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Bird4um

Bird4um

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1. That stadium sucked
2. Our Qb is better than last year
3. Our Oline is worse than last year
4. Punting is better
5. D seems fine- Just tackle better
6. Whoever called Ivy suspended was correct
7. Malory isn't as advertised yet
8. Coach has some balls.. Liked the fake kick... Should have went for it on 4th 1st drive
9. Most of our problems are fixable....
10. We should end with a better record than The gaytors
 
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Bird4um said:
1. That stadium sucked
2. Our Qb is better than last year
3. Our Oline is worse than last year
4. Punting is better
5. D seems fine- Just tackle better
6. Whoever called Ivy suspended was correct
7. Malory isn't as advertised yet
8. Coach has some balls.. Liked the fake kick... Should have went for it on 4th 1st drive
9. Most of our problems are fixable....
10. We should end with a better record than The gaytors
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Facts, they wasn’t stopping us that first drive with how well we was moving the ball
 
Good points. Going to throw this in as well. In years past we have been winning games that we all know we should have lost and losing games by getting our asses kicked. I think what everyone is labeling "the moral victories" argument is missing the bigger picture. This year in order to have a spring board to get back to the Alabamas and Clemsons of the world you will need games like this. It was a game that at the end was winnable. We fought hard. Honestly at the end of the day we are one Left and Right Tackle away from winning that game. Yes there are things to clean up on both the coaching and playing side. However, in years past we would have had our **** kicked in and been embarrassed. LSU from last year for example.

Point being this. If our staff and team learn and move forward from this game we will be cruising at the end of the year. We all knew games like this are what's in store for this team right now. Im ok with dominating the games we know we should win and being competitive in a game that we lost.

Losing to Florida sucks. I get it. But look at it this way.. Past years this would have been an embarrassing loss. This year despite all the little **** that they did wrong they fought through and kept giving themselves chances to get back in the game and win. The biggest tell for this team will be how they respond to this. Thats when you will know what you have. If they come up with some plays to help the tackles, stay aggressive, keep building... at the end of this year we could be really scary.

I know its not what everyone wants to hear, but its where we are.
 
Bird4um said:
1. That stadium sucked
2. Our Qb is better than last year
3. Our Oline is worse than last year
4. Punting is better
5. D seems fine- Just tackle better
6. Whoever called Ivy suspended was correct
7. Malory isn't as advertised yet
8. Coach has some balls.. Liked the fake kick... Should have went for it on 4th Both Drives in the Redzone
9. Most of our problems are fixable....
10. We should end with a better record than The gaytors
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Other than this I agree
 
nikkoum said:
Good points. Going to throw this in as well. In years past we have been winning games that we all know we should have lost and losing games by getting our asses kicked. I think what everyone is labeling "the moral victories" argument is missing the bigger picture. This year in order to have a spring board to get back to the Alabamas and Clemsons of the world you will need games like this. It was a game that at the end was winnable. We fought hard. Honestly at the end of the day we are one Left and Right Tackle away from winning that game. Yes there are things to clean up on both the coaching and playing side. However, in years past we would have had our **** kicked in and been embarrassed. LSU from last year for example.

Point being this. If our staff and team learn and move forward from this game we will be cruising at the end of the year. We all knew games like this are what's in store for this team right now. Im ok with dominating the games we know we should win and being competitive in a game that we lost.

Losing to Florida sucks. I get it. But look at it this way.. Past years this would have been an embarrassing loss. This year despite all the little **** that they did wrong they fought through and kept giving themselves chances to get back in the game and win. The biggest tell for this team will be how they respond to this. Thats when you will know what you have. If they come up with some plays to help the tackles, stay aggressive, keep building... at the end of this year we could be really scary.

I know its not what everyone wants to hear, but its where we are.
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As badly as they were beaten, through their fault or Williams holding the ball, Miami would still have won if Thomas had not muffed the punt or Baxa hit that chip shot, setting up a chip shot FG to win the game. It's a painful loss, but OOC, and they have two weeks to fix some things.
 
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The fake kick was absolutely beautiful. I definitely thought he was getting in. When’s the last time one of our coaches had balls to attempt a fake? Golden with Spencer Whipple? Anyone remember that nightmare.

What I’d love to see is Hedley take one to the house like Brad Wing did at LSU. Just don’t taunt the guy going in.
 
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brock said:
Facts, they wasn’t stopping us that first drive with how well we was moving the ball
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disagree disagree disagree

no way in **** you wanna start out like that and not come away with some points, florida, their fans, their **** mascot were in complete shock that we walked right down the field like that.

MUST.GET.SOMETHING.
 
Katzenboyer said:
Can't agree with #1 more. The stadium was a disaster -- getting in and out.
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In this day and age, that situation was completely unacceptable. It is a danger to everyone there. A shooter or bomber would have a field day with innocent people in that place. It's almost like they were surprised that 80,000 people showed up to an 80,000 seat stadium for a sold out game.

