I have yet to meet a UF graduate that is not excited about this upcoming football season. Everyone thinks better days are ahead with the arrival of Urban Meyer to lead the troops against the best of the SEC. All are happy the Ron Zook disaster is behind us.
I am sure he is a hard working, good guy, but he is just not a great football coach. Some thoughts on the Zooker (no offense to Illinois fans):
- He was way too lax on discipline with our team which is why off campus incidents and arrests climbed after he took over the program. Meyer promises to correct this trend. One wonders how he can expect to have players be disciplined on the football field (i.e. no penalties and flawless execution of plays), when they are not disciplined in anything else they do.
- He was too conservative for the college game. Unlike the NFL, college games are not generally won or lost on the last possession of the game. Better teams impose their will on the other team and force them to do things they would rather not do. UF played close games against good teams and bad teams while Zook was coach. Sure we were always in the game, but we never were able to make the other team react to us for the full duration of the game.
- The man is incapable of stringing together coherent thoughts during interviews. Again, if he has that much trouble communicating to a sideline reporter asking a fluff question, how can one expect him to adequately impart game plan information to his coordinators and players? Sure he is "high energy", but he would probablyhave more of his plan actually put into place if he spoke in a manner understandable to the rest of the humans in the room.
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