I don’t think this bodes well for an LSU team that couldn’t do much against the Gators while Georgia and Michigan looked like the 1989 49ers. Or the, uhh, 2007 Patriots.

I wish UConn got to play Florida. Our offense sucked all year.

My grandmother has very bad knees. Ain’t happening.

Missing Third Cartoon Dept:

The third cartoon (that is missing) is Urban telling his Gators that they are worthless scumbags and not nearly as good as the current NE Patriots and that he will cut them even if they are Seniors, or somethang like that.

That scUM team was finally healthly and Very motivated. With the talent they had they should have done that all year. Gaytor fans don’t look to deep into that loss.

Edsall, I saw UConn play this year. Your Offense still would have sucked.

1. - Jumbo Peters – don’t remember the Michigan offense running anywhere near those formations all year and Florida hasn’t had much of a secondary all year either.

#4
In other words, this UF D can can only handle untalented, beat up and unmotivated teams??? Dude, thats….about right.

That cartoon is all wrong. It should be a one-handed catch.

One would think the ESPN shouting heads would be justly concerned about Florida’s national championship prospects next year given the team finished friggin NINE AND FOUR, tied for fifth in the conference behind Auburn (Auburn!), and in hindsight didn’t improve a lick in the secondary.

One would think.

Which is not to say, of course, that Florida isn’t an insanely entertaining team, or can’t beat Hawai’i worse than Georgia did, or won’t necessarily be anything special. It’s just…that achilles heel is SO enormous, enormous enough to stand in for the 600-pound gorilla in the room, which it does. See what you do to me, Florida and ESPN? You make me handle metaphors with Tom Friedman’s touch.

You can file off “Gator” and replace with “Aggie” and it still works…

8-5 to 9-4 should be consistent for the next few years. Welcome to UGA’s 1990s, bitches..

My grandma was age 65 ,5’3 270, and was hard as hell to bring down when she had a full head of steam….you had to hit her low and hoped she rolled, she was a better looking Owen Schimdt, but with a wig…..one time, when I was 6, after she had cleaned the hardwood floor down a 30 ft hall and it was super slick, I was wearing a sweatsuit w/socks and you could literally body surf end to end, well I had a running start, was bored, dove on the floor, took off like a bobsledder , like human torpedo down the hall, and my timing couldnt have been better, my grandma happen to wobble out of the bedroom and I tried to shoot the gap between her cankles,(so fat her calves intersect with her ankles) but instead my shoulders took out her legs, knocked her feet out of her slippers and like a tree falling in the woods, she fell slowly when her feet left the earth, and with the momentum, we both flew into a ottoman and sofa and love seat, like bowling with humans vs living room furniture…the whole time whilst she was airborne and fixing to crush me, she was saying “What in the goddamn hell??” as the lighted cigarette goes flying outta her mouth and lands in her wig, almost instantly igniting it….Luckily I broke her fall, she is crushing me, and saying she cant move or roll off of me, and if she could she would kill me…luckily she didnt break a hip or break my ribs….Lesson learned….
Yeh I think she could take a screen pass and pull an Owen Schmidt on the Fla D, her only weakness is a hit in the cankles

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. And things are going to get a lot worse in Gainesville before they get better. The collapse of UF football that I predicted several days ago is probably going to arrive much sooner than I originally thought. And it is going to be ugly. Florida will be lucky to break .500 over the next several seasons with Meyer steering the ship.

5 – I know, I know.

Ouch.

Is that Grandma Manningham, Grandma Arrington, or Grandma Butler?

I don’t remember UGA winning a national tile in the 1990s……somebody help me refresh…..

1. It’s Grandmas Schmidt, Devine, White, Reynard and Slaton. My apologies to any Mountaineers left off the list.

18 of 22 on the UF defense 2-deep roster are fresh/soph. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not.

uhhhhh, the decade 2007 – 2017 – the ohseventhruseventeen’s.

that’s where you’re at.

bitches.

Bobby Decatur, no need to clarify. You said:

8-5 to 9-4 should be consistent for the next few years.

I’m not sure what our MNC from last year has to do with that.

Having said all of this, I still disagree with you and think UF will be just fine.

In fairness to Florida, how could you have possibly predicted the patented Michigan “eff-you-try-to-stop-us-oops-you-did-let’s-punt” offense (as Brian so eloquently describes it at MGoBlog) would be replaced by Bombs Away? A game plan set up on the premise that they would, as always, throw rock wouldn’t help much when they decide “hey, let’s see what happens if we throw scissors just this once”.

But 22, SpartanDan, how can rock lose?

Rock sails right through paper.

Granted, the weak D is the achilles heel until/if it grows into itself. But I still have to wonder if Moreno picking Georgia over Florida is the end-all mitigating factor in the sea change. Surely Meyer would have utilized him to the extent that Tebow & Harvin didn’t have to be the lone 13-game tackling dummies?

PW @ 21

Since Spurrier left Florida, here be the results:

2002- 8-5, 2nd place, SEC East
2003- 8-5, 3rd place (tiebreaker), SEC East
2004- 7-5, 3rd place, SEC East
2005- 9-3, 3rd place, SEC East
2006- 13-1, 1st place, SEC East, SEC Champions, BCS National Champions
2007- 9-4, 3rd place, SEC East

The debate should be as follows: One of these years is not like the others. One of these years just doesn’t belong. Is it an outlier? Or was this year an outlier in Florida’s theoretical dominance in 2008, 2009, etc.? Of course, no one around Bristol seems willing to address this.

UF might be just fine. Or they might not be just fine. Getting torched by a typically conservative offense might be the byproduct or a coach leaving. Or it might not be.

