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Shane Matthews to provide football color commentary
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Shane should do A top notch job , was wanting Cardozo to take over for Mick but it is what it is !
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I just hope he stays away from the garbage. I don’t want any more of that. And you know what I mean. I'm not talking about what he did inside. He did what he had to do. I'm talking about now, from now, here and now. I also hope he doesn’t take too many chances like Jimmy.
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Everyone wants to rip him for the pick-6 that cost us the first conference championship title game in '92. But something I've been thinking about the last several days (and crazy that ESPN posted an article about this very thing this morning) is that if Shane hadn't thrown that interception, Florida probably wouldn't have won the 1996 National Championship. Let me illustrate:
The majority of the SEC (and college football as a whole) was against the idea of adding a conference championship game to the end of the season. 'Bama was especially pissed off about this, due to it making it seemingly that much harder to win a national title. That 1992 SEC title game was a trial run. If 'Bama had lost (and thus lost their national title hopes), it's highly likely the SEC wouldn't have continued with a conference title game. And other conferences then wouldn't have followed suit. Remember, the Big 12 added their own title game next in 1996 and because of this (thank you, Texas!) and our offensive onslaught against the Tide in the '96 title game (along with Ohio State's upset of ASU), we were eventually able to play the rematch with FSWho for the defacto national championship game.
If 'Bama loses that game, no conference title games for us or anyone and no 52-20, then now and always the greatest game ever.
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Nice post. I read the same article.
I don't put "blame" on Mathews for the int ... It's just when I hear his name it takes me back to that int. That's the first thing I recall. When I hear Doeirings name I think of the KY TD. Graham - Docket. Wright - OK hit. Certain events deifine (in my mind) a players career.
Mathews (for me) will always be that int.
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It’s a valid point. Bottom line, he was a huge part of building UF into what it became. One Int, one game, one prison tat doesn’t change that.
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Nice post. I read the same article.
I don't put "blame" on Mathews for the int ... It's just when I hear his name it takes me back to that int. That's the first thing I recall. When I hear Doeirings name I think of the KY TD. Graham - Docket. Wright - OK hit. Certain events deifine (in my mind) a players career.
Mathews (for me) will always be that int.
100% agree. L. Wright hit on Kent is literally the thing that turned me from a casual sports fan into a die hard one.
And don't get me started on Dockett. That will forever piss me off until my last breath on this earth. Still hoping that POS gets run over by a tractor trailer (on foot).
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It's funny you say this, because attending that game in 1995 (and seeing that hit, among other things) and sitting in the UT section is literally the thing that turned me from a casual Gator fan into a die hard one.
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That's kinda what I mean. Gator football is where I went die-hard first. And then it snowballed into other sports.
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Incorrect. I ordered my first tee shirt mid 3rd quarter and have the time stamp to prove it.
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And btw, I was at that ‘95 ut game as a 15 year old kid, nursing the worst hangover I’d ever had to that point. The rain, and the cooldown it brought, was as critical to me and my survival as it was to the game’s outcome.
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"I have to remind myself that some gators aren't meant to be caged. Their chomp is just too big. And when they swim away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss Shane."
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YES! That was my thought as well.......Kelley & Matthews. These two may make this a VERY long season....
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