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Sgt. Schultz;n197429 said:I doubt either quarterback is going to perform well enough in the Spring to make the choice clear. There won't be a Spring game, as well. Sometimes you can tell who's much better by their performance in a game. I'm in agreement that the only good thing that can come out of Spring is to not get injured, other than that, you really don't know because you're only playing against each other. It's a lot different plying when there is someone with a different helmet on that's not playing for a directional school. I know I'm not going to believe a word said about anything by the coaches about anything. It's all B.S. and they always say the same things about how great so and so looks, blah, blah, blah. You'll never hear them say, for example, that we're in deep doodoo because our receivers can't catch a cold. I think that was closer to the truth the past couple of years than the propaganda disseminated. Like Reagan said: "Trust but verify." We won't know until the season against a good team if any of the new regime's propaganda is true. I say that because I recall how excited people were after playing Eastern whatever in the opener last year. People actually thought Roper was the Messiah, he had brought offense back to Gainesville.
You have some valid points about the whole spring process. For most programs it's a chance for the coaches to build depth and start evaluating new starting positions. Most coaches won't set a rotation or depth chart from what they see in spring practice. We had the one coach stupid enough to do this in Muschamp by naming JD starter last year and having 2 incoming freshmen, one whom was going to redshirt and the other not coming until fall, so it is kind of hard to blame Roper for a lot of what went wrong last year.
I don't recall anybody, on this board at least, being overwhelmed by our offensive output against EMU.There was however hope that if we stayed healthy we might be able to score enough points to win a few close games and be competitive or win the East. Saddled by JD and Muschamp we were denied those expectations.
As far as what the coaches have to say, they have to say something and I for one think Mac has been very forthcoming about the players and what the coaches are trying to do. Much more so than the last 2 coaching staffs. That being said nobody here is taking it as gospel and we will all have to wait until fall to verify anything about what they say or do....