Florida Football: Jim McElwain Press Conference 9/4/2017 - Nuss will continue calling plays

[Gator Fever]

Mac said Nuss knows what he is doing because he has seen what he can do and Nuss takes this stuff personal and they will get it turned around.

 

[Gatorraid81]

We are stuck in football purgatory for the foreseeable future!!

 

[oxrageous]

I don't know if any of you saw the back ground stuff but Michigan was laughing at us. Doing Gator Chomps and finger pointing. Laughing. I just want to go somewhere and kick to the hell out of someone's dog....

Michigan did everything in their power to land the coach they wanted. Money was no object; they locked on to their guy and offered him the moon. Ultimately, all that money will come back to the university because of their wise decision to demand excellence.

I wish to God the UF management had that mentality.

 

[G8trwood]

And yet, we gave each of them a raise and extension.. how deep does this problem go

 

[skinnyquinton]

I use to enjoy football. I now accept invitations to friends weddings that occur on football Saturdays.

 

[Lake Gator]

Same as muschamp, we're getting it fixed. which means it's not getting fixed.

Does that mean the fix is in?

 

[FireFoley]

Michigan did everything in their power to land the coach they wanted. Money was no object; they locked on to their guy and offered him the moon. Ultimately, all that money will come back to the university because of their wise decision to demand excellence.

I wish to God the UF management had that mentality.

 

[ATXGator]

"They've looked at it, we've corrected it..."
Where's the damn beer.

It's on me... I'll get it fixed.... just another way to say the same thing

 

[Durty South Swamp]

Fellas, he can't fire Nuss now. He needs him as the scapegoat that gets fired at the end of the season to save himself. If he fired Nuss now, it would become obvious very quickly that Nuss ultimately isn't the problem.

its been painfully obvious since the beginning of last season.

 

[Gator87]

Mac said Nuss knows what he is doing because he has seen what he can do and Nuss takes this stuff personal and they will get it turned around.

Just like he said the O-line was the strength of the team. That proves to me he doesn't know what the F he is looking at, so I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for him and the incompetent OC to get it turned around.

 

[Gator Fever]

Just like he said the O-line was the strength of the team. That proves to me he doesn't know what the F he is looking at, so I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for him and the incompetent OC to get it turned around.

They asked him if he wanted to change his thinking on that but I cant remember what BS answer he gave them.

 

[PaulDrake]

Just like he said the O-line was the strength of the team. That proves to me he doesn't know what the F he is looking at, so I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for him and the incompetent OC to get it turned around.

Our problem is that O-line looked good at CSU, not the SEC. REAL football is played here. Spurrier was a gunslinger coach Eastwood style. Meyer was a black hearted slayer who freakin' HATED losing. [See Fla/GA game where he got his revenge]. There IS a coach out there that can do this...we just have to find him and offer the right money.

 

[GatorInGeorgia]

Ox is dead on. Think about this as well....just what the hell can you change anyway now mid-season? It's what it is and like it or not it's what it's going to be. Yeah, I know its one game but look how the entire team comported itself revealing program weaknesses that can't be fixed after one or two games. Yeah, Will Greir looked great last night. That Will Greir could not exist here in this program/offense style and scheme. He would look nothing like that under these yahoos. Those were REAL coaches last night with gunslinger offense going down fighting. If we lost that game last week slinging it and going down fighting I could live with that. Instead we couldn't even compete on a rudimentary level. I don't know if any of you saw the back ground stuff but Michigan was laughing at us. Doing Gator Chomps and finger pointing. Laughing. I just want to go somewhere and kick to the hell out of someone's dog....

A good play caller could change what plays were called when, on a situational basis. A good play caller could also break out some new stuff that Nuss doesn't call (sweeps, quick slants, TE/2TE sets, etc.). Play calling is also about the rhytmn and feel of the game as much as having X number of plays in your bag. Nuss doesn't seem to have much for the feel of the game. I agree with you about the inability to play rudimentary football. Again, though, a good play caller can help cover up personnel weaknesses with some effective plays that keep the defense honest. Nuss doesn't do this. Harbaugh does it very well.

