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To: Hank All-American

You said, "If Spurrier returns, so will the winning ways. Period."

The "winning ways" never left Florida, unless you don't consider 8 wins "winning." If that's true, then will 9 wins satisfy you? 10 wins? What will it take?

You also said "Florida is far too good a school to not be in the national championship hunt every year" and "Florida should be vying for number one every year." But what if Spurrier doesn't reach that?

Florida is setting an extremely bad example for its students. If others are pissed and things aren't going as well as you want, you start firing people and blame others, regardless of what the facts are. What goes around comes around. Trust me on that.

At Texas A&M, we had R.C. Slocum for 13 years. I started wanting a change after 1995, 6 years into his tenure (not 2.5). I sent a letter to the AD then outlining 10 reasons why I thought a change should be made, and none of the ten reasons had anything to do with his record. I challenge you to list 10 specific things that Ron Zook is or isn't doing that should be changed. And I mean SPECIFIC. Don't say "play calling" without an analysis of what is happening, why it isn't working and evidence that a change it will work.


45 posted on 10/30/2004 2:25:52 PM PDT by 1L
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To: 1L

You still haven't showed me where I said I expected us to win the national championship every year. I expect to be competitive and in the hunt. Winning 8 games a year makes you an also ran. When Spurrier was there, we were usually favored to win the SEC, did win it more often than not, made the SEC championship game almost every year, and were in the national championship hunt most of the time. That's what I expect. If you're content with your alma mater winning 8 games a year at most, bully for you. I'm not content with Florida being that far below the top echelon. Spurrier never won less than 9, and I want to go back to that level of play. You just have lower expectations than I do. I'm sorry if it offends your egalitarian sensibilities that UF grads like me won't accept a mediocre team.


47 posted on 10/30/2004 7:08:02 PM PDT by Hank All-American (Free Men, Free Minds, Free Markets baby!)
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