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Swamp Donkey

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Theyd never seen a team perfect the magic of the total absence of offense.
 

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Magical? What season were they watching exactly?

Outside of one full game (Usce, and even that was just them giving us 20 yard fields) and the second halves against Lsu, A&M, ut and the noles, that was an absolutely horrific season of football to watch. When a punt block scoop-and-score at the buzzer beats LaLafayette, and you end the year being embarrassed by Louisville, you’ve kissed any chance of being considered “magical” goodbye.
If you use the definition for magical of "extremely or extraordinarily pleasant, enjoyable, or exciting," you are quite correct; there was nothing magical about that season. However if you use the definition of "produced by or as if by magic," then I think it's pretty fair. It's not like those 11 wins were produced by great coaching or stellar play, so it had to be the result of something else. As I am ruling out divine intervention, "magic" seems as good an explantion as anything else.
 

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There was nothing magical about chumps 11 win season. Every game, nay, nearly every play was a heartattack or stroke waiting to happen. Offense was so abysmal the defense often accounted for more points. We beat some good teams, and yet we almost lost to a couple of community colleges. Every game no matter the opponent required life support and a defibrillator. If Florida had 9 lives, chump burned them all that season. And the next season is permanent proof of that fact.

Fwwwwwwk that dwag!!!
 

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Weren't we one Notre Dame upset away from backdooring our way into the National Title game that year? I would need to go back and check but I'm pretty sure we were #3 in the BCS standings, and if Notre Dame would have lost they would have matched us up against Bama.

So - one game away from a National title appearance, despite THAT offense...yeah, magic.
 

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Weren't we one Notre Dame upset away from backdooring our way into the National Title game that year? I would need to go back and check but I'm pretty sure we were #3 in the BCS standings, and if Notre Dame would have lost they would have matched us up against Bama.

So - one game away from a National title appearance, despite THAT offense...yeah, magic.

We would've rivaled '02 Nebraska for the least deserving NC game contender in the modern era. If we put aside records and really look at how we ended up there, we had no business being in that NC discussion. Again, we needed a miracle play to beat LaLa, held on for dear life against Bowling Green and first-year Mizzou, and couldn't score more than 23 against Jax State. I've never seen a season where everything goes a team's way like 2012 for us. Outside of Reed's fumble, we got every single break.
 

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We would've rivaled '02 Nebraska for the least deserving NC game contender in the modern era. If we put aside records and really look at how we ended up there, we had no business being in that NC discussion. Again, we needed a miracle play to beat LaLa, held on for dear life against Bowling Green and first-year Mizzou, and couldn't score more than 23 against Jax State. I've never seen a season where everything goes a team's way like 2012 for us. Outside of Reed's fumble, we got every single break.

Agreed, we totally wouldn't have been the 2nd best team in the country...that was obvious. Not trying to argue that. But based on the system in play at the time, we would have satisfied the requirements of the BCS formula to be in the championship game. Crazy.
 

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Agreed, we totally wouldn't have been the 2nd best team in the country...that was obvious. Not trying to argue that. But based on the system in play at the time, we would have satisfied the requirements of the BCS formula to be in the championship game. Crazy.

It is, and your original point is correct. If USC pulls out a win, we likely get the nod. What's even crazier is to think that three plays made our season. Without Elam's strip of Beckham, Purofoy/Jenkins' blocked punt TD, and Morrison's hit on Manuel, we likely lose all three of those games. So even using the same logic with regard to Reed's goal line fumble and counting that as a potential win, we were 3 plays away from 9-4 that season. And yet if the Trojans play slightly better, we are in the NC game. That's beyond crazy. That's insanity.
 
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I'm in the TBD camp. It's only been one year here at UF. We are trending up so let's see what happens next season.
 

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It is, and your original point is correct. If USC pulls out a win, we likely get the nod. What's even crazier is to think that three plays made our season. Without Elam's strip of Beckham, Purofoy/Jenkins' blocked punt TD, and Morrison's hit on Manuel, we likely lose all three of those games. So even using the same logic with regard to Reed's goal line fumble and counting that as a potential win, we were 3 plays away from 9-4 that season. And yet if the Trojans play slightly better, we are in the NC game. That's beyond crazy. That's insanity.

If Reed didn't fumble it on the goal line though, we would've lost to Bama in the SECCG, thereby keeping us out of the NC game. So in a way, that was another play that worked 'in our favor' if we're solely looking at a potential NC game appearance. Sucked that it happened though...
 

