re: What can we do?

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Maybe for you who are young...I can remember the 1979 season in Pells first year when we went 0-10-1...the tie was to a mediocre Ga Tech team and we lost an AA LBer in that rainy night game...Scott Brantley broke his neck in that game.

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I don't know why people keep pointing to that season as if it was all horrible. Yes, we went winless but the beginning of the season was like this year's Gators. Injuries, especially to Brantley at QB killed the season. Several games were close and the team actually improved in the end. The biggest thing is there was a lot of excitement around the program. Booster dollars was coming in droves and Pell was recruiting like crazy. I really first heard of UF that year as Pell was intent on building a big time program. He brought UF into the mainstream. I don't know anyone that felt that UF was going down hill. Everyone felt that UF was a sleeping giant and it was.

That year was transition. Everyone knew it. But it was also the most optimism ever at UF.