Out Georgia-ing Georgia

Yeah, you're right. Let's go ahead and cancel the program now. There is no hope.

 

We need Tight-ends that can do it all to run 12 personnel sets. But I'd be happy if we started running a 10 personnel spread widely throughout the field. Maybe flood one side with 3 receivers too.

 

No... the 10 personnel is 4 receivers set. With no tight ends. That is the 10 personnel set. We never once ran it that I can tell. But we did run 11 personnel sets a ton with 1 tight end and 3 receivers.

Also, why even run a 12 bunch set when you can just add another O-lineman (a 6th O- lineman) and get even better run blocking?

 

Charlie Weis?

 

how?

With exceptions the portal is also rans and non starters

Exception- coach leaves and kids follow

 

In retrospect, I don’t feel bad about the Mcelwain era when looking at what Mullen did to our program. Both were lazy recruiters but Mac had the evaluation piece going for him.

 

Curious…what data/observations/etc do you use to decide Smart’s game day coaching acumen?

Smart is a CEO and head recruiter. He trusts Todd Monken (OC) and Glenn Schumann/Will Muschamp (co-DCs) for in-game playcalling.

As for “it’s all about talent” that’s somewhat true but doesn’t explain Stetson Bennett/Ladd McConkey/Jordan Davis/Devin Willock/other 2-3 stars Smart took and developed. And it ignores the fantastic job Monken does as the best play caller in the SEC.

 

I use Smart’s bone head decision in the SEC Championship Game. I use the fact that if either Metchie or Williamson don’t go down last year you guys don’t go down you most probably do not win the natty last year despite having what was probably the most talented defense ever.

Talent makes everyone’s schemes and play calling look better.

Smart is Dabo II, though I will grant you that he is not as obnoxious as Swinney.

 

Whole lot of opinion stated as fact in this original post

 

So you got nothing but bringing up the unrelated junk about last year’s Natty and your hatred of a rival?

 

No, but I must have inflicted some butthurt over that dumbass fake punt!

 

The one thing you failed to address and/or omit was that despite all 5* & 4* talent at the QB position, they stand the chance of repeating as Natl Champs with a 3* talent at the QB position. Does Kirby pull that off, with one of his 5* or 4* QBs starting instead of his 3* talent..............I say probably not.

CBN needs to recruit at a elite level, but unless CBN finds a QB that plays at a elite level on game day, odds are Florida continues to falls short in as far as winning a conference championships or a national title.

 

I don’t think Mac was a lazy recruiter, he just wasn’t very good. He did make staff changes and was getting better right before he got fired. He had a pretty decent class going before that.

Mullen, I would call lazy, and unwilling to make staff changes to make up for his deficiencies. On the field and off.

 

Nah, I’m riding pretty high these days.

I was looking for a non-emotional fact-based analysis to support your thesis. Might would have agreed if pertinent recent facts would have been presented. I like talking football.

So you bring up something unrelated to Smart’s game day coaching from last year and a bad decision from 2018 as evidence of Smart’s poor coaching. OK. Most would say he’s gotten better as a game day coach in the last 4 years. Even Gators.

Would love your take on CBN. Is he a better game-day coach than Smart?

 

The NFL is full of players from small schools who were not recruited by the big boys. Those players now, after proving themselves, have the option of getting picked up by the big boys thanks to the portal. It’s not just third stringers looking for playing time. Teams have the ability to fill needs immediately with proven commodities instead of waiting on incoming recruits.

 

That’s hard to answer right now. With our talent it was hard to really know what was what. I don’t know how much of what Napier did was what he wanted to do vs what he felt he had to due given the glaring talent gaps.

I really only had one goal for this season and that was to keep the recruiting class together through the season and get some more. In that regard he succeeded. In my 50 years of being a Gator fan, I really believe that top to bottom this was our least talented team.

I will grant you that Smart has gotten better on game day over the last 4 years but i do not consider him elite.

 

I think they're cut from the same cloth. They see themselves as CEO's and recruiters, with a specialty.

One has a 6 year head start on the other.

It remains to be seen if the Napier can equal what Smart has done. I have my doubts because of the gap that exists now, and our University's commitment to get there. We
backed off and opened the door for others to take what we had.

We wanted to be a top 5 school and a President Cup challenger and shortchanged our two revenue sports to get there. Georgia said to hell with that, we're going all out and here they are.

 

"and occasionally get out foxed by smarter dudes in-game by guys like Heupel, Norvell, Freeze, Kiffen etc…"

I guess your alter-ego wrote above in the OP.