A TARNISHED IMAGE--FOREVER

It's 7:04 a.m. 59 degrees out, dark, Patrick is still in bed.

Well, the Gators blew it in their first game against Former Coach Steve Spurrier ( AND blew their chance for a Sec Championship). Guess Steve wanted it more than Urban. As we've said before, THE game of the century for the Gators will be when wonder-boy comes the the Swamp next year...

Steve Spurrier used to be the Football Rock God of the Gator Nation--Under his tutelage, UF won their first SEC and only National Championship, and Gator football finally came of age. We will always cherish those eleven years.

However, Even if Steve coaches another twenty years, never loses another game, and takes his charges to 20 straight National Championships, His career will always be tainted, and he will always be known by his one great flaw: A LACK OF HONOR.

Spurrier, a Gator Heisman Trophy winner as UF's Quarterback, who coached a Heisman Quarterback at UF and who led the Gators to a National Championship, squandered the opportunity to return to Florida after his disasterous NFL career ( He thought himself ABOVE the interview process that UF was bound to perform, due to League guidelines regarding colored people getting to be coaches, and since UF did not BEG him to return, like a little boy, took his visor and went home) and then became an SEC coach who would play his own alma mater every year. If he had gone to another conference, it would be another matter. But to coach in the SEC--really bad error in judgement, integrity-wise-- It's like if George Washington, after his Presidency retired to England, and then took command of the British Army in the War of 1812...really. So, the man has no soul, no heart. Not needed I guess, to be a winning coach, but certainly needed to become a beloved folk hero, like Bear Bryant or Ara, oh well, never mind.

Forever tarnished is his legacy, a Man With No Country, his ego was his downfall.

So it goes.

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