Eek! I hope I haven't jinxed them!
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From: gatortalk@googlegroups.com [mailto:gatortalk@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Woody
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2018 1:45 PM
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"so far"
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 2:37 PM, Oliver Barry <barryo@realtracs.com> wrote:
You know something we haven't seen yet? Transfers! Not one player appears to be upset with his position with the team now.
On the contrary, they took up what was promised to be the toughest off season conditioning program they had ever seen!
Nobody quit.
This team is coming together as a team. That's what Mullen did at Mississippi State. That's what he's accomplishing at Florida.
If he can get players to improve their skills and to play with abandon, we will see a winning program again.
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From: gatortalk@googlegroups.com [mailto:gatortalk@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Helen Huntley
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I think Mullen had the right idea. Let the players have fun--get them pumped up and motivated for all the hard work they are going to have to do this summer in the weight room.
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On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 2:04 PM, Oliver Barry <barryo@realtracs.com> wrote:
Another good point. As I recall, after talking with Kelly they didn't like him as much.
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From: 'Scott Lucas' via GatorTalk [mailto:gatortalk@googlegroups.com]
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2018 10:59 AM
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He also made his distaste for Mullen very obvious when he made the "whiffed on Chip Kelly" comment. He was in no way ready to give Mullen a fair shake.
On Monday, April 16, 2018, 11:01:35 AM EDT, Woody <gatorrrrrr@gmail.com> wrote:
I get Will's point... but I think it was somewhat of an overreaction. We were never going to learn anything from the spring game. It was all about making it fun and reconnecting football with the fan base. We're not going to see any improvement until maybe halfway through the season.
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:27 AM, Shane Ford <goufgators01@gmail.com> wrote:
How to define what happened during the 2018 Florida spring game
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After the 2018 Orange and Blue Debut, Dan Mullen said that he just wanted to bring fun back to Florida football.
Maybe I'm old. Maybe I had unrealistic expectations. But what I watched on Saturday afternoon wasn't much fun. It was barely football.
I was expecting a fireworks show with QBs throwing deep to all of the wide receiver weapons we've heard so much about all offseason. Instead, I saw QBs who didn't look much different than they did a year or two ago. I saw offensive linemen consistently struggling in pass protection. I saw busted coverages by linebackers on tight ends that ended up in touchdowns.
The only players who caught anything deep were alums who last played for Florida before any of the current players were born.
With apologies to Lawrence Wright and Travis McGriff, I didn't tune in to watch a legends game. I tuned in to see a preview of the explosive offense I was promised when Scott Stricklin whiffed on Chip Kelly and brought in Mullen to restore the Florida program.
Many – including me – have bought into that vision for the program. But for a program that has struggled so much offensively, the entire vibe on offense was just tone deaf.
I want games in The Swamp to be spectacles. But this was a circus.
While the deep throws to former players were puzzling, I think the events of the day were best exemplified by QB Feleipe Franks "60 yard" run for a TD. Defensive back Quincy Lenton clearly had Franks in his sights about 10 yards downfield and slowed down. Then DBs McArthur Burnett and Trey Dean* caught up to Franks at the 15 yard line (enough to grab his jersey) but he was given the TD anyway.
Then Franks kicked the ball up into the stands and celebrated like he had just scored the game winner against LSU.
Some may try to say this was just having fun. They may tell you that the environment under the previous regime was so bad that Mullen had to do something to lighten the mood. They may tell you that this was about the fans, former players and recruits having a good time. They may be right.
But I think it was embarrassing. It was Butch Jones trash-can level bad. I half expected Mullen to come out in his postgame press conference and proclaim that it was part of building the program "brick by brick."
Mullen has repeatedly spoken about the "Gator standard" way of doing things. One of the reasons I thought he understood that standard was that the SEC East championship signs came down almost immediately after he was hired. It indicated that the days of participation trophies were over.
But maybe we need to define what the Gator standard is a little bit clearer. It's pretty simple: winning.
From 1990-2010, Florida won 78 percent of its games and finished the year unranked 3 times. Those teams averaged 35.2 points per game and an offensive ranking of 19.5. From 2011-2017, Florida has won 59 percent of its games and has finished the year unranked 4 times. Those teams have averaged 24.0 points per game and an offensive ranking of 92.9.
I saw nothing on Saturday that was building towards the former kind of offense or level of winning. It was a waste of a practice and a waste of time.
I spoke with multiple people that I know who were there. They showed up expecting to be excited about the direction the program was headed. Instead, they left wondering whether the staff felt the only way to generate excitement was to do so artificially.
When UCF claimed a National Championship after defeating Auburn this past season, my reaction was that it was ridiculous. But I understood what they were doing and even appreciated how their marketing efforts kept the school in the news and the national consciousness.
But that kind of behavior is beneath Florida. It's why I've settled on the word unbecoming to describe the spring game. This is an elite, blue-blood program.
It shouldn't require gimmicks to make the game fun.
*An earlier version of this article identified Joseph Putu instead of Trey Dean as one of the defensive backs who had an opportunity to tackle Franks. I apologize for the mistake.
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