They were also supposed to release the first 4 episodes of the 'Canes Camp' series on YouTube on August 14. We've only seen 2.
I don't care for the media and they have their own agendas but total closure and secrecy for a mediocre operation is laughable.
It’s really dumb imo. It drives fan interest away from the team in the short term. You don’t have to leak anything important, but you cultivate interest and excitement by letting media and the fanbase be slightly involved. You don’t generate hateful enemies in the media if they feel welcome. I didn’t say you had to leak anything important, and you can bar anyone who doesn’t follow your guidelines…but at least throw the dogs a bone.
Instead we have to rely on reports that only a select few people have seen, it’s obviously going to be all sunshine pumping and no negativity whatsoever. Of course 90% of the board will fall for it (doesn’t mean it’s not true, but it’s just basically one lens and controlled by Mario). No offense to D$ or anyone else, but so far every position is thriving, depth is no concern, everyone is doing amazing. Is that really what’s going on? Maybe, but probability says no.
Someone pointed it out above, but it doesn’t matter as long as we win. If we don’t, it’s embarrassing for Mario to operate this way. No college team does this, no NFL team does this. He’s not exempt from it. We didn’t even get stats from the first scrimmage.
Now there’s been some posts nuked for injury concerns (not a big deal imo, but the nuking of injury posts makes it seems like a gigantically important player got hurt, when it wasn’t really that important). Also, this at least makes some sense since you don’t want UF to know who’s hurt…except they’re going to find out anyways.
Plus injury reports are on the horizon, everyone will have to comply soon.
Can’t wait for 8/31.