We are in accord, Juno. I appreciated Muschamp doing so well last season. That “most important one” being pretty danged important.
He certainly still has some rough edges, but I can live with most of it. I could live with it better if he’d start winning again.
I also appreciate your sending us the news from South Florida every day. I read most of it. It helps me get the day started if I’m angry early in the morning. J
Dave George? Putz!
I’m so, so happy to see Scottie Wilbekin back in the lineup. Maybe we’ll have some good Gator basketball news these next two weeks.
We’ve got some tough competition starting with the evil ones from Tallahassee.
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Juno Gator strongly disagrees with the following column before he even reads it. Juno thinks:
Will Mushchamp needs to show growth in the robustness of offensive philosophy as well as improvement of player development on both sides of the ball. He might also need to more frequently rotate young and other non-starting players at important positions other than defensive line and cornerback.
Coach Boom needs to (1) to continue to better inspire players to treat rivalry (and bowl) games as extra special, (2) to better motivate players and his assistant coaches to perform better at the beginning of all games (3) grow as an in-game clock manager.
Coach Muschamp must also continue his strong recruiting. He must maintain and transfer to the players his passion and focus on each play. He must make staff adjustments in philosophy if not in personnel which may personally for him be tough.
But the good man (even if he played for UGa) has shown he can bring in, and will play top talent from the get go. He deflects praise and accepts responsibility for disappointments of the team, the team's other coaches or its players. Oh -- and he doesn't walk over to frat row to fight with any boys over there.
He won every regular season football game (but the most important one) and got us into a BCS bowl a year ago. While this year's njuries have pounded the team in strategic spots repeatedly. Team leading first string players at wide receiver, halfback, fullback, safety and cornerback have been lost for games. Quarterback, defensive tackle, defensive end linebacker, and offensive line are lost fro the first stringers all the way down to walk-on, in some cases.
This is a type of misfortune JunoGator has not seen since I partied my way through my first freshman quarter of watching gator football in 1979 -- at least I had half time pass outs and quarts of Jack Daniels to comfort me during games back then.
Considering all that, how could we, the Gator Nation, not recognize the self inflicted wound that showing impatience with Muschamp would become? Coach Boom is still developing into whatever kind of successful coach he will ultimately be judged to be.
Why will any championship able coaching candidate not pause should he consider the unrealistic expectations and impatience the GatorNation would show with our HBC position by letting Will Muschamp go after this year?
If "Champ" turns things around next year and The GatorNation is embellished by having a loyal HBC with a program which is strong and on track.
If (heaven forbid) Will Muschamp proves not up to the task, Jeremy Foley can take this next year to identify and attract a premier replacement to whom he can offer a team which is talented, a loyal and reasonable athletic director, and a generally supportive base -- albeit with high expectations.
Go Gators
Thanks for my JunoGator rant. Lets SHOCK the Semi's
Dave George: It’s time for Florida to fire coach Will Muschamp
BY DAVE GEORGE - PALM BEACH POST STAFF WRITER
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HOOPS: Wilbekin reinstated
GAINESVILLE -- Late last week, No. 15 Florida topped Middle Tennessee State by double-digits without a point guard, but coach Billy Donovan’s offensive gamble lasted just a single contest.
Florida -- shorthanded with just seven available scholarship players -- will receive a much-needed boost Monday against Jacksonville (7 p.m.) as point guard Scottie Wilbekin returns to action following a six-game suspension.
“He’s done everything. I’m really proud of him,” Donovan said. “As I have mentioned before, he has really stayed on course since last spring.”
(Courtesy gatorzone.com)
UF's senior point guard, a preseason all-conference pick and one of the top defensive guards in the country, was suspended indefinitely June 10 after violating team rules for the second time in eight months. Donovan actually gave Wilbekin the option to transfer, but the senior chose to earn (and fight) his way back onto the team.
“He’s grown up in a lot of ways. I think that he obviously made some poor choices last year. You would hope that situation would have been kind of an eye-opener for him, with his level of accountability and responsibility to himself and to his team,” Donovan explained. “For whatever reason, that experience, those first three games last year, did not register with him at all, at the level I wanted it to. And I think with the situation we put him in the spring, as it related to him having to work his way back on the team, not doing anything in Summer B or Summer A with our team, going through the conditioning in the month of August and September away from our team, slowly getting him back. The biggest thing I’ve noticed is a total change in his attitude, his behavior. Scottie was never ever a bad kid. It was of kind of like a warrior mentality, like, ‘I’ll take anything on. I can deal with it.’ And I think he’s gotten a lot more humble. I think he has a much, much better understanding of how his actions and things that he does impact not only himself, but other people. I really have seen a great growth in him.”
Wilbekin, who averaged 9.1 ppg. and 5.1 apg. in 29 starts last season, returns at an important time for Florida. Freshman point guard Kasey Hill sustained a high-ankle sprain in last Monday’s win over Southern, forcing Donovan to juggle as many as four guys at the position during Thursday’s 20-point win over MTSU.
Hill remains in a boot except during rehab activities and is expected to miss around a month with the injury.
Following Monday’s road tilt with JU (2-3), Florida (4-1) faces a brutal schedule over the next three weeks: home vs. FSU, at No. 13 Connecticut, home vs. No. 2 Kansas and vs. No. 21 Memphis in Madison Square Garden.
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