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There's Something About UF vs South Carolina That NOBODY is Talking About.... | Gators Football · A Peek Inside Gators Football: A Show About the Florida Gators

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to A Peak Inside Gator Football. This is
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  Speaker 1: Allie Peak. I want to talk to you about the
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  Speaker 1: biggest test of John Summerall's tenure so far. This video
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  Speaker 1: lineups instantly. There are bigger games on the schedule left
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  Speaker 1: than South Carolina. Texas will be bigger. Definitely nationally. Georgia
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  Speaker 1: is always going to be Georgia. But I think this
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  Speaker 1: week tells us more about Coach Summerall's Florida program than
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  Speaker 1: any of those bigger games that are left. This is
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  Speaker 1: the first time his team has really been forced to
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  Speaker 1: answer a hard question. Not, can you win a big game?
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  Speaker 1: We already saw that. Not, can you handle the hype? Well,
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  Speaker 1: we also saw how that went too. They're still figuring
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  Speaker 1: it out. But I think the question now is, what
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  Speaker 1: does a John Summerall football team look like after it
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  Speaker 1: gets embarrassed? That's what I want to see this week.
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  Speaker 1: Florida didn't just lose to Missouri. They got outplayed. They
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  Speaker 1: got outcoached in the trenches. They got pushed around. They
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  Speaker 1: made mistakes. They lost composure at times. And for a
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  Speaker 1: team that has spent the first month building an identity
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  Speaker 1: around toughness and discipline and physicality, Missouri challenged every single
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  Speaker 1: part of that identity. So now, in my opinion, comes
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  Speaker 1: the biggest test of the John Summerall era so far.
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  Speaker 1: How does this team respond? We talk about culture all
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  Speaker 1: the time in college football. We usually talk about it
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  Speaker 1: after wins. The locker room looks great. Everybody's bought in.
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  Speaker 1: Players love the coach. The energy is just different. Practices
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  Speaker 1: are harder. The standard is higher. I'm pretty sure all
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  Speaker 1: of those things have come out of my mouth since,
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  Speaker 1: you know, last January. And all of that sounds great
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  Speaker 1: when you're 4-0. But culture doesn't really get tested when
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  Speaker 1: everything is going well. Culture gets tested when people start
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  Speaker 1: pointing fingers. when players are frustrated, when coaches get criticized,
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  Speaker 1: when fans are angry, when the national media stops telling
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  Speaker 1: you how good you are, that is when you find
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  Speaker 1: out what you actually built. And that is why this
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  Speaker 1: week matters so much for John Summerall. One of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest things he has preached since he got the job
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  Speaker 1: at Florida is accountability. Do your job. Play physical. Play disciplined.
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  Speaker 1: Be player-led. Don't let outside noise affect how you prepare.
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  Speaker 1: Missouri put all of that to the test. and Florida
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  Speaker 1: failed the test. Now we find out whether it was
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  Speaker 1: a temporary failure or it was something deeper. Summerall has
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  Speaker 1: talked about player leadership, and that's one of the things
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  Speaker 1: I keep coming back to. John Summerall has said more
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  Speaker 1: than once that the difference between good teams and great
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  Speaker 1: teams is player leadership. And I think that's exactly what
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  Speaker 1: we need to watch now. Leadership is easy when you're celebrating.
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  Speaker 1: It's easy when everybody is smiling. It's easy when you
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  Speaker 1: beat a top five team in the swamp and the
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  Speaker 1: crowd is losing its mind. Leadership looks different after Missouri.
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  Speaker 1: Who walks into the building Monday and takes ownership? Who says,
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't us? Who pulls a teammate aside after a
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  Speaker 1: bad rep at practice? Who makes sure the energy is right?
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  Speaker 1: Who refuses to let one bad snap turn into two
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  Speaker 1: bad snaps and three bad snaps and then one bad
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  Speaker 1: Saturday turning into two bad Saturdays or three bad Saturdays?
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  Speaker 1: Coaches can stream. Coaches can change drills. Coaches can make
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  Speaker 1: practices harder. But eventually, if a football team is going
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  Speaker 1: to be great, the locker room has to police itself.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where Florida's veteran players have to show up.
