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They just don’t get it. They think moving to some hick, middle-or-nowhere town, drinking Busch at some dollar beer night college bar is the college experience everyone wants. ****, I grew up in the suburbs here and that “college town” atmosphere got old so fast I purposely moved further away from UCF to avoid it. At least Orlando had some semblance of a metro area. Gainesville is nothing but a college campus and the cast of Deliverance. Do they think having more people in the crowd on game day actually offsets the other 358 days of the year when you have to live in that dump? Also, whenever you hear “rural” folks call a city like Miami the “worst” city, what they’re trying to say is “too many black/brown people live there”.
 
DTP said:
They just don’t get it. They think moving to some hick, middle-or-nowhere town, drinking Busch at some dollar beer night college bar is the college experience everyone wants. ****, I grew up in the suburbs here and that “college town” atmosphere got old so fast I purposely moved further away from UCF to avoid it. At least Orlando had some semblance of a metro area. Gainesville is nothing but a college campus and the cast of Deliverance. Do they think having more people in the crowd on game day actually offsets the other 358 days of the year when you have to live in that dump? Also, whenever you hear “rural” folks call a city like Miami the “worst” city, what they’re trying to say is “too many black/brown people live there”.
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All true. I grew up on the Beach and went away to school for the see the world experience but I went to school in DC.

I’m pretty sure that the guy that made the statement about Miami and Atlanta is from Ocala, IIRC. When he said what he said, I thought the same thing you did.

Years ago my father had some land in some central Florida towns like Ocala and he was dealing with a buyer. Not knowing that my father’s ******, the guy asked: “How the **** do you live in Miami? Down there you’ve got nothing but Blacks, Cubans and Jews.”

When people like this say or think something about 1 minority group or ethnicity, no one should think they don’t say or think badly about others, like yours and mine, when they’re with their friends.
 
RVACane said:
All true. I grew up on the Beach and went away to school for the see the world experience but I went to school in DC.

I’m pretty sure that the guy that made the statement about Miami and Atlanta is from Ocala, IIRC. When he said what he said, I thought the same thing you did.

Years ago my father had some land in some central Florida towns like Ocala and he was dealing with a buyer. Not knowing that my father’s ******, the guy asked: “How the **** do you live in Miami? Down there you’ve got nothing but Blacks, Cubans and Jews.”

When people like this say or think something about 1 minority group or ethnicity, don’t think they don’t say or think badly about others, like yours and mine when they’re with their friends.
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I’ve had similar experiences. I’m half Cuban and I don’t look like the stereotypical Hispanic dude so most of the time people just assume I’m Caucasian. That’s when you get to hear a lot of people’s true opinions. I was at a boating event in central Florida once and this dude was telling everyone to be careful if they went to Miami for the boat show because they’d be “outnumbered there”. As if all the non Caucasian people in Dade county were actively hunting down poor innocent white folks for fun. As if any place where a majority of the people aren’t Lilly white is some kind of third world war zone. If anything, it’s people like this who need to get out and actually see the world instead of blindly following racist stereotypes.
Anyway, rant over. We now return you to your regularly scheduled tears.
 
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DTP said:
They just don’t get it. They think moving to some hick, middle-or-nowhere town, drinking Busch at some dollar beer night college bar is the college experience everyone wants. ****, I grew up in the suburbs here and that “college town” atmosphere got old so fast I purposely moved further away from UCF to avoid it. At least Orlando had some semblance of a metro area. Gainesville is nothing but a college campus and the cast of Deliverance. Do they think having more people in the crowd on game day actually offsets the other 358 days of the year when you have to live in that dump? Also, whenever you hear “rural” folks call a city like Miami the “worst” city, what they’re trying to say is “too many black/brown people live there”.
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True and yet as parents we spend a fortune to give our kids that experience. That needs to be re-examined as well.
 
