re: Florida is now the SEC east favorite

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I thought y'alls OLine was full of veterans. Are they young? Maybe I am thinking of another team?

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I think we lost 3 - 4 guys from the OL, everyone is pretty new.

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I am always surprised at the number of Florida players that grow with a year under Dan's system, yet players from other teams apparently stagnate under everybody elses system.

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Dan Mullen is an 11 year SEC coach with a proven track record of turning teams around. To go from 4 - 7 to top ten is pretty astounding, especially to beat LSU, MSST at home and then trounce a Michigan team that has had our number for a long time.

And he did it without a Quarterback that fits his system.

Manny Diaz inherited a terrible offense while being a defensive specialist. Muschamp and Kirby are both coaches with extremely similar backgrounds -- good defensive coaches, never ran a team and both went 7 - 6/8 - 5 in their first years.

Running a team, especially one with an offense as bad as Miami's is really fricking hard. You usually need a year to get in the swing of things, and to think that Manny is going to be some anomaly and outperform both Muschamp and Kirby is, to say the least, not likely.

I'm telling you, Florida will need to come out flat, uninspired and in complete disarray for Miami to even keep it close. They have an entirely new staff going up against an almost entirely in-tact staff who has two years in their system, a system perfected over a decade vs. an entirely new system that neither Enos nor Manny know what's going to happen.

I'm definitely predicting a bloodbath.