Interesting Bill that Michigan fans, coaches and players were as thrilled over this bowl win as any I can remember in my 30 years up here save for a few Rose Bowls. Shows you how far Florida has come when a program like Michigan is that excited to beat you.
It's understandable given the Michigan had lost it's last couple of bowl games and the undercurrent of feeling that the B10 just doesn't measure up to the SEC. So to beat a good SEC team handily, esp after a year in which they struggled and they were losing their coach was bound to be pretty sweet. Esp given that Fla had the Heisman winner.
Who can blame them....it has to go down as one of their greatest Capital One Bowl wins of all time! Perhaps the greatest - ever! Hell, they hadn't won a bowl game since the last time they played an SEC team - Florida - again in Florida. Perhaps they just like you guys?
uhm <r><QUOTE><s> </e></QUOTE> pot, this is kettle calling.<br/> <br/> it must be nice to be the team leader of a team in which you reap all the benefit of the positives while none of the blame for the negatives. BYU had been cranking guys like that out forever, and people still bitch about their guys winning Heisman Trophies as well.<br/> <br/> <br/> Gipper,<br/> <br/> Incredible game. Fleury was standing on his head last night. Still, I think your boys bring the Cup home.</r>
I think a lot depends on how the season works out for UF this year. Should he have another great year and the Gators win the NC I would expect that he would leave. That's really the only circumstances that I see him not comming back, he's said he wants to play 4 years. Don't forget those Gator basketball players all defied conventional logic by spurning the NBA for another shot at the ring, as did Tyler Hansborough the Tim Tebow of college baseketball. Lineart went 4 years, Quinn went 4 years. just sayin...
I think the only way he doesn't play two more years is if he gets hurt by UM running up the gut, up by 20, in the 4th quarter.
This may have been said before but I think his longivity with UF will be based soley upon UF's and TT's success. IF UF is highly successful under his leadership this year, the NFL will tempt him away. If he and/or UF stumbles where he has something to prove by staying longer, he stays. I think it is just that simple. Peyton Manning stayed 4 years because he had something to prove and wanted another shot at a title and at Florida. He didn't achieve either and there was a scare that he had made the wrong decision coming back when he had his knee injury. There are a lot of variables in making a decision like this. The player has to do what he feels is right for him and his family.
Tebow is an unusual young man. He says he is staying 4 years and I think he means it. However I think decisions like that are subject to change. I think Terry has it right as to some circumstances whether he might stay or go.
"So to beat a good SEC team handily," This I have heard before and can't comprehend the meaning of it when in reality Florida had the lead with just under 4 minutes left in the game and had a chance to retake the lead on the final possession. Somehow beating an SEC team by any amount of points is now a sizable win. 8)
well <r><QUOTE><s> </e></QUOTE> Why not? I've had to live with the 'fact' that somehow bad teams like Arkansas can be beaten like a drum in out of conference games against USC yet they magically become good/great just because they win SEC games and manage to play for the conference title.<br/> <br/> There's only one consistant factor that holds true here, in both cases..the SEC team lost on the field.</r>