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I get your point of this article, but Miami may not necessarily have to wait until 2013 to get revenge.  It is possible that we meet them in the post-season at some point before then.

Buddy, You should have emphasized that Shannon has absolutely no room to whine, 1.  He was the receipient of the Pay back field goal that Schnellenberger kicked in 1980.  That really pissed off a lot of Gator fans (one of them being me, I was there) That was pay back to the ‘Canes long overdue.

2.  Shannon also ran the score up on hapless Charleston Southern and he has been a participant in many games where the Canes ran it up on many others over the years.  He would have run it up on a bunch of teams last year, just wasn’t capable.  Got his butt kicked instead.  Is he threatening Al Groh of UVA???

JMHO

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My only beef with UF was the fact that they were calling pass plays on the last series.  The clock could have been eaten up with just running the football.  The field goal was no big deal. 

For the record, the other rumor - that Meyer was making sure he “covered the spread” is borderline ridiculous.  While I’m sure coaches know the spreads before games, he’s not kicking field goals to “cover” point spreads.  To suggest otherwise is to speculate, wrecklessly.

I don’t generally respond to any thing like this but I was very surprised and offended by the entire Miami section yelling a chant that said f--- the Gators over and over again.  And when our softball team and volleyball teams were introduced for their success of last year the chant (again by all of the Miami section) was “sucks” as each persons name was called.  I believe that the Bible says to get the log out of your own eye before you worry about the speck in your brothers eye.  This kind of behavior is “classless” and in my humble opinion should be addressed before someone is labled “classless” for scoring points in football, which as someone suggested is why you play the game and is certainly within the rules.

1983 - we beat the canes the year they won their first MNC - 28-3.

Buddy, I have wondering for the past week why Gator Country hasn’t brought us any news regarding Moody.  It was my understanding that he tweaked an ankle against Hawaii, but there have been no reports on his condition since.  Is Urban simply waiting to break him out against UT?  After hearing such great things about him during fall practice you’d think if he was ready to go we’d have seen him against Miami.  Give us something!!!

Buddy--The article in the herald actually said Shannon was upset that we were throwing into the endzone on the last series, not the field goal. I might have to agree with him--while Spurrier often threw at the end of a game, he usually would do it with our backup players in the game

I think the context of Shannon’s comment is that he claims some UM recruits who were at the game called him afterwards and told him that they are even more strongly committed to UM now because they were turned off by Meyer’s actions in kicking the late file goal.
That is supposedly what he meant by his statement that “it helped us more than you will ever know.”

As for passing instead of running, I’m not sure that makes a difference as all our running plays are mis-direction gimmicky plays that look more like trick plays anyway and that would not have done much to quell the bad feelings. It’s not like we even have a play in the playbook where we line up under center and hand the ball to a RB.  I think it would be a nice change of pace to not run from the shotgun 100% of the time.

As for the final FG, I feel it was unnecessary. Kicking a chip shot in a game already decided isn’t going to give anyone meaningful experience.

no offense, but i believe that answering the moody question is what we pay the site for.... ;)

randy needs to worry about his offense. in their last 2 games against division 1 teams they have scored 3 points in 8 quarters.

I guess it was ok for Miami to run the score up on a division 1AA[FCS} Charleston southern.... Miami is classless...i guess its the just the way it is

No doubt Randy had some $$ riding on this one, and that late field goal covered the spread.  I can understand him being a little upset…

Just pulled out an old bumper sticker that reads GATORS 28 National Champs 3.  1983 The only good cane is sugar cane.

Good golly Randy what would you have said if UF hadn’t gotten called for not enough men on the line of scrimmage when the score would’ve been 30-3?

Randy Shannon has already proven “what kind of person he is” and has no room to talk about anyone. Has he and everyone else forgotten about his bald face lie to the press last year about his best friend getting killed while going to school at UF. Turned out he died in Miami in his 30’s some 15+ yrs after leaving UF.

I think he is making himself look stupid.  He clearly is a recruiter but not a coach.  With a new kicker who never kicked in front of ninety thousand plus in game conditions, you would be negligent as a coach if you did not take the opportunity to “game him up”.  Any coach who does nor recognize that is just plain stupid; unless he loves playing the victim.  So in my book he is either stupid or bereft of manly virtues.  Neither one would make a sentient athlete want to play for him.  He will continue to get the genetic freaks who have nothing else working for them.  You can field a hell of a team that way; but what are you doing to make a difference in a young man’s life?  He is the one that revealed his true deficiencies; not Urban.

Yes, where is Moody?  With numbers like he put up as a freshman at USC, something is missing here.