First to run his fat mouth was the Gators second or third-best receiver, Louis Murphy:
“If I’m right, the ‘U’ stands for the University of Miami,” said Murphy. “Well, we’re the University of Florida. We’re the ‘U.’ I don’t refer to them as the ‘U.’ I refer to them as Miami. If the ‘U’ is for university and winning and championships, we’re the ‘U.’ They are Miami, and that’s what I call them.”
Someone needs to give Mr. Murphy a quick history lesson the Miami/Florida rivarly, as well as a sports almanac to learn him a lesson in winning and championships.
Last I checked, the Canes had five football national championships to the Gators’ two and had beaten Florida six straight times. Even with a UiF win this weekend, it’s still 5 titles to 2 and Florida will be 1-6 in their last seven meetings with their oldest state rival.
While nowhere near as classless and idiotic as Murphy, Tim Tebow got in a lick or two of his own after leading the Gator to victory on Saturday. Regarding his recruiting trip to Miami and taking in a game at the Orange Bowl:
“I am huge into the college environment and excitement, and you look around, and there were 30,000 empty seats,” Tebow said. “Then you come to Florida and you see this environment. … Wow, what a difference.”
What a shock, another Gator talking about the fan base and playing the Attendance Bowl. I guess Tebow missed the part of the tour where it was explained that Miami was a private school with upwards of 10,000 undergrads and an off-campus stadium in a big time city.
You don’t have to be a math major to break down the numbers. If Miami has 10K undergrads and gets upwards of 50K in the stadium on game day, isn’t that a better percentage than Florida packing over 90K into The Swamp when there are over 50K undergrads?
Of course the biggest mouth to chime in is one that won’t see the field this weekend and sports a 0-2 record against the Canes; current Miami Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder.
When you underachieve and fall short, I guess all you can do is talk smack. Crowder’s 2003 Gators fell 38-33 at the Orange Bowl, after sitting on a 33-10 late third quarter lead. A year later, the two teams met in the Peach Bowl, where Miami rolled 27-10, behind a strong defensive and special teams effort.
Maybe the Gators would’ve had a fighting chance if Crowder saved his angst for the field, instead of getting arrested (twice) for brawling outside of night clubs and vandalizing cars.
Crowder has been in the ear of former Canes offensive lineman Vernon Carey, attempting to place a wager on the game and talk as much smack as he can muster up.
“Nobody is taking that bet anywhere in the world because Florida is just going to trample them,” said Crowder. “Jacory Harris was in P.E. six months ago, come on now. They don’t have a chance to beat the Gators, at all. I don’t know why people even talk about this. It’s a warm up game for the Gators.”
Crowder is proving to be another Gator in need of a history lesson. The only one in this series doing any trampling in recent memory have been the Canes. Florida last beat Miami in 1985 and hasn’t taken them to the woodshed since a 28-3 win in 1983, when the Canes went on to win eleven straight and their first national championship.
On Miami’s end, not a peep – outside of Leonard Hankerson, who diplomatically responded to Murphy’s rant. Hankerson and the rest of the Canes arrived to a Sunday night practice and had a copy of Murphy’s quote blown up and posted in their respective lockers.
“It definitely pumped us up,” Hankerson said. “We were already pumped up for this game, but now the guys are really getting excited. We all want to win bad. Right now, we feel like nobody in the nation respects Miami. We’re going to earn our respect.”
Since Murphy’s rant, head coach Urban Meyer has muzzled his barking dog and has made the receiver off limits to the media.
Safe to say the smack-a-thon will be put on ice and the next we’ll hear from both teams will be this Saturday at 8pm ET under the lights.
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I don't know what to say to these Gaytor fans. They think that a 3 year run is going to place them atop the football world when it barely places them above FSU in terms of yearly runs!!
I'll tell you this and leave it at this. This game is going to have a morrell victory to it if Miami can keep it close. If they keep this game close Gaytor fans ,I would say, are screwed if they think they have a championship caliber team.
