LuciusSulla

I'll probably park over at the Oxford Intermediate. It used to be free, but I guess they figured out that they were giving the milk away and now charge $40.

It's a mile walk, but the walking path makes it an easy one, plus it's really easy to loop the grove in on it. Another upside is that it's usually easy to get out of after the game, plus, as of last night, you could still reserve spots it seemed. You do a Google form, and they email you back with the Venmo.

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For that money, you can probably get closer, but I hate hunting around off Jackson Ave for parking on game day just to save 1/2 a mile of walking.

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Depending on the graduate degree, he could have been at UF just as long as Ole Miss.

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Yeah, that take was really, really off the mark.

I was at UF longer than at my undergrad institution, which boasted a football program that no one cared about to begin with. Most of my cohort at UF who were into sports to this day are Gator fans first.

Anyone who did a graduate program that started with masters-level work and ended in a PhD might have been at their grad institution for almost twice as long in some cases. Hell, I know some people who took almost twice as long to do a PhD alone even starting with a master's.

I realize that most college grads don't go to grad school and that most folks who go to grad school don't do doctorates, but that's still a helluvalot of people. Either way, if you did even just a master's degree but did so on assistantship, and definitely if you did a PhD on assistantship or fellowship (which is usually the whole PhD cohort at any good program), you were likely WAY more involved with the university, at least at the program level, than you ever were as an undergrad. Even where I did my MA, I knew the faculty much better and had more input into curriculum ideas than I did as a BS student. That often leads to a greater sense of ownership in that institution.

Not to mention I paid to go do my BS. UF paid me to do a PhD. To this day, I give far more money back to UF for having given me such an enormous opportunity. They saw something in me back then that I didn't even see in myself, and it changed my life.

My experience is not unique, which is exactly why such blanket statements are absurd.

There is a lot of hyperbole coming from that side, but Florida is really talented this year, aside from DJ looking more and more like a complete bust.

Even with all of that talent, it's been coached like shite all the way until about four weeks ago. In some ways (not every way), Florida is back at the beginning of the season figuring out what they are now that Napier isn't imposing what the offense has to be.

No sure individual metrics matter all that much to be honest though. Ole Miss is a good TEAM. What has impressed me the most this year is that they have managed to win a couple of different ways, and there are enough pieces there that Chambliss can be mediocre and they can still win.

The defense at UF is legit though. They also aren't going to get spooked if they get down early. The one thing, maybe the only thing, I'll give Napier is that his teams play all four quarters. Usually this is because Napier called such a shitty fourth quarter that teams get back in the game even when Florida is up, but even in the loses, they play to the end.

I think Ole Miss should win the game. I think the Vaught is more of a factor for Ole Miss staying hyped than throwing Florida off, but I imagine it's going to be at full tilt for this game.

However, Florida really does have a lot of talent who probably would have won a lot more games this year with competent coaching. They could definitely be a handful if a team got them on a night where everything finally clicked. They could also have a night where DJ throw five picks again. He's just shite at reading defenses and adjusting (see the fourth down play in the WLOCP last week that cost UF the game). He's a complete liability back there as of now, and I don't think Billy G. would bench him regardless of how bad he looks. Apparently, there is a lot of BS behind the scenes with that whole situation.

Yeah, I just bought tickets myself.

I think I'll be slightly sadder if Ole Miss loses than UF given the stakes, but it's honestly a kinda miserable situation. However, I think the atmosphere is going to be wild, and if Ole Miss wins, it will be watching history. Had to suck up the cognitive dissonance and get tickets for me and the girl.

Yeah, he ain't it.

Just read on another board that there have been some conversations between our camp and Gruden's. Just general butt sniffing and not anything serious yet from how it sounds.

But we officially have Grumors now. We are fricking Tennessee now, aren't we?

That is pretty cool.

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I’m not sure if this was intentional or not, but that’s pretty good.

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I was just thinking the same thing. Not sure if it's a better pun if it's accidental or on purpose.

I'd prefer not to go back to Meyer. There's always this pull to think you can capture lightning in a bottle again. Far more often than not, the results are just mediocre and tarnish the memory of what was. That leaves the times when it actually works and the times it is an absolute catastrophe left, of which the latter seems to far outnumber the former.

North Carolina has put on a clinic in examples of two of those three outcomes here lately.

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I don't know if a waste. I think the pilots use the flying time as part of their annual required flying time. Free flyover and PR for USAF.

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My BIL is a pilot in USAF, and, after I asked once how it works, it's basically something like this, though I don't know the technical terms for it. They're going to fly the hours anyway, so they let them do something that's good PR and a fun attaboy for the pilots with some of them.