our best to stay educated about our rivals. That goes to the point I made yesterday about having open discussion with rivals, instead of blocking all rival input out. "If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat." The next line in Art of War.
4. As your other posters have already agreed, 6 lost starters on defense. Berry for Heisman. That leaves four other defenders returning. Any studs among them? Any? Any among them that, on paper, have even a chance at stopping the UF Offensive train?
5. Again, sensitive. I'm not being a jerk, I'm simply a rival sharing my opinion. When attacked, I may retaliate. That's how they ban Gators on Warchant (Seminole board) - they attack Gator posters, wait for the Gators to defend themselves, and ban for the "offensive" post. We laugh at them for their childishness. Certainly the best message board on the internet would never stoop to such behavior.
We're both fans. I expect that both of our fanbases are guilty of homerism. We each believe our teams are better than they are. That's normal. But even the outsider, on paper, has to come to the conclusion that UT little to no chance this year of beating UF. I've referenced "on paper" twice in this post, Ole Miss still hurts. Anything can happen on any given Saturday. But that doesn't mean anyone in their right mind would bet UT on Sept 19th.
