I'm not going to sit here and bash the sec. They've won 7 straight national championships, which is absolutely ridiculous. Until someone beats them, no hate from me.

The number 21 ranked team beat the number 3 ranked team by 10 points and it could have been worse...........I think the cardz let up on those gators.......




Anyone that watched the game knows it was a blow out    

We never disrespect Charlie Strong- the only reason you clones have a decent program is because somebody with a brain cell hired the long-time Gator D coordinator.  


Here we have a second year coach (Muschamp) who only had one overwhelming win all year (against South Carolina).  At least agains a ranked team.  Far too many games Florida played suggested they didn't merit there ranking in the first place.  Then come bowl time and guess what the old pro Strong outcoached (with a far less talented team) beat the whippersnapper.  Most of the Florida defenders here are still claiming that florida was in the game late.  Take a good hard look at right before the end of the half.  Florida players were sucking wind even then. 

I like Floria but not only were they out coached Strong had a better game plan and executed it in a expert manner with far less talent.  Florida was damn lucky to have lost by only ten points.     

I'm not going to sit here and bash the sec. They've won 7 straight national championships, which is absolutely ridiculous. Until someone beats them, no hate from me.


The issue isn't seven straight NC.  The issue this year is that two highly ranked SEC teams got beaten by lesser ranked teams from "weaker " conferences.....that really hasn't happened for a long time.  Yes the SEC can still claim having the NC team, but no it now is in question as to whether they are the strongest conference.  

Here we have a second year coach (Muschamp) who only had one overwhelming win all year (against South Carolina).  At least agains a ranked team.  Far too many games Florida played suggested they didn't merit there ranking in the first place. 

Nice word, overwhelming.  Since when does a win have to be overwhelming?  As it turned out, a win at TX AM, and a home win against LSU was the difference in both of those 2 teams NOT winning the West.  

You can think what you want , but FLA won MORE games against top ranked teams than any team in the country this year. To say otherwise is a joke and disingenuous on your part.  Far too many games FLA played suggested quite the contrary.   

   bigred . . . . . "I like Floria but not only were they out coached Strong had a better game plan and executed it in a expert manner with far less talent.  Florida was damn lucky to have lost by only ten points. 

   I'll agree that Charlie Strong did a tremendous job of coaching and he took it VERY personel going up against his old team. That being said, it was a tough game to watch as a GATOR fan. 

  Earlier BAMATEE pointed out how well Teddy Bridgewater played. "Louisville was awesome in this game and watching Bridgewater wss very eye opening to me. I did not know he had that kind f talent. But no one ever questioned he was talented and when you are dealing with talented players, especially QB's, there is always that chance they has ONE of those games". In that game Bridgewater was most definately the MAN, he threw to his 2nd and 3rd choices probably 20 or more times in the game.

  I posted a thread on the Louisville page after the game congratulating them.  

        Congrats Louisville

Well your boy Teddy Bridgewater sure has made my GATORS look bad. I can't believe his accuracy on finding the open man. Like  cardsfan4eva said "our offense has shown they can score" and that they did. 
  

          Great game, well played. 

The issue isn't seven straight NC.  The issue this year is that two highly ranked SEC teams got beaten by lesser ranked teams from "weaker " conferences.....that really hasn't happened for a long time.  Yes the SEC can still claim having the NC team, but no it now is in question as to whether they are the strongest conference.

That is a crock.  LSU lost because the brain dead coach could not figure out how to keep the clock moving and FLA got ambushed by a recent assisstatnt that had all the reason to show his previous employer they made a mistake when they went searching for a new coach.  

Since when does the SEC losing those 2 game make it a question as to whether they are the strongest conference?  ALA, UGA, S. CAR. TX AM, MS and VANDY all won.  MS ST, LSU and FLA lost.

What other AQ conference could claim as much?

    bigred . . . . "The issue isn't seven straight NC.  The issue this year is that two highly ranked SEC teams got beaten by lesser ranked teams from "weaker " conferences.....that really hasn't happened for a long time.  Yes the SEC can still claim having the NC team, but no it now is in question as to whether they are the strongest conference".  

   You are soooo trying to diss the SEC over the 2 games LSU and FLORIDA. I say Bull Sheit. My GATORS went into the game over confident, they were ranked #3 playing the #21st ranked Louisville so they were thinking, this will be a breeze. The GATORS over confidence and the phenomenal game by Teddy Bridgewater was what doomed my GATORS.

       THE SEC is NOT OVERATED. The stupid big ten takes that cake. 

