Zaire Needs to Start Next Week.

No doubt.

Franks has no chance it seems.

I think he thought his job was safe...I think? Makes no sense tbh.

This is exactly why you don't hire your friends. They'll be the first ones to screw you over. He wanted this and didn't mind the consequences. So, UF and fans should not feel bad about letting him go/quit/deep sea fish.

wow straws. i try to be cautiously optimistic when things get tough, and it's been a tough season where we should have seen progress.

i'm all for mac getting fired now, but i'm suprised at your reaction to him. maybe go plow one of those fine arse latin american women and straighten yourself out.

stay thirsty my friend.

Straws is a good fan, but being against a bad coach doesn't make you bad either. Going down with a sinking ship only means you were loyal to a terrible captain.

That's the thing -- I always want to win, no matter who it is. My biggest issue is that it was so utterly obvious he just had no business being on the field. He didn't want to be out there, he doesn't like Florida.

And he may have a point -- I still think people were far too harsh on him for what he was trying to do and accomplished.

He definitely went down with his quarterback, though, and it just seems so weird that he was comfortable falling on that sword.

I screamed from the rooftops this past summer that Franks was not ready to be a SEC QB. He had never taken a snap in a real game before and from high school/spring games I could see he gets too emotional and isn't calm enough to read the field.

We were doomed as soon as it was announced Franks was the starter for the meatchicken game. I was praying it would be LDR. I hoped for the best.

I support 100% whoever is the HC at UF because I love the Gators and since 1962 I have bled O&B. It hurts. Our fans can sometimes be our own worse enemy and we aren't going 12-0 every year...of course we should try to.

Feel bad for LDR & Zaire, they deserved better chances. For coming into the game stone cold Zaire acquitted himself and kept our scoring streak the longest in the nation. Kudos. Feel bad for Franks too....he wasn't ever ready and was given the reins anyway. WTF was the staff thinking? Franks only hope is to gain 25-30 lbs and hit the weight room and grow into that lanky body.

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Zaire and LDR suck along with Franks.

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Lack of coaching is why they suck. Look at Brissett. We all said he sucked too and he's playing on Sundays. A bad coach makes his players look bad. I was sad for Franks yesterday because Butters kept trotting him out there with no clear plan. He basically left Franks out to dry as if he wanted him to fail miserably. I think Mac was very cruel in that regard.

A competent coach will turn this ship around immediately. This team is talented but sandbagged by poor coaching in all phases. I saw the lack of coaching the very first season, which is why I wanted him gone in year one. This team regressed as the season progressed. That is always an indictment on poor coaching. Good coaches clean that shite up quickly. We've never been able to compete against "good" teams. We've been blown out every time we played a team with a pulse. That is coaching or lack thereof.

Straws - there's nothing wrong with standing by the man selected to lead our program. It is very difficult to demand a divorce. You want to try everything and give them as much rope as possible. Even when it goes in the shitter, you still want to give it one more try. It's not until you've finally had enough and you're at the point of no return that you can see clearly.

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Straws - there's nothing wrong with standing by the man selected to lead our program. It is very difficult to demand a divorce. You want to try everything and give them as much rope as possible. Even when it goes in the shitter, you still want to give it one more try. It's not until you've finally had enough and you're at the point of no return that you can see clearly.

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It wasn't even that deep -- it was all revolving on one motherfricking thing.

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Zaire Needs to Start Next Week.

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That fricking thing is what finally broke me. I understand Zaire isn't great, as TJ pointed out -- but he's got five fricking years in the league. He's played in the league before, he's gotten coached up all those years and is accustomed to the speed, the reads and football in general.

We don't need him to throw, we need him to show the defense another weapon -- Harris was awful, too, but that he could run kept defenses honest.

McElwain first humiliated himself with the death threats -- I actually don't think they were that bad, but he came back and talked about it even worse.

It's like watching a drunk stumble down some stairs and then try to walk back up and just when he's at the apex, he slides face down, every stair hitting him in the face.

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A competent coach will turn this ship around immediately.

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We have the talent on offense and a young defense -- and don't lose your faith in our defense, no one. They got put into shitty position after shitty position because McElwain didn't want to make a change at quarterback. Even a few first downs, put the Dogs on the other side of the field, would have been okay.

It broke their backs early to have two three and outs and have the enemy at the gates before the game really even started, and their already fragile mentality broke.