Dandy Dan coachspeak presser 2-16-21

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UF needs to take a long hard look at herself or it will no longer be the "PREMIRE" anything.

They need to understand their objectives...and be honest with the Alumni.

Do they want to be a football powerhouse?

Or a 10-2 Good Team? Top 8-10 every year?

Do they want to be a "Research Center for Practical and Applied Science and Engineering"?

Or do they want to be "Egghead/Nerd U" doing "ONLY" sexy research that gets headlines but won't be industrialized for decades?

What do they want to be?

And Mullen needs to decide where he wants to be because it does not look like UF.
 

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Granted 8-4, losing the last 3 games is putrid. All players & especially coach-staff are culpable and can not be trusted.
However, all this "gloomier-than-doom" evaluation seems the "pussification of GatorChatter"?? Such that we'll be lucky to achieve a 7-5 record? As if there is zero chance that 2021 could have a single positive development.?? Zero-chance is for zeroes. "Wait 'til next year" where are ya?
 

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Granted 8-4, losing the last 3 games is putrid. All players & especially coach-staff are culpable and can not be trusted.
However, all this "gloomier-than-doom" evaluation seems the "pussification of GatorChatter"?? Such that we'll be lucky to achieve a 7-5 record? As if there is zero chance that 2021 could have a single positive development.?? Zero-chance is for zeroes. "Wait 'til next year" where are ya?

You do the math:
  • A HC that acts like he wants to be somewhere else
  • A HC Coach who refuses to acknowledge his over paid DC is not doing the job
  • Recruiting is okay at best...must rely on transfers
  • Players who can't qualify at UF but can at: AUB, AL, LSU, MSS...
  • A student section EMPTY every season
  • Can't sell out the SWAMP for many home games
  • No New Facilities
  • An Alumni base that looks nothing like the current student body
  • An Ivy League Prez...Who refuses to increase enrolment?
  • An Ivy League Pres...Who acts like UF Football is an afterthought
Not my first rodeo...writing is on the wall.
 

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None of that controls future events. But, fanship is success or failure in the past, in the present, & in the future. What heading is it taking now? Are we not responsible for fanship's course?

It's not "pie in the sky" stuff" because fanship is a building of hope. What is going on now is an all-out attack on Hope. IMO, there's an overkill of hope for the '21 football season and it seems to involve emotional hate for coaches, players, administration??

#1 gymnastics winning team means nothing. A lock on another baseball World series' run means nothing. Records broken in swimming, track & field = mean nothing. ??
 
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  • Players who can't qualify at UF but can at: AUB, AL, LSU, MSS...
I'm sorry but this is a bullshtt excuse and totally unproven.

we signed and had a few players on the team that clearly didn't even belong in community college. pretending the problem is academics when we have guys like Tony is silly.
 

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None of that controls future events. But, fanship is success or failure in the past, in the present, & in the future. What heading is it taking now? Are we not responsible for fanship's course?

It's not "pie in the sky" stuff" because fanship is a building of hope. What is going on now is an all-out attack on Hope. IMO, there's an overkill of hope for the '21 football season and it seems to involve emotional hate for coaches, players, administration??

#1 gymnastics winning team means nothing. A lock on another baseball World series' run means nothing. Records broken in swimming, track & field = mean nothing. ??
GFY
 

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I think most people here would let all other sports fall off for football and basketball to return to the top.
half right.

it's not really that I don't care at all. it's just a football's not right, I don't care about any of the rest.

and football has not been right for three straight regimes.
 

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I'm sorry but this is a bullshtt excuse and totally unproven.

we signed and had a few players on the team that clearly didn't even belong in community college. pretending the problem is academics when we have guys like Tony is silly.

Yes you are sorry.

UF Admin has been one of the worst since I was in school. If everything is not by their time line...even when they KNOW the paperwork or finances are on their way...They are awful.
 

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The problem with us is that we get coaches who stubbornly tolerate mediocrity in themselves and others. We will never compete with Alabama as long as it keeps up. I'm beginning to think it's something in the water here. We haven't had a coach since SOS who was stubborn in the right way, i.e., stubbornness tempered by impatience. It even happened to Urbs with Addazio.
SOS was never friends with any coach to the point he wouldn't fire them if need be. Barry Wilson as an example. Was with SOS at Duke but wasn't getting the job done to his standards............GONE.
 

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Yes you are sorry.

UF Admin has been one of the worst since I was in school. If everything is not by their time line...even when they KNOW the paperwork or finances are on their way...They are awful.
we have plenty of semiliterate players.

they arent the reason Disco Dan can't recruit.
 

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we have plenty of semiliterate players.

they arent the reason Disco Dan can't recruit.

That's the one thing you pick out?

We know Dan does not want to be here

We know he won't dump his weak link

And we know Football is an afterthought with FUCHS
 

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SOS was never friends with any coach to the point he wouldn't fire them if need be. .
Im sure he was friends with them, just not friends enough not to fire them. Probably still friends with them after he fired them.

But the really elite coaches just CANT STAND LOSING.

Mullinz loses in part because he is quite comfortable doing it. And we pay him WELL to do so.
 

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