Urban Meyers first season in the SEC

How about Urban's first SEC season?

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milohimself

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I still think this was the most interesting story of the SEC this season. What do you guys think?
 
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He may be able to win with that spread option offense or whatever Coach Meyer calls it in the Mountain West Conference, but this is the SEC. Defenses are much quicker, faster, and I don't think the teams Utah play compare to the SEC. :superman:

 
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An interesting part is that he didn't do it all the way... And remember, he caught us napping and used some trickery on us. Our D overcommitted and they ran right around for a TD.

I think his season is somewhat successful. I'll say why later on.
 
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Originally posted by milohimself@Nov 15, 2005 12:55 AM
I still think this was the most interesting story of the SEC this season. What do you guys think?
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I don't know why he hasn't put in the gameplan he had against Georgia the whole year. Not much option and more passing downfield.

It seemed to work then, but he went back to those other "plays" against South Carolina.

You should go to Gatorbait.com and see what they have to say about it. Pretty amusing.
 
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3 and 4 loss seasons are not going to satisfy the gator faithful IMO. My reccomendation to Meyer is don't buy a house...
 
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The Meyer fanfare brought high expectations in the preseason. Much like Tennessee, Florida was expected to be a top 10 team. They were ranked 10th in the AP preseason poll. They rose as high as 5th. Even after 2 losses, they were still ranked 12th. However, the loss to South Carolina was loss number three. With games remaining against Florida State and in a bowl game, there is a high degree of possibility that Florida finishes with 5-losses for the 4th straight season.
 
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I think you have to categorize Meyer as a mild disappointment. They are averaging about 4 ppg LESS than under Zook.
 
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Somewhat successful... but I still don't think that spread offense will ever work very efficiently in the SEC. They can play it off on Leak just not being comfortable with it yet all they want, but like vols05 said, this isn't the Mountain West Conference.
 
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I don't think the Florida season will be considered successful unless they finish the season ranked 10th, which is where they were predicted to finish at the start of the season.
 
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Originally posted by oklavol@Nov 15, 2005 6:55 AM
3 and 4 loss seasons are not going to satisfy the gator faithful IMO.  My reccomendation to Meyer is don't buy a house...
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I agree that 3 and 4 loss seasons will not make the Gatornation happy if its chronic. But, this is first year so while people will bitch and moan about the season, they won't toss him out.

The loss that hurts is the S.C. loss because the perception among gator fans is that the Gator players are and pretty much should be better than the S.C. players. South Carolina had not beaten us since 1939, i.e. before this country got involved in WWII. That's a long time. The result is that S.C. has pretty much been perceived to be a perennial doormat. and that has usually been true.

Face it, both UT and UF annually EXPECT to beat S.C. pretty much like they expect to beat Vanderbilt. Both of those teams this year are a bit better than they have been in the past and obviously UF and UT are both struggling. And, I actually think Vandy has a damn good chance of beating you this weekend and it seems there are some on here who agree with that.

Had Vandy beaten Florida and then we lost to S.C., the only thing that would have saved the season is a win over FSU. Even then, heat would really have been on.

Gators still have the FSU game. A win over them would go a long way to helping Florida fans get over the fact that we lost to S.C. and, in doing so, gave up a spot in the SECCG since Auburn did what it needed to do.

Meyer is okay, but you are right. He cannot lose three SEC games every year and survive because Florida expects to compete year in and year out with Georgia and Tennessee for the SEC East. Its that simple. Same for you guys. If you don't get to the SECCG at least once every three years or so, whoever is head coach is going to get looked at very harshly.

 
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Pretty successful considering he hasn't played at this level week in and week out. To continue a thought from my post in another column, we just had a lot of things that either didn't come together, or just fell apart that brought on this season of ours. The remaining thought is that no matter what talent we have on the field and coaching, the level of play in the SEC is coming up, and there will not be perennial powerhouses dominating as they have in the past. The coaching bar has raised. We have been moe than fortunate. And though I don't foresee us having cocnsitent 5 loss seasons, or trying to make it to a bowl, I think 1 or 2 loss seasons are going to be fewer and far between. Let's face it, we are looking at Auburn, Bama, LSU, UGA, UF, UT, and SC as being a toss up for the best for some time to come. It's not just UT or UF for the East anymore. There are 4 teams now in position to win the East any given year. And Spurrier hasn't even recruited yet. He's made his bid off of talent deficient no names this year. Save for an awsome Freshman receiver in Rice. Spurrier is a collegiate mastermind, and UT, UF, and UGA will get their recruits just because of who they are. Meyer did well all things considered, but I'm sure in the back of his mind he knows he better land some recruits during the offseason. His future success and improvement will be known when signing day opens and we see what kind of personality he has for recruiting.
 
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Originally posted by GVF@Nov 15, 2005 12:47 PM
Pretty successful considering he hasn't played at this level week in and week out.  To continue a thought from my post in another column, we just had a lot of things that either didn't come together, or just fell apart that brought on this season of ours.  The remaining thought is that no matter what talent we have on the field and coaching, the level of play in the SEC is coming up, and there will not be perennial powerhouses dominating as they have in the past.  The coaching bar has raised.  We have been moe than fortunate.  And though I don't foresee us having cocnsitent 5 loss seasons, or trying to make it to a bowl, I think 1 or 2 loss seasons are going to be fewer and far between.  Let's face it, we are looking at Auburn, Bama, LSU, UGA, UF, UT, and SC as being a toss up for the best for some time to come.  It's not just UT or UF for the East anymore.  There are 4 teams now in position to win the East any given year.  And Spurrier hasn't even recruited yet.  He's made his bid off of talent deficient no names this year.  Save for an awsome Freshman receiver in Rice.  Spurrier is a collegiate mastermind, and UT, UF, and UGA will get their recruits just because of who they are.  Meyer did well all things considered, but I'm sure in the back of his mind he knows he better land some recruits during the offseason.  His future success and improvement will be known when signing day opens and we see what kind of personality he has for recruiting.
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Outstanding post.
 
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Originally posted by GAVol@Nov 15, 2005 1:56 PM
He really does look like that guy.
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I'd vote for Pee Wee Herman...

...or Mr. Bean.
 
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Originally posted by Lexvol@Nov 15, 2005 4:35 PM
What about Fred Savage?
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Maybe. I can see that comparison. The Mr. Bean thing is possible, too. He would need a bigger nose to get that one down, though.
 
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somewhat failure. ill change my mind if u of f sneaks into the sec championship and wins but the expectations were higher then this. also, chris leak regressed which should be some points off.
 
#21
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I would say that he by no means lived up to his preseason hype and boy should we know all about that!
 
#23
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Florida is getting better and will be better once the right players are there. They're better than us!!!!
 
#24
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Big failure.

UF fans now want to act as if he was expected to lose 3-4 games.

BS

He was a Top 5-10 team in every poll

Miserable year esp with a loss to their own god, Spurrier
 
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Originally posted by U-T@Nov 16, 2005 8:30 PM
Big failure.

UF fans now want to act as if he was expected to lose 3-4 games.

BS

He was a Top 5-10 team in every poll

Miserable year esp with a loss to their own god, Spurrier
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Nowhere near miserable. They are 7-3 with wins over Tennessee and Georgia.
 
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