Gators move up to #18 in the coaches poll

[TheBigClaw]

Amway Coaches Poll Week 5: 6 SEC teams in the Top 25. Read more at seccountry.com:
https://www.seccountry.com/sec/amway-coaches-poll-week-5-6-sec-teams-in-the-top-25


Discuss

 

[MatthewM.]

This is the poll of blind and deaf coaches only right? It must be.

 

[gatormandan]

They didnt watch the last 2 games?

 

[rogdochar]

They had to do that in order to move Vandy up after such a hard fought loss.

 

[Marianna-FL_Gator]

#18 in the AP also...FSU #23...UGA fell out!

 

[GatorStud]

It's a facade like the stock market ;)

 

[Yankeetown]

We won. Some didn't.

That is the ultimate bottom-line. And a quick, non-debatable statistic.

Grading on execution, talent, opponent strength and style points takes a lot of time, to do it right you have to watch all the games. And even then, it's subjective.

To put a positive spin on this, some folks out there aren't down about the Gators as much as most Gatorchatters. To spin it the other way, the poll-voters are very superficial. (Hard to be otherwise, based on personal knowledge; there's probably 70 teams from the power conferences and a few strays that have to potentially be considered for a Top 25 vote.)

 

[GatorJ]

I'll tell you this, as boring as that Vanderbilt game may have been (I just skimmed through it), it could not have been more boring than that Michigan/Wisconsin game.

 

[Captain Sasquatch]

I'll tell you this, as boring as that Vanderbilt game may have been (I just skimmed through it), it could not have been more boring than that Michigan/Wisconsin game.

People here will tell you that winning 14-7 is a bad thing and losing 37-35 is a good thing.

 

[GatorJ]

People here will tell you that winning 14-7 is a bad thing and losing 37-35 is a good thing.

I'm definitely not happy with the direction of the program. And it's good that we're winning these crappy games. I guess. I'm not ready to hang it up with Mac, but he has got to make some serious staff changes this off-season.

And not like Chump did. It's OK to hire new coaches yet keep your same offensive and defensive philosophies. We need young energetic coordinators that call great game plans and can really recruit. Oh and we need a new o-line and special teams coach.

 

[gatormandan]

People here will tell you that winning 14-7 is a bad thing and losing 37-35 is a good thing.

Its not so much the score as the coaching plan and the execution and desire and heart and improvement. Just about all of that sucked.

 

[Captain Sasquatch]

I'm definitely not happy with the direction of the program. And it's good that we're winning these crappy games. I guess. I'm not ready to hang it up with Mac, but he has got to make some serious staff changes this off-season.

And not like Chump did. It's OK to hire new coaches yet keep your same offensive and defensive philosophies. We need young energetic coordinators that call great game plans and can really recruit. Oh and we need a new o-line and special teams coach.

I said this in the box yesterday, but I'm totally on board with a change in ST and OL coach. Nuss is safe for now, and Mac is more or less untouchable, because the sh*t runs downhill, always has. Right now you can attribute the lion's share of the offense's problems to the line, and the special teams are as bad as they've been in a very long time outside of having two superhuman kickers. No creative fakes, punt return team is shockingly bad this year, punt coverage team has had issues here and there but had a good game against Vandy, and the kick return team is a virtual non-factor when the kick isn't a touchback.

 

[GatorJ]

Rumph, Skipper, Dixon, and Gray are good recruiters and good position coaches.

Shannon is a good linebackers coach but a terrible recruiter.

Nuss, Nord, Summers, and Collins suck at both.

What would be ideal is that Collins gets a head coaching gig somewhere and the other three get axed.

 

[oxrageous]

People here will tell you that winning 14-7 is a bad thing and losing 37-35 is a good thing.

You failed to mention Wisconsin was a top 10 team. :rolleyes:

I think most of us would be happy beating a top 10 team 14-7.

 

[rockinchair]

Rumph, Skipper, Dixon, and Gray are good recruiters and good position coaches.

Shannon is a good linebackers coach but a terrible recruiter.

Nuss, Nord, Summers, and Collins suck at both.

What would be ideal is that Collins gets a head coaching gig somewhere and the other three get axed.

Agree with this.

I THINK Mac is a good coach. I want him to be anyway. Problem is, he was forced to hire JV coaches from JV programs because Foley didn't want to spend the coin to get a real staff to go with Mac.

LSU is a HUGE game for Coach Mac We'll see what adjustments he'll make (if any), based off the last 2 weeks sloppy perfomances. And this offseason is going to be huge for him, too. Regardless of how we finish out the year (and it's not looking good), he HAS to make some staff changes. For the sake of recruiting and the product on the field. If he doesn't, then he's a dead man walking, imo.

 

[OcalaGator83]

I'm just shocked we didn't move up into the top 10 after yesterday.

 

[MJMGator]

Just goes to show you how worthless the poll system is.

 

[EuroGator]

We won. Some didn't.
That is the ultimate bottom-line. And a quick, non-debatable statistic.

To put a positive spin on this, some folks out there aren't down about the Gators as much as most Gatorchatters. ...

Gatorchatterers.

 

[Captain Sasquatch]

You failed to mention Wisconsin was a top 10 team. :rolleyes:

I think most of us would be happy beating a top 10 team 14-7.

I'm not so sure about that.

 

[MissouriGator]

Wow, the reactions in this thread are shocking!