How long would Doug Dickey have lasted if they had the internet and smart phones back in 75?
Any one else beside me remember freezing in the rain watching Maryland beat us in the Gatorbowl that year? Man did I have a cold.
Holy ****!! I was
THERE, a junior at UF (so I date myself). One of the most miserable UF games I have ever sat through. Appleby to Washington (UGA) earlier in the same stadium wasn't cold, but was damp and, after losing 10-7, just as miserable. Gators missed a perfect regular season that year by just
FOUR points, the three to UGA and an 8-7 one point loss to
Lou Holtz coached NC State in Raleigh, second game of the season.
And yes, Dickey would probably have been fired sooner than the end of the 1978 season if everyone had access to the Internet then (I say "if everyone had access" because as I taught my freshman IT class this morning, it DID exist, founded by the Dept of Defense in 1969 at four universities).