Around the SB Nation: Alabama = Godzilla, Florida = Predator

by Joel Hollingsworth on Sep 29, 2009 12:00 PM EDT in Rocky Top Talking Points

The difference between Alabama-good (Godzilla) and Florida-good (Predator), explained by Kentucky blog A Sea of Blue in a way that basketball fans can understand.
Don't look now but Wisconsin is 4-0. Bucky's 5th Quarter takes a look at both the good and the bad from Saturday's win over Michigan State.
Alabama's lost Dont'a Hightower to a season-ending knee injury. Roll Bama Roll wonders how he'll be replaced.
Tomahawk Nation begins its latest post by telling readers not to expect a "huge Bowden rant" and then spends the next 500 words (a "quick synopsis" TN calls it) doing just that before moving on to other things. Was FSU's loss to South Florida was a sort of tipping point?

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I know at least three FSU fans

And they hit their tipping point with Bobby Bowden a long time ago.

The difference now I think is some people are looking at cleaning house and starting from scratch as just as viable an option as Jimbo Fisher.

"Florida didnt win their first SEC title until 1991 and now they think they invented football."
-Ron Zook

by rustytanton on Sep 29, 2009 12:07 PM EDT reply actions

Familiarity breeds contempt.

We should be familiar with that effect. /whistles

But seriously, it’s easy to see where the growing contempt for Jimbo is coming from. He’s been the heir apparent for a long time, but his side of the ball isn’t showing the kind of dominance that would make FSU fans feel they can return to the ’90s glory years behind him. Meanwhile, other places are going out of their way to find new, apparently more ambitious^ coaches to turn things around, like Kiffin, Malzahn, Meyer, Saban, etc – coaches who clawed their way to the top even at the very last step, rather than being set on cruise control for several years.

^ – Not to say that Jimbo isn’t necessarily ambitious, but that laying patiently in waiting is not the way to get people to believe in your ambitions.

by David Hooper on Sep 29, 2009 12:19 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah

I think, though, that the tipping point TN was referring to was one happening actually inside the program with the actual decision-makers, not the fans. And I got the feeling that TN wasn’t really upset w/ Fisher as much as he was Bowden not letting the “better” assistants do their thing.

Rocky Top Talk

by Joel Hollingsworth on Sep 29, 2009 12:53 PM EDT up reply actions

Your comment made no sense to me...

… until I realized that “TN” was Tomahawk Nation and not Tennessee.

Lou Brock loves Lamp.

by birdjam on Sep 29, 2009 2:25 PM EDT up reply actions

Ah

Heh. Sorry ’bout that.

Rocky Top Talk

by Joel Hollingsworth on Sep 29, 2009 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions

I saw TN and Fisher and thought you were talking about the Titans there for a second.

Lou Brock loves Lamp.

by birdjam on Sep 29, 2009 2:46 PM EDT up reply actions

I don't care about FSU

but Bobby Bowden is making me mad. Like during that Miami game, he just saunters up and down the sideline, occasionally popping his head in to find out what’s going on. Whatever, but this last post game interview was a joke. He’s a legend at FSU, but he’s not above the program. If I were an FSU fan, I’d be calling for his resignation immediately! Not like he does anything anyway, but he is a distraction.

by golfballs03 on Sep 29, 2009 12:57 PM EDT up reply actions

Wisky's 4-0 doesn't strike fear in me yet.

Northern Illinois, Fresno St., Wofford, and Michigan St., with only Wofford being more than a one-score difference. They have some defensive issues to address.

by David Hooper on Sep 29, 2009 12:21 PM EDT reply actions

Wisconsin being 4-0 is a testament to their scheduling, not the quality of their team.

Reminds me of when Florida State got ranked early last year for scheduling 2 1-AA teams to open the year and everyone wanted to rank them.

Eric Berry for sending the guy who wins the Heisman spinning 720 degrees in the air at the podium - or for intercepting it and returning it to where it rightfully belongs

by Chris Pendley on Sep 29, 2009 7:17 PM EDT up reply actions