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re: Is this Sunbelt Billy's last stand at Florida?
Posted on 4/19/24 at 12:33 pm to boudinman
Posted on 4/19/24 at 12:33 pm to boudinman
This is the weirdest I have felt about a Gator football team in my lifetime. There is legitimately no energy from the fanbase.
Three straight losing seasons is crazy. In my life, prior to the last three seasons, we only had 2 losing seasons total.
But, in theory, we should be much better. We have a bunch of talented young players who got tons of experience last year, including 4 on the All SEC Freshman team. We had some solid contributors come in through the portal to shore up our defense.
Our offense wasn't atrocious last year, but was definitely mediocre. Tre Wilson might be the best offensive player we have had since Percy. The defense was historically bad though and has been on a terrible trajectory for half a decade now. I would say we couldn't get worse on defense, but I have said that three straight years and they have proved me wrong every time.
The biggest question mark to me though is idiotic coaching decisions. We lost one game last year because of a special teams blunder (Arkansas) and another game where we gave up a 4th and 17 (Missouri). Time management has been awful. We seemingly can't get 11 players on the field on special teams.
We have the personnel to win 7/8 games in my opinion, but Napier's shown an ability to shoot himself in the foot more than any coach I have ever seen.
Three straight losing seasons is crazy. In my life, prior to the last three seasons, we only had 2 losing seasons total.
But, in theory, we should be much better. We have a bunch of talented young players who got tons of experience last year, including 4 on the All SEC Freshman team. We had some solid contributors come in through the portal to shore up our defense.
Our offense wasn't atrocious last year, but was definitely mediocre. Tre Wilson might be the best offensive player we have had since Percy. The defense was historically bad though and has been on a terrible trajectory for half a decade now. I would say we couldn't get worse on defense, but I have said that three straight years and they have proved me wrong every time.
The biggest question mark to me though is idiotic coaching decisions. We lost one game last year because of a special teams blunder (Arkansas) and another game where we gave up a 4th and 17 (Missouri). Time management has been awful. We seemingly can't get 11 players on the field on special teams.
We have the personnel to win 7/8 games in my opinion, but Napier's shown an ability to shoot himself in the foot more than any coach I have ever seen.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 12:39 pm to generalgator87
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We have the personnel to win 7/8 games in my opinion, but Napier's shown an ability to shoot himself in the foot more than any coach I have ever seen.
Last year the Gators were an 8-4 team that found a way to end up 5-7. Coaching was the reason for at least 2 of the losses. Had Arky beat, can't get a field goal team on the field, had Missouri beat, can't stop a 4th and 17 and had FSU on the ropes until a terrible coaching decision to go for a 4th down changed the whole game. UF has top 5 or 6 most talent in the SEC, coaching is holding them back. Hopefully it gets better this year.
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