Meyer says The Swamp is College Football's best atmosphere

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8% or not, that's probably 10 times what it was 20 years ago.

The other excuse is the academic standards at UF are so high now only bullet-headed nerds who have never picked up a ball in their lives are allowed in. These dorks care about having their noses in their books, and that's all they care about. They don't even care about laying the opposite sex.
How then do we explain 1.4 billion Chinese?
 

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8% or not, that's probably 10 times what it was 20 years ago.

The other excuse is the academic standards at UF are so high now only bullet-headed nerds who have never picked up a ball in their lives are allowed in. These dorks care about having their noses in their books, and that's all they care about. They don't even care about laying the opposite sex.
Thaaaaaat's a bit harsh. FTR - my freshman son has his season tix and is thrilled to be living within walking distance of BHG.
 

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I think everybody should recognize that Meyer wouldn't lie...

Well... he wouldn't lie about this... right? I mean.. he is being completely honest about this.
 

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The nature of the student body has indeed changed. We visited the campus last October for the first time in 25 years and I couldn't believe the interactions (or lack thereof). The union was filled with young folks sitting together staring at phones. Just no sense of joy at all. No southern hospitality. Way too many non-southern folks; I'd be no one would stand up for Dixie. I was so disappointed.
 

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The nature of the student body has indeed changed. We visited the campus last October for the first time in 25 years and I couldn't believe the interactions (or lack thereof). The union was filled with young folks sitting together staring at phones. Just no sense of joy at all. No southern hospitality. Way too many non-southern folks; I'd be no one would stand up for Dixie. I was so disappointed.
Its like a fckn foreign country on campus. Carpetbaggers, interlopers and aliens all over the place.........we may as well be playing cricket or Australian rules football for all they care.........
 

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All this smoke about him going to USC next year or after right now
 

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All this smoke about him going to USC next year or after right now
Of course. He waits for a situation to appear where a coach leaves a very talented roster. Zook at UF, Tressel at OSU, now Helton at USC.

Side note... isn’t it funny how the SEC catches a bunch of crap about their programs but OSU has fires its last two coach after scandals? Media bias at its finest.
 

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70” 4K TV for $900 in air conditioning has had a big impact over the last 10 years too
This argument doesn’t hold water when you see other schools have student sections who are just as crazy as they were 10, 20, 30 years ago. Those schools actually allow kids in that didn’t get 1600 on their SAT’s.
 

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Well we’ve obviously ceded our football program to the lesser sports and making ourselves the Stanford of the south...this is gonna hurt us more than we realize on the surface cause we’re just getting started down this path
 

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The nature of the student body has indeed changed. We visited the campus last October for the first time in 25 years and I couldn't believe the interactions (or lack thereof). The union was filled with young folks sitting together staring at phones. Just no sense of joy at all. No southern hospitality. Way too many non-southern folks; I'd be no one would stand up for Dixie. I was so disappointed.

uhh.. when were you there? I don't remember anything 'southern' about UF from my time there except for the kids that came from Georgia and Tennessee.
 

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uhh.. when were you there? I don't remember anything 'southern' about UF from my time there except for the kids that came from Georgia and Tennessee.
Here's a guy who obviously has a disdain for southerners. :lol:
 

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This argument doesn’t hold water when you see other schools have student sections who are just as crazy as they were 10, 20, 30 years ago. Those schools actually allow kids in that didn’t get 1600 on their SAT’s.

Only if those schools are winning and entertaining like they were 10, 20, and 30 years ago. We are not in that category any longer thanks to a long list of fk ups (Meyer not being among them. He’s one of the few connected to the program in the last 18 years who actually helped the overall situation).
 

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Yeah, those 15000 empty seats on the student’s side make for a great atmosphere. Time for all the eggheads to pull their noses out of the books for a few hours on Saturday and show up and make some noise.

Good luck with that. Public Ivy.
 

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Is this southern enough for you?

One of my many regrets in life is not driving up for that free show. The ambiance at the old Lake Alice Bandshell was terrific. Saw Betts solo at Lake Alice my senior year.
 

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