Dan Mullen says every game in the Sunshine State is a home game for Florida: 'We have eight home games this year'
Miami, Florida State and Georgia have just been put on notice, if you play the Gators inside the state of Florida, it’s a home game for Dan Mullen’s program.
That’s what the leader of the Gator program had to share recently during a speaking appearance to the Daytona Beach Gator Club. The way Mullen sees it, the University of Florida owns the state and it doesn’t matter if the game is on a neutral field or an opponent’s field, it’s all the same to him.
“We have eight home games this year,” Mullen said according to Zach Dean of GatorSports.com. “We’re the University of Florida. If we play in the state, it’s a home game. Last year we had a home game in Tallahassee. This year we have one in Orlando.”
Shots officially fired to the Seminoles and Hurricanes there.
It’s hard to argue with Mullen’s assessment considering the Gators just went into Tallahassee and destroyed Florida State 41-14 at the end of last season. Miami fans may take exception to that comment but judging by the fan interest in the Hurricane’s Orlando spring game, Mullen is probably correct in claiming Orlando, too.
The only debate may come from Georgia fans, as the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party is annually split 50/50 and the Bulldogs’ success in that game recently indicates Kirby Smart’s program is very comfortable playing the Gators in Jacksonville. Either way, Mullen’s bravado has definitely won him some fans among the Gator faithful and considering the direction of his Florida program, it may not be long before the entire state does belong to the team from Gainesville.
Jacksonville has its share of UGA fans, but there is no doubt this is gator country.
Twiddle!
Go to see your up and at ’em today.
Unbiased source?
NCAA statistics are.
But in your case, lying is also.
Anymore slanderous remarks you want to throw out today?
Racism?
My wife?
It takes a big man to go after people you know nothing about.
How’s Steven and Bama?
Instead of admitting you lied, and now compounding it daily, you hope me and the guy upstairs will forget it.
Aren’t you glad you brought religion into the discussion?
See you later.
How do you let someone you don’t know, can’t see, and will likely never meet affect you so strongly on the internet?! For fuks sake, man- take a few days off from internetting.
The stadium is split exactly in half, north to south. But the last few years have been dominated by UGA fans, particularly in 2017 when many Florida side seats were empty.
UGA fans obviously travel very well, but they don’t have near as many Dawg fans in Jax as they do gator fans. My wife is one of the residents that is a UGA fan, along with our pastor.
Does your pastor know about your lying?
I bet he doesn’t. But, since you have no conscious in attempting to deceive the man upstairs with your lies, why should a middle man matter?
Keep searching.
What exactly did you do to get this Paris guy’s panties so apocalyptically wadded?
I called him a Louisville fan. He used to troll Kentucky, but now I’m his target for whatever reason. My mistake was responding to him in the first place. All Kentucky fans know he is just a bitter old troll, so they ignore him. Obviously, they are all smarter than I was.
BullGator, the guy said he read a post, by me, that I claimed to be a Louisville Cardinal fan. There is no such post. My father played football at UK.
But instead of admitting he lied, he has compounded it by continuing to lie.
I point out he, I and the guy upstairs know who’s telling the truth.
It’s not that he called he a Louisville fan, it’s the fact he continues to lie.
Instead of admitting it, he side steps it and continues to show what he’s gutless.
I said if he admitted he lied, I would go away and leave him alone until he did it again. But he’s attempting to make me look like the bad guy out of all of this.
I promised him I was going to be on his a-s like stink on sh-t.
How am I doing?
Other lies he’s posted and failed there is no proof include Jimbo Fisher turned down the LSU job because he didn’t get a 10 year contract. That is not posted anywhere on the internet. He thought that ‘falsehood’ would make him AMAZING on SDS. It has because I remind him of it regularly.
He’s such a wonderful person, he got TWO discussions closed, due to racial comments he made about the black basketball players at Georgia.
If you want to support him, feel sorry for him, adopt him, go ahead.
I don’t post on here to be liked. I say what I feel.
As far as Kentucky. I want the best athletic program we can have. I think we have the worst AD in college.
No coaching searches.
Tearing down part of the stadium to put up a recruiting deck. Since it’s construction, recruiting rankings have dropped every year. This coming year, last in SEC. (the real reason was to make it appear less full.)
Don’t get me started on Calipari.
Put you wanted to know. There it is.
Well, Paris, here are two unsolicited thoughts (and keep in mind that I hate both of your programs, maybe even LSU a little bit more than UK).
So our man here (1) improperly referred to you as a Cardinals fan, and (2) has in the past held a suspect opinion w/r/t Jimbo Fisher’s employment situation. I think your response is dramatically disproportionate to the severity of these offenses. It’s a bad look for you, and a bad look for the school you represent.
Also, insofar as this dude is a US Marine, I have an exquisitely difficult time believing that you’d be this abusive to his face. Again, it’s not a good look.
Now, this is free country and you can be Mad Online as much as you want, but I think your prodigious energies are probably better directed elsewhere.
“We can barely generate a winning season for in state games! Why do you think we haven’t played a true road game that the SEC didn’t force on us since the 50s?”
Also, I’m still just so proud for Kentucky!
6 – 3 in the State is not “barely” winning. But again Georgia fan has trouble with reality, nothing new here.
I don’t know about Tally and Jax, which is 50/50, but not only Orlando is Gator country so is Miami. The cane fans are a sorry, and small, lot. When either UF or FSU play at the rent-a-stadium in Miami their fans usually outnumber the home crowd.
In fact along with Notre Dame, those are the only games to ever sell out in Miami, and it’s not because of cane fan.
hey look more georgia fans on a UF post what a shocker
UGA owns Fla
lol ok
Boy these Dawg fans have a short memory span, or they only started following football 2 years ago. Last I checked the record over the last 30 years is 21-9 Gators. Sorry delusional Dawg fan, but it’s going to take far more than 2 wins to be able to claim you own us. You need to go on at least a 10 game winning streak to bring that record to a more respectable mark before trying to make that claim.
51-43-2 overall, but I guess your memory span only covers the 90s through the 00s.
I do appreciate that you did not include the victory UGA claims in 1904. You know, before Florida had a football team!
Although I wouldn’t say that an 8 game lead after almost 100 football games is “owning.” Although, if you look at the history of the series, it has alternated between periods of one team’s dominance and then the other. In general, from 1915-1990, UGA was the superior team with a few short Florida winning streaks. Since 1990 the opposite has been true. UGA has been able to put a couple 2-4 year streaks together, but it really has been all UF. (Interestingly, the NC conversation mirrors this: all UGA early and all UF recently).
It’ll be fun to see how it unfolds from here.
Personally, I wouldn’t say either team “owns” the series. That would require at least a 15-25 game lead. The seesaw trend of the rivalry is interesting, though.
You’re right Kirby, no one “owns” the series, but the Gators have certainly owned the Dawgs over the last 30 years. 2 wins doesn’t instantly erase that. I really don’t care what happened before I paid attention.
Well, by that logic, I don’t pay attention to any history before the Vietnam War, so as far as I’m concerned, the US Military is a pretty overrated subject, and Britain is just a tiny little island with overblown influence on the world.
2 year “dynasty” bro