gatorfan81;n153952 said:
Tebow always was coming here he just doesn't like letting people down or saying no to people. Which is why he cried so bad during the sec championship game he felt like he let his team and all of Gator nation down. Cause like OX he loves each and everyone of you.
Then we can add "bold faced liar" to his list of attributes, because he's stated several times that it was the most difficult decision he'd ever made, that up until the morning of his announcement he still didn't know where he was going, and that if not for Meyer he probably would not have come to UF. And if you recall, when he gathered himself following that SECCG loss, he sought out the Alabama AD to personally congratulate him, largely due to the relationship he'd built during recruiting and the respect he had for their program. In short, a guy who helped us win 2 titles and whose number is on probably 80% of the UF jerseys today, probably wouldn't have been a Gator if their hadn't been a coaching change, and if that change hadn't been such a huge upgrade.
And when you consider that plenty of kids were watching him and wanted to go where he went, wouldn't it have been better for us if he'd committed months earlier? Is Spikes not a true Gator because he was simply following Tebow wherever he went?
For that matter, virtually every one of our big stars throughout history took their visits and gave numerous rivals an honest look befire ultimately choosing UF. Does that make them any less of a Gator?
As someone pointed out above, we see things through fans' glasses. It's not that simple. And quite frankly, I'm ok with that. Plenty of kids who grew up bulldog/nole/cane fans have come to UF because we were trending and it looked like a better place to be than those places. We need to right the ship and make those kids want to buck the trend as we have in the past.