Yes, it was nice have Ray Goof a few years. Unfortunately for us Fooley decided to pay them back by hiring his understudy.
And the only reason Tinerc struggled was us. They beat every team in the country save us regularly.
Weird response coming from a guy who keeps pimping 3 and 4 loss coaches to now be critical of one.
I think this is my 8th post in this thread. Pretty sure in each case, I've recognized the vols as being a great team during those years, with maybe '94 being the exception. They are part of what I've said was largely a 2 game schedule every year for us. It was your contention that the SEC, outside of the vols, was better than it is now. When I list those teams' annual records during that stretch, I'm apparently stoned.
We can deny all we want, but any UF or vol fan living in the 90s would tell you that the East was over before October even began. There just wasn't another legitimate threat. And when there were a couple of stout West teams('92Msu, '93-94 Aub, '97 Lsu, '99 Ala) that we played during the season, we could--and often did--lose to them, but still held the tie-breaker over ut, giving us the nod. Neither that or finishing with a loss against the noles prevented us from accomplishing our stated goal of winning the conference. But trust me, as someone who grew up around tons of nole(previously bulldog) and cane fans, none of them cared an ounce about us winning our beloved SEC, and we were often laughed at as they played for it all in 6 of those 10 years.
There's a reason that a 1-loss SEC Champ wasn't in consideration for the NC in 1991, the undefeated conference champ was an underdog in '92, and a 1-loss UF needed two miracles to get back in the discussion in 1996. That wouldn't happen today, and for good reason. The SEC as we know it today, was viewed wildly different then. For that matter, as recent as 2004 an undefeated Auburn team was left out and in 2006, until USC lost for the second time to UCLA, a 1-loss SEC Champ wasn't getting into the NC game that year either, and was still almost skipped over.
No one is denying Spurrier's run(maybe KC, he had this weird hate for Steve
). It's simply saying that the landscape has changed, and the conference is tougher to win. No different than saying Mullen should be fired on the spot if he lost to fsu this year, or last, or 2018. Things change. Spurrier will always be the father of UF football to me. He just wasn't flawless, and isn't--in hindsight--as critiqued as Mullen is. And also, Mullen isn't directly following either of those two. He's following two of the most disastrous hires we've ever made, took over a trainwreck program and has us winning in fun fashion again as we head to Atlanta. Yet, despite that, the guys gets dismissed and called names by the same fans that just sat through 2010-2017. It's bizarre and fairly ridiculous.