Totally agree..but i don’t want him coming back. I cant take another year of announcers slobbering all over him..3 years is more than enough. Its time for him to move on and get schooled in the NFL…

Lets be extremely supportive…very positive and up lifting…that way he’ll be so full of himself that he’ll have to go to the NFL…i like it!

As a christian man i respect his faith but i wish he didn’t act like a jerk on the field. he’s a 22 year old kid so i give him a pass on the maturity side.

Tebow-love is like a virus and its spreading to even some of our fans!! WTF?

…make a spinach dip in a loaf of sourdough bread once.

now that would be fate at it’s best.

…might be having some deja vu in the Senior Bowl. The Jaguar’s coaching staff will lead the South squad.

…always off the field when he does it. But the media members think he’s bringing sexy back, so it’s OK.

I get it if he did that to the team…showing emotion like that as a leader can be effective. Going infront of the media was stupid. It looked like to me that he was worried about how the fans would react. Just play football Tim and let the PR department handle the fans.

…your gut feelings normally pan out? ‘Cause I’ve got a gut feeling that your gut feeling is not quite right…though I like what your gut feeling has to say more than what my gut feeling has to say.

haha

Where the hell have you been son?

Also, Tebow wins cause he is a Sinatra fan

He’ll be another Vince Young. Utter failure after a year or two :-D

Would you rather every player silently walk back to the huddle after making a big play?

You don’t have to exaggerate! No one expects players to be emotionless robots. The deal with Tebow is that it seems that since he has the rep of being an emotional player, plus not being the thug-type, that he gets away with on-the-field antics that would be deemed unsportsmanlike if it was any other player.

The penalty flags are quick to fly for anything that even resembles excessive celebration or anything considered over-the-top, yet Tebow is allowed to beat his chest, skip all over the field, jump up and down and play to the crowd (ie..drawing attention to himself), and that’s just after ‘routine’ plays, not touchdowns.

This is not sour grapes or jealousy or anything like that. I think he is a phenominal player, and I admire his commitment to his faith, but I’ve always thought his behavior on the field was somewhat jerkish.

is no Danny Weurfell. Weurfell was and is humble, not Tebow. I actually like DW.

And if Tebow came to Bama and did all the jumping around stuff on the field I would not like him. I guess we have had players do that at Bama, but I can’t remember anyone.

And don’t give me the he is just a kid stuff, he has been in school 3 years and travelled all over the world. This isn’t his first rodeo.

I understand about Tebow coming back. He is all about the attention and he knows he will get more attention being in college. If he could play college ball 5 more years I’m sure he would. When he hits the NFL he will be forgotten.

I don’t understand about Harvin and Spikes coming back. Don’t tell me they just want to get their degree. What could they be possibly be getting to motivate them to turn down millions? Hey, if Andre Smith was coming back I’d be wondering about that as well.

I think you should adapt your statement that you want the Gators in 2010. But by then, Tebow is definitely gone. Ole Miss will be the favorite to win the west next season. We have no shame in losing to them.

no doubt Bama will be better in 2010. but no shame in losing to Ole Miss? are you kidding me? you guys better and SHOULD beat Ole Miss this upcoming season. especially since it will be a redemption game. Ole Miss is losing Oher and Jerry while you guys will essentially be returning everybody on defense and will have Tebow back as well. if i was Florida, i would be embarrassed to lose to Ole Miss again.

Utah Coach Kyle Whittingham, “I thought we had an outside chance. There was enough national sentiment, I thought we might get the No. 1 slot. It wasn’t to be.”

Notes from reporter Chris Foster in the Los Angeles Times, "A little quick on the concession speech, Kyle? Afterall, this does involve FLORIDA and VOTING.

if we hadn’t shot ourselves in the foot. Don’t act like you guys are some unstoppable force. The bigger they are…

that he claims to be a Christian. But on the field he is in your face and clearly he- after big plays – does things other guys would get penalized for. Maybe the reason Wilson or Julio don’t act like that is that they would get penalized. The most obvious example is Tebow at LSU in 2007 and Wilson at LSU in 2008. Who got penalized and who got a pass? Adn Wilson did nothing compared to Tebow.

