Week 6 nominations

Urban Meyer & Steve Addazio, Florida
Seriously was there anyone in the Swamp on Saturday night outside of the 11 people on the field and the UF coaching staff that didn't know Les Miles was going to run the same fake FG play he ran against S. Car. in 2007? We were all yelling watch the fake from row 5 but then our players sold out for the block on what would have been a 51 yard attempt and of course with a Satanic contract to hold up, the over-the-shoulder flip was 0.5 inches from being forward and ended up bouncing like a basketball right to the intended target.

Urban Meyer is now 9-8 vs the SEC West in just short of 6 seasons. In my 6 seasons under the Head Ball Coach, he was 14-4 against the West. The one difference is FSU which was top 4 every year Spurrier was here except 2001 while they have never been top 4 with Meyer which has allowed for Meyer's success. Under Spurrier from '93 until 2001, 8 of 9 years, UF still had legitimate national title hopes going into the FSU game. 1997 was the only year we took 2 losses into that game. .889 under Spurrier is .500 under Meyer. We don't expect to win championships every year but with the talent assembled here, we expect to be in contention and we certainly don't expect to be outcoached by the Mad Hatter.

We must not let the defensive failures at the end of the game detract from the horrible play-calling on offense once again. 14 read options on 22 first down plays. We have seen worse but over 60% of the time is still horrible. Our average gain on those 22 first down plays was 1.05 yards (23 yards on 22 plays). That is horrible. We put our offense in 2nd and 3rd and longs almost every series. Yet because Johnny Brantley is a pretty good QB and Carl Moore is turning into a very good WR (why is this not obvious to the coaching staff?) we pick up a lot of 3rd and longs and then ... go right back to the read option again. That is a primary reason why Florida is 96th ... yes, 96th, in total offense this season.

News flash: its not an option if everyone knows Brantley is going to pitch it and Burton is going to keep it. There's a reason it worked with Tebow -- he could run or take his patented self-play action rocker step and throw it. When was the last time you saw a UF team run a real honest-to-God play action? Brantley made a half motion in that direction once or twice but it wasn't a real play action fake. Look at Boise State's highlights for what I'm talking about - sell it by putting it in the RB's gut, then drop back with the ball behind your back then throw it. That play would be so money on first down for UF considering that every DC opposing us is expecting the read option dive!



Here are the lowlights from the game:


More stats to come later but for now I'll end with food for thought: Alabama and Florida are about equal in talent level. Nick Saban has destroyed us twice in a row. South Carolina is nowhere near the talent level of either of us but nonetheless convincingly beat Alabama. The difference: they have a ball coach in Columbia.

Les Miles, LSU
Not to be forgotten, The Mad Hatter tried to give use the game. We just wouldn't take it. He wasted 35 seconds off the play clock before calling timeout on 4th and 1 from the 34. Then he called a play that 90,000 out of 90,030 people in the stadium knew was coming. Luckily for him those 30 people were on the field or on the UF sidelines.

Randy Shannon, Miami
No shame in losing to an FSU team that is clearly on their way back. But getting destroyed 45-17 in a rivalry game in which you were favored? Embarrassing to say the least. Let's hope Randy Shannon doesn't still have sand in his vagina after FSU added two 4th quarter TDs like he did when UF kicked a late FG against them in 2008.

Joe Paterno, Penn State
Automatic under the Out-Zooked clause. This is his first win I believe but lets hope its also his last and we don't have another Bowden/FSU scenario on our hands. Get to 400 wins and retire with dignity JoePa!

Mike Locksley, New Mexico
I think the loser of this game was getting a Zook regardless but Locksley's Lobos are now 0-6 after losing to quite possibly the 2nd worst team in division 1-A.

Rick Neuheisel, UCLA
Seriously? You get blown out by Stanford, blow out Texas, then get blown out by a not-very-good Cal team that had itself recently gotten blown out by Nevada? Well good for Boise as the Broncos march on to a showdown with a Nevada team that is looking better by the week!

Derek Dooley, Tennessee
Again, losing this game is one thing. Getting embarrassed is another. Tenn could very well be a 4-8 team this year, repeating their 2-4 from the first half of the season!