Nuss moving to booth. Will it help?

Swamp Donkey

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Do you guys really believe that Mac is in trouble?
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You serious, Clark?

Yeah, I think finishing 100 plus will either get him fired this year or next October. Rumors are that he waddled his fatazz into the AD's office and demanded that Nusschump be retained. At his point, he goes down with the ship.

He will lose 10-16 games in that period. Frankly, he just doesn't have the ability to do anything else.

He is as clueless on the sideline as any coach I've ever seen and that says something coming on the heals of Chimp. Sadly, at least Chimp knew how to make a defense and recruit. Butterteeth literally has no strength. Nothing.
 
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Unless some saint of mercy takes Nuss up NW 13th and puts him in the box at Gainesville High and leaves him there Saturday afternoon, it won't help.
 

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A couple quotes that jump out at me:

"Hopefully, the game brings a couple hours of enjoyment"
And a couple hours of misery? Or maybe is he planning on forfeiting about halfway through the 3rd?

"...there are a lot more people and a lot more things important than 3rd down and six"

This tells you a lot about his thought processes. First of all he sounds like a moron with no command of basic English. Second, he decides to throw out a random down and distance to make his point, and the first thing that pops in his mind is 3rd and long.
You know what I see when I hear these statements? The realization of total failure, and the inability to identify what the problem is.

1) Hope isn't a course of action. I cant tell you how much it irritates me to hear a leader, whether its sports, business or military use the term hope. Hoping does nothing. You say you "hope" something will happen as a young military leader, and the senior personnel will eat you alive. Results aren't founded in hope, and in results-driven organizations hope has no place. CFB is a results driven entity. A coach talking about hope means he's failing and has no answers.

2) Yeah there are a lot of things more important than football. However stating that in an attempt to minimize the importance of the product you put on the field is a candyass move. It's also really condescending; everybody knows this is the case. Nobody's paying you 3.5 mill a year to talk about all the things that are more important than your job. 3.5 mil a year means the job and results are pretty darn important. Quit whining and either get it corrected or GTHO.
 

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I agree it will be 2018, simply because of we seem to be cheap (and don't want to pay the buyout). But I don't get the comment here. Are you implying we'll repeat the fiasco and keep McElwain an extra year? If anything, I would think they learned something from the fiasco and will decide to cut him loose.

If we get trucked again this year (blown out), which I think is inevitable, he's done - and likely this year. I read several message boards and there is a vocal contingent of fans who are usually on the "pumper" side who have given up.

What I don't get about "pumpers" is that most of them are so loyal to the coach that they could care less about the program. Most of us, even pumpers, will admit - at the end of the day - we're Gator fans......not McElwain, or Spurrier, or Meyer, or Zook, or Muschamp fans. We are Gators first and if someone f*cks w/ that then we should want them gone. Right?
Well he was already given an undeserved raise and extension, so I don't see any evidence that they've learned from their mistakes thus far. Common sense says that they've learned and will do what's necessary at the end of this year, but one truth I've learned in life is that common sense isn't so common anymore.
 

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I feel bad for the players who bought into the Gator brand/trophy case but now are confronted with the coaching skills of a sedative-hypnotic. :weep:
 

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At that presser, when Mac implied "there are a lot of things more important than football." I wish a reporter had asked: "Is that because you've made Gator football so unimportant?"
 

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Sitting in the box should help Nuss see what the defense is doing and help call plays better. Will it, no.

I'm hoping this is Mac trying something different, so he can tell Nuss that he gave him every opportunity, before he let's him go mid season. Should have already happened.
 

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Probably a logical move to put Nuss in the box. But a few details regarding his move that I'd like to see added are Nuss will now be 1) in an office facing West 2) without a headset 3) given a stack of crossword puzzles and 4) told the game is at 7.

In any event, as others have said, this is McElwain's offense. No CEO would voluntarily keep on an executive that was not doing what he or she ultimately wanted, much less insist they get a pay increase. So this is to appease fans and make it appear that there are changes on the horizon. The fact that it's happening 1 game into the season is actually an insult to the fans. Nothing was learned against Mich that wasn't already abundantly clear for much of the past 2 seasons.
 

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I've been ridiculously busy at work and haven't had a chance to keep up on this stuff, but I'll say this...

If McElwain does not have an offense that shows significant improvement this year he is absolutely on the hot seat. Does that mean the hot seat is during 2018... probably, but the pressure will be there. If we are in the 100s again at the end of this year his a$$ will be on fire and we should have a list of coaches ready to go.
 

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These accurate posts got me thinking ... if Muckitup fires Nuss, then replaces him with smart, on-fire new OC that OC would be a threat to take McElwain's HC job. I'm saying, Mac is such a bad coach he'll be adverse to bringing in a energetic humdinger OC. Let's wait to see, when & if that time ever comes.?? Gotta clean sweep the house.
 

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I've been ridiculously busy at work and haven't had a chance to keep up on this stuff, but I'll say this...

If McElwain does not have an offense that shows significant improvement this year he is absolutely on the hot seat. Does that mean the hot seat is during 2018... probably, but the pressure will be there. If we are in the 100s again at the end of this year his a$$ will be on fire and we should have a list of coaches ready to go.

UF swapped out an easy game for Michigan. A second easy game was lost to the hurricane. Those two things will have a negative impact on UF's numbers on both offense and defense.
 

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UF swapped out an easy game for Michigan. A second easy game was lost to the hurricane. Those two things will have a negative impact on UF's numbers on both offense and defense.

No excuse for Nuss and them. They had months to prepare for that youthful and inexperienced Michigan defense. I do think the defense could have used the game last week to learn not to let receivers get wide open down the field with their coverages.
 

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Do you guys really believe that Mac is in trouble?
I guess it depends on whether or not you live in reality and think Fat Azz is a 4 loss coach with a 100+ offense, or whether you think he is a doing a great job and is secure for years because 99.5 percent of Gators love Fat Azz.

Even Dooley admits the obvious. Not sure how we get bowl eligible. Butters Fat Azz on a nuclear seat.
http://www.gatorsports.com/2017/09/dooley-noted-florida-loses-tennessee-going-get-ugly/

Welcome back to reality all you who were somehow under the belief that Butters was ready to challenge because he landed HIS collection of 3 star misfits.
 

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