- Aug 27, 2018
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The improvement in intensity and effort has been astounding ! King Jeremy Foley took the program to the bottom with bad hires and lack of football facilities but we finally have an AD and head coach that appreciates the fans instead of calling them noise in the system !
........dont get em started.. They think that was the leather helmet era.............. Some of the posters here need the perspective of 0-10-1,
To a large degree you too have a point, but I don’t remember 88 and 89 that bad. We had Emmitt.
The improvement in intensity and effort has been astounding ! King Jeremy Foley took the program to the bottom with bad hires and lack of football facilities but we finally have an AD and head coach that appreciates the fans instead of calling them noise in the system !
I've been a fan since 1970 or 1964 (depending on how we are counting since I was born at Shands)...so thats 48 (or 54) years....snit, now I'm depressed at how old we are....Welcome aboard! You have me beat....been a fan 50 something years. Need some more seasoned Gators around here.
To a large degree you too have a point, but I don’t remember 88 and 89 that bad. We had Emmitt.
I remember 0-10-1. Bad time to be aGator fan in Tally. Remember DD and his ‘intelligence’.
The team SOS inherited was light years better than what Dan did. I’m not at all diminishing what SOS did for us, as he’s the best best we’ve ever had, but Dan has done things with this group that I simply didn’t believe were possible. He might be doing his best work ever right now?I was not around for 0-10-1 or fourth & dumb. There's a good argument to be made for the OP due to improvement on both sides of the ball. Spurrier's first team was rock solid on defense and had been for quite some time. However the jump in productivity from Donald Douglass to Shane Matthews was about as steep a gradient of improvement as can be imagined for an offensive unit. So I'm just saying, until we whip a top ten team by 40 points and win the SEC outright, pumping the brakes might be in order.
I really like what Dan is doing and in some ways it might even be better than what SOS did through a half season. But he's working with significantly less talent IMO and I think it's best to save the all time accolades until the season is in.
He's gone from Cousin Eddie to Dan the Man faster than you can say the shyter's full.