- Jun 9, 2014
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I was trying to remember a trajectory-changing game since the wheels fell off in Atlanta in '09. We've had a few that came close, a Georgia here and an FSU there and even the teasing dismantling of Ole Miss, but none that altered the course of history in any kind of permanent way.
I think this one has the potential to be that one. Allow me to dream.
A win Saturday and suddenly the season changes from belief that 7-5 is the ceiling to thinking that it's even possible to beat LSU at home and Vandy on the road and go into the bye week before Georgia with a 6-1 record and feeling like it's 1980 all over again.
Oh man, would the buzz be back.
We play in Starkville once in a blue moon, and usually as an annoying anomaly to the sked. Wouldn't you know this would be the year where both teams are 3-1 middlings and there's hype over it being Mullen's first trip back home. The comparisons are inevitable.
That's the buildup on the surface. Below it all, it's going to be to what extent relentless effort and teaching have accomplished so far to help turn the tide for a once elite Florida program that has burned through a pair of failed coaches and drifted into also-ran status since Mullen roamed the sideline next to Urban Meyer.
You can sense the intensity and confidence building with each game. We're far from a great football team, but we're growing and we'll be a great story nationally if we win Saturday in Mullen's old adopted crib. Which is all that you ask for, to get noticed for something positive and to be able to build on it week to week.
It takes tremendous impetus to get a big wheel rolling. It's almost impossible to stop it once you do.
Let's make it happen, guys.
I think this one has the potential to be that one. Allow me to dream.
A win Saturday and suddenly the season changes from belief that 7-5 is the ceiling to thinking that it's even possible to beat LSU at home and Vandy on the road and go into the bye week before Georgia with a 6-1 record and feeling like it's 1980 all over again.
Oh man, would the buzz be back.
We play in Starkville once in a blue moon, and usually as an annoying anomaly to the sked. Wouldn't you know this would be the year where both teams are 3-1 middlings and there's hype over it being Mullen's first trip back home. The comparisons are inevitable.
That's the buildup on the surface. Below it all, it's going to be to what extent relentless effort and teaching have accomplished so far to help turn the tide for a once elite Florida program that has burned through a pair of failed coaches and drifted into also-ran status since Mullen roamed the sideline next to Urban Meyer.
You can sense the intensity and confidence building with each game. We're far from a great football team, but we're growing and we'll be a great story nationally if we win Saturday in Mullen's old adopted crib. Which is all that you ask for, to get noticed for something positive and to be able to build on it week to week.
It takes tremendous impetus to get a big wheel rolling. It's almost impossible to stop it once you do.
Let's make it happen, guys.