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  Speaker 1: This is where captains matter and where the older guys matter.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where players who want to be remembered
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  Speaker 1: as the group that helped change Florida football have to
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  Speaker 1: act like it. We're going to take a quick break
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  Speaker 1: as well. We want to bring you this content any
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  Speaker 1: way that you want to consume it. So how does
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  Speaker 1: Summerall handle his team this week? I am fascinated to
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  Speaker 1: see how he handles it from a coaching standpoint. There's
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  Speaker 1: a balance there. You can't act like Missouri didn't happen,
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  Speaker 1: but you also can't spend five days emotionally beating your
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  Speaker 1: team up over it. At some point, you have to
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  Speaker 1: correct and then just move on. That is part of
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  Speaker 1: being a head coach. What do you emphasize? What do
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  Speaker 1: you change? How physical are practices? How much do you
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  Speaker 1: challenge the offensive line? How much do you challenge the defense?
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  Speaker 1: How much film do you show? How quickly do you
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  Speaker 1: turn the page? Those things matter. Florida looked like a
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  Speaker 1: team that lost confidence as Missouri took control of the game.
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  Speaker 1: So Summerall's job this week isn't just fixing scheme. It's
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  Speaker 1: getting his team's edge back. And by that, I don't
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  Speaker 1: mean fake confidence. I mean getting back to the things
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  Speaker 1: that made Florida good in the first place. Running the ball,
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  Speaker 1: playing downhill, tackling, getting lined up, avoiding stupid penalties, winning
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  Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. Those aren't complicated things, but they
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  Speaker 1: did get away from Florida this past week. If I'm
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  Speaker 1: watching one group this week, it might be the offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: Because what happened at Missouri was not acceptable. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying that to be dramatic. Florida's offensive line is
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  Speaker 1: built around being able to control the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 1: When they can run the football, everything works. When they can't,
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  Speaker 1: this offense becomes much more difficult to operate. Aaron Filo
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  Speaker 1: gets put in bad situations. Defenses can pressure more aggressively.
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  Speaker 1: Play action becomes less effective. Third and long becomes too frequent.
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  Speaker 1: And Florida loses the identity that carried them through the
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  Speaker 1: first month. So this week is personal for that offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina is going to watch that Missouri film and
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  Speaker 1: they're going to say, okay, we're going to test you too.
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  Speaker 1: And they should. If I'm South Carolina, I'm attacking Florida
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  Speaker 1: up front until they prove they can handle it. So
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  Speaker 1: Florida's offensive line has a chance to answer a very
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  Speaker 1: simple question. Was Missouri one bad day or was it
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  Speaker 1: a blueprint? Same goes for the defense. One of the
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  Speaker 1: things that bothered me most about Missouri was how little
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  Speaker 1: changed once Missouri found success running the football. They hit
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  Speaker 1: Florida with big plays. They hit them again and again
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  Speaker 1: and again. And Florida never really looked like it found
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  Speaker 1: an answer. That can't happen again, especially with the schedule
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  Speaker 1: Florida has coming. South Carolina, Texas, Georgia, those teams are
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  Speaker 1: going to test every weakness Missouri put on tape. So
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  Speaker 1: I want to see whether Florida's defense responds schematically and mentally.
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  Speaker 1: Can they fit the run better? Can they tackle better?
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  Speaker 1: Can they adjust faster? Can they stop one bad drive
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  Speaker 1: from becoming an entire bad half? That's a maturity issue too.
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  Speaker 1: Good defenses give up plays. Great defenses recover. Florida did
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  Speaker 1: not recover at Missouri. I don't think that Florida needs
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Philo to be Superman this week, but I do
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  Speaker 1: think his response matters too. Actually, maybe the absolute worst
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  Speaker 1: thing for this week would be for him to try
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  Speaker 1: to be Superman. He doesn't need to go into the
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina game feeling like he has to make up
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  Speaker 1: for Missouri. He doesn't need to force throws. He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: need to chase explosives. He doesn't need to carry the offense.