 

[PaulDrake]

A good play caller could change what plays were called when, on a situational basis. A good play caller could also break out some new stuff that Nuss doesn't call (sweeps, quick slants, TE/2TE sets, etc.). Play calling is also about the rhytmn and feel of the game as much as having X number of plays in your bag. Nuss doesn't seem to have much for the feel of the game. I agree with you about the inability to play rudimentary football. Again, though, a good play caller can help cover up personnel weaknesses with some effective plays that keep the defense honest. Nuss doesn't do this. Harbaugh does it very well.

Your points are dead on with a normal regular college football team. That isn't the case here. This is an anomaly. You don't see other plays called and up tempo changes and the other moves you referenced because they weren't coached to actually run them. You can see that in the way they execute what they DO have and are barely able to run THEM. Makes one wonder what in the hell were they doing off season? My god. Go back and look at that game. NO ONE was doing what they were supposed to do with the exception of Cleveland. Brett Haggie looked lost, I mean lost. Changing play calling isn't going to help ANY of that. I don't mean to sound so negative but I am a realist. Mac is clueless and man does it show on the field.

 

[gardnerwebbgator]

I use to enjoy football. I now accept invitations to friends weddings that occur on football Saturdays.

Reminds me of one a good friend of mine at G-W had, in Taylors, SC (in the GSP area) on 11/22/97. The day of what turned out to be the greatest game in the Swamp, and a little Clemson/SC tilt in Columbia. They planned for a crowd of 400, only 55 people showed up....needless to say, I wasn't one of them. His wife is pissed to this day, he isn't, he tried to move it one week earlier, and she wanted to be on their honeymoon during Thanksgiving. She won.

 

[GatorInGeorgia]

Your points are dead on with a normal regular college football team. That isn't the case here. This is an anomaly. You don't see other plays called and up tempo changes and the other moves you referenced because they weren't coached to actually run them. You can see that in the way they execute what they DO have and are barely able to run THEM. Makes one wonder what in the hell were they doing off season? My god. Go back and look at that game. NO ONE was doing what they were supposed to do with the exception of Cleveland. Brett Haggie looked lost, I mean lost. Changing play calling isn't going to help ANY of that. I don't mean to sound so negative but I am a realist. Mac is clueless and man does it show on the field.

I agree with you that Mac is lost. My point in fewer words than my post above is this: if Harbaugh and his staff took over at UF before the season opener with the same players we have now, how competent would our team look on the field? Very competent. How many blowout wins would we notch by year end? 8-9. How many games would we lose where we weren't even competitive? 0-1. He'd have these guys humming. A good OC would do the same assuming Mac didn't handcuff him (which may be a big assumption, I know).

 

[OllieGator]

And yet he's a delusional pos.

 

[Chomper]

The only news conference I want to watch is the one where Scott Stricklin tells us Butters has been fired. Anything less is just a waste of time.

 

[alcoholica]

if Marianna was right about Nuss almost being force out at the end of last season, I'm not sure Mac has the opportunity to use him as a scapegoat. The conversation may have been it's on Nuss, but if you keep Nuss, it's on you. So I don't think Nuss as a scapegoat is what will happen. It'll be a money issue. He got a one year extension, and not more money is at risk. If we show up to UT like we did to Michigan, I expect the demote Nuss or fire Nuss could be a real possibility. There are two recruiting classes buying into this program, and if Mac can keep them in the fold, then he's earned some of his contract. The timing is just really ridiculous though.

 

[PaterLacerta]

Mac is signing his own death warrant. (Scapegoats only work if no one is paying attention.) This hits the nail on the head:

http://gridironnow.com/florida-offense-bad-play-calling/