There is nothing more soul-sucking than a bowl-less football season.
Instead of studying your future opponent, you are forced to watch everyone else play and have those bowl season commercials jammed down your throat like cheese gone bad.
Florida fans may be used to it. This is the third time in the last 11 years it has happened. The only times before that were caused by Florida probation or a lack of bowl game opportunities.
This is the bed that Billy Napier, his staff, his players and everyone else have to sleep in. The sheets aren’t quite as crisp as the luxury hotels that house the bowl teams.
But Florida football fans are looking ahead because that looking back is kind of scary, as if Pennywise, Freddie Krueger and Kirby Smart are all there to scare you.
If we look ahead, we want the truth. OK, maybe we can’t handle the truth, but we would at least like these 12 questions answered between now and the Miami game at the end of next August.
What’s the plan for discipline?
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And please don’t tell me it’s the same one you have been using for the last two years. I get that it’s difficult to chew out players because they might jump onto the transfer portal. But Florida was 94th in penalties and first in spitting. And don’t those penalties always seem to come at the worst times?
Can you talk to someone about turnovers?
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I’ll get you started. Brent Venables, James Franklin. Their teams forced 25 turnovers this year. Florida forced seven. That was next-to-last in the country. THE COUNTRY!
Heck, go talk to Scott Loeffler, who used to coach here and is at Bowling Green now. His defense forced 27 turnovers. There are answers, but you have to seek them out.
Why are we ineffective in the defensive portal?
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Certainly, with Montrell Johnson and O’Cyrus…
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