- Jun 13, 2014
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Colorado State sounds like they mean business for this game. I guess they don't think too much of SEC teams right now.
***OFFICIAL GAME THREAD: UF vs Colorado State***
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- Sep 9, 2014
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We've got them right where we want them, overconfident after watching the UK film. What they don't know is we were sandbagging. Time to unleash the true power of the Mull-Ham O & D.
ps: Mullen's the one with the cameltoe
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- Jun 19, 2014
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that's what it was a lot. They knew the way to beat us was force the QB to have to make plays. So stack the box and make franks beat you. He's yet to prove it's a bad strategy.
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They were beating our ass with 4 most of the time.
- Sep 15, 2014
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Just look at this. Watch it 5 times and focus on a different O lineman each time
At least Scarlett and the TE did a solid job.....
- Jun 10, 2014
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94 degrees at kickoff tomorrow. These boys from Colorado won’t be able to handle that kind of heat with the humidity. No reason we shouldn’t pull away from them as the game goes on.
- Jun 11, 2014
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They give up alot of yards on the ground so pound the rock Gators!
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we were talking about that last night. I remember when Cal came to play us in Tampa after
and they literally melted in the 2nd half and our losing streak was over. Hottest game I ever attended. The big Sombrero smelled like vomit all day with the people heaving that cheap booze.
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I hereby dedicate the Butters Bowl to @Swamp Donkey. To fuel the angst over this storied matchup:
Colorado State football's $2 million game at Florida built on car chases, pizza and stupidity
Colorado State football's $2 million game at Florida built on car chases, pizza and stupidity
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On my way to The GCMB Soirée!
El dunno with the Digital Void Confessin’,
Time to gear up for the Real World A**hole2Bellybutton BS’ in’!
El dunno with the Digital Void Confessin’,
Time to gear up for the Real World A**hole2Bellybutton BS’ in’!
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With the injuries on defense and our offense is not quick strike....I do not think we can keep up with their high powered offense...yes their D sucks, but our O line sucks....38-28 CSU.
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I have been a dumper of the first order for 5.5 years now (things have been looking bad since 2012, notwithstanding the record).
But I am still a Gator fan[atic] and about 24 hours before each game, on those 12 limited, precious, weekends a year, I become completely irrational and forget how awful we have been. It's about that time.
Pumper-time.
So, I'll paraphrase a quote I've heard from Lou Holtz that college football is so unpredictable because every week an entirely different team shows up on each sideline. These are 18-23 year olds, who may have had a bad test score, stayed out too late, broken up with a girlfriend, or got too high to sexually assault someone the night before the game, etc.
So, I'm fully hoping/expecting (for at least today) to see an entirely different Gator team this week and that we see a consistent pattern of improvement each week from hereon, culminating with an FSU azzbeating.
WAIT, we are wearing Orange jerseys? F-it, we're screwed.
But I am still a Gator fan[atic] and about 24 hours before each game, on those 12 limited, precious, weekends a year, I become completely irrational and forget how awful we have been. It's about that time.
Pumper-time.
So, I'll paraphrase a quote I've heard from Lou Holtz that college football is so unpredictable because every week an entirely different team shows up on each sideline. These are 18-23 year olds, who may have had a bad test score, stayed out too late, broken up with a girlfriend, or got too high to sexually assault someone the night before the game, etc.
So, I'm fully hoping/expecting (for at least today) to see an entirely different Gator team this week and that we see a consistent pattern of improvement each week from hereon, culminating with an FSU azzbeating.
WAIT, we are wearing Orange jerseys? F-it, we're screwed.
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Few college football games happen for reasons more stupid than what will bring Colorado State and Florida together Saturday. Yes, how this game came to be is just plain dumb.
On the surface, this is a standard nonconference game bound by a contract that pays the Rams $2 million for their trip to Gainesville to play their second Southeastern Conference opponent in a row — and third Power Five foe in three games. In reality, this is a game fueled by car chases and a media circus that backed two schools into a corner and forced them to answer a nasty question.
How much is a man worth?
CSU answered “$7 million.” To the University of Florida, Jim McElwain was valued at $5 million — that was, of course, before the school paid an additional $7.5 million to have nothing to do with him last October. But prior to him having seemingly fabricated death threats and striking an unfortunate resemblance to a naked man posing on top of a dead shark, McElwain was the hottest coach on the college market. He took Colorado State to its first 10-win season since 2002 and the closest the Rams have come to a Mountain West championship since that same year. Everyone in Fort Collins adored him, until one December night when he decided he would rather pay $2 million out of his own pocket than stick around Colorado for another year.
Jeremy Foley, Florida’s former athletic director, really wanted McElwain and really wanted everyone to know. He flew from Gainesville to Fort Collins on Dec. 2, 2014, and didn’t block his private plane’s tail number (that was by design). By the time he landed at Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport, every news outlet north of Douglas County was waiting on the tarmac for his arrival, and as soon as he hopped in his Suburban, we chased him. First to a Windsor gas station and then down a gravel road (unsafely stupid) before reaching McElwain’s home northeast of Fort Collins, where we waited outside for hours as negotiations began.
Former Denver Post reporter Terry Frei and I even rang the doorbell while McElwain’s wife, Karen, was filling a pitcher of water. She looked over at us from the kitchen and laughed. (I later ran into Karen at a CSU-CU basketball game, and she joked with me by saying, “I’m blond, but I’m not stupid.”) Later that night, Frei ordered the media circus along Riparian Way to Mama Roni’s Pizza — Mac’s favorite; the delivery guy didn’t even need the address, he knew the spot.