On a side note, we're going to see what P. Nix has to offer. He can't come in with the same gameplan he did last year vs. OU. He needs to open up the playbook and needs to call big play. None of this controling the clock or wanting to slow down the game. He needs to come out swining and swining hard!
Would you agree 305?
Go 'Canes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We got some 'Canes over here!!
WOO WOO
I love it how they talk smack, but it only works when you have the ability to smack someone in the mouth and back it up!!!
The GAYturds played like crap in the 1st quarter, and played starters on both sides of the ball & special teams well into the 4th quarter! How can they talk smack at the "U" when they had to play hard against a team that spent 8hours on an airplane to play them at home? Go figure!!!
When the "U" was at it's pinnacle, we talked smack and backed it up on the feild! In fact most teams knew we would back it up, and were beat(mentally) before the opening kickoff! If the GAYturds start slow like they did against Hawaii, watch the young Canes grow into a category 5 by halftime!!!
All the gaytor fans cry saying all we do is talk about the past, blah blah blah.
We talk about the past because we HAVE a past. I wouldnt want to talk about the past either if I were the gaytors.
Its crazy what one national championship (won 2 years ago now) will do to such an ignorant fan base. But thats what happens when your not used to winning many.
What is going to irritate me most is how all these gayturd fans are going to get verbal about the win (if they indeed win) and forget the fact that we are not ranked. If memory serves, they were a ranked team when we beat them. Well, get it while the gettings good gayturds, it will not last long !!!
big pimpin
what a joke ...way to blow things out of proportion to try and pump your team up
Love this blog!!! Question, what's th i in UiF stand for? Thanks
GREAT write-up. I can't wait for the game this Saturday, where we teach Timmy and his friends just how good this Hurricanes team can be.
Go Canes!
Thanks for the history lesson, how about we pull out a crystal ball and make predictions on who wins another National Championship before the other school wins another conference title. History ends somewhere, and that time has passed, now is the future and its all about The U of FLORIDA. Thanks for pointing out the obvious and agreeing with Tim, you can't get a college experience in a big city.
what a joke ...way to blow things out of proportion to try and pump your team up
Yeah, good call. Blown out of proportion. Your wideout runs his mouth to the point where your coach put a muzzle on him, but it's much ado about nothing.
Thanks for the history lesson, how about we pull out a crystal ball and make predictions on who wins another National Championship before the other school wins another conference title.
Murphy obviously needed the history lesson...
I got $20 that says Miami wins the ACC before Florida wins their next national championship. Bring that bet on any day of the week.
You Gators wonder why everyone hates you and bitches about your arrogance. Over 100 years of football and two titles to show for it, yet running your mouth like the big swinging-dick program you're not. Miami and Florida State both have more football history and success than Florida.
UiF hasn't even put together ONE undefeated season in school's history - something Miami has done three times and Florida State, once.
For all the hype, your Heisman-winning quarterback and all world head coach lost four games last year -- yet you act like you dominate year in and year out.
As for the big city versus a college town, you can keep po dunk Gainesville. Home Schooled Timmy might not have the stones to come to The U, but the two dozen first round NFL Draft picks this decade would seem to disagree.
History ends somewhere, and that time has passed, now is the future and its all about The U of FLORIDA. Thanks for pointing out the obvious and agreeing with Tim, you can't get a college experience in a big city.
quick lesson to canes morons. louis murphy is our number 2 reciever, his numbers dwarfed those of any cane last year, or what any will do this year. with all of the u's dominance you have a 3 game edge in the series, wow you own us! of your 5 mnc we beat you one of those years, so you must not have been that great to loose to the lowly gators. how low have you pathetic s florida criminals sunk that its a moral victory to keep it close, a gator would never think that way. by the way you will NEVER win anything with a loser like shannon in charge, he cant keep his players from rioting or even qualify half of them so come to gainesville with your soldier boy dances and your and your queer or stolen cheers and go home with tears in your eyes heres to looking down on your for years to come remember, you cant spell SUCK without the "U "