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To: Hank All-American

Dude, I graduated from law school almost 5 years ago near the top of my class. It is YOU that needs to learn a little about analytical thinking: you didn't even check to see how long I'd been a member. Failure to do so before making that comment makes you look like an utter fool.

You're pissed because you are losing and want the coach's head. You admitted you'd want Spurrier's head if he was losing, though you claim right now he's the savior of the world for UF.

I'm trying to get through to you that firing coaches doesn't guarantee wins. If you can't give me specific reasons why Zook should be gone (other than the fact that he doesn't win as much as YOU would like), then you don't know if you've solved your problem by changing coaches. If that is truly too difficult of a concept for you to understand then you've got much bigger problems than UF's won lost record.


52 posted on 10/31/2004 10:50:22 AM PST by 1L
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To: 1L

I was an editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review, had four American Jurisprudence Awards, regular appearances on the Dean's List, and scored above the 99th percentile on the LSAT. I'll compare IQs, incomes or both any day of the week, pal.

Firing the coach doesn't produce wins. Having the right coach, though, can. Spurrier was the right coach before, and I want to see him back. Your conditional factual of what I woud want "if" he were to perform as poorly as Zook is a commonly utilized distraction indicative of a weak argument. I want Spurrier back because he NEVER performed that poorly.

I don't know what second-rate law school you went to, but you're the one who disingenuously started lecturing this Florida alum when you clearly don't give a damn how good a team Florida has, but were merely voicing objections to firing Zook based on some principle that carries with it completely externalized costs borne by others. Funny how adherence to that principle would simply ensure that Florida stays mediocre. Florida is doing poorly because they hired someone who had no business being a head coach at a program that size. I was willing to give him a chance his first year, but he was obviously in over his head and by the second year I knew we wouldn't be winning the SEC with him at the helm. I want the school to rectify their mistake, and Spurrier just happens to be available and interested. He's a proven winner, with a tradition and mystique at UF that removes a lot of question marks. If he turns out to be no longer capable of producing, then of course I'd want to see a change. You think I want him around because I like his visors?

Bottom line is, I care about Florida football, because I want that program to be everything it is capable of being. That means winning SEC championships and having a shot at Number One. I have no idea what your interest is, but I suspect it has a lot less to do with Florida winning than it does with your being quite content to see Florida settle back into the ranks of the unexceptional so as not to make other programs look bad.


53 posted on 10/31/2004 12:08:07 PM PST by Hank All-American (Free Men, Free Minds, Free Markets baby!)
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