RossT

Several of you seem to identify WILLYBOB as a recurring troll. I don't follow the Gators so I am not on here enough to know. But I think the attacks on the quote he made are misguided. From Snopes, slightly edited: Bill Moyers, after encountering a display of blatant racism during a political visit to the South. Moyers tells it in the first person: We were in Tennessee. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs. Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch water and departed, he started talking about those signs. "I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it," he said. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." ... Johnson was commenting upon a low form of persuasion that is often successful and is not restricted any certain political party, or even to politics. If a "leader" can get people to focus on resentment and division and persuade them that the leader will help the people get what is rightly theirs, the followers will do vile things and feel good about it in their righteous indignation. I have staying away from specifics because the problem is pervasive. If your temptation is to truly doing there lines of "Yes, is evil and is always doing that." then I am afraid you might have missed the point. I have friends who are at the University of Florida. It is a beautiful campus and the University is a great institution of higher education. Best wishes for a great season.

I like TCU the best of the remaining teams. But if their coach is that disrespectful of a moron I hope they get slaughtered. TCU is an awesome school. Their academics are very good and their football team is exemplary. That is what Coach Dykes should be talking about