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Heading into the 2024 season, there was reason to believe things could be better for Florida Football. The roster seemed better on paper, and even though the Gators were faced with a difficult schedule, one could be convinced that Florida had the talent to go 8-4.

Spoiler alert, the Gators won’t go 8-4 in 2024. At the rate they are going, they are going to be lucky to go 4-8.

Now, we here at Hail Florida Hail wrote our fair share of positive pieces heading into the season, but we did have our fair share of doubts over whether or not things were actually going to be fixed by Billy Napier and crew.

So join us on a trip down memory lane as we highlight warning signs we wrote about for the past ten months that help explain why the Gators are so bad in 2024.

When the season ended in 2023, one of the themes fans were hoping for was that with better talent, the Gators could get over the hump from some of the games they couldn’t close out.

But as we highlighted, talent alone wasn’t why Florida was 5-7 in 2023.

“But the reason Florida went 0-4 in November wasn’t because of inferior talent. Talent isn’t why Florida had no idea when to run on the field to attempt a game-winning field goal. Talent isn’t why the Gators allowed LSU QB Jayden Daniels to become the first player ever in the history of FBS college football to pass for 350 yards and run for another 200 yards in a single game. Talent isn’t why a backup linebacker was matched up with Missouri wide receiver Luther Burden on 4th a