Tears Gator Tears

[Cane Tankerous]

This comment is NOT aging well. Perfect place for me to pick up my Gator Tears coming off a tears sabatical. I have much to catch up on.

welcome back, dog!

 

[Mikeiavelli]

I like the guy calling it an "unprecedentedly bad" start for Richardson, who also immediately points to just 3 starts for Richardson. It's funny on the surface (because it's absurd to create any sort of expectation based on 3 starts). But it's even funnier when you look at his performance in those 3 starts:

DATE	OPP	RESULT	CMP	ATT	YDS	CMP%	TD	INT	LNG	SACK	RTG	QBR	ATT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
Sat 9/10	vs20UK	L 26-16	14	35	143	40.0	0	2	28	1	62.9	3.8	6	4	0.7	0	4
Sat 9/3	vs7UTAH	W 29-26	17	24	168	70.8	0	0	23	0	129.6	94.6	11	106	9.6	3	45

Sat 10/30

vs1UGA

L 34-7

12

20

82

60.0

0

2

18

2

74.4

44.0

12

26

2.2

0

9

Seems to me of these three games the most "unprecedented" would be the sole W against Utah (which is also the only start he's made without throwing a pick six and another INT). But they're going to learn.

Wait...am I seeing this correctly? AR has not thrown a TD pass against P5?

 

[flagator86]

Wait...am I seeing this correctly? AR has not thrown a TD pass against P5?

he's thrown 5

1 vs OU (mop up duty)
3 vs LSU last year
1 vs FSU last year

But as a STARTER, nope no TD's thrown

 

[Yoyo82]

he's thrown 5

1 vs OU (mop up duty)
3 vs LSU last year
1 vs FSU last year

But as a STARTER, nope no TD's thrown

Not counting the pick 6s of course...

 

[TheOriginalCane]

Not counting the pick 6s of course...

Of course...

 

[hoops156]

god I hope USF wins

 

[Mikeiavelli]

he's thrown 5

1 vs OU (mop up duty)
3 vs LSU last year
1 vs FSU last year

But as a STARTER, nope no TD's thrown

Based on the last game I saw, we should not be counting FSU or LSU as P5 competition.

 

[canesbrah]

god I hope USF wins

If he plays bad enough you never know. Will be watching

 

[simplycanes]

3 out of the last 5 (we won in 19 and 20) but since he's been at UK, he's been slowly chipping away at UF. They've always been pesky to UF since the 2000's from time to time (more often than not it's always a 3 or 4 quarter game) but now he's got UK on UF's level.

2013: 7-24
2014: 30-36
2015: 9-16
2016: 7-45
2017: 27-28
2018: 27-16
2019: 21-29
2020: 10-34
2021: 20-13
2022: 26-16


So as you can see, over the last 10 meetings, only 4 of them were decided by 10 or more points. They SHOULD have won a few of those (14, 15, 17, 19) a few that they lost too

Are you sure you're a purebred Gator fan? You have a an air of legitimacy and reality about you that I find frightening.

 

[simplycanes]

4 minutes left, down a TD, UK hasn't really moved the ball well and he goes for it on 4th and 6th from the UF 24. It is honestly one of the most inexplicable coaching decisions in my 40+ years of watching football.

He must Twitter follow that HS coach from GA who never punts.

 

[Dwinstitles]

Are you sure you're a purebred Gator fan? You have a an air of legitimacy and reality about you that I find frightening.

He’s just a logical fan, most super homer fan bases hate those logical fans

 

[calinative umstudent]

Sorry, guys, but this needs to be imported to the Gaytor Tears thread (it's over in the UF-Kentucky game thread)...

Louisiana up by FIVE on Appalachian State, on their own 35, with 1:51 to go. Gaypier elects to take a SAFETY, cutting the lead to THREE, and making Louisiana take the free kick from the 20. If you stopped the story there, maybe this isn't a big deal. But App State drove the ball down the field, set up for the 30-yard field goal to tie the game, and the only reason Gaypier survived was because App State missed the kick.





