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Seeitsaveit13 wrote:I was expecting there to be many more gator fans here in jax, so I asked a buddy at work (who is a cane) what the deal was... he said 4-5 years ago the area was saturated as it should be, but they kinda went into hiding the past few years and there's more noles and canes that are visible

lol, sounds about right. dont you worry though..with the slightest glimmer of national prominence they, like sand people, startle easily but will be back in much greater numbers

truck stickers/decals, big jackets, alligator heads, hats...they will be everywhere

in all fairness canes and noles also have their fair share of fair-weather fans but gators are particularly funny because you'll hear them say how much they love their gators through thick and thin but you'll see people with at least a 10-15 blue and orange wardrobe inventory goes years without ever wearing any

i love wearing my shit when we're not doing well

Nole4real wrote:

Seeitsaveit13 wrote:I was expecting there to be many more gator fans here in jax, so I asked a buddy at work (who is a cane) what the deal was... he said 4-5 years ago the area was saturated as it should be, but they kinda went into hiding the past few years and there's more noles and canes that are visible

lol, sounds about right. dont you worry though..with the slightest glimmer of national prominence they, like sand people, startle easily but will be back in much greater numbers

truck stickers/decals, big jackets, alligator heads, hats...they will be everywhere

in all fairness canes and noles also have their fair share of fair-weather fans but gators are particularly funny because you'll hear them say how much they love their gators through thick and thin but you'll see people with at least a 10-15 blue and orange wardrobe inventory goes years without ever wearing any

i love wearing my shit when we're not doing well

The other day at work we were joking about attire for work, and when it was said that shorts were acceptable, I jokingly said "what about jean shorts" to which they responded "only if you want to be a gator fan."

I had a good chuckle at that one

Skip Bayless thinks Les Miles will take the Michigan job.

Lock it up!!!!

Jim McElwain to coach Florida


And McElwain it is.

Mike Riley gets the Nebraska job.

Cnasty wrote:Mike Riley gets the Nebraska job.

Did? or your guess?

Did

Good news for the rest of the Pac12, he did things at OSU that others will have a hard time doing. Is Riley a midwest guy?

UAB looks very unlikely to get a bowl, which is awful for those kids. That video that came out....the president was a total jerk to those players and didn't seem to give a damn at all about how it made them feel. I hate this for them.

Conference USA requires that all teams in conference sponsor football, so this might mean the death of not only UAB football, but their entire status as a D-1 program in other sports. They also have to add a sport to even be D-1 eligible, as they cut football, bowling (what?!), and rifle programs.

Cnasty wrote:Mike Riley gets the Nebraska job.

This is the oddest hire ever. Where did this come from?

I think its a great hire. He has done some great things at OSU but how does that equate on a bigger stage like Nebraska is always my worry in hires like that.

Was UAB losing money or not?

trendon wrote:

Cnasty wrote:Mike Riley gets the Nebraska job.

This is the oddest hire ever. Where did this come from?

http://espn.go.com/

Cnasty wrote:I think its a great hire. He has done some great things at OSU but how does that equate on a bigger stage like Nebraska is always my worry in hires like that.

I think it is fantastic, not saying that. He has been coaching up mediocre recruiting classes for years and now he'll have a slightly better group of players. He did so much with so little in Corvallis.

I'm just shocked it wasn't Tressel. I would have put money on it if there were odds. I guess Nebraska got a OSU coach one way or the other.

Seeitsaveit13 wrote:

trendon wrote:

Cnasty wrote:Mike Riley gets the Nebraska job.

This is the oddest hire ever. Where did this come from?

http://espn.go.com/

I hope that was sarcasm.

jsence2 wrote:UAB looks very unlikely to get a bowl, which is awful for those kids. That video that came out....the president was a total jerk to those players and didn't seem to give a damn at all about how it made them feel. I hate this for them.

It's business.

trendon wrote:

Cnasty wrote:Mike Riley gets the Nebraska job.

This is the oddest hire ever. Where did this come from?

Nope. You have to go back a couple Nebraska coaches to find the oddest hire ever.

LetsGoPeay wrote:

trendon wrote:

Cnasty wrote:Mike Riley gets the Nebraska job.

This is the oddest hire ever. Where did this come from?

Nope. You have to go back a couple Nebraska coaches to find the oddest hire ever.

Touche.

Boy did they "surrender to medicority!" I forget which year it was but, in the final three games, they scored 200 points and went 1-2.

trendon wrote:

Seeitsaveit13 wrote:

trendon wrote:

Cnasty wrote:Mike Riley gets the Nebraska job.

This is the oddest hire ever. Where did this come from?

http://espn.go.com/

I hope that was sarcasm.

I think the riley hire is odd in that, he has turned down some marquee jobs. I know USC one year begged him to coach them after Pete Caroll left. I wonder if he was getting tired of getting smoked by Oregon and seeing that he could upgrade to better facilities in a weaker conference was just too much to pass up.