re: Were you a Garcia lover or hater?

I was always torn about Garcia.

His Mom and Dad used to come by the Cockaboose all the time and I liked them both a lot. He came by once or twice and we always had to be careful letting him pass through for obvious reasons, but he was polite enough and behaved around his parents.

We were at the Auburn game in 2010 and that game infuriated me. He blew it, but at the same time he had us in position to win. And we would have won were it not for his late turnovers.

Shaw comes in and Spurrier admits the bad play call over the middle that was intercepted, and the second interception was not Shaw's fault, the one down in the corner of the endzone, but I said after that game that if Spurrier did not start Shaw from that point forward he was wrong.

Good gosh but I was pissed after the SECCG, especially when I heard about Garcia partying-it-up a couple of nights before the game.

Then comes 2011 and correct me if I am wrong but we would have lost that opener to ECU had Spurrier not benched Shaw and brought-in Garcia. But then Garcia turns around and totally blows it against Auburn at home.

It was like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with Garcia behind center and that just got old.

I was glad to see him go. I'll remember him fondly for the UF and Bama games, but even then it was more about Lattimore than it was Garcia.

I didn't love him or hate him, I just tolerated him and wished he would turn his act around and live-up to his potential and get serious about the game ... but he never did.

We should have seen it coming at the Under Armor game when he was calling himself Achilles and swinging the sword with the long hair and all that crap. Then the scratching the car incident ... I mean he had all these gifts but he had the mind of a ten year old brat.

I can't pass judgement though. I get it, I do. He was only worried about partying and getting poon. He's going to look back on this era of his life one day and regret it I suspect. What could have been.

I wish him well, I really do. He's not a bad person. Maybe he reminds me of someone I know.