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There are good and bad ways to lose, even for players involved in demoralizing 31-7 defeats to rivals, like Florida's to Florida State today. The good ways would include handshakes, grudging respect, and a little of the "We'll get ours" attitude that fuels revenge. The bad ways would certainly include taking to Twitter to blast fans.
So guess which route Florida's Dee Finley took?
If you guessed the former, I'm guessing you didn't read the headline.
That tweet is still available on Finley's profile, though how long it stays is anyone's bet. (Urban Meyer will likely frown upon one of his players encouraging UF fans to both kill themselves and die slow.) But, in Finley's defense, he also tried to make things better, sort of:
s/0 our fans who are loyal and know we gonna get this fixed ASAP. Love yall for real.
You might have wanted to limit your tweeting to just that part, Dee.
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classy gaytors!
Stay classy Gainsville….
by noleheat on Nov 27, 2010 10:37 PM EST reply actions
I’m sure that FSU fans will eventually realize that calling a group of people gay isn’t actually an insult, and is really just a little sad.
I just don’t think it will be in my lifetime.
by thewalrus on Nov 30, 2010 12:12 PM EST up reply actions
The word "when" is spelled with an "h"
The University of Florida is higher education, correct???
I never want to hear another word about FSU academics again.
by AlaNole on Nov 27, 2010 10:58 PM EST reply actions
seems unreasonable to judge the entire school's academic capabilities
based on one person’s tweet (which might be that way because of character/word limits
besides, the sports department is not exactly the place to find the school’s brightest minds
by vitzeng on Nov 27, 2010 11:59 PM EST up reply actions
So telling
The fact that two gate fans went on the immediate defensive in response to a clearly flippant comment exposes the ridiculous lengths that your propaganda machine has come to.
No, we realize that Dee Finley is not the brightest guy at FU. In fact, he didn’t even get in out of HS (went prep for a year). But when your coach goes around spouting propaganda like we only recruit the top 1% of the top 1% because we are the university of swamprats you can expect backlash like this.
Perhaps he should have gone JUCO to get in to FU like half the snobs at your faux elite institution do (it is easier to get into FU from a JUCO than FSU…look it up if you don’t believe me)
Or maybe just maybe some of you brainwashed zombies will wake up and realize that there are both smart and dumb people at every university (yes, even Harvard).
However, my post is probably getting too long for you all to want to read because you have so much studying to do. I’ve never seen anyone that goes to a NON-IVY, public university that get so up in arms when anyone hints that their school might not make them into automatic rich geniuses upon receiving their undergraduate degree (which for the most part are worth garbage nowadays). You all stink…reeking of insecurity and it would make me laugh if I wasn’t busy feeling sorry for you.
by Dave Knight on Nov 28, 2010 7:31 PM EST up reply actions
calm down buddy
i’m not even in college yet and i actually like michigan
by vitzeng on Nov 28, 2010 8:42 PM EST up reply actions
The person who spells everything correctly in tweets is rare, indeed.
But, hey, Myron Rolle and Christian Ponder do that.
Also: judging a school’s academics based on one football player’s tweet is like judging a country’s morals based on one minute of 30 Rock.
by Andy Hutchins on Nov 28, 2010 10:44 AM EST up reply actions
If you only knew
How much UF fans love to bring up SAT scores and US News rankings when talking about college athletics. You would think that the 50+ thousand student, and state institution, was in the ivy league. It’s just a really annoying played out remark that has already been posted by any Gator with a facebook account. I don’t think AlaNole was really saying UF has bad academics btw.
This is coming from a guy who actually went to UF cause the academics were supposedly sooooo much better.
by vanillathrilla83 on Nov 28, 2010 1:42 AM EST reply actions
Of course I wasn't. UF appears to be an excellent school.
But many of their “fans” love to look down their noses at FSU about anything and everything possible. So, this is just a dig at them.
31-7
by AlaNole on Nov 28, 2010 9:27 PM EST up reply actions
Finley
needs a time-out, go visit his happy place.
Be miserable or motivate yourself. What's to be done it's always YOUR choice.
Hutch-Tech Class of '76 Buffalo born & bred. Bills fan since 1968.
by MtJulietTNBillsFan on Nov 28, 2010 6:12 AM EST reply actions
Stay classy gators
We are "process oriented" as opposed to "results oriented." says Fisher.
The process is real, make no mistake, it gets stronger and stronger day by day, it is unstoppable! "Get used to it, get used to winning"....Jimbo Fisher
by DocHoliday2 on Nov 28, 2010 12:20 PM EST reply actions
He's awesome!
Remember you are not strange, but you are not the same
by Colts Homer on Nov 28, 2010 4:44 PM EST reply actions
Dee Finley may be saying it, but Urban Meyer is thinking it.
by Tyler T. on Nov 29, 2010 12:05 AM EST reply actions
I bet Meyer is wishing he had barred his players from posting on Twitter during the season like Petersen did.
We want to build a university our football team can be proud of. -- Dr. George Lynn Cross
by marktgarten on Nov 29, 2010 2:53 PM EST reply actions
judging on acemdemic standpoint
Not blaming UF for his lack of the english language or vocabulary, but he sure as hell is representing it! You got your butt kicked from Florida State and you’re still missing a language grade from kindergarten!!
by AlisonB on Nov 30, 2010 3:06 AM EST reply actions
The irony in this comment is awesome. nt
by poole on Dec 1, 2010 1:26 PM EST up reply actions
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