Florida Gators Roster OVERHAUL Coming? Gator Legend Gets REAL About the Problem

I don't see it. There are some guys that are just not holding up their end of the bargain when it comes to playing this game. So the standard is clearly in the Somara household just fine. Yeah, for sure. Again, I kind of want to lean into this, but do you feel that a complete overhaul needs to happen in this next portal cycle? Because I agree that, look, I understand having some remnants left over from the past regime. however you've had also eight months to you know try to get rid of some of that and i understand that it doesn't happen overnight and happen over you know day over day but i know these guys were damn sure putting their feet in the ground and fighting their way to make sure they got paid a proper you know salary to play this position to be an SEC cornerback to be an SEC linebacker that's all i think the fans are really upset about is just the lack of passion the lack of confidence like i understand you don't know how to win i understand all these things i have i i've got empathy for you i get it you haven't had the best deal handed it doesn't that effort is oh it should always be there that's all that i'm asking for and that's where my frustration has came from yeah but i don't i wouldn't say for everybody it's a lack of effort i mean no but it's agreed the problem is it feels like the majority of it though right because i do feel there are some pockets that are good but that's not enough when you got 22 dudes playing yeah i won't i won't even says the majority it is but when you have one it gets exposed and it and it looks bad sure it it looks bad but i won't say as i won't say it's a lack of effort it's a a lack of confidence it's a lack of attention to detail okay being young and being confident in in who you are we we have to remember this offseason we had to talk about how much gains they made in this one period of time well damn how did we be able to make these amount of gains in this one period of time what weren't you doing out of all that other time to where you shouldn't where you couldn't have made those gains and so now that they made these gains what do you do with the gains you did all this lifting and stuff but that means if they were missing that much in the weight room how much were they missing in the football classroom and so now you're coming in and you're trying to revamp this stuff or you and then you're teaching them a whole new system both offense and defense That's going to take a little bit of time, but there's certain things that I see on tape that you just can't stand for. You know what I mean? Well, I could deal with a couple mistakes, but there are certain things that you just can't stand for, and I pulled a couple of them today, but that are still happening, and you're going to have to eventually, because it's being taught, eventually you're going to have to get new people. It's just what it is what it is. You're going to have to find some players that can get the job done or what you're asking that's not going to be timid, that's not going to be shy, that's going to be ready to go out there and bust some heads. You know what I mean? Whenever defensively, it's a look that you should see from your defense where everybody's confident in what they're doing, where the D-line is high-fiving each other, they're communicating, talking about what they're going to do and how they're going to smash the person in front of you. Until I see that, I can tell it's just almost every man trying to do his job, but unsure of what he's supposed to do because we're not firing off the ball how we should. We're not hitting people in the mouth. We're not tackling how we should because we're just trying to get there while we're really trying to run through somebody. I don't believe that's happening right now. So maybe it's not necessarily like you're pushing back on it. It's not a lack of effort. It could just be lack of confidence with a lack of on top of confusion and so which causes you to move slow essentially because you're just you're thinking you're not playing you're not doing which falls back on what We were kind of talking about coaching, right? Like, not having these guys prepared. Look, I have a hard time, and I'm not trying to beat anybody down, but the excuse of Young and these things, I've heard it for three years. We've said it. I've said it myself. I've been on that side. I've been supportive of it. And, look, I'm not here to can anybody. Like, I want to make that very clear. Like, I'm not mad at necessarily the coaching staff or really even the players. That's why I kind of went on this tangent because I think both people, both parties are kind of put into a, you know, a sticky situation. coach is in a situation and the players are obviously dealing with the adversity of having to overcome certain things so you know you're trying to make this marriage happen as best as you can but again it's i'm hoping we could see again a transition that was i think what was alarming to me and you and i said it it was how it looked you got to turn it around and and from the from the snap it just was the same thing and i'm like how was what how how are you not at least just ignorantly confident for at least three seconds. But that's why you see what you saw. You see Coach Chapman getting with LJ and telling him, hey, show me. Show me. You know what I mean? I know you can do it. I've watched you do it. Go out there and show me. That's why you get Summerall saying, hey, in the film room, in front of everybody, hey, is this what we teach you in practice? And everybody say no. well how do you get to the game and just still don't do what i've been showing you to do it's hard to blame the coach when i know you've been coaching him do the right thing but then he gets into the game and does whatever he wants to do it's either he doesn't have it up here yeah the talent could be there but if he's not mentally locked in and focused you can try to drill that but at some point it has to turn on for the player on his own or you got to find somebody else that can get it but our problem is the people that we depending on to get it done that's not doing it we can't put the next guy in to get it done because he's not as good as you i expect you to get it done so now i gotta start hand feeding you and giving you all these extra things on the sideline which is really taking away from me coaching the in the big picture but if this is what i have to do for right now i'll try to piece it together but that i'm not doing that moving forward. Do you think there's a little bit of like coaches like, it's like you're going to have to figure this out. And almost kind of like, look, I'm going to be here next