Georgia football vs Florida: The culture gap grows

Teams always take on the personalities of their coaches

If you don’t believe me when I say that Mullen’s behavior has infected the entire Gator program, then I have some pretty compelling evidence.

As I said earlier, Mullen and his coaches fumbled the Chris Steele situation like it was a hot potato coming out of a rocket ship. With that said, compare the difference in the aftermath between this and the Justin Fields situation.

Fields chose to leave Georgia, and while many fans, including myself, were upset about it, Kirby Smart and his players didn’t have a bad word to say about him. I mean Fields put his teammates through a lot in December with his transfer and the circus that surrounded it, and nobody from Georgia said anything. A lot of prominent players and coaches continue to support him in public.

Compare that to the past few days and what has happened with Chris Steele who if the stories are true, has a pretty legit reason for leaving. Rather than support him, his now former teammates spent the weekend blowing him up on twitter and making fun of him.

It didn’t stop there of course as fans joined in as the whole Florida Twitterverse started suggesting that Steele was a weak-minded loser who couldn’t hack the SEC.

This would be utterly unacceptable for a Kirby Smart football team and to be honest; it should be. Treating a fellow player like this in a public space is a bad look for everyone involved. To see players turning on their own like this shows a level of disrespect that simply shouldn’t exist in a program like Florida.

Wonder where both of these teams get these personalities from? Florida fans like to rip on Kirby Smart, but the guy is professional as hell in public.

Nothing Mullen says is going to get Smart to say a damn thing about Florida or any other team that is disrespectful, so it’s not a surprise that his players behave similarly. It’s also not surprising that with a coach like Mullen running his mouth all the time that his players are doing the same.

Remember last season when these two teams met how the Florida team ran their mouth both before and after the game? Remember how they told the media they were the better team and Georgia got lucky? You might not because the Dawgs thumped that same team by 19 points. But who needs results when you can talk right?