Late 2015 to today (LONG)

It’s amazing how far we’ve come.

There are people today relentlessly defending Ed Orgeron as HC.

In 2015 we were getting Jimbo.

In 2016 it was Jimbo or Herman or a slough of other promising coaches.

Alleva said he was going to hire an offensive minded head coach with successful coaching experience.

Orgeron was interim but nobody gave it a second thought because everyone knew he’d have to go undefeated to even get consideration, and he didn’t match Alleva’s description of his target.

Facebook soccer moms from south of I-10 began a drive to hire Orgeron as he began beating weak teams.

He lost to Bama and that pretty much sealed it here. There was very little discussion about it, but a few suggested it could happen if he went undefeated from then on.

After the Florida loss, pretty much nobody mentioned the possibility of O getting it again, and discussion about potential coaches resumed.

Then Joe Alleva screwed everything. Herman wanted to hear TX out and Alleva rushed to announce Orgeron as HC before Texas could announce Herman.

This place melted.

A few (possibly Facebook moms) on the rant snuck in here carefully in the following weeks saying things like “what can it hurt, give him a 3 year contract with no buyout.”

fricking 5 years and $12m buyout.

Then the narrative changed to “you have to give him that contract for recruiting, etc...”

Alter accounts started popping up like crazy.

A few existing accounts got drawn in and started defending against the melt with all the new alters, talking about how 2016 stats were really good and blaming players for the UF loss.

2017, Blown out by Moo State. Worst in history. The pumpers disappeared for the melt. Of course it didn’t take long for them to creep back in.

Beat by Troy. Repeat of Moo State here on the board. The meeting was announced on Tuesday because of O meddling with Canada and reportedly almost coming to blows and having to be separated by players.

Sane people at this point were saying “I told you so” and “what did you expect?”

Of course it didn’t take long for a new narrative to form that it was all Canada and poor O was innocent.

Canada was going to be relieved. O pumpers on here constantly claimed this to be a “rant myth.”

Canada was relieved of his job. Some posters brought up the likelihood that O would hire Ensminger BC he had mentioned it in a press comment. But the pumpers all were full stop saying “Canada was a cancer.” Of course that wasn’t considered the responsibility of the guy who hired him.

O pumpers were beside themselves about how O was just saying Ensminger would be interim OC for the bowl if Canada left, and he would never hire Ensminger.

Ensminger was hired. Some O defenders stuck around to claim Ensminger was a good hire, but they all had accounts less than 2 years old. They were rightfully blasted.

A few more established accounts started creeping in and joining the alters, making all sorts of assertions about how E wasn’t going to be bad. “Look at 2016!”

“But but but O is a great recruiter.”

Worst recruiting class in over a decade.
“It’s the rant’s fault,” or...

“But the class addresses needs.”

And here we are today, with a 9-4 record behind us, Canada gone with a $1.7m buyout, Ensminger as the new OC, historic losses to Troy and Moo State, worst recruiting class in over a decade,

And people are here relentlessly defending Ed Orgeron.

It’s like the Twilight zone.


TL/DR: there’s no end to the number of times some posters will claim something bad will never happen, then when it does they excuse it and defend it and say it’s actually a good thing, or it’s someone else’s fault.