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  Speaker 1: What Florida needs is for Philo to settle back into
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  Speaker 1: being the quarterback that we did see the first month. efficient, calm, accurate,
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  Speaker 1: taking what the defense gives him, letting the run game
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  Speaker 1: help him managing the game. I think that is an
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  Speaker 1: important moment in his development too. Every young quarterback eventually
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  Speaker 1: has a game where things go wrong. The ones who
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  Speaker 1: become really good, they learn from it and then they
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  Speaker 1: move on. So I want to see Philo play free again.
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  Speaker 1: That starts with the guys around him. And that's why
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina is more important than it looks. And I
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  Speaker 1: know that there's a chance people are going to misunderstand
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  Speaker 1: what I mean when I say that it's the biggest
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  Speaker 1: test of the John Summerall era. I'm not saying South
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  Speaker 1: Carolina is Florida's biggest opponent. I know that they're not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying this game will tell us something about the
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  Speaker 1: foundation of the program. If Florida comes out tight, flat, sloppy, undisciplined,
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  Speaker 1: that tells you Missouri left a mark. If Florida comes
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  Speaker 1: out angry, sharp, physical, focused, that tells us something too.
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  Speaker 1: It tells us this team can absorb a punch. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: goes through an SEC season untouched. Everybody gets beat up.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody has a bad week. Everybody gets exposed at some point.
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  Speaker 1: The difference between teams that compete for championships and teams
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  Speaker 1: that fade is what happens next. One loss cannot become two.
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  Speaker 1: This is the danger. Missouri cannot beat Florida twice. And
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  Speaker 1: you can hear coaches say that all the time, but
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  Speaker 1: it does apply here. If Florida spends the entire week
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  Speaker 1: thinking about Missouri, then comes out pressing against South Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: then Missouri beat them twice. If players start doubting themselves,
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  Speaker 1: then Missouri beat them twice. If the offensive line becomes tentative,
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  Speaker 1: then Missouri beats them twice. If the defense starts overthinking everything,
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  Speaker 1: then Missouri beats them twice. That's what John Summerall has
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  Speaker 1: to prevent. Learn from it, own it, fix it, then
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  Speaker 1: bury it. And this is where John Summerall earns his money.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody loved Coach Summerall a week ago. That's kind of
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  Speaker 1: how college football works. Florida beats Ole Miss, jumps into
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  Speaker 1: the top 10, and suddenly everybody wants to talk about
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  Speaker 1: what a great hire Florida made. Then one week later,
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  Speaker 1: you get embarrassed at Missouri. Now people want answers. It's
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  Speaker 1: the job. And I actually think this is where we
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  Speaker 1: get to learn more about Summerall than we did after
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  Speaker 1: the Ole Miss win. Can you rally a locker room?
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  Speaker 1: Can you correct without creating panic? Can you get your
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  Speaker 1: best players to respond? Can you get a team that
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  Speaker 1: just got embarrassed to play confidently again just seven days later?
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  Speaker 1: That's coaching, not just drawing up plays, not just recruiting,
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  Speaker 1: not just winning a press conference. This is the part
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  Speaker 1: of the job that matters the most. So when I
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  Speaker 1: say this is the biggest test of the John Summerall
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  Speaker 1: era so far, I mean it. Not because South Carolina
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  Speaker 1: is the biggest game, but because this is the first
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  Speaker 1: time Florida has had to prove that the identity Summerall
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  Speaker 1: is building can survive adversity. We know they can play
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  Speaker 1: well when everything is going right. We know that they
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  Speaker 1: can feed off the swab. We know that they can
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  Speaker 1: beat a really good team Now I want to know
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  Speaker 1: whether they can get embarrassed, take criticism all week long,
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  Speaker 1: and come back better. That's what good programs do. That's
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  Speaker 1: what mature teams do. And ultimately, that's what John Summerall
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  Speaker 1: has been telling us he wants this program to become.
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  Speaker 1: Saturday is the first real chance to prove it. Missouri happened.
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  Speaker 1: Can't change it. But Florida still gets to decide what
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  Speaker 1: Missouri means. Was it the beginning of something falling apart?
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  Speaker 1: Or was it the moment this team learned what it
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  Speaker 1: takes to respond? That answer starts this week. And I
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  Speaker 1: am really interested to see how this team handles it
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  Speaker 1: moving forward. We appreciate you guys tuning in. Also, a
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