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Would enjoy reading your impressions of the crowd response and your take on what you saw on the field firsthand. Thanks!
I didn't think about it much, but you are so right about the crowd. There wasn't one word said by anyone until I had crossed the street and I heard a college age girl asking her boyfriend why and how we just lost. She was stunned and disappointed like the rest of us, but the only person talking. It wasn't even that loud!bradgator2;77774 said:It was an electric crowd. Very loud. Very positive really until the 4th quarter. Several stadium-wide boos came out when Driskel ran it up the middle for no gain. I think we were frustrated with the play calling and confused why the running backs were not being used. Nearly the entire crowd stayed to the end. It was stunned silence walking out. No bitching, no complaining.... Just silence.
Bernardo de la Paz;n77805 said:Agree with all of the above. It wasn't 97 UF vs FSU loud, but it was plenty loud with absolute pandemonium on the Debose returns. There were some 'Free Treon' chants early in the game and some boos on some bad passes and the QB runs that got stuffed at the line. There was also a 'Let's go Driskel' chant on the last drive.
The stadium environment has been much maligned recently on this board, but I think if we just need something to cheer about.
Captain Sasquatch;n78058 said:I still have to post my thoughts on the game, and I might not have a chance to until tomorrow or maybe even later in the week (busy few days coming up), but the stadium was LOUD last night. A couple times I just had to look around and smile, it's such a great place to see a football game.
But yeah, heartbreaking and frustrating loss to say the least. I'll have more to say on that later. Go Gators.
NVGator;n78059 said:No need to stress yourself out about posting your post-game thoughts. We all have a good idea about how you will spin it in favor of your favorite coach and QB. I'm sure you walked away with a new reason to support this dumpster fire.
Pump on Bro.
jaywalker72;n78754 said:My ears were ringing after the game -- it was very loud on the alumni side and we were relentless with the pre snap hollering.
It's a pain not getting replays of some controversial plays during the game because it looked like we were getting hosed on the holding/interference penalties.
Regardless of what is said in the Nation, all of us were behind Driskel and continued to urge him on -- there were some boos on a couple of plays, but paled in comparison to the fans trying to will this team to victory.
None of us could figure out what was going on with Kelvin Taylor. I see some of you saying he hasn't cut it, but he was the best the team had after Jones got hurt last year and he hasn't been pitiful this season, and pitiful is what the running game was Saturday night. He should have had more attempts with Jones clearly hurt.
Always said that one of the most underrated things about Tim Tebow was the assuredness we would score when inside the 5. Even with Spurrier, when we would get tackled on a long play inside the five, there was no confidence we'd score. Since Tebow, we're back to that sort of tongue in cheek statement of fact when a play like Robinson's comes up just short of a TD.
There were ladies behind us ripping the players and Muschamp for not coming together on the field for a quick version of Kumbaya after Pittman went down. Calling players entitled and Muschamp uncaring like they were was some serious projecting going on there. Talk about looking for something to complain about. Plenty to take issue with this team so there's no need to be an amateur mind-reader or body language expert to get your personal opinion about athletes and this coaching staff expressed.
The fans were into it all the way, but the interception was the stomach punch and there was little doubt the kicker, who was crushing in warmups from longer than that kick and the wind blowing with him, was going to convert that kick.
I may have yelled, "suck it LSU" as they ran onto the field after the kick was good. Maybe.
It's better when we're walking out a winner, obviously, but it felt better walking with the Gator family, silent marching as we were, than if I'd had to experience that loss in my living room. It's truly great to be a Florida Gator.