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By bsd987, Section College
If you want more than 10, just ask me. I'll give you an encyclopedia.
Maybe I should pull a Big Ten and give 11 reasons, but ESPN Magazine has already done that. Well, I guess there is nothing to do but give you my 10 reasons, sit back, and watch you tell me what I missed. 1. Collapse against LSU That was the final straw. Two-and-one-half-minutes-remaining-and-first-and-ten-with-the-ball. What Would Brian Boitano Do? He'd run, run, run. I don't care that LSU has three timeouts remaining. I don't care that Zook trusts his Enron stock more than his running game. I care about running the clock. I don't want pass, run, pass. I don't want the clock to stop. Punt if you must, but RUN THE CLOCK! 2. Tennessee game If you need more in-depth information, check above. Run out the clock! I could do it. Put me in. You need to be able to run out the clock AND/OR hold the opposition. Close game, loss. You'll notice a trend here. 3. Arkansas games last 2 years '04: Get a big lead, allow a mediocre opponent back into it. '03: Get a huge lead, allow a good opponent back into it and hold off on a bad call that allowed Florida to keep the ball and run out the clock, something you don't see by a Zook team. 4. Miami game from 2003 They played like *%&@ the entire game, but they held the lead because Miami played like %&^$@#! *%&@ for the first two and one half quarters. Any coach with even one brain cell would have made adjustments at half time because they would have realized that they were playing the quality of football of Army's Practice Squad. But not Zook. But not Bozo. 5. Florida State game from 2003 This is the only game he has an excuse for. He had a freshman quarterback running the two-minute drill, so I can't blame him for that, but he still found a way to allow Florida State to come back. I will admit that the officiating was worse then a Staten Island Ferry. 6. Bowl Game Debacles He was completely unprepared. He had no clue how to prepare for the Michigan game on New Year's Day 2003. Then on New Year's Day 2004 against Iowa, unprepared. LEARN A LESSON! History repeats itself, and you should know that because of how many times you must have taken it to graduate. By your fifth time repeating the course in the small brain of yours you should have seen a trend. 7. Vanderbilt struggle There comes a point where you have to look at yourself in the mirror and realize that you are not doing your job right. I thought the 21-17 Vanderbilt game would have done it, but I also thought Al Gore would win the election. Vanderbilt lost this year to Rutgers, which lost to 1-AA sapling New Hampshire, and this is the best Vanderbilt team in nearly two decades. 8. Strategy: Tennessee 2003 First of all, he had no clue what he was doing from the get go. Then, he threw the ball on 1st down from his own 20 or so with :33 seconds to go in the first half, then he ran it, then he passed it again. MAKE UP YOUR MIND! Personally, I would have run out the clock. So would have Napoleon Bonaparte. But THEN, on the hail mary, 3 Gator defenders tried to catch it. KNOCK IT DOWN! I would think a former NFL defensive coordinator would have made that clear, but as I said before I have thought incorrectly before. 9. Kentucky game '04 I'm just plain shocked at how Florida score 28 points on Tennessee and only 20 on lousy Kentucky. At least they did not surrender much. 10. He just plain sucks Every game he coached against a team not named Georgia was plain pathetic. He collapsed in late-game situations and allowed teams to hang around that should not have. He is just not fit to be a head coach in college football.
I hope you enjoyed reading this. I'll get back to you in 3 years with "10 Reasons Mike Shanahan should be fired by Florida".
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