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Very much enjoy your posts sir, and 99% of the time I agree with what you post, but I think Mullen is a great coach – don’t care for him much, but he has done a lot with “less” in years past. Think back to last year pre-season… I don’t think anyone would have bought stock that UF would finish top 10 in the final polls. I wouldn’t underestimate his (and his staff’s) ability to field a pretty solid team this year.
It was the Goff and Donnan years. Goff out recruited everybody. The thing about Georgia always having better players came from Spurrier because we finished with higher ranked recruiting classes the first 4 years of Goff and after besting us Spurrier would bring it up. Then Donnan also killed it. It’s not a wives’ tale. You just havent gone back far enough.
Read here all the clichés about rivalry games. And take no game for granted. Yeah, we have tons more talent but should not overlook UF at all. Even w/ LSU not even being a true rival, that game proved that you can lose on any given blah blah blah. @law_dawg35 is right. UGA better go into it w/ their heads on straight.
The problem with the Gaytors is they lose almost all of their OL, and we not only return most of ours, but even get some back their injured. Emory is struggling, I've heard he's fighting just to compete with walk-ons so he's no miracle cure. Franks is ok, but not Fromm.
And don't let that Michigan game fool you, Michigan was missing more starters for that game than we were against Texas. So, that win isn't as great as they gator fanbase like to make it out to be. I see the Gators taking a step back this season. They're recruiting talent, but not like us.
Agreed! So far we have 13 top 200 recruits 2019, they have 6. Am waiting for the 247 composite Talent numbers to come out which I hope is end of next week.
Nah I think if Florida is going to make a step back towards Meyer like, we're likely to see it very quickly, as with how things roll with most coaching changes for schools, if there's no 2nd year bump, that's usually not good news.
I've said I doubt it on Mullen taking them back to those times, but I can't lie, on occasion I've had doubt creep in on that of late. As of now my guess for next year would actually lean towards them having a slight bump, but I'm thinking that it ends up like 2012, maybe not as bad as the game we saw that year...they go 11-1 and lose by 10 to Georgia as their only regular season loss, then they suffer a Louisville-esque loss in a bowl. Going forward from there, since Mullen was one of Florida's guys with Meyer, most of their fans will still hold a great deal of hope, but it'll officially be dashed in 2020.
They may play us tough, but they haven't recruited well enough the past few years to out-talent us as they used to do. The biggest thing CKS has brought to this rivalry, IMO, is that we no longer fear Florida. We don't come into this game anymore just hoping we can keep from being embarrassed and maybe eke out a win every now and then. We come in there now expecting to win, which is what we used to do during the time Dooley was coaching.
Not really. It was tight until the last 27 minutes of game time. UF lead by one point with 13:35 left to go in the 3rd quarter and that's as close as they got. UGA then lead 20-14...and 23-14 going into the 4th quarter. Final was 36-17, and UF only got a FG the final 27 minutes. That's really not 'closer than the score indicated.' That's UGA shutting UF down the second half. Don't fall into the 'Moral Victory' trap.
Georgia hasn't feared Florida since Jarvis Jones. It was his plays that led to the breakthrough.
2015 and 2016 simply were not good teams, and 2014 had a fatal run defense problem when Georgia wasn't playing clock control.
Steele is UF#1 recruit for 2019 at #42 in 247. He would rank 7th in UGA class
And Kirby is now 3-0 vs. your coach, counting the 2017 Miss. State game.
Blue chip recruiting UGA V UF:
2016 14 v 9
2017 20 v 11
2018 22 v 13
2019 20 v 15
4 year total 66 v 48
I know you're a Gator fan, but what you say is true. We've come into the Jacksonville showdown with the superior talent on a number of occasions and still come out the loser. That said, I think Kirby has Mullet's number.
We had no killer instinct on occasions when we had a better team but lost. Florida did have it. They had the advantage of believing they would beat us every game....we just came in hoping we could win. There's a lot to be said for having the psychological edge.
Having won the past 2 by a combined score of 78-24, I hope Kirby has exorcised those demons forever.
Mullen has never won more than 10 regular season games in his 11 year career. Dan Mullen is 79-49 as a head coach. I seriously dont understand where all of his hype comes from.
You will
I think in a lot of those instances you can point to being out coached by either SOS or Urban.
I think a lot of the hype around Dan Mullen is due to his superior skills as a sideline dancer!
It's a rivalry game so anyone can win any year but I'd rather be UGA going into that game than UF.
I doubt it.
Kirby vs. Mullen last 2 games.....
31-3
36-17
Being out-scored 66-20 does little to reinforce the opinion.