That is a crock.  LSU lost because the brain dead coach could not figure out how to keep the clock moving and FLA got ambushed by a recent assisstatnt that had all the reason to show his previous employer they made a mistake when they went searching for a new coach.  Since when does the SEC losing those 2 game make it a question as to whether they are the strongest conference?  ALA, UGA, S. CAR. TX AM, MS and VANDY all won.  MS ST, LSU and FLA lost.

I don't disagree with any of this, except that Charlie was motivated by being passed over by Florida.  He was hired by Louisville before the Gator job even opened up.  All of us were pulling for him to get a good job.  It wasa travesty it took this long.  We probably should have made him HC instead of Zook, but that is 20/20 hindsight.  I know he has no ill will toward Florida- quite the contrary.  I don't dis UL at all, but they did play the game of their lives that night, and we clearly didn't play to our level on defense, and unfortunately not better enough on offense.  Our biggest weakness was at WR all year, and getting behind early forced us to play a game that wasn't our strong suite.  This scenario played out as their perfect storm for victory. 


What I resent is the ridiculous "beatdown" nonsense.  We got outscored and outplayed- twice in an entire season.  Neither time did we get beaten into submission or quit competing.  The Gators fought back and came up short.  Quitting and not attempting to win would be a beatdown.  The Gators never did that at all all season- not even close.  It is disrespectful to suggest otherwise.  I think some of my fellow Gators are a bit spoiled.  They have somewhat unrealistic expectations sometimes of a young rebuilding team.  It borders on a sense of entitlement.  All of us were talking about a young, inexperienced, but talented team going 9-4, or 10-3 as a decent outcome.  That they went 11-2 and a BCS bowl is way ahead of the curb.  To be bitter and disappointed is just childish. 

Here we have a second year coach (Muschamp) who only had one overwhelming win all year (against South Carolina).  At least agains a ranked team.  Far too many games Florida played suggested they didn't merit there ranking in the first place.



UF had the best resume of any team in the country.  If they didn't deserve their ranking, no one did.  It's really just that simple.   

What I resent is the ridiculous "beatdown" nonsense.  We got outscored and outplayed- twice in an entire season.  Neither time did we get beaten into submission or quit competing.  The Gators fought back and came up short.  Quitting and not attempting to win would be a beatdown.  The Gators never did that at all all season- not even close.  It is disrespectful to suggest otherwise.  I think some of my fellow Gators are a bit spoiled.  They have somewhat unrealistic expectations sometimes of a young rebuilding team.  It borders on a sense of entitlement.  All of us were talking about a young, inexperienced, but talented team going 9-4, or 10-3 as a decent outcome.  That they went 11-2 and a BCS bowl is way ahead of the curb.  To be bitter and disappointed is just childish.  





Oh, please.  Get over yourself.

Look, someone has a different opinion than you.  Deal with it.  It doesn't make them disrespectful, spoiled, unrealistic, entitled, or bitter.  In fact, you throwing this out there and then closing it out with the assertion that someone else is being childish is the punchline to a bad joke.

You have your opinion of the game.  Maybe I have missed it, but I have yet to see anyone begin labeling you because of it.  I think it would be a pretty easy argument that your opinion is the product of some combination of massive head trauma, extreme homerism, or glaucoma, but I'm glad you have been able to state your opinion with those observations being made.


Maybe you could offer the same courtesy to other members of your fanbase. 

Nice word, overwhelming.  Since when does a win have to be overwhelming?  As it turned out, a win at TX AM, and a home win against LSU was the difference in both of those 2 teams NOT winning the West. 


   SEC Fan.....


    Losing to Fla had little to do with both LSU and aTm losing the west. The Aggies lost to LSU and LSU lost to Bama. As it turns out losing to a team on your side of the Conference hurts a lot worse then losing to a team on the other side of the Conference. Losing to Fla didn't help them any, but it also didn't cost them either. Both could have won the west had they won all the games on their side of the Conference......

Oh, please. Get over yourself. Look, someone has a different opinion than you. Deal with it. It doesn't make them disrespectful, spoiled, unrealistic, entitled, or bitter. In fact, you throwing this out there and then closing it out with the assertion that someone else is being childish is the punchline to a bad joke.

Where do you get off lecturing me?  Did this team exceed expectations, or not?  When you use terms like beatdown, it is insulting.  It implies that the kids quit fighting and laid down like a dog and let somebody kick them.  If you don't realize the difference, then you need to improve your vocabulary.  Some people carelessly throw around such smack and don't even think about how hurtful such labels are.  I think these kids earned more respect.  They lost a disappointing game, but it's not fair or right for fans to heap abuse on them to curry favor with lame cronies on a sports board. 

