The Gator compares The Gator with Miami

The overall theme of the article saying how the two teams are very similar in overall talent is accurate. The author also makes the good point about how this will come down to scheme/management/effort.

But where he shows his homerism is only outlining where UF’s player have exceeded their recruiting ranking, and using it as his basis to to call certain comparisons a wash when we have the higher ranking.

The rankings are important for them if theirs are higher, but once we have higher rankings, then their lower rankings aren’t an accurate portrayal lmfao.

If Perine is so much better than his 3-star rating, then so is Pinckney or Garvin. That’s where objectivity was lost.


Homerism is absolutely right.

Perine was only a 3-star, but he has far outperformed his ranking. Lingard was a 5-star, but he got all his yardage against crappy teams (no mention of his injury).

Only a Gaytor writer would make such a one-sided comparison.
 
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They should be. Although the game is important to both teams, a gator loss has the potential for more damage than a Miami loss. Given the way the college football world sees this game, UF is supposed to win. They had a much better season, have more experience with the same staff, and are riding momentum. We're just starting a rebuild with a first time head coach. A UF win, though awful for us fans emotionally, would fade away fairly quickly for them when they hit their SEC games. A loss for us would also be short-lived if the team shows good progress the rest of the season. If UF loses, it's a big slap down of that momentum they were counting on. A Miami win in that game means Manny is instantly King of the state's coaching realm and doubts start to creep in about whether Mullen can be the long term answer they were counting on. And you know how those doubts mix with recruiting.
a loss for Miami means nothing, because the rest of the schedule is cake.
 
a loss for Miami means nothing, because the rest of the schedule is cake.
You guys have way more to lose in a loss than us. With all the talking we’ve seen about how bad the beat down is going to be, all the talk of talent advantages and coaching advantages, anything short of that is a visible gaytor fail. And a win by Miami is a gaytor disaster. I’m looking forward to the destruction in the aftermath.
 
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Of course, their comparison is basically just a comparison of each team's star rating by position. They actually think they have better TE's than Miami, which is absolutely absurd. Get the feeling Jordan and Mallory will show them how absurd it is in a little over 2 months.

250 yards and 3 TDs combined
 
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