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GatorTAG;n292896 said:The title says "PDS Postulations". Maybe PatDooleySucks?
But the great thing about all this is, no matter how close to reality any of our predictions or projections are, no matter how close we are to being the best or even one of the best teams in the SEC after just five games in the McElwain regime, is that we are actually able to talk about these topics in complete seriousness and not as pure fantasy. That’s an amazing distance to have already advanced for a first-year coach taking over such a mess of a program. And whenever you hear or watch that first-year coach talk about his team or his players or his process, you see why he is so successful. He is just a different breed. Now, Dabo Swinney is a big hit with Clemson fans, but he is not my cup o’ tea. His inappropriate emotional outburst after the Notre Dame was something you would expect a first-year coach to do, a first-year coach trying to rebuild a struggling program and push a lot of emotional buttons as a stop gap until the substantive plan is in place. It’s not something you would expect from a guy who has been rebuilding a program for eight whole years and should already be at his peak performance level a number of years ago. And this came after a matchup of highly ranked teams that was basically a tossup. Same thing for Mark Richt, who made a fool of himself in the seventh year of his tenure at Georgia when he pre-planned that full-team end zone mob scene when they scored against Florida in 2007. But now he is in his 15th year as the Dawgs’ head man and he is STILL pulling those ridiculous beginning coach stunts, like when he sent his whole team to intercept the Alabama team when they came out of their tunnel for pregame warm-ups to nearly start a brawl. Richt is understandably not nearly as popular with Georgia fans as Swinniey is with his fans, but either way I will never understand long-established coaches who pull these sorts of juvenile amateur hour stunts to get their team motivated, instead of just going out and doing the job as a coach.
crosscreekcooter;n292901 said:I burned my battery up reading his thesis.
LagoonGator68;n292930 said:He obviously gets paid a penny a word....he even worked the Dwags end zone celebration from years ago into that crap
rogdochar;n292962 said:So true, "goonGator". The Gator O & D wrote that article, leaving newsprint on their competitors' faces. All that
tangential "creative writing" crap just muddied the footing. I sure like reading the straight collected truth to "hear-said"
about our Gators. Besides our hyper-excited glory-bath, we take solid surprised pride in what the boys from
UF did. HC McElwain & Crew just need to keep that really fierce dominance narrative flowing ... amazing
coaching, turnaround.
Mac's visionary Andy of Mayberry wisdom suits our formally despondent Gatordom correctively.
I think the McMessage here is : "don't let your energy "leak out" in petty taunts or grandstand posturing
= not even during the week in practice; keep that outlet plugged until you can plug it into game plays."