(06-13-2021, 08:47 AM)dennisp3 Wrote:

(06-10-2021, 09:51 PM)Rockman1966 Wrote: Frangie is a buffoon.

I don't understand the big advantage of hiring a NFL coach who was fired from his last job as coach because he can give you a better chance to win then hiring Meyer one of the most successful coaches in college.
 football. Isn't that what we have been doing for the last 10 years and what has that gotten us a non playoff team year after year. Myer has already established a culture of winning now that all the players rookies and veterans have not only bought into but are voicing their opinion of how excited they are about this season and their respect for their head coach and coaching staff. I can't remember a coach that established a culture that resulted in the entire team expressing such a positive outlook on the up coming season, can you? They already understand that he is providing them every venue needed diet, training, medical and rehabilitation procedures to insure their fitness and health and in return he expects not a 100% from players but 110% on every play. What more could you expect from a coach at this point in training camp. As a whole he has had a very successful free agency and draft.  For the Cam haters I think we have Little and Batch to fall back on if he does not meet expectations. For the Tebow haters hiring one player you don't agree with erases all the positives Meyer has brought to the team. We are entering a new era of winning football and you can't climb on the bandwagon  and support the team you love until there is reason to jump off.

I sort of agree with a lot of what you said.  

Here's my opinion.  I don't think him being a college coach and having no NFL experience is a disadvantage.  Sure, most college coaches that go to the NFL fail.   But so do most NFL assistants who become head coaches.   For every Mike Tomlin or John Harbaugh, there are a dozen Mike Mularkeys or Doug Marrones or Gus Bradleys.  No one ever points that out.  They just point out how college coaches fail in the NFL.  Well, NFL assistant coaches fail, too, when they become head coaches, probably at the same rate.  

Meyer does not have NFL experience.  But what he does have is experience as the captain of the ship, running a program, being the boss.  I think there's a lot of advantage to having that kind of experience.  

I don't like him hiring Tebow.  But I'm not going to like everything he does.  I do like the moves he has made in free agency and the draft.  And like I said, he does have a probable franchise QB, and that is, in my opinion, the number one factor in the success or failure of a head coach.  

I don't know if he'll succeed or fail.  I think the odds favor him succeeding, because of the situation he came into, with all the draft picks, cap space, and probable franchise quarterback.

One thing I do not understand is why so many Gator fans seem to hate the guy, even after he gave them two national championships.

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