Off season

[WobbleGator]

Last offseason was not the longest. We had UF basketball to focus on. This year, the basketball team is playing poorly.

 

[OcalaGator83]

A real spring game would go a long way I think.

 

[KCgator]

Sorry but last year was the longest offseason. No one wanted tobwatch year 4 of the Walking Dead Coach.

I soooooooooooo disagree with this. We all suspected we would get a Crap-sandwich this season, but with Mac in charge, it's like waiting to unwrap a really present that you have to look at for 8 months before you can tear it open!

 

[MissouriGator]

Yep. The greater the anticipation the longer the perceived wait.

 

[The Original DC]

A real spring game would go a long way I think.

The horrendous event we called a "spring game" at the start of the 2013 season was the beginning of the end of Muschamp. Absolutely incompetent and ignorant.

Before someone moans about the lack of o-linemen for that Spring game, save it. You find a way, it's Florida, use walk-ons, convert some 4th string d-linemen, do something, but don't eliminate the spring game and then run around like it was some sort of genius move.

That silliness was the start of our 4-8 season.

 

[QueenCityGator]

For me to be enthusiastic about next year's team, I need to see a competent offense. After the last 4 years of an offensive dumpster fire, any statements about the growth of our offense (especially at quarterback but also the other positions), will be greatly appreciated.

 

[GatorStud]

Ready for Prime Time QB

 

[Ray Finkle]

For me to be enthusiastic about next year's team, I need to see a competent offense. After the last 4 years of an offensive dumpster fire, any statements about the growth of our offense (especially at quarterback but also the other positions), will be greatly appreciated.

But we got these statements the last four years too

 

[TLB]

I don't need to be engaged with football in the off season. So long as we get news blips and positive media showing us the rest of his staff getting filled out (WR coach?) and a strong wave of recruits, that's all I need to hear and know about football for this time frame. I then want to hear nothing because he and his staff are in lockdown doing roster evaluations, developing schemes, and outlining practices that instill the right mentality on offense and defense to operate cohesively and at the same time developing the players on the roster to execute to the best of their ability.

Coaches need to be in the bunker, planning how to use the resources they have to create a significantly better season in the fall. If they are talking to the media, they aren't planning. PLAN FIRST!
Players need to be in the gym. If I hear anything about them, it won't be good. No news is good news.

I understand JMac will have to make the rounds to the Gator Clubs to keep the boosters hooked in and supporting the program. Give the alumni some feel good one-liners about progress and plans. This is part of the job. But for me, that is done once his staff has enough direction to be locked down and planning in his absence while he makes the rounds.

 

[LagoonGator68]

I would like to see a Russell Wilson-type QB transfer in and a few immediately eligible o-linemen.