Rank our coaches from Spurrier on

#1 Spurrier due to number of sec titles, first natty, duration as coach. Former player, heisman etc
#2 Urban simply due to two championships.
#3 all others

 

Maybe it’s just slow between bowl games and something to kill time. Nobody forcing anyone to read the thread.

 

This dude has spammed the board recently. More to it than just this thread.

 

So based on your logic you just bashed potential recruits by calling them non savvy. Keep it positive man, our recruits are super smart since we’re a top academic institution and they’ll see through the negative posters.

 

Just catching up and haven’t seen much else. Had a family emergency over the holidays so just starting to catch up and kill time until tomorrow’s bowl fest!!

happy last day of ‘23 to all, both Gators and those who troll us.

 

I would say SOS first only because he single handedly changed the way the sec played offense. It was learn to pass the ball or loose by 40.

 

Hope all is well. Yes, not much going on and plenty of time to kill with discussion. No problem with different productive opinions. Happy new year to you and yours.

 

Spurrier 1-9
Urban 10

 

This is exactly how I would rank them. Napier has the opportunity to move way up. We'll see what happens.

 

That’s what I am talking about! Positivity!

 

I'd bump McElwain up 2 spots, but he's admittedly a tough tenure to evaluate. If we're judging based on long-term positive impact for the program, he's near the bottom. If we're judging by results while he was the head coach, he's just under Dan Mullen for me. There was even a brief window where it looked like we could win an SEC Championship in 2015.

So for me as of January 2024, it's:
1. Urban
2. Spurrier
3. Mullen
4. Jim McElwain
5. Ron Zook
6. Will Muschamp
7. Billy Napier.

Napier can move his way up this list, but I'm sorry, he hasn't shown anything to date that warrants anything higher than that.

 

Eeyore is kind of inevitable when there's barely any room for optimism around the program.

Apart from signing Lagway, what reason do we have to be excited about next season based on what we've seen? Don't get me wrong, there's a bunch more excellent players in the class, but I doubt they're enough to make a huge difference next season. And we're not the only ones who signed excellent players.

 

Spurrier
Meyer
The Doctor
The Doctor
The Doctor
The Doctor

 

Spurrier inherited a program reeling from NCAA sanctions, and took it to the top of the SEC, then the nation.

Urbs took over a program that had basically picked Miami/SoFla clean, but that lacked coaching and discipline (which is why he chose UF over Notre Dame, among others....).

No knock to urbs, but SOS > UM by a country mile.

What's more, Spurrier ALWAYS had his team in control and disciplined. Urbs had no control over our thug U contingent after Tebow left (ie--Tebow was the leader in the locker room, til he left...).

Urbs basically became our Larry Coker after TT left.

 

My list:

Spurrier
Zook-Meyer
Napier*
MacMulChump

NB: I readily admit that CBN's on field success has been atrocious, but he's made excellent moves off the gridiron that I am confident will yield significant dividends for him in the coming years, or his successor should he be let go.

...plus, there's the additional platectonic changes of terrain that he's had to negotiate, ie--NIL plus portal...plus, what he inherited McMulChump, wasn't much to write home about.

Jmho/fwiw

 

What were the McElwain-racism ties again??

 

Not exactly. Galen Hall left SOS a loaded cupboard of young players entering their prime. In 1989, Florida had the 3d ranked defense in the nation. Hall guided through the sanctions period to where we had the #1 class during his time there. Also, SOS's team lost that control prior to the 1998 game against FSU, and it hurt us.

That said, for me Spurrier is the GOAT at Florida by a comfortable margin. The sheer impact he had on not only the football program and Gator fans, but the entire region, was like a new dawn, a new beginning. He didn't create the modern Florida program (I give that to Charley), but he lifted it up to the highest heights. I sill have my coke bottles for 1996, as well as the t-shirt (also still have my 1984 Coke bottles, BTW). That glorious night in New Orleans in 1997 was the greatest in my Gator life going back several decades. He not only built the mansion, but kept the maintenance up for 12 remarkable years. I'm grateful for Urban Meyer's championships (one cannot argue with two MNCs, both with different starting QBs, no less), but SOS set the standard, and for better or worse, it has haunted us ever since...

 

Arrogant? Spurrier? I think the word you are looking or is confident.

 

Awesome post. Couldn't have said it any better.

 

Spurrier was ACC Coach of the year with Duke. Duke football was horrid at that time. Spurrier had been Head Coach of the Tampa Bay Bandits prior to that. Played in the NFL, Heisman Winner

Urban was a successful Assistant Coach and won as Head Coach at Bowling Green and Utah, including a BCS game. Had the first player in the NFL draft.

Both are things you can sell to kids and experience that is proven as a HC at multiple places.