Scrambles

Honestly his acumen as a strategist is top-notch, you just have to watch 2015's Tenn game to gather that. His recruiting isn't up to par to what most Florida fans want or expect, but that's been steadily improving, and will improve even more if we do manage to three-peat. This season, though, he'll live or die according to how well he'll develop his QB recruits. Grier and Harris were recruited by Muschamp, and Del Rio and Appleby were both transfers, none of them had the privilege or lack thereof of being specifically chosen by McElwain and trained in his offensive strategy since recruitment. So this year is the real test, if at least one of them looks any good on the field, Mac will and should keep his job, no matter if we win the East or not. I'm convinced that with Mac at the helm and with a good quarterback we have the strength to make a NY6 bowl

That wasn't my argument. My argument is that the arguments you used for Georgia and against us are the same arguments everyone used for Tennessee and against us last year. That is to say absolute malarkey. Florida is not in a great need defensively. Our defense will be even better than it was last year now that injuries are over and experience from the multitudes of freshmen we started because of said injuries has been dispersed The fact that we don't know who is going to start as quarterback is neither condemning nor even relevant, as our team gas made due in the past. The only thing Georgia has going for it is it got more recruits (many of whom aren't even going to start this year) that a few sites think will be good, but this has consistently been the least reliable metric by which to predict a football team's success in the coming season. Speaking of recruiting though I seem to remember a certain prediction by a certain someone "Kentucky and Mississippi State are doing a little better than expected. Florida and Ole Miss? A bit worse. None of them will rise or fall too drastically come Wednesday." I'm not sure if you consider a 10 position leap drastic or not, but as for me I'll take your predictions of the future with the whole salt lick.

Honestly, it makes its inevitable occurrence all the sweeter, just to rub all the doubters faces in it. They'll just never learn

Let me just throw something out there, this is Florida's home SEC schedule this year: -Tennessee -Vanderbilt (Honestly the one win last season that gave us the most trouble) -LSU -Texas A&M Let's also consider that Florida was 5-0 at the swamp last season. Lastly, let's look at the fact that,for the last two years, every member of the media including yourself, John, discounted the Gators because we didn't have "a talented enough team" (as if the arbitrary numbers assigned to HS kids meant anything real at the end of the day) It doesn't matter that Tabor and Wilson left, we have Gardner and a literal smorgasbord of elite CBs It doesn't matter that we don't know who's going to start on QB. Trask and Franks have both had an entire year to absorb MAC's offensive strategy (Something neither Del Rio nor Appleby had), and anyway we didn't need QB to win the East for the last two years. At some point it's time to face reality: Florida is going to chomp the East for as long as MAC stays coach of this great university

Oh, you mean like your 2017 class?

The best part of Tennessee's season is that unless I'm remembering incorrectly, neither Jones nor the team made themselves out to be star-studded playoff contenders, that was all YOU GUYS in the media. All along the offseason, you built them up. You made ridiculous claims about the way their season should be based on nothing, and when they "underpreformed" you put them down as if all those crushed expectations were anyone but y'all's fault

As a Gators fan I have more reasons to roast FSU than anyone, but you're wrong on this one. I order to be Chief Osceola you HAVE to be a member of the Florida Seminole tribe

They have a lot of potential for rivalries though, if they were in the West. Arkansas-Mizzou is already a pretty legitimate rivalry. Texas A&M-Mizzou could be interesting as two former Big12 teams LSU-Mizzou might take a bit to develop, but as two teams connected by the Mississippi there could be something there...

Yeah, haha Auburn being in the East would really be pretty good. Not only will the UGA-AU rivalry be forever protected but the UF-AU rivalry series would finally resume

I've been saying we should do this for a while now, and while we're at it it's time to fix the cross divisional pairings too, don't get me wrong I like what you have right now, but to me one of the things that makes the least sense is having USC and A&M play every year. These schools have nothing to do with each other geographically, historically, or match-up-wise so I suggest we do the following were Auburn to move to the east and Mizzou to move to the west Cross divisional rivalries staying the same -Florida - LSU -Kentucky - Miss State Cross divisional rivalries that need to happen and why - Auburn - Alabama: Like you said, we can't have a world without the Iron Bowl every year. - South Carolina - Mizzou: The media already deemed this a 'rivalry' and gave it the name of "The Battle of Columbia." It's all pretty fabricated but it makes more sense than UScar - A&M -Tennessee - Texas A&M: These two schools are both powerhouses in their divisions, being constant contenders for the championship. This compounded with the role that the real Tennessee volunteers had in the Texan war for independence gives this matchup a bit of culture and history. Plus it gives A&M an orange and white UT to play every year. Cross-divisonal matchups I'm unsure about: -Georgia - Ole Miss: Switch one deep south team for another? In any case this should be an interesting game every year -Vanderbilt - Arkansas: Tennessee would be the only team in the east that shares a border with Arkansas, and Vandy is not very far from the border. I'm not in love with those two since Vandy - Ole Miss is already a pretty legitimate rivalry, it's just that it would make more sense for me than pairing Georgia with Arkansas. This is probably too much, and the suggestion posed in the article is probably the one that makes most sense, but hey, a guy can dream can't he?

On the same boat. I couldn't care less if any of the SEC West teams do well, and let's not even talk about Georgia or Tennessee. I didn't go to those schools, I don't feel pride if they do well, on the contrary they're my rivals, If anything, I want them to fail. I can understand rooting for Kentucky and Vanderbilt from an underdog story perspective, but other than that, and I hope you take this as lightheartedly as I do, to hell with y'all

The "East-West" gap is not widening, its shortening if anything. The east went 5-7 against the west this season with a lot of close games. The only gap that is widening is the "Bama-Everyone Else" gap, and that's not going to magically go away by taking divisions away. If you're so worried about division parity all that really needs to happen is Auburn needs to get switched with Mizzou and the permanent cross-divison rivalries need to be changed a bit Auburn-Bama Mizzou-USCar Tennessee-Ole Miss Vandy-Arky (Just because it makes a bit more sense than Tennessee-Arky)

Southern Cal isn't in the SEC east bro

Muschamp is the end to all life He is the champion of death

I'm actually pissed as hell, even as a Florida fan. This was a huge disservice to the fans and to college football as a whole. I was really looking forward to this game man...