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DTP said:
They just don’t get it. They think moving to some hick, middle-or-nowhere town, drinking Busch at some dollar beer night college bar is the college experience everyone wants. ****, I grew up in the suburbs here and that “college town” atmosphere got old so fast I purposely moved further away from UCF to avoid it. At least Orlando had some semblance of a metro area. Gainesville is nothing but a college campus and the cast of Deliverance. Do they think having more people in the crowd on game day actually offsets the other 358 days of the year when you have to live in that dump? Also, whenever you hear “rural” folks call a city like Miami the “worst” city, what they’re trying to say is “too many black/brown people live there”.
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Nailed it.

The aspect that allows Gaytor fans to keep setting themselves up for failure is that they just can't see things from anyone else's perspective. Sure, Gaytor fans may have LOVED their time in Hogtown, drinking Busch at some dollar beer night. But they mistakenly think that EVERYONE will love that exact same experience, and they can't comprehend that some people want something different. To Gaytor fans, these recruits are making "bad decisions" by choosing to live in Miami over KKK-ainesville.

Hilarious. This is what will contribute to their ongoing disappointment and heartbreak.
 
DTP said:
I’ve had similar experiences. I’m half Cuban and I don’t look like the stereotypical Hispanic dude so most of the time people just assume I’m Caucasian. That’s when you get to hear a lot of people’s true opinions. I was at a boating event in central Florida once and this dude was telling everyone to be careful if they went to Miami for the boat show because they’d be “outnumbered there”. As if all the non Caucasian people in Dade county were actively hunting down poor innocent white folks for fun. As if any place where a majority of the people aren’t Lilly white is some kind of third world war zone. If anything, it’s people like this who need to get out and actually see the world instead of blindly following racist stereotypes.
Anyway, rant over. We now return you to your regularly scheduled tears.
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Yep. One of my best friends at UM Law was half-Irish, half-Cuban. He DEFINITELY got all-Irish DNA on the physical appearance. I used to love watching the reactions when someone would say something about Hispanic people and he would respond in perfect Spanish. At the same time, another great friend from law school was 100% Italian, and it was funny to watch people react when they tried to talk to her in Spanish, they just thought she was some kind of Cuban sellout.

People need to be careful with assumptions based on appearance.
 
Derp empty stadium
Derp they'll end up somewhere else
Derp wait till the season's played

Nothing said here has anything to do with why the Gators are a better choice.
 
pacusmc said:
It’s the only thing they’ve ever had to recruit against us. It became more and more of an issue when the losses started. It became and even bigger issue when saban started the arms race with the facilities.

Miami was never a place to come for the traditional college experience. It was a place where you made your name on the field competing against the hardest working kids. It was place where you made a business decision. A business decision based on competing winning and going to the nfl. Do you think anyone that was recruited by um in 99-2002 gave a crap about 90k fans against mcnee state?
Do you think they gave a crap about an on campus stadium.

It’s a different time now I know but Miami has enough juice on campus and at hardrock that if you win no one will give a fck about a nicer place to store your pads or 50k for famu.
Why give a fck about that when your smacking top 10 teams across the face. And now more than ever with the population boom in sofla and the new stadium I guarantee attendance is the last thing we have to worry about if we’re winning
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The attendance is also a tired narrative when articles like this come out:

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TheOriginalCane said:
Yep. One of my best friends at UM Law was half-Irish, half-Cuban. He DEFINITELY got all-Irish DNA on the physical appearance. I used to love watching the reactions when someone would say something about Hispanic people and he would respond in perfect Spanish. At the same time, another great friend from law school was 100% Italian, and it was funny to watch people react when they tried to talk to her in Spanish, they just thought she was some kind of Cuban sellout.

People need to be careful with assumptions based on appearance.
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My best friend from law school, and still, is half Cuban and half Persian. That's two volatile cultures to procreate and he doesn't disappoint. My favorite UF memory with him was actually leaving the game in 08. This extremely overweight Gator fan in overalls was yelling at Miami fans "sucks to be you" while throwing up the downwards U. My friend deadpan without missing a step looks him in the eye and responds with "look who's talking, diabetes." Never seen a soul leave a body so quick in my life.
 
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