***OFFICIAL COTTON BOWL GAME THREAD: UF vs Oklahoma***; Houston talks trash

[williston_gator]

Mullen says "about 60" scholarship players available for the game......

 

[jdh5484]

Trask still has plenty of people to throw to.

Call me crazy (and I'm sure people will) but we are going to score 40 points even without all those guys against OU's hideous defenders. The problem is we'll give up more than 40 points on defense ourselves.

Trask is going to have his usual 400+ yards and 4+ TD's.

 

[jdh5484]

Grantham needs to opt out and take his D playbook with him. If he shows up in Texas we're screwed

I thought the D already opted out.

 

[oxrageous]

Give us your prediction on Trask's numbers for this game so I can call you out and embarrass you afterwards.

 

[gatorev12]

Hate to be so salty about a UF player but I don't think I have ever so outraged by an "individual" act that took so much away from his team and possibly a Heisman. He makes a simple stop on a play that even gets a first down and he acts like he just won the NC. Very selfish and its apparent him opting to the draft now is more about how much he thinks he's that good or knows he'll forever be know as the shoe thrower. Probably a little of both. Either way, he gone and good riddance.

I am equal parts ecstatic that we've seen the last of his horrible "coverage" abilities; and enraged that he's *still* acting like a selfish clown.

You'd think that he'd have some personal pride and go out fighting--hoping in some way to atone for his inexcusable incompetence vs LSU (since he for damn sure did absolutely nothing of note vs Bama in the SEC Championship game). Nope.

He's easily the most hated Gator of all time in my book.

 

[Frozen Gator]

You have to have a conscience first. I bet he thinks he didn't do anything wrong and feels no remorse to the team much less the fans.

 

[jdh5484]

Give us your prediction on Trask's numbers for this game so I can call you out and embarrass you afterwards.

2.57

 

[lizardbreath]

Offensive wide opt out of the top players on the team sans trask is giant red flag being waved in everyone's face. It may indicate some very concerning issues:

1. Lack of accountability and responsibility isn't limited to a couple bad eggs like wilson. Many may be putting themselves first, including the ones who have been model citizens to this point. I get it if a kid is a sure fire top pick and its a game outside the playoffs, but c'mon, we have kids opting out who won't sniff the draft and others who with a good bowl game performance may get a foot in the door instead of hocking cell phones at a Branson mall kiosk in April. We may have a culture problem.

2. The fact that its primarily offensive opt outs may indicate the offensive players are done busting their butts for nothing. After mullen's failure to do anything about granthem and the defense all year, then doubling down this week by blaming the players instead of acknowledging the giant red elephant, I'd say this is a very likely possibility. The players see and know the issues, its not just everyone else. Mullen continuing to deflect and blame others for fat todd's incompetence can only go on for so long before others affected say to hell with it. We may be seeing the beginning of that now.

3. Which leads to the 3rd possibility - is he losing the team? He certainly doesn't have full control over them; we have players act selfishly and there seems to be no repercussions for their behavior. We had guys starting this year who were calling him a racist in public just a few months ago. At least he solved that one by walking in solidarity with them this year :rolleyes:

Mullen needs to decide who he is and what he's about. Right now I dont think any of us knows. We knew who spurrier was, we know who dabo and saban are. The championship level coaches have an identity, a set of principles, and a standard that is maintained. There's little gray area for any of them about those standards. What is mullen's standard? What are his principles? Can anyone answer that? He talks about "the gator standard" but Ive seen nothing in his tenure that indicates what that is. Truth is he's just too soft and too comfortable being "only 6 points away."

Serious "Who TF are we" issues seem to be at the center of everything that went wrong this season. With the mini-mutiny just before the start of the season, then the lame-assed excuses for Grantham's sorry performance and attitude, plus the WR corps bailing en masse on the team, the whole "relentless effort / gator standard" thing is out the window - bigtime. The wheels are coming off at a breathtaking rate and I can't wait for this verkakte season / schytt show / goat phukk to be over. If DM doesn't get his head out of his rectal orifice soon, you can count me among the "opt-outs" - pending his replacement with someone who isn't too blind or stupid to see the writing on the wall. Enough already.

 

[jdh5484]

Give us your prediction on Trask's numbers for this game so I can call you out and embarrass you afterwards.

If he plays the entire game:

4 sacks for -48 yards, 1 fumble, 3 ints w/2 for scores and 10 drops.

25/40 -2 ints 193 yards - 1 TD.









"he" being Driscoll

 

[Gatormac2112]

I think if you opt out you should have to pay some of your scholly back

 

[Durty South Swamp]

I think if you opt out you should have to pay some of your scholly back

Nationally we seem to be going in the opposite direction with this. Most will probably disagree, say the bowls are meaningless, consider them a game outside the season and therefore participation not required. Many will also say outside of a playoff game, if your stock is high you should opt out for self preservation, etc.

Didn't use to be this way. Guess I'm old fashioned and the times have passed me by, but when i was a kid and when i played highschool sports, a commitment to a team meant something. And you honored it. You didn't put yourself above the team, and I never had a coach that would have allowed any player to do so. Probably a big reason why it didnt happen - we all knew better. I can live with 1 or 2 opting out of a non playoff bowl if their stock is super high. But that's how it started about 3 years ago and look where we are now. It's snowballing. I btched about opt outs when they first began to happen and was chastised by most for it. Was told my idea of loyalty and duty to team was too idealistic and old fashioned. Maybe so, but at least being part of a team meant something when it wasn't considered old fashioned.

 

[JDW]

31-42 385 yards 4 TDs 1 pick

 

[Swamp Donkey]

I am equal parts ecstatic that we've seen the last of his horrible "coverage" abilities

The good news is the last time we had several "starting" DBs out, Fathead Todd was forced to play sound base defenses instead of his exotic Todd double corner blitz and DT flexing into man on the Y receiver shtt.... and it was our best defense of the year.

If only Grantham would opt out.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

If he plays the entire game:

4 sacks for -48 yards, 1 fumble, 3 ints w/2 for scores and 10 drops.

25/40 -2 ints 193 yards - 1 TD.









"he" being Driscoll

Dipshyt rarely broke 100 yards vs a P5 team.

 

[Sec14Gator]

We brought 60 total scholarship players fwiw

Hey, just like LSU when they beat Dorky Dan.

That’s about 20% more players than LSU had against us. We should be great.

 

[Musclepug]

 

[TLB]

Dipshyt rarely broke 100 yards vs a P5 team.

Are we talking about Trask? The man who averaged roughly 375ypg passing this season against SEC only teams whom I believe are (mostly) considered P5 teams.

 

[jdh5484]

Are we talking about Trask? The man who averaged roughly 375ypg passing this season against SEC only teams whom I believe are (mostly) considered P5 teams.

Driscoll

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Are we talking about Trask? The man who averaged roughly 375ypg passing this season against SEC only teams whom I believe are (mostly) considered P5 teams.

Read the fine print in the post I quoted.

 

[jdh5484]

Ethan White has a nice looking Momma.