The x's and o's escape me and I'm ok with that. For me, it's all about my allegiance to UF and the entertainment the sport brings me. I love that football takes strategy. No other sport requires a coach to get a large number of kids, many of whom don't exactly comprise a brain trust, to learn pages of plays and execute them in front of 100s of 1,00s of people in person and on TV. It's always amazed me, to be honest.

Which gets me to why I think we harken back to Spurrier, practically skipping Meyer. It's not because he is a douche. That has been established and we have moved on. It's because Spurrier entertained us. We still long for that. He could take any kid off the street and turn him into a Gator QB. We longed for that when Urban was running the option. We shut up for a while only because he won, and then won big in the national championship games. 

Some ask why we can't be more grateful--like OSU and Michigan fans--who seem happy with grind it out offenses year after year? Because that is all they know. We came to be through a high powered, high scoring, fun as hell to watch offense. In my opinion, to change that, it will take decades of us to die off while the Muschamps of the world develop a slow, yet powerful, grind it out offense. I don't see that happening, though. Spurrier set the bar. He created the offense that filled seats, that everyone talked about, that caused us to beat our chests and taunt those who hated him. He also coined the term the swamp, and we all love that. He made Florida football.

So, this Muschamp character. Here we are; ready to toss him out after losing to Miami. That is for two reasons: 1) We HATE Miami, so losing to them, despite not being in the SEC, hurts in a way that can only be likened to having finger nails ripped out one at a time, and 2) we might not want to admit it, but we were sitting there poised to start beating the drums. It was only postponed because he miraculously won 11 games last year. I am going to go so far as to say that there were probably many who wanted to scream for his head much earlier but were stalled by a surprising season. That is the perfect storm right there. He did not generate offensive excitement that won 8 or 9 games, then 10 games, then 11 games, each time moving closer to getting a title. No. He won 11 then lost to Miami.

And that is my amateur view of what is happening with the Gators. IMO, the bottom line is that we know what we like and grapple with the idea that we might have become complacent by wins. But, I think we got spoiled by excitement.