9: the earliest F$U can theoretically win a baseball NC June 2026. 9 years after the Gators won a NC. That is 9 years of knowing we have what you want but cannot get. 9 years of holding your heads in shame every time you watch your team play the Gators and are reminded that we are the 2017 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS and you are crap. 9 years of pressure building exponentially on Jarett to deliver what the LONR could not do. 9 years of walking into Condron for that yearly mid-week game and seeing an enormous sign that reminds you of just how crappy your program truly is. Mike Martin may have been the Lord of NO Rings, but he was also the lord of all bridesmaids.
I say Gator Nation tries its best to make it a full decade by hexing you out of it again next year.
3: The number of years that Link Jarett is into his initial contract. He was hired with the expectation of a NC within 5 years. I trust my source deep within the Hole athletic department. All conversations between the Hole powers and Jarett in 2022 centered on the words “national championship.” Not culture, philosphy, bringing the program back or restoring the “glory” (really need to examine what that word meant) of the LONR days, erasing the 3 years of Meat, etc. It was all “national championship, national championship, and national championship. Hole powers said to Jarett “well we fully expect you to bring one home within 5 years.”
Is it outlined in his contract? Unlilely. Will he be fired if he doesn’t win one within 5 years? Probably not. But it sure as hell will make for an awkward conversation between him and the AD when they meet after year 5 to discuss “the state of the program” and he is empty-handed.
Their Gator envy and the fact that we won a NC 8 years ago and counting is. daily motivating/dismotivating factor for their program. It’s all they think about. They simply cannot stand the shame anymore.
