I am requesting this stay in the football forum as it does directly impact our team. Florida is in the east and we have never once in the last two decades been in the SEC East running and they not be the team who we must beat to make it in.
I personally believe that a strong FSU and Miami and going to a 4 team playoff system is really hurting them and could cause them to fall back to nothingness like they were pre-Spurrier.
For years, FSU overshadowed UF and it was only when Spurrier came along and the SEC began to have so much hype that Florida took off almost out of nowhere.
Now that the ACC is pretty much automatically in the 4 team play off and FSU has always had more swag than Florida, I think Florida is in real trouble recruiting.
They are in a three college race now for instate kids and FSU is the hot team. If UT continues to stay hot and we begin winning, I honestly think we could be their death knell.
Bama will always be Bama. Kids grow up a lot like Vol fans are are almost religious about their team. They will always be able to pull top players from the south. But UF has no real history. They had a great run but the Gator fans are very young and a lot (at least around here) are already jumping ship to the FSU team.
I honestly believe that if FSU wins the ACC again, and we make it to a bowl, and continue to gain more and more hype, that those two things combined may set Florida back for a decade and they may never be able to recoup.