"In the weirdest year of the modern era of college football, UL’s intentional safety might have been the most weird. Or bizarre. Or confounding. Or, depending on who you talk to, downright silly. Some believe it was completely unnecessary, absurd and wild—altogether nonsensical. Others agree with the call, describing it as UL coach Billy Napier has: the best option given what had unfolded with his snapper earlier in the game."



And here's what is fast becoming the hallmark of Billy Gaypier...he spun some imaginary story to justify his decision, as if his way was the only possible choice that could have been made:

"When asked about the decision after the Ragin' Cajuns held on for a 24-21 win, Napier defended it, saying, "What would you do? You want to run the snapper and the punter back out there and see if you can do that?"

Leading up to Napier's decision, Louisiana had three bad snaps from long snapper Paul Boudreaux.

"I mean we could do that if you want," Napier said. "But we felt like the best opportunity to win was to take a safety there and make sure we didn't give up a bad play.""



But look at the video.

1. Louisiana snapped the ball to the QB in shotgun formation, with a safety-man behind the QB. So, in theory, (a) the center could have botched the shotgun snap, same as a punt snap, and (b) the punt formation could have had a safety-man behind the punter, who could have then taken a safety IN CASE THE PUNT SNAP WAS BOTCHED, but only if the punt snap was botched.

2. Louisiana's line from the punt was the 35, thus the punt would have been kicked from about the 25, while the line to punt from after a safety is the 20.

3. With a regular punt, you send gunners down the field, thus limiting the return on the punt. On a free kick, nobody can run down the field until the ball is kicked, thus you can get a good return off of a safety free-kick.



And then there is this:

"Analytically, Napier’s decision to intentionally take a safety generated a much lower probability of winning the game than the other options, says Ian O’Connor, a data analyst for the sports analytics company EdjSports.

The Cajuns were at an 83% probability of winning before the fourth-down snap. After the intentional safety, they were at 59%.

The only lower probability among the other options, but barely, was failing to achieve a first down with a fourth-down attempt (56.4%). And what if they had punted? An average punt and return (about 35 yards) would have produced a probability of around 72%. Even a poor net punt of 20 yards would have given the Cajuns a 63.3% chance of winning."



So to sum up, Sunbelt Billy makes poor gameday decisions, and then he tries to bullsh!te people into believing that his poor decisions are actually brilliant decisions.

And he did it again Saturday. TWICE. Two fourth-quarter decisions to go for it on fourth down in his own territory.

Insanity.

But I'm here for it. Never change, Slingblade Billy. Always be true to your illogical brain and your defective analysis. That's why we love you...

Why wouldn't they just act like they are going for it and have the the QB quick punt it out of regular shotgun? It doesn't happen all that often or anything, but it's not like it's never done either.

 

[kryptonite]

Why wouldn't they just act like they are going for it and have the the QB quick punt it out of regular shotgun? It doesn't happen all that often or anything, but it's not like it's never done either.

See, that was my thought too. If you're so afraid of the long snapper, just do a shotgun snap and a no-step punt. Worst case it goes like 25 yds.

 

[RVACane]

 

[WaterburyCane]

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[WaterburyCane]

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72 downvotes. Stoops has forgotten more about football than Billy knows.

 

[TakeitinDiaz]

72 downvotes. Stoops has forgotten more about football than Billy knows.

I think they were just worried that stoops’ ***** isn’t as big as Billy’s. Personally, I wouldn’t care. I’d want the guy who’s a better coach, but I’m also not a gator fan

 

[Caned Peach]

Stoops is a darn good HC. Would've taken him gladly over any of the bums we hired before Mario and a burnt out Richt.

 

[hharvey09]

and 3-4 hrs later a decision on a FG by the Denver corch made this stupid move look like standard procedure..

That might have been the dumbest corching I’ve ever seen. The next day even he said he shouldn’t have done it.

 

[No_Fly_Zone]

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Warbuck1 seems familiar with our work. Love it.