To top it off, getting away from the stadium after the game may have been worse. Two way traffic on the streets, completely inadequate and incompetent traffic management simply not letting people go the direction they needed to go, for no particular reason. But most egregious was actually letting traffic flow towards the stadium after the game, complete malpractice. There was no regard for security and safety concerns.

The game day operations for that place are an absolute case study in worst practices. They need to get their stuff together and, until they do, I hope we don't go back there again, even though it is relatively convenient for me, from Jacksonville.

I don't like the Jags stadium, and they make it a bit of a ***** to get in to the stadium on game day, at least compared to HRS, but Jax would be a much better host than CWS in Orlando in almost every way imaginable, except the length of the drive from Miami, but even that, it's not that much farther. Tampa would be better as well, I have no doubt.
 
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g8rh8rMD said:
In this day and age, that situation was completely unacceptable. It is a danger to everyone there. A shooter or bomber would have a field day with innocent people in that place. It's almost like they were surprised that 80,000 people showed up to an 80,000 seat stadium for a sold out game.

To top it off, getting away from the stadium after the game may have been worse. Two way traffic on the streets, completely inadequate and incompetent traffic management simply not letting people go the direction they needed to go, for no particular reason. But most egregious was actually letting traffic flow towards the stadium after the game, complete malpractice. There was no regard for security and safety concerns.

The game day operations for that place are an absolute case study in worst practices. They need to get their stuff together and, until they do, I hope we don't go back there again, even though it is relatively convenient for me, from Jacksonville.

I don't like the Jags stadium, and they make it a bit of a ***** to get in to the stadium on game day, at least compared to HRS, but Jax would be a much better host than CWS in Orlando in almost every way imaginable, except the length of the drive from Miami, but even that, it's not that much farther. Tampa would be better as well, I have no doubt.
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Again, can't agree more. The gates on the south end of the stadium had lines where people waited 90+ minutes to get in. There was only a single operational metal detector at several entry points I walked by, with people crowding in and pushing to move the line along. By the time the F-15s performed the fly by, stadium employees tried closing the gate I was waiting to use. There was almost a riot, and a LOT of people would have been trampled if the guy didn't relent (oh, and no one checked my ticket whatsoever as I walked in).

It didn't get much better once you were inside. The lines for the bathroom took more than 45 minutes at several points for members of my family, three concessions stands I went to claimed they were out of water (on a hot day/night in August with people tailgating all day in the Florida sun -- seriously?), and no one was checking tickets into the lower bowl of the stadium. I returned to my seats three times to find other fans sitting there acting like I was wrong about where my tickets were.

To top it all off, some genius decided to put chain link fencing around large portions of the outside of the stadium, which caused bottlenecks for people trying to get back to their cars. Uber was non-existent (the high school "pickup" location never registered), the situation of busing people downtown caused some friends of mine to be trapped for 3+ hours, and traffic exiting the stadium was a nightmare because the god**** Backstreet Boys had a concert at Amway that got out about the same time.

It's like the city never anticipated any of this to occur. If we do a neutral site game, put it in Tampa - Orlando got their shot, and failed.
 
FlaSportsFan88 said:
Were there 4 bathroom in that ****hole?
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4 hour lines for each of the 4. 2 hours for a water. 6 miles and a 2-3 hour wait for ubers. **** that ****hole. it wasnt that bad for WVU and louisville. saturday ruined that entire place for me. literally walked miles away to even get an uber and ended up being a ridiculous one at that.
 
Katzenboyer said:
Again, can't agree more. The gates on the south end of the stadium had lines where people waited 90+ minutes to get in. There was only a single operational metal detector at several entry points I walked by, with people crowding in and pushing to move the line along. By the time the F-15s performed the fly by, stadium employees tried closing the gate I was waiting to use. There was almost a riot, and a LOT of people would have been trampled if the guy didn't relent (oh, and no one checked my ticket whatsoever as I walked in).

It didn't get much better once you were inside. The lines for the bathroom took more than 45 minutes at several points for members of my family, three concessions stands I went to claimed they were out of water (on a hot day/night in August with people tailgating all day in the Florida sun -- seriously?), and no one was checking tickets into the lower bowl of the stadium. I returned to my seats three times to find other fans sitting there acting like I was wrong about where my tickets were.

To top it all off, some genius decided to put chain link fencing around large portions of the outside of the stadium, which caused bottlenecks for people trying to get back to their cars. Uber was non-existent (the high school "pickup" location never registered), the situation of busing people downtown caused some friends of mine to be trapped for 3+ hours, and traffic exiting the stadium was a nightmare because the god**** Backstreet Boys had a concert at Amway that got out about the same time.

It's like the city never anticipated any of this to occur. If we do a neutral site game, put it in Tampa - Orlando got their shot, and failed.
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ive never seen anything worse than getting in and out. took forever to get in and by the time i got to my seat (thanks to nothing connecting up top), i missed the entire opening possession. getting out was insane.
 
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