Alls I know is- The Gators played kingmaker to Knowshon Moreno and emperormaker to the Wolverine secondary. One of these happened in the middle of the year; the other happened at the end. Your kids on D didn’t get better. The schedule just got easier. It would behoove you to fix this in the offseason, lest you’ll see this a year from now:

2008- 8-5, 3rd place, SEC East

I have to admit the ‘06 natty erased all my memory of that ’02 -’05 run.

I’ll bet even Hawaii is getting excited right now about putting up half a hundred on the Gators to christen their season this fall. Look for the Warriors to start the ‘08 season of upsets. Hey Larry Coker, you’re gonna have a new golfing buddy in 2009. The UF trash should be thankful that Brennan is gone and won’t be able to pick the defense apart like Henne & Friends. If I was a UF fan I don’t think I would be getting a lot of sleep this offseason. Those Spurrier years sure seem to be getting smaller and smaller in the rearview mirror, don’t they?

Gator fans rest easy – it’s not like Michigan’s offense is that bad. For example, did you see that 91-yard, 3-point effort we put up at home against OSU? How about that 7-point effort against Oregon? True, the offense did have 300+ yards in the first half of that game, but managed to score only once after crossing our opponents 50 5-6 times. Just because Purdue was the only other team we scored 40 points against this year, there is no real reason for you to be concerned.

So what if Michigan’s 524 yards of offense was only 3 short of its all-time bowl record? Your defense almost limited Michigan to the 479 yards we gained in our loss to Appalachian State – and they are a three-time defending national champion.

And is really that shameful that only Minnesota also gave up over 500 yards (561) to Michigan this year? I mean really, we did play defensive powerhouses like Eastern Michigan and Notre Dame.

College football is a weird game. I wouldn’t have taken 100-1 odds that Michigan would win.

“If I was a UF fan I don’t think I would be getting a lot of sleep this offseason.”

27 – Neither would I, because i’d be masterbating too much to the thought of a second national title in three years. Who needs a defense when you can score 50 every game? I don’t remember USC 2003-05 having a great defense. Good, yes, but they won by scoring a shitload of points.

28 – I didn’t think Michigan would win but I thought they would play their best game of the year because they were healthy and you know they wanted to win one for Lllloyd.

Anyone else see that Alabama & Clemson are opening 2008 in the Georgia Dome? That’s crazy go nuts.

“Neither would I, because i’d be masterbating too much to the thought of a second national title in three years. Who needs a defense when you can score 50 every game?”

Um, Florida, apparently.

Grr – After that debacle of a coaching search (outcome = good but process = bad),I should know better than to trust the Michigan athletic department. Contrary to the post-game notes at Mgoblue.com, Michigan’s total yard bowl record is not 527 from the 1901 Rose Bowl, rather it is 715 yards from the 1991 Gator Bowl versus Mississippi.

Another reason for UF fans to rejoice – that’s a good 190 yard difference in your favor.

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i think its spelled “masturbating” just saying…..

31 – They’re going to score more points next year when they have a real RB in that Moody guy from USC.

“31 – They’re going to score more points next year when they have a real RB in that Moody guy from USC.”

Here is the question in question:

“Who needs a defense when you can score 50 every game?”

Your answer doesn’t answer it.

I really think Florida has created a logical fallacy all its own. It’s something like this:

Team A has Problem B
Team A will cure Problem B with TEBOW!!!!!!!!!!!1
Therefore, TEBOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

As a fan of an SEC team other than Florida, I honestly don’t see why a UofF fan needs to worry about the Gators next year not producing quality wins. I look for those sons o’bitches to live up to a sure pre-season top 5 ranking with that young D one year and spring training better. You got beat in a crappy non-BCS mid-level bowl by a good team playing under the ‘win one for the gipper’ mentality. Anyone saying “The mighty have fallen” is just trying to fit a cliche into the wrong spot. As much as I hate it, Florida is still very much a threat for the SECE next year and more. The fuckers. If I were a Gator fan, I too would be jacking off at the chances of another MNC, instead I’m pretty sure the Cocks will be teasing me instead of the other way around.

1. - Did Grandpa give you a “BOOM MOTHERFUCKER”?

By the way, kudos on this as cheesecake by the way… I’ve been thinking about a Gummy Hummy all day.

WTF is a gummy hummy…?

Or I don’t want to know, for the sakes of visiting my grandparents with a clean mind ever again.

Michigan and Florida seemed to be equally fast. The real difference was that Michigan, on both sides of the ball, seemed to be STRONGER. Michigan dominated Florida at the line. That, plus the great play calling and the mental focus of the receivers, was enough to overcome 4 turnovers. Motivation can be powerful. Heck, back in the 80’s a 50 year old mom lifted a vintage chevy and saved her son. Michigan really WANTED this game. Tebow didn’t look bad, he just didn’t have much protection . . . especially at the end of the game.

In some ways the game reminded me of the ‘92 Sugar Bowl when a top 5 Gator team played a barely-top 25 Notre Dame squad. Gators were indignant at having to play such a lowly rated team, and Spurrier is the one who jokingly asked “what is the difference between Notre Dame and Cheerios?”. Dumb(founded) reporters replied "wha’, huh, dunno", and Spurrier said, “Cheerios belong in a bowl”. Man, we sure laughed hard at that one! Anyway, N.D. beat the stuffing out of Florida on that day. Manhandled them and, gasp, ran with them stride for stride. The lesson here: don’t take your Midwest teams too lightly because they just might knock all of your teeth right down your throat.

A startling fact, seldom discussed, is that Florida was 1–3 during the regular season against teams that ended the season in the BCS Top 25 (Tennessee – W; Auburn – L; LSU – L; Georgia – L). With Michigan surely to join the final BCS Top 25, that record will be 1–4. Or, .200 against good teams. That sucks.