{"id":501,"date":"2007-01-09T07:28:11","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T13:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=501"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:38:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:38:46","slug":"a-bright-and-shiny-day-in-the-sunny-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"A Bright and Shiny Day in the Sunny South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The morning after the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/college\/football\/games\/2007-01-08-bcs-title-game_x.htm\">41-14 Gator feed<\/a>, I offer the following thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/columns\/story?columnist=wojciechowski_gene&#038;id=2724984\">Someone has already manned up<\/a> and starting eating his crow. I think there are a few others who need to step up to the plate. Herbie? Lee?<\/li>\n<li>Did you see all those offensive formations that Florida flashed last night? I&#8217;m pretty sure that if you slow down the game film, you&#8217;ll see that the Gators snuck in the waterboy, a cheerleader and even the university president on a few of those plays.<\/li>\n<li>Is it worth pointing out that the the listless and lowly Shula-laden Tide were leading the Gators in the 4th quarter <em>in Gainesville<\/em>? You betcha it is, because it just highlights the fact that Florida struggled to win against several SEC teams (and lost to Auburn) and demonstrates once again the strength of the SEC from top to bottom.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of which, I can think of three SEC teams in addition to Florida that would have likely &#8220;belonged&#8221; on the field with Ohio State last night. Anybody want to name them?<\/li>\n<li>With all due respect to the BSU Broncos, you couldn&#8217;t have hung with Florida last night. But I do agree with you that we need a playoff system so that there are no loose ends at the end of the season.<\/li>\n<li>Florida now becomes <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/ncf\/bowls06\/news\/story?id=2724897\">the first Division 1 program to simultaneously hold both the basketball and football titles.<\/a> Baseball anyone?<\/li>\n<li>Much has been made over Nick Saban&#8217;s exit from the NFL to Alabama and the assertion that college coaches can&#8217;t cut it in the pro game. Yet <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/wire?section=nfl&#038;id=2723758\">one pro team has already gone to the college well<\/a>, and it looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nfl\/news\/story?id=2724672\">another one is poised to do the same<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bright and shiny day in the sunny south!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--f26200f2fc4246c7da8cfbba0b3042e1--><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--108eb20b7d741302eea9ab5490c4cf2c-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--f26200f2fc4246c7da8cfbba0b3042e1--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The morning after the 41-14 Gator feed, I offer the following thoughts: Someone has already manned up and starting eating his crow. I think there are a few others who need to step up to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,43,72,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alabama-crimson-tide-football","category-college-football","category-nick-saban","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9820,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/9820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}