One thing I’ve noticed about Urban is that he’s very aware of the fickle attitudes of fans. He never lets any potentially negative moment go by without a rebuttal. It’s probably more an indictment of the nature of college football fandom than Urban, but it’s a very real effect.

But even with that, UT came out as good as it possibly could have without an actual win.

Urban leaves for Notre Dame and fails to live up to the hype because recruiting is much more difficult when you have to do it nationally and you have the academic standards that Notre Dame has or… Urban Meyer stays at Florida and has to deal with a more competitive SEC East without a once in a lifetime quarterback. It’d be nice to watch him go but I want at least one win against him at Florida before he does.

I honestly don’t see Meyer leaving Florida. Honestly, I think there’s a better chance of the NFL picking him up than Notre Dame. He has gone pro-style in the past (their NC vs. OSU), and a place like Jacksonville would be a lot closer to where his daughters are going to college. I could see a Jax club trying to buoy their finances by bringing him and Tebow in and trying the NFL spread 2.0 (1.0 was Vick in Atlanta). It’d be good for marketing.

That’s not to say that I see that happening, either. Just that, out of unlikely scenarios, it’s probably more likely.

My hope is that Strong gets picked up as a head coach. For one, the guy flat-out deserves it. For two, UF’s defensive recruiting is very heavily buoyed by him at the moment, and could lose some ground if he departs.

Particularly the bit about the missed touchdown opportunities. On the same token, if Kiffin could have used Crompton, that third quarter might not have been so barren.

All eyes on Crompton this weekend. Another 2-int performance will make things interesting heading into the beef of the conference schedule.

In the recent past we have had the best ballhawks and defensive opportunists in the SEC.

That honor belongs to Eric Berry.

since you guys weren’t comfortable with UGA and LSU last year after thirty minutes, and then avalanched them in the second half. Same thing with us in 2007. Kiffin knew it as well, and even without established downfield threats, teams that fall behind against Florida and try that strategy to catch back up may find themselves in equally huge holes by the end.

Look up the definition of bitterness and you’ll see that ^.

All week you Florida fans were shouting you were gonna beat us by 50 because Lane Kiffin can’t coach and Jonathan Crompton can’t throw the ball. One of these is right. All of a sudden Crompton is a world beater who had Urban Creyer scared he was gonna lose if Kiffin would just unleash the beast on the pitiful Florida secondary? Really? That’s what you believe? It sure sounds like it.

Let me point something else out to you. Bryce Brown got benched in the first game of the season for running out of bounds. Tennessee HB’s don’t do that and won’t do it. The fact is, Tennessee got the ball with 10 minutes left and went 70 yards on the ground for the first TD on Florida’s defense of the season in less than two minutes. Less than two minutes!! Why pass when we can run all the way down the field? As soon as we did after your 3 and out we went 4 and a pick.

And finally, the biggest fallacy in your argument, the furthest thing from:

Sorry, but that’s the truth.

is calling anything Urban said after this game “classy”. Saying another team was playing not to lose is actually very classless. Blaming the fact you didn’t beat us by 50 on one starter and 2 backups having a fever is classless.

Enjoy it while you can idiot, because you know it’s coming to an end soon and that’s why you’re here saying stuff like that ^.

I concur with memphispete.

Considering they were on the field the entire third quarter.

It’s the textbook strategy for winning as an underdog. You bleed the clock, keep it close, and then go for the win at the end of the game.

That’s what we did, and it almost worked. As it happens, UF got the win. Be happy with it.

damn i couldnt have said that better myself…

what is silly about being down 17 points and not trying to slow the clock not running it down?

night

Meyer is the antithesis of classy. Florida was shown as being flawed and it was against a supposedly out-classed team. A truly good team let’s their play do the talking, but all Urban can do is make excuses.

It can only be a good sign for the Tennessee program that Florida is so worried about them. But it is pathetic that such “dominant” team is so whiney – and so are their fans. What a bunch of little girls.

Fans have a way of doing that. I’m a lifelong Broncos fan, and I still remember the ‘Hit Heard ’Round the World’, even though I don’t remember who won the game. (Steve Atwater and Christian Akoye – full head-on with no direction changes involved). You’ll remember the hit, too, because Tebow also did a really good job on it.

The announcers were right on this one. They talked about it being that rare event of the SEC’s returning OPOY and DPOY meeting up, but more accurately, it was the head-to-head of the two most talked-about players in the SEC (and, on their respective sides of the ball, the entire NCAA). Both players have long since earned their reputations, and the collision live up to it. It’ll be remembered.

This article.

Thanks for popping by, Matt. I’ll be interested to read it.

Matt, like hooper, I’ll be interested in hearing what you have to say. And I welcome you to RTT.

VolBrian — I hear you, man. I really appreciate your passionate defense of the program and this site. You are always first to take on the trash talkers and to engage them until the end, and we sincerely appreciate that. We have found over the years, though, that trolls and flamers always show up before and after big games against rivals, and to be honest it really sucks that we have to spend a great deal of time after losses warning, banning, and hiding idiotic stuff.

But I have to say that as a general rule the fans of other teams that come here (with some notable exceptions - you know who they are ;) — are much, much more respectful in tone than the ones that visit other sites, and I think that’s largely because the favor is returned. So I think we’ll at least wait to hear what he has to say. But keep doing what you’re doing, protecting the program and the site because we really appreciate it.

I read that on Saturday and was generally against it, as you might imagine. But I like CFN and think it’s a great resource, and I’m generally for giving people the benefit of the doubt. Interested to see what else you have to say and appreciate the accountability.

I am sure the 4 people who actually read that before hoop linked it here don’t really give a screaming eagle crap what he had to say anyway.

Don’t wanna forget him…..

I actually read the site quite often. As a staff, they do pretty good, and have good breakdowns of all Division 1 games each week. I think their stuff is normally fair and free from most of the mainstream media spin. But I’ve never before read garbage like that on their site. Whatever credibility Zemek had as a writer is now shot.

I’m really surprised to see him pop up on this site! Has he commented here before? Maybe he feels like an idiot for not even providing any evidence or an excuse for his blather – or what he calls “instant analysis.” He’s probably trying to maintain what credibility he has by insisting people withhold judgement until reading the rest of his “analysis.” It better be good.

I’ve though so ever since he called Shula’s firing “one of the most disgusting and morally repugnant coach firings in recent college football memory”. The guy is a joke. He makes uninformed, inflammatory remarks to stir the pot for his BS website, which by the way is shady. You’ll get these pop-up windows that get through blockers and don’t close properly. God knows what kind of malware you can get from slumming around there.