bullshite. From 1950 on, Florida has one of the three or four best overall records in the SEC. They have had only seven losing seasons in that 66-year span. When Spurrier arrived, they hadn't had a losing season in 11 years. Currently, they've had one losing season in the last 36 years.

The big knock on Florida was that they didn't win any SEC championships until 1991, although they got screwed out of one in 1984 (won it then had it retroactively vacated), tied for one (with a team they beat) in 1985 but were ineligible and won one outright in 1990 but were again ineligible.

Florida wasn't the premier program in the SEC, but to call them "pathetic" shows a...well, pathetic lack of knowledge of SEC football history.

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Posted by coachcrisp

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Posted on 6/2/16 at 8:30 am to Nuts4LSU

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bullshite. From 1950 on, Florida has one of the three or four best overall records in the SEC. They have had only seven losing seasons in that 66-year span. When Spurrier arrived, they hadn't had a losing season in 11 years. Currently, they've had one losing season in the last 36 years.

The big knock on Florida was that they didn't win any SEC championships until 1991, although they got screwed out of one in 1984 (won it then had it retroactively vacated), tied for one (with a team they beat) in 1985 but were ineligible and won one outright in 1990 but were again ineligible.

Florida wasn't the premier program in the SEC, but to call them "pathetic" shows a...well, pathetic lack of knowledge of SEC football history.

True story:
One year, at the time of the skywriter's tour, when all the reporters were in Tuscaloosa covering Alabama, as usual, Coach Bryant hosted his annual skywriters cocktail party at Indian Hills CC. And as usual, after he'd gotten about a dozen scotches down, one of the writers asked him why Florida seemed to have the best talent on paper year in and year out, but could never win the conference title. Coach turned to him and said, immediately...with a straight face, "You can't run a football with a hard dick."....