GatorRaz
Gator Fan in Enemy Territory!!!
- Dec 12, 2014
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How quickly people forget....or how poorly they learn history.
The situations are a bit different. Spurrier has stated repeatedly that he inherited a loaded roster. When he walked in the door he had a monster offensive line, Shane Matthews and a stubborn defense. Spurrier never had to put Treon Harris behind the center. Spurrier made it through his first two seasons without dealing with his starting QB getting injured.
In Spurrier's first season he went to Tennessee and got blown out 45-3. Tennessee scored 38 points in the 2nd half. He lost the season finale when FSU put 45 points on the scoreboard. Spurrier lost 2 of 3 games against ranked opponents. Sound familiar?
Florida played Notre Dame in the 1992 Sugar Bowl. That season Notre Dame was widely seen as a team that did not deserve to be in the Sugar Bowl. The game is also known as "The Cheerios Bowl", due to the comment a waiter supposedly told Lou Holtz at a restaurant that "The difference between Cheerios and Notre Dame is that Cheerios belong in a bowl". The Gators were heavily favored. In the fourth quarter, Czyzewski's fifth field goal of the game (in other words, we couldn't score TDs) gave the Gators a 22–17 lead with just 13:45 remaining. Then Jerome Bettis ran the ball down our throats. We had no answer. Notre Dame won in a shocker 39-28.
In 1992, Spurrier's 3rd season, the Gators lost to Tennessee 31-14 and the next week lost to Mississippi State 30-6. That team also lost to FSU 45-24 in a game where Spurrier conceded defeat and pulled his starting QB in the 3rd quarter.
I'm not saying Mac is the next Spurrier, but people forget the real history.
The 45-3 beating in Knoxville was the day I became a Gator fan! I'll never forget seeing the orange and blue for the first time. I was 12 years old and my dad got free tickets to a it football game. My dad told me all about Spurrier on the way to the game. How he grew up about 20 min from where I was born, won the Heisman trophy, loved to throw it all over. I didn't care what the score was that day. I yelled and cheered for the Gators in the middle of Neyland stadium w' all those blaze orange rednecks starring me down. Wow great memories w' my dad!
Go Gators!!!