And off the field— I don’t hate Tebow. But, I don’t like the crying interview after Ole Miss and my opinion is that a lot of the “good works” Tebow does he does for recognition. And I’m sorry I don’t see the humility
I would expect from someone who supposedly is the best Christian on the planet.
 
Jesus said don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. When Tebow helps little old ladies across the street somehow he makes sure the press knows about it so that the legend of Tebow grows. Listen there are guys at Alabama that do every bit as much as Tebow (well maybe not circumcisions which I still don’t see as that much of a ministry) but you never know it because they don’t do it to get known for doing it. Hey maybe Tebow really is humble and a victim of his on fame. Maybe he wishes he could just quietly go about his football and ministry.

But to me it seems he eats it up and I would go all the way back to recruitment. He loved the attention and Shula being camped out at his house when Tebow knew he was going to UF likely lead to Shula not getting as good a class and even losing his job. Tebow knew he wasn’t coming to Bama, but he must have said something to Shula . He was just playing a game called “HEY LOOK AT ME I”M TEBOW"

Anyway he is great ball player for sure. But I’m glad he is back because I honestly think Bama can beat him next year. Of course UF people think Tebow is so good he can never lose again. Time will tell.

Glad someone agrees with me :)

is not something to be ashamed of either. it was a private comment said during warm ups in practice. straight up hatin on tebow is pretty lame though. “dont hate, congratulate” thats actually a very good piece of advice i once received from a very bad person who did/does very bad things…

…not wrong. All of my posts on this thread are ‘tongue in cheek’ (and I’ve erased a Tebow-related joke about that phrase for the more sensitive readers in the audience). I don’t mean anything by it. I don’t post on any UF site (just erased another joke…and another about ‘blowing off steam’). Wow, this is hard (that’s what she said…oops).

Seriously, if some of my jokes are too crude for you, I respect that, and I apologize. It’s all in fun. I’m not casting judgement on some kid I never met. I don’t think the people at SNL think that George W. Bush is a complete moron or that Al Gore is really a robot. I find people funny in general, especially those whose value gets over-hyped. My intentions (at this site and in life) are to be playful, not hurtful.

I thought the meaning of most of the comments were light hearted…I hate what the man does on the field…but off i have a ton of respect for him.

I also don’t think its a bad thing for him to use the media in his ministry. Think about ESPN going over seas to film him and his family doing missionary work…Millions of people saw that bit and the ministry is better for it. Thats what makes it so hard…

To see him on the field and pretty much hate his guts…then see him preaching the word to prisoners puts me between a rock and a hard place. I try to seperate the two but sometimes it bleeds over.

If we never talk about Tebow again until we play UF in December for the SEC championship, it will be fine by me.

That being said, since I’m living close to Gator country in Tampa, Tebow is discussed ad nauseum. I think he is a good person and I’d certainly rather have his character traits on our team than a Jimmy Johns for instance, but once I read about his Spring Break mission trip, I’d had enough. If he had helped in the Philippines doing a number of things, it would have been admirable, but it would not have received near the publicity as his circumcision activities. Intended? Maybe, maybe not. If he was premed, ok, but he’s not. Sorry, but frankly, I just find it freakin’ weird.

Big difference between some of us being dicks sometimes and a bunch of grown men question his character and religous beliefes/volunteer work when there is NOTHING to report that suggests he is anything but sincere.

The jokes I understand. But not every post was in a joking manner.

it has to do with the way some of our guys (not just on here, but on radio, etc.) are just laying into him, when everyone would be fawning over him if he played with us. Its just lame.

I am about as tired of hearing people vilify him as I am people like Gary Danielson wanting to have his baby. It all gets old. I am Tebow’d out. But there is no reason to slam the guy just because he is an awesome athlete that doesn’t play for us.

…beat UF in the SECCG next year, I’m gonna make a shirt that says, “Nick Smokes Urb”.