year, regardless if we go 4-8 or 8-4. You're going to have to. I'm going to get my teeth kicked in. I'm fully aware of what I signed up for. If you want to be here and play for the Orange and Blue next year, you're going to have to figure it out. You're kind of on the same side. Go ahead. It was very telling for him to say, hey, we were in meeting rooms and I said, is this what we're teaching you at practice? He said, this at a press conference and the guys said no coach this is not what you're teaching us well okay obviously coaching ain't the problem if everybody you're saying without saying it you're like this there's some guys on this that on this team that either he said it well i know but you're i'm trying to get you to say he's the head coach i'll say there's some guys that just not holding up their end of the bargain when it comes to playing this game you can have all the talent in the world brother but that doesn't mean nothing if you go out there and wet the bed on saturday yeah you could be an all-star at practice because people telling you what to do and where to be in that game when it's loud and it's on the line and people are yelling you may miss my communication with my hand signal telling you where you need to be depth-wise but if you're a junior or senior i needed you to have known that before i got here you had three four years five years to learn that before i get here and and it looks good in practice but then i'm realizing And, hey, when we get to these games, you guys are falling apart. 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Unfortunately, we just have guys that are going through the motions that truly just don't believe or want to buy into it. And either you're just going to get your teeth kicked in because here's the reality of it. It's bad, but I don't have anywhere else to go. okay because you continue to show me in practice that you can perform you can do it but for whatever reason when it comes time to put out on the football field you're not performing and so some people mentally just don't have it yeah they have all the skill in the world they can fly around and everything you get on that field on saturday and you don't have it here's where i also think not physically or anything else mentally some people just don't get it some people don't understand the game they're great athletes they probably put you one-on-one in high school they probably told you what to do on every play when you get to college we don't have at a certain level we can't keep doing that throughout the whole game maybe him saying we don't have veteran depth this you know we'll put the 10 we'll put together simple hat back on i don't think this is a tinfoil hat as it may appear but him saying hey we don't have veteran depth well yes maybe these guys are old they are juniors and seniors but i mean veteran depth like they had they know how to play the game at an elite level and so what he's saying is like none these cats were developed i walked into essentially a bunch of high school yeah a bunch of high school kids that yes they're getting paid like five stars they look like stars five stars they sound like five stars but they ain't five stars because they haven't been developed fundamentally with the game yeah and no one down the distance he spoke about hey we need more situational awareness we need to know down the distance when the first game came and guys are playing off in this third and three and you eight yards off the ball, brother, I should have had to tell you to scoot up in college. This might have just solved it for me in my head. This is how crazy my head is, guys. You think I'm kidding when I do these things. This is not an act. Ask Steve. It's a vicious psycho up there. It's two mentalities on this team, Culi said. And that's exactly what it is. We have a civil war happening on the football field. Yeah. You got to weed it out. we just didn't have time you've got two different personalities if we had a portal you know meshing together and that's why it's stuck right you've got there is no cohesion and it's not necessarily on purpose i don't feel like i feel like there's like this full-on war like like you don't necessarily see it or hear it it's like Kobe you know what i mean it's a silent killer you don't know what's happening but you have you literally have a group of killers and then a group of not killers on the outside everybody looks like they're ready to go but internally it's not it's not clicking and and that's i think that may be where my conspiracy theory because you literally you can't understand it because you guys looked apart it sounds like you should be it i've seen it be it at times but there's half of this group and look if half of it ain't working the whole thing breaks the only strongest and weakest link boss so you look we talked about it today you're gonna have to have i mean there it's gonna be anarchy i think at the end of the year i think it's going to be a wild portal season. I'm sure it is going to be a wild portal season. But I'm not afraid of the portal season knowing the coach that we have in place and his ability to galvanize people that really want to play football and want to play for that type of coach. Real killers want to play for a coach like that. You know what I mean? You want to go cut it loose. I said it in y'all's Summer Raw chat. we recruited when one of the last regimes here i don't like drop the man name we recruited high character people but they they didn't have killer instinct brother when i told you when i went to the first d-line barbecue i told those guys i really literally feel like i probably could slap one of y'all and y'all ain't gonna do nothing yeah y'all ain't gonna jump me or nothing they're getting closer to that bond and and that and that fierceness that we need but it's still some pieces that that that that that are not just there just yet and our coach came in late we had to pick the scraps we had to get um but i believe he's he's going to get it right we just got to get i mean there's he's what he what he proved to me in this this conference and the adjustments that i saw that he's willing to do what it takes to win now but he's not willing to abandon all the future plan we're gonna do some we're gonna put some wrinkles in to try to win now and help the guys that are here because they need to help and we need to win right we can't just keep getting blown out that that can't happen so i'll do these minor adjustments but i can't abandon everything that we have in place i can't abandon the whole defense and just go to this one thing we can try to add some wrinkles here and there but we just can't abandon what we want to do knowing we're recruiting future players to come do the things we know they can do.