Palmetto Proving Grounds

Yeah, just think...we could have had John Brantley.

If he wants to come you have to take the difference maker at the most important position of the team.

Mitch or any USC QB should welcome the competition.

With that said, SOS has proven to be such a stand up guy over his career(Bandits, Duke, UF, here)..if he told Mitch he's our guy and he's only taking one, then that ship has probably sailed.

Brantley was a bad fit for UF. Coaches didn't know what to do with him.

Brantley made poor decisions when under pressure. He threw a lot of interception and could not avoid a strong pass rush. Our OL, especially during Garcia's first couple of years was not good. Garcia was tough and able to avoid the rush at times. Although Garcia made some poor decisions also I think you would have seen Brantley fair no better here than he did at Florida.

Brantley probably would have been a better player if he hadn't been stuck in such a ridiculous system for his abilities. But no one will ever know, really. Now, he knew going in what Florida did for an offense, so that was something of a bad decision by him.

VB, he won 2 national championships so yes, the guy can clearly coach a little bit. You don't just stumble into those and he did it while navigating through an SEC schedule. I wasnt saying that he is a terrible coach, his track record before he went to Florida is impressive in its own right.

But I contend that he's ridiculously overrated and is primarily the product of having extraordinary players. When the well ran dry (which it didnt because UF has been stacked day in and day out since the 90's) he crumbled and showed his true colors by using a bull**** excuse like health reasons to step down instead of fighting it out.

I dislike him as a person more than anything because he does the same crap that Dabo does using religion as a recruiting tool rather than exercising your devotion on a daily basis through your actions.Take the Sharif Floyd nonsense for example, the line he fed him during his recruitment about God coming to him in a dream and him seeing Floyd in a gators uniform...then quitting less than a year after he was in the program. He did whatever was necessary to get the #1 DL prospect on campus and used God to do it. Despicable.

Coaches shouldnt have "systems." They should be able to adapt to the strengths of the team because you arent always going to have the pieces to run your system. You can recruit guys that might fit the mold when you sign them out of HS, but if they dont work out, you're left out in the cold with your ^&*% in your hand.