re: My humble and limited take on this year.

Along with Slaton please add Campbell as a true frosh who played last season and will see more snaps...Clayton has added weight and is moved to DT.

And when your offense has been as bad as ours has been..the defense does look worse than it is. In 2016 we had one of the best defenses in the country even with an average at best offense.

Again...we could go on and on...what for? Discussion? I guess. Id rather be optimistic and wrong than negative and right.

The culture supposedly changed with Muschamp. And then with Mac. It's all a bunch of bull shite until they step on the field and actually compete, which is something UF has struggled with in recent years.

I think they will be better, but my optimism is muted because the shite we are hearing this off season is the same shite we have heard before, just about different coaches.

I hope I am pleasantly surprised.

Even a broken watch is right twice a day lol.

Also - I don't think I'm being negative. Realistic. 7-8 wins and I'll be a happy camper, especially after last year.

With decent QB play.... lol.

Says all gator fans in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and now 2018...

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and now 2018...

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If we don't have improved QB play, we may have hired the wrong coach, but I am confident we didn't.

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The culture supposedly changed with Muschamp. And then with Mac. It's all a bunch of bull shite until they step on the field and actually compete, which is something UF has struggled with in recent years.

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These aren't fluff pieces from Gator media. These are ex-players who have no reason to prop up the next regime. Jordan Sherit who can't play football anymore anyway isn't going to bullshite about it.

How many players came out and said S&C under McElwain was a joke? How many said this about Muschamp? No one said it about Muschamp. So unless every single recruit, every single ex-player and all of the physical evidence they've provided is just black propaganda then they need to be working for the government, not sports.

Too many different sources and even empirical evidence on the field back up the claims.

Also: 7 - 8 wins is inexcusable.

We were inches away from beating: LSU, A&M, South Carolina and even FSU if Franks didn't decide to switch jerseys.

Add in Northern Colorado and that season has 9 wins. If a zombie team with a backup HC could have easily been a 9 win teams with some lucky bounces, no way on Earth should we have 8 this frickin' year and Mullen definitely isn't the guy.

We're returning the entire roster + transfers and suspended players, swapping out Michigan for an FCS and playing Missouri, South Carolina and LSU at home. If Mullen is the guy, this schedule should be easy to navigate.

I'm with you Reel. Mullen wasn't my first choice, but I still think he is a great hire. I have bought into this team. I think he will lead us back to the podium with the crystal ball. Can't wait for September to get here.

I'm not saying we're going to win every game, I'm saying this is about as favorable of circumstances you can have for a transitioning coach.

1. Davis, Scarlett, Perine, Lemons all return. Pierce is actually very good.
2. All WRs except Powell return, we add two transfers BETTER than Powell.
3. Entire offensive line came back.
4. Upgraded at TE. A lot.
5. QB will be better regardless of who it is, because we have Mullen.

Offense has improved at every position and playcalling will be better. To those of you saying "we're changing offenses, it will take time", this might be true but Mullen's offense is exponentionally easier than McElwain's.

6. Defensive line returns all starters outside of Bryan and Sherit.
7. Linebackers return all starters plus two backup or potentially starting LBs.
8. We return both starting CBs and lost our NB, but Gardner is back at NB.
9. All safeties have significant playing time, they just need attention.

Defense will improve, we may have the unit with the most snaps and the vast majority of them aren't even seniors. We have the bodies neecessary, and I think it will take them more time to adjust, however...this brings me to my next point.

Our season sets up very favorably for a transition.

Charleston Southern, Kentucky and Colorado State are all in the Swamp three weeks in a row. The hardest of these games will easily be Colorado State, and we get them the third week so our kinks should be worked out.

After that: Tennessee, MSST on the road.

Tennessee might have a worse QB situation than our own, literally and are coming off of a very bad year. It will be hard, but we'll have three games to prepare our team.

Same with MSST, it's favorable because we will have just been at a tough environment at Tennessee, but I'm going to assume they're going to get the shite kicked out of them by WVU so it won't be so bad. However, we will probably lose this game.

Then we have LSU at home, and they needed a miracle and terrible Quarterback play to beat us by one point. We will crush LSU this year, as it's a huge recruiting weekend as well and we'll be throwing everything at them.

After LSU we're at Vanderbilt. Easy win.

We could easily be going into the Georgia game 6 - 1 where we will likely lose, but it wouldn't be the first time we were a serious underdog and ruined their season.

Then we have Mizzou at home, which will be quite a different tale than last season if we can avoid injuries.

South Carolina needed a miracle to beat us at home missing 28 scholarship players and our backup HC with a QB who wasn't built for the offense to win by one possession. They will not win in the Swamp without injury problems, and even then I think Mullen recognizes the urgency of this game.

Then we have Idaho, an FCS. Should be an easy win.

We go into the FSU game at 9 - 2 and have three games at home that are relatively easy to hopefully rest and get ourselves in the best position to go to Ron Zook stadium.

I see 10 - 2 or 9 - 3, unless Mullen gets outrageously outcoached. People forget that even in our bad recruiting times, we were still recruiting better than most of the SEC, so if we lose it's by virtue of just having poor coaching.

The talent and experience is there, we just need our team to have direction -- and I believe Mullen is the guy to give it ot them.

It’s seems like we have seen saying years that the results on the field will improve the recruiting. Hopefully this offense actually looks like an offense and we can start getting some good recruits. I think we get 8 wins in the regular season this year . If Mullen is as good as the hype we will win atleast 8 games and the offense will be noticeably better . I excited to see what the offense looks like .

Your right Slayer we are doomed. We have no talent. 5-7 then and maybe 4-8, what was I thinking?

Screw that!

Mizzou drilled us last year when our coach had been dragged through the media and we did have true frosh corners, who although talented, were still true frosh. The whole team had given up by that game, the UGA game and the rest.

Again Slayer, my reptile friend....you see things through that dark glass half empty. We lost two fricking games against LSU & A&M by 3 #@!%&! points. That changed our season. And again...IF you understand the mental aspect of college football....LSU had been embarrassed by Troy State before playing us, that's a dangerous foe....and they played 110% over their heads and STILL only won because of missed xtra point.

I did state myself that UK would play us tough...did I not? Ditto Vandy. However, UK has a new QB now and lost some talent. Vandy's home field is never an advantage because there usually as many rivals in the stadium. The coach has a great defensive mind but Vandy has high academic standards and is a private school...football isn't as important and its hard to have quality depth.

We had a young inexperienced QB who was not helped by the play calling or WR corp who were poorly coached. I have watched many replays of last year and honestly we should have ran the ball more, a lot more. Mullen will not make that mistake. An improved run game alone will make a big difference imo.

We faced a UGA team last year that had a lot of upperclassmen on defense (recruited by Richt btw) who were tough. They lost most of that. Young talent cant replace that in one year. Fromm has a good arm but hasn't faced the pressure he will this year game in and game out.


I could go on and on. The main thing is this: teams go through cycles, Bama will, Texas used to be a top five or ten team every year, along with Nebraska, etc etc. In 1986 when Bryant was at end of his career, Bama was toothless and had gone to pass first offense and had dropped the wishbone as every team did. In 1979 they were unbeatable.


New coaching, excitement turns around many programs and I think ours will. In the late 1980s UF was awful on offense even with Emmitt...couldn't throw a forward pass to save our lives...1990 enter Steve Spurrier and it all changed instantly. Not saying Mullen is another Spurrier, but he could be the catalyst to propel us back to better days.


Tell me why not?