NashvilleGator

Not revisionist at all. Neil's hisotry is accurate, as is your two-for-one recollection.

Pitts wanted to play.

This is a very important commitment, but we're going to need a big haul of offensive linemen from the portal.

Texas proved nothing against Florida's depleted secondary, with the top three cornerbacks injured. As for Ole Miss, they are 2023 FSU. They may very well make a playoff run this year, but they have no depth and as FSU showed, over-emphasis on the transfer portal is not sustainable on a multi-year basis. The hope is that a great year created by the portal levers you into some strong high school recruiting classes, but that didn't work out for FSU either.

This is a better ranking, although I would rank Ole Miss ahead of Tennessee, and South Carolina ahead of LSU. Don't know what's happened to LSU, but they're a mess.

NCAA, yes. SEC, no.

Looks like this guy is the Matt "Hatchet Job" Hayes replacement at SDS, now that Hayes somehow managed to wrangle a job with Gannett/USA Today.

Most incongruous stretch of prose I've seen in awhile, re Golden. What's your point? Kiffin's challenge at Ole Miss will be year-to-year consistency. His 2024 defensive line replicates the 2023 FSU defensive line. The transfer portal is a hit or miss lottery. Beck. I guess Brock Bowers really was the difference. Milroe reminds me of Anthony Richardson. Only more rugged.

His statement is a PR strategy to imply that the accusations are made up, without actually saying it. And to extend his paychecks. The problem is that the accusations suggest more than one accuser, and a bunch of digital evidence. Time will tell.

The real determining factor if Lagway, is a judgment call, should be the health of our secondary. We aren't winning another game, except maybe FSU, if we don't get some defensive backs healthy.

So on a miserable, rain-soaked day when Georgia's offense faced an elite, mercenary defensive line in a hostile stadium, it's Bobo's play-calling that was the problem? Looked to me like Georgia's two quick but smallish running backs were tossed about like rag dolls, and their quarterback often threw late and inaccurately. His red suit was interesting, though.

You do realize that Florida has more all sports championships than any other SEC member, yes?

So Golden is apparently an idiot. Fire him. Move on. On the football side, this too shall pass. Today was a very unique circumstance of Texas repeatedly exploiting inexperienced secondary guys. If the roster can be held together, next year will be a dramatically different story. And if we can get Lagway and a couple cornerbacks back, so will the rest of this year.

If you're going to write for a site about football, don't show us that you know nothing about football by posting posts by fans who... know nothing about football. The Texas offense is clearly only succeeding by targeting inexperienced third string cornerbacks.

First, what's with preliminary thoughts on non-SEC -- and even non-ACC -- games? Who cares? Even if Lagway has a low grade hamstring tweak, it would be nuts to play him against Texas. But even with him not playing, I think there's a good chance that Florida at least covers. If Ole Miss can handle the Georgia blitzes and pressure Beck even minimally, they should win. Mississippi State at Tennessee is interesting, if only to see if Tennessee can score against a lower caliber SEC defense. The Alabama at LSU game is a complete wildcard to me. On a Saturday night in Baton Rouge, if LSU gets hot, they could win a back-and-forth shootout.

Wow, when I said never-ending debate...

Not one.

I can see you never played the safety position.

I don't pretend to know much about Warner but save for the one ill-advised throw, he played pretty sound football. While he didn't look it, he's 6-3. Arm strength seemed fair. He won three district championships at Winter Park High School, which is Class 4M (some other Class 4M schools are Apopka, Seminole, Lake Mary, Mandarin and Palmetto). If he got into Yale, he's got smarts.

They way he's been playing, Beck may be back next year. CoJo is right that Georgia is winning in spite of him.

A Grade 2 moderate hamstring pull is six to eight weeks recovery time and a Grade 1 is one to three weeks. I'm not seeing him on the field against Texas. At minimum.

Hump, I have missed these debates. The answer to "how much distance" is... one step. As for IF, it's the biggest word in the English language. It's also the fuel that keeps these comment sections going.

He questioned your statement that Lagway would be held to his CMP % for the first half if he had played the entire game, which CMP % was substantially below both his CMPs versus AP Top 25 teams and his career overall. Hardly hyperbole. And Georgia is tied for 24th in the nation in opponent explosive plays of 40+ yards, so please spare me on the idea that your starting safeties returning from their cheap shot punishments would have clamped down on deep balls.

No Hump, no drinking here either. Jackson would not be able to keep up with Mizell on a go whether he "bit" on the fake or not. Jackson' strengths are savvy and hitting, not keeping up with a 10.6 wide receiver. Your sample size on the rushing stats, while interesting, doesn't prove much because the sample is too small to be meaningful. Frankly, there isn't much yards per carry variance between the two halves. An independent observer might suggest that with the greater number of carries in the second half, Florida had a greater chance to have a couple of positive outlier plays. Now, if you could do an apples-to-apples comparison (same number of carries), that might be more meaningful. Finally, on the surliness, I don't see it that way. Georgia fans are on a Gator article trying to knock down the obvious conclusion drawn by any objective human who has watched Lagway play this year and has watched Florida in recent weeks, which is that Florida had a very real chance of winning the game with him at quarterback. Georgia won the game, and there is every possibility that Georgia still would have won the game anyway because Georgia is a good team with a deep roster. But don't expect us to be happy about it, or to leave a statement like, "... after that hard hit on his previous last run, he wasn’t interested in running any more..." unanswered.

The injuries were largely due to the abominable field condition. If it was a strength and conditioning issue, it would have manifested in the previous seven games.

The primary criticism of Billy has been his in-game coaching. The fall-offs in recruiting have arguably been due to wins and losses sabotaging recruiting. You already cited a general area where Kirby made in-game coaching errors. I would argue quarterback decisions too; of course that's a never-ending debate. But it worked out better for Kirby because he inherited a much stronger roster to begin with (also a never-ending debate) and because he is also an excellent recruiter. If you look at the classes Billy had set up and then how late flips that impacted those classes, it's clear that losing on the field is the dependent variable.

Sentiment is likely shifting on Billy, especially with the people who write the big checks. Because the bigger the check, the more careful you are about writing it. Another reality is that the dynamics are changing with talked about potential replacements (Kiffin, Day, Franklin, etc.), and not in ways that help Florida. As others have noted, Cignetti is a really good coach but he's 63. And as others have also posted, recruiting has become the number one concern. There are only two ways to fix recruiting: win, or hire a new big name coach. But either way, 2025 recruiting may still take a hit just because of timing. There is a possibility -- albeit perhaps not a strong one -- that sophisticated recruits, when it comes to football, see the effort being made by the roster, the obvious talent improvement, and the Lagway phenomenon. Kirby did some really stupid sh_t during his first few years as an HC. What you find is that as your roster improves, the bad decisions you make matter less.

Most pointless fine in all of sports.

As much as I don’t care for Beck, I don’t think hyperbole means what you think it means. And if we’re being picky, Beck’s TD passes were great yards after catch efforts by the receivers, not particularly special throws. Like I said above, just enjoy the win.

Drinking on a Sunday afternoon? Lagway was hurt before halftime, with the score 10-6 Florida. And the idea that Jackson would have done any better keeping up with a 10.6 wide receiver is laughable. As for scoring after turnovers, what’s your point? Look, injuries and luck are part of the game. Life will go on and football is cyclical. Our turn will come again. Just enjoy the win and don’t try to embellish it beyond what it was.