After Sugar and you're doubting your Gators

[NJG8tor]

Originally Posted by gator07

Of course you want to win as opposed to losing, but really what's the difference? Either way it's the last game of the year with no title of any sort on the line. Winning the sec is important. Winning the mnc is important. Getting to a good bowl is important, but winning it versus losing doesn't matter much in the long run.

If we had beaten a good team like Oregon or even Oklahoma in our bowl, we would be in unanimous agreement that the game mattered. In the grand scheme of things, most games dont mean much. What did the past two seasons mean? A BCS game is a final opportunity to show off our program to the nation. That wasnt a proud final performance of this years Gator team, and we all know it.Bowl games in general often arent representative of how a team played the season; but that is not an excuse to mail it in.

[number1]

So basically every team not in the BCS national championship game should just not even try to win their bowl game? Is that what people are saying in here?

[junebuggator]

When Fowler gets the chance to keep saying we were "dominated' again and again it matters!
ESPN was in full crush the fledgling UF program mode after the game.
It mattered.

[Big Ed Gator]

It doesn't affect recruiting at all and that is what matters.

Clemson getting mauled 70-33 didn't matter 1 bit all. They got many more times the ridicule we're getting from losing by 10 to Louisville and they STILL had an impressive recruiting class.

To some it up, I'm over it. As that meme goes, "not a single f*&k is given this day" over the loss.

[gatormoe1]

Dreamliner is STILL on his soap box... jeez.

[g8rfan22]

The Gators had a great season and as we all have seen, as with any team, there are deficiencies. All of the criticisms and whining is a bit much. I mean I made the trip with my three kids. It was expensive but I wouldn't have missed supporting my little bro for the world. Were we disappointed with the loss, of course, but I didn't give my son a long speech about what the Gators did wrong (the girls didn't care).

Letting them hear from some of the players first hand at the hotel gave them more insight than I would've. Believe me, the boys were none too happy about the loss. They realized they got out played by Louisville (& the refs). The showboaters that keep getting called out weren't on Bourbon St. partying after the game. They were at the hotel.

So please, if you played a couple of snaps or even ran out of the tunnel at the Sugar Bowl feel free to post your criticisms but if you didn't...let it go. All you are doing is working yourself up for a message board.

[toddsevans]

Agreed. We had huge wins against our rivals and a very very good A&M team. The team unfortunately checked out on us for Louisville. In reality it was not a game Fla players were charged up to play. No disrespect to Louisville but it was Louisville.

[Spurffelbow833]

Originally Posted by danky1313

The performance at the Sugar was certainly an all-time low but I could care less and think NO GATOR fan should be down on CWM and the season we just had.

It's "I couldn't care less," and what Herm Edwards said.

[LimeyGator]

We all care that we got a whoopin'.

I think the issue those seemingly 'less bothered' by it are pushing is "move on." That's right. We've had a few days to lick our wounds, let's go forward again.

[Tebowism0823]

Originally Posted by WarDamnGator

Why's a guy who's team was 1-7 in the SEC telling UF fans how we should feel? We had a great season, capped off by a bad performance in a meaningless bowl game. This team outpaced everyone's expectations, and was deflated after ending up #3 in the BCS ...

For starters, Jagervol didn't say anything that wasn't correct. Also, if you feel that the sugar bowl was meaningless then there's nothing anybody here can tell you that would even make sense.

[Tebowism0823]

Originally Posted by WarDamnGator

Losing sucks, doesn't matter when or where. But yeah, it was a meaningless game that has no bearing on any future event. I'm over it. Boo Hooing on the internet isn't going to change anything.

You're boo hooing now trying to convince people a BCS game is meaningless. No bearing on the future? How about recruiting???

[UFreak]

I'm with jaggervol it was a bitter loss. Instill think the Sugar Bowl is a big deal. We were the only game on prime time TV. It was a humiliating loss and I care.

[Tebowism0823]

Originally Posted by number1

So basically every team not in the BCS national championship game should just not even try to win their bowl game? Is that what people are saying in here?

Sounds like it. Maybe bowl games should just go away. Have a championship game and that's it.

[Tebowism0823]

Originally Posted by Big Ed Gator

It doesn't affect recruiting at all and that is what matters.

Clemson getting mauled 70-33 didn't matter 1 bit all. They got many more times the ridicule we're getting from losing by 10 to Louisville and they STILL had an impressive recruiting class.

To some it up, I'm over it. As that meme goes, "not a single f*&k is given this day" over the loss.

One game, one team, and it doesn't effect recruiting. Man you're a genius!

[gatorsfan530]

Gator fans complaining? Nah...

[Swampmaster]

Originally Posted by g8rfan22

So please, if you played a couple of snaps or even ran out of the tunnel at the Sugar Bowl feel free to post your criticisms

you can only post on the message board if you played in the game?

[Tebowism0823]

Originally Posted by g8rfan22

The Gators had a great season and as we all have seen, as with any team, there are deficiencies. All of the criticisms and whining is a bit much. I mean I made the trip with my three kids. It was expensive but I wouldn't have missed supporting my little bro for the world. Were we disappointed with the loss, of course, but I didn't give my son a long speech about what the Gators did wrong (the girls didn't care).

Letting them hear from some of the players first hand at the hotel gave them more insight than I would've. Believe me, the boys were none too happy about the loss. They realized they got out played by Louisville (& the refs). The showboaters that keep getting called out weren't on Bourbon St. partying after the game. They were at the hotel.

So please, if you played a couple of snaps or even ran out of the tunnel at the Sugar Bowl feel free to post your criticisms but if you didn't...let it go. All you are doing is working yourself up for a message board.

I don't see it as criticism, nor degrading, I see it as calling it for what it is. There're a few of of us here that were blessed enough to run out of the tunnels for UF but that's not needed to give a feedback of OUR team.

[UFreak]

Originally Posted by Swampmaster

you can only post on the message board if you played in the game?

No kidding. Or if you have a little brother who plays for the team.

I hate it when people say you can't have an opinion unless you have direct experience in something. As a human being, I can extrapolate information from something I was not directly involved in and still have an understanding of it.
By that failed logic, we should not have a democracy because only people who have held public office should vote. After all, they are the only ones who really know what it is like to be an elected official.

[WarDamnGator]

Originally Posted by Tebowism0823

... How about recruiting???

Yeah, how about recruiting? ... I really like this incoming class. Some people here seem extremely worried about something, though. Is there something specific I should be concerned about here? … or should I just worry about general worst case scenarios that I have no control over until the esophagus spasms take over my body and force me to check into a hospital?

[rpmGator]

All time low, you might want to look at the season where our one big win that year, was a tie. No wins is a bit worse than losing in a BCS bowl.