By the time pizza arrived, McElwain made national headlines, just the way Foley planned it. He wasn’t going home without his new coach, and the media coverage made the optics of McElwain and CSU reuniting so ugly that both parties had only one way out.
The sticking point was the buyout. McElwain’s contract called for a $7.5 million payment should he leave before his new deal he signed that August expired, and Florida wasn’t willing to bite, pointing to a “Dream Job” clause that was stupidly written into his employment agreement. What they settled on was $7 million — $2 million McElwain would pay on his own, $3 million in cash from Florida and another $2 million for the Rams to play at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in 2018.
Most stupid of all, it’s not clear whether either school is in a better position today than it was four years ago. Financially, CSU won, using the $7 million in revenue to help fund cost-of-attendance stipends for student-athletes; Florida had to pay two buyouts (hiring and firing) for McElwain totaling $12.5 million, and that doesn’t include any salary or bonuses he earned.
On the field, the issue is muddier. CSU coach Mike Bobo hasn’t had the same success that Mac did but has taken the Rams to a bowl in all three of his seasons and is a better character fit for the program. McElwain helped the Gators to two SEC championship games but never could best Alabama, and now that he’s been canned, Florida has the coach it should’ve hired in the first place, Dan Mullen.
Which brings us back to Saturday. Nothing positive can come out of this game for Florida. If the Gators win, well, they were supposed to, and if they lose (an actual possibility), they become a national embarrassment. Stupid. CSU at least gets a paycheck, but without McElwain — Michigan’s first-year receivers coach — on the opposite sideline, this game has lost most of its luster and is a grueling East Coast trip for a team that’s used to playing evening games back West.
On the surface, this is a standard nonconference game bound by a contract that pays the Rams $2 million for their trip to Gainesville to play their second Southeastern Conference opponent in a row — and third Power Five foe in three games. In reality, this is a game fueled by car chases and a media circus that backed two schools into a corner and forced them to answer a nasty question.
How much is a man worth?
CSU answered “$7 million.” To the University of Florida, Jim McElwain was valued at $5 million — that was, of course, before the school paid an additional $7.5 million to have nothing to do with him last October. But prior to him having seemingly fabricated death threats and striking an unfortunate resemblance to a naked man posing on top of a dead shark, McElwain was the hottest coach on the college market. He took Colorado State to its first 10-win season since 2002 and the closest the Rams have come to a Mountain West championship since that same year. Everyone in Fort Collins adored him, until one December night when he decided he would rather pay $2 million out of his own pocket than stick around Colorado for another year.
Jeremy Foley, Florida’s former athletic director, really wanted McElwain and really wanted everyone to know. He flew from Gainesville to Fort Collins on Dec. 2, 2014, and didn’t block his private plane’s tail number (that was by design). By the time he landed at Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport, every news outlet north of Douglas County was waiting on the tarmac for his arrival, and as soon as he hopped in his Suburban, we chased him. First to a Windsor gas station and then down a gravel road (unsafely stupid) before reaching McElwain’s home northeast of Fort Collins, where we waited outside for hours as negotiations began.
Former Denver Post reporter Terry Frei and I even rang the doorbell while McElwain’s wife, Karen, was filling a pitcher of water. She looked over at us from the kitchen and laughed. (I later ran into Karen at a CSU-CU basketball game, and she joked with me by saying, “I’m blond, but I’m not stupid.”) Later that night, Frei ordered the media circus along Riparian Way to Mama Roni’s Pizza — Mac’s favorite; the delivery guy didn’t even need the address, he knew the spot.
By the time pizza arrived, McElwain made national headlines, just the way Foley planned it. He wasn’t going home without his new coach, and the media coverage made the optics of McElwain and CSU reuniting so ugly that both parties had only one way out.
The sticking point was the buyout. McElwain’s contract called for a $7.5 million payment should he leave before his new deal he signed that August expired, and Florida wasn’t willing to bite, pointing to a “Dream Job” clause that was stupidly written into his employment agreement. What they settled on was $7 million — $2 million McElwain would pay on his own, $3 million in cash from Florida and another $2 million for the Rams to play at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in 2018.
Most stupid of all, it’s not clear whether either school is in a better position today than it was four years ago. Financially, CSU won, using the $7 million in revenue to help fund cost-of-attendance stipends for student-athletes; Florida had to pay two buyouts (hiring and firing) for McElwain totaling $12.5 million, and that doesn’t include any salary or bonuses he earned.
On the field, the issue is muddier. CSU coach Mike Bobo hasn’t had the same success that Mac did but has taken the Rams to a bowl in all three of his seasons and is a better character fit for the program. McElwain helped the Gators to two SEC championship games but never could best Alabama, and now that he’s been canned, Florida has the coach it should’ve hired in the first place, Dan Mullen.
Which brings us back to Saturday. Nothing positive can come out of this game for Florida. If the Gators win, well, they were supposed to, and if they lose (an actual possibility), they become a national embarrassment. Stupid. CSU at least gets a paycheck, but without McElwain — Michigan’s first-year receivers coach — on the opposite sideline, this game has lost most of its luster and is a grueling East Coast trip for a team that’s used to playing evening games back West.
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