as the OC, not Marshal's O all along, like so many of us were either lead to believe or wanted to believe. So that means we had Fedora's O all along and Zaun was brought in to run it due to his greater experience and accomplishments. Soooo, all those who kept ragging on Zaun all along, calling for his job and thinking of his performance as OC as astutely inept might have thought differently if they'd have known that we were not running his O, we were always running Fedora's. Would it have changed your mind if you'd have known this? It sure would have mine. Now I hear some like Gator Tom, whom I like immensely, say that this is what we've needed all along and that Fedora will chunk the ball downfield more, unlike Zaun. I'm not going for it. It wasn't what Fedora did at MTS but he will at UF because....? Again, I'm not on board with this just because it makes me smile to think it could happen. I'm gonna let it play itself out and hope for the best, but my level of assurance in this O just took a hit downard. Now it's up to Fedora to bring this O up or he will be out of here so fast it'll make his head spin. Mainly because all the wrath spouted against Zaun should, in retrospect, have been on his shoulders, shouldn't it have? It was his system, not Zaun's, all along and he hid from critisizm behind Zaun for our O woes and collapses. Now he gets to be The Man and if we look just like we've looked these last two seasons he will have absolutely no grace period - that's been used up in it's entirety. Truth be told, Zaun's Marshal O DID chunk the rock downfield a lot more than Little Tenn State. They DID have better WR's and QB's and O philosophy than MTS. And their O WAS and IS more like what the fans here have been clamoring for the last two seasons. Yet we've got Zaun on the outs and more of Fedora's O on the in's and this is going to fix our offensive woes? The only good thing about this transition, IMHO, is that it puts us squarely in one camp or the other, not straddling the fence between two pretty difference O philosophies. But make no mistake about it, I say Zaun's O and philosophy was the far superior of the two. And according to what Coach Pruett, who should rank as a respectable figure in every Gator's book, said of Zaun and his O we should have matched up pretty dang well against UT and been able to give them fits, unlike what took place in the Swamp. Fedora's O didn't work against a team we have to go through EVERY year in order to get anyplace. Zaun's would have, if we had used it, in Coach Pruett's (respected) opinion. I know I'm ranting, but this is a dumb move IMO. It better produce cause Coach Zook has his back against the wall and if we get more of the O woes we've had he is gonna be out of here unless his D can make up the diffence consistently and get us a big W each week. Reason being if we're winning it will forgive many sins, but if we're loosing and it's looking like more of the same these last two years the cry for Coach Zook's head is going to be too great for anyone to stand against. However, if we had an O that looked very promising but wasn't quite there yet along with a pretty good D and still dropped the same games, I think there would be a contingent of Gators (possilby myself included and possibly a guy like Foley included, etc.) who would want to let it mature to the point where it could/would be successfull. But if we come into next season spinning our wheels with bubble screens, horizontal passing game philosophy, and three yards and a cloud of dust; and the D isn't pulling our collective butts out of the fire each week - then Coach Zook is gone, and so is Fedora, and we have to start from scratch AGAIN (dang it)! http://www.gatorsports.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040207/GATORS01/202070315 On the flip side, I'm glad Zaun is staying to coach Leak and the other QB's. He's one heck of a QB coach and we're lucky to have him. If he stays even one season and rides the success of an improved Leak then he should be able to get a good NFL QB coach job - which is a pretty good position in and of itself.