I know the bar has been lowered severely but to me the fact that Kiffin consistently seeks to hire the best coordinators he can is miles ahead of what we have had since 2010. I am not saying that he should be the next UF coach, but I want a head coach that will hire the absolute best staff he can find always. In that respect, I think Kiffin is like Saban, Kirby, and Dabo minus the rings. Lincoln Riley is a lot like Kiffin was 15 years ago, an elite player caller who doesn’t understand the value of good assistants.
Absolutely brutal schedule. I would not be shocked if they'll need a M*A*SH* unit to follow them around. With the addition of Texas and Oklahoma it will not be easier for anyone. aTM being in Gainesville was a surprise. It always seems we get the short straw with them and always at College Station. They definitely did not do us any favors with that schedule.
There was enough evidence from his first year here to tell that Karl could not cut it. This year was absolutely predictable based on last years coaching.
We bought the story for a while because it was true. (Let’s not forget that the football facility was still under construction, the players housing and food was ordinary at best, and recruiting had a season instead of being 24/7/365.) Those that are still on that narrative however, have clearly chosen to ignore a great deal of CBN’s decision making, both on the field during games and during the asst. coach hiring process.
I’ve liked a lot of what he’s done - or at least reports of what he’s done - in terms of building the staff, culture etc.
It became apparent pretty quickly that Billy’s greatest redeeming quality was the efforts toward changing the team and program’s culture. No denying there was some toxicity from the previous regimes that still lingered and Billy’s attention to these changes provided a little comfort, a distraction really, even in the face of a losing record. The strong drug of “hope” kept alive the notion that eventually all the good citizens we have on the roster would morph into an effective team and winning would begin and take its rightful place. Didn’t happen. In fact it just got worse this second season. Billy was actually telling us, without “telling” us, by his staff assignments and the predominance of young analysts who were not very long on actual coaching experience. But the biggest tell for me was the defensive suckage that was on display weekly with no changes. That was our sign.
Ridiculed would denote that is has possibly stopped. I would go with the present tense ridicules....
During some of the games he may have just been playing Pokemon as it did not appear much coaching was going on....
In year 3, the minimum is to go 4-4 in conf play? I dont care what our schedule looks like. In year 3 at florida you better be winning a lot more than you're losing or you deserve to be locked out of the football facilities. 4-4 in conf in year 3 should get him fired and forever hated by our fan base. And i use the word should, because he should be standing in the unemployment line now, instead of cashing another fat check at the program's expense.
^this... it's why I said before that as a manager, he needs to make sure he's hiring leaders if he has any shot of surviving.
Which is the way college football (and sports in general) should be. Go get dressed up watch the game then go home and cure cancer.