Real Gators "all stick together in all kinds of weather" and the fairweather kind might want to consider being a Dawg fan.  

It does not matter what happened in a bowl game that really means NOTHING(concerning the real prize, N. CHAMPS)

It happens every year, a lot of teams get upset in  bowl games that dont have any bearing on anything!  Plus the weaker teams play with the everything to GAIN, nothing to LOSE attitude!

The SEC again is the strongest overall conference, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENED IN BOWL GAMES!
Dont believe it? Watch what happens next season, I will bet my left one, the SEC has at least 3 probably,  5 teams in the top 10 by week four or five! 

Where do you get off lecturing me?  Did this team exceed expectations, or not?  When you use terms like beatdown, it is insulting.  It implies that the kids quit fighting and laid down like a dog and let somebody kick them.  If you don't realize the difference, then you need to improve your vocabulary.  Some people carelessly throw around such smack and don't even think about how hurtful such labels are.  I think these kids earned more respect.  They lost a disappointing game, but it's not fair or right for fans to heap abuse on them to curry favor with lame cronies on a sports board. 

Real Gators "all stick together in all kinds of weather" and the fairweather kind might want to consider being a Dawg fan.




Get real.  Not that there are any UF players reading this message board, but even if there were I would expect them to call it a beatdown, learn from it, and go forward with that experience into next season.  Not whine and cry about how they are being disrespected by harsh language used to describe getting their tail kicked up and down Bourbon Street.


And for the reading impaired, I'm not sure how I implied that the team quit, since the very next sentence I wrote after saying it was a beatdown was that the best thing you could say is that the team did not quit.



So, again, get over yourself.  If you really want to solve the problem of careless and disrespectful commentary, start with yourself as you are the one that launched all of this with your ridiculous commentary on those that dared to have a different viewpoint.  Tragic circumstance.  Really it is.           

 Losing to Fla had little to do with both LSU and aTm losing the west. The Aggies lost to LSU and LSU lost to Bama. As it turns out losing to a team on your side of the Conference hurts a lot worse then losing to a team on the other side of the Conference. Losing to Fla didn't help them any, but it also didn't cost them either. Both could have won the west had they won all the games on their side of the Conference......

Little to do?  Had TX AM defeated FLA, TX AM would have won the West, based on the same record as ALA and holding the tiebreaker over ALA.


I misspoke as far as LSU was concerned.

Had LSU defeated FLA, LSU would have tied ALA for the best record in the West, but ALA would have still won the West based on the head to head win over LSU.

You state the obvious, as a win over LSU would have put TX AM in the SEC CG, but the same was true had they defeated FLA.  

Had LSU defeated ALA, they would have made the SEC CG game as well, even with the loss to FLA.   

SEC FAN.....



   The point Im trying to make is losing to a team on the other side of the Conference will only put you 1/2 of a game behind a team on your side of the Conference. As long as you win all the games on your side.  Then just having 1 loss from a team on the other side does not hurt you when it comes to who makes it to Hotlanta......



 

   The point Im trying to make is losing to a team on the other side of the Conference will only put you 1/2 of a game behind a team on your side of the Conference. As long as you win all the games on your side.  Then just having 1 loss from a team on the other side does not hurt you when it comes to who makes it to Hotlanta......

How so?  TX AM loses to FLA and LSU and finished 6-2.  ALA loses to TX AM and ends up 7-1.  I hear what you are saying, but it is NOT the case.  

It is a loss and counts the same as a loss to a team in one's division.  Had TX AM defeated FLA they would have finished 7-1 and won the West. Had TX AM defeated LSU they would have finished 7-1 and won the West.  The losses counted the same and either kept TX AM from winning the West.

On the other hand, had LSU defeated FLA, they would have lost the West to ALA based on the head to head loss.  Had they defeated ALA, LSU would have won the West based on the head to head win over ALA.  The loss to FLA would not have mattered as winning all the games in the West would have been the difference. 

 

OK... Which part of this do you not understand? What kept aTm from winning the west was the fact that they lost to LSU. Losing to Fla did not really decide the western Division champ. Had they beat LSU then the Aggies would have won the west even with the loss to the Gators. Losing to 1 team on the other Division of the Conference does not keep you from winning your Division of the Conference. As long as you win all the games on your side then can win your Division. You would have to lose to at least 2 teams from the other side to cost you your Division. Then you would have 2 Conference losses which would be hard to overcome..... 

   lsuman . . . . If Texas A&M hadn't lost to FLORIDA then they would have wound up tied with ALABAMA in the SEC West and their win over BAMA would have put them into the SEC Championship game. SO what part of this do YOU not understand?