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If Reed didn't fumble it on the goal line though, we would've lost to Bama in the SECCG, thereby keeping us out of the NC game. So in a way, that was another play that worked 'in our favor' if we're solely looking at a potential NC game appearance. Sucked that it happened though...

Very good point.
 

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I'm in the TBD camp. It's only been one year here at UF. We are trending up so let's see what happens next season.

Trexit, I'm excited for the season, but worried how easy it might be to fail to match last year's W-L record ??
 

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Magical in the sense that in 11 roles of the dice, which was every Chump game, it came up in our favor.
 

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I'm in the TBD camp. It's only been one year here at UF. We are trending up so let's see what happens next season.

I'm also firmly in this camp. Since we are all doing pre-hire disclosures, I was all in on wanting us to throw everything at Frost (and still think we blew that chance notwithstanding all the statements of he was "never" coming here - we never treated him as though he deserved the job as much as Mullen or Kelly). Kelly was at least exciting, if not also scary, which has proven a legitimate fear.

As for Mullen, I'm a bit concerned over how much he, our fans, and the team are talking as though we are already a dominating team. The confidence is great, the silliness with which we are doing it, such as calling Mullen FSU's daddy after one win over the least organized FSU team in 40 years or mocking UGA over losing a 5* recruits because they have so many 5*'s, all just seems silly.

We had some really bad losses last year, and had to have comeback wins against some pretty bad teams. I am very hopeful that the Franks we saw at the end was a show of his improvement, not the competition. We will all learn soon enough, but our actual scores suggest this was a lucky 10 win team, not a massive resurgence in the quality of play to UF expectations.

The reality likely lies in the middle. Franks and the team got better and were far more organized. But, our record was not reflective of a team being legit title contenders. What difference makers do we have on defense? Henderson is very solid, but absent a great front 7, rarely do CB's alter games. On offense the game changers are at receiver, where the rest of the unit required to get them the ball (OL & QB) are still our biggest question marks.

Mullen has brought some new enthusiasm, but so had the last buffoon among many here following the first year. Otherwise, last year's performance hasn't addressed the concern of he'll get us to good, but not great (though I don't know how he could have demonstrated that ability last year - outside of recruiting lights out).
 

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If Reed didn't fumble it on the goal line though
If Reed didnt fumble at the fifteen or so, Chimp would have Chimped and ran the ball 4 times.

Even if we SOMEHOW scored, we still had to convert a two point conversion just to TIE.

Then we had to score again in OT to win.

There was zero chance we were winning that game.

We still had Jeff Dipshyt and Chimp running that team.

We werent close to winning.
 
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Jimbo at #2 is too high, the guy is way overrated. Malzahn at #5 is too high. Stoops is better than Muschamp and Derek Mason is a very good football coach at a bottom feeder program. Mason is better than #12, better than Pruitt, maybe better than Muschamp. He should be ranked higher IMO.
 

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There was nothing magical about chumps 11 win season. Every game, nay, nearly every play was a heartattack or stroke waiting to happen. Offense was so abysmal the defense often accounted for more points. We beat some good teams, and yet we almost lost to a couple of community colleges. Every game no matter the opponent required life support and a defibrillator. If Florida had 9 lives, chump burned them all that season. And the next season is permanent proof of that fact.

Fwwwwwwk that dwag!!!

Yep and we were a USC upset of ND from getting pounded by Bama in the National Title game. I am kind of glad that didn't play out.

If Driskel just Drikels one less time in that Georgia game we would probably have made the SECCG. I think that was his worst performance besides the Missouri and Miami games.
 

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But maybe that is an elite coach after all.
That's really it in a nutshell....Both SOS and Urban bailed on UF when they found out the AD wasn't nearly as committed to remaining a great program as they were. Kinda hard to pay for quality when Scrooge has hidden the checkbook....
 

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Yep and we were a USC upset of ND from getting pounded by Bama in the National Title game. I am kind of glad that didn't play out.

Instead we got pounded by Louisville. I think I’d rather have played for the NC, the possible end result beat down notwithstanding.
 

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If Driskel just Drikels one less time in that Georgia game we would probably have made the SECCG. .
No. Not even close.

Just a reminder, we scored ZERO touchdowns.

And we were EIGHT points behind. We didnt nearly win shyt.
 

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