For the better part of a lost and low-scoring decade for his alma mater, Doering began to wonder whether offensive fireworks would ever return to the Swamp.
But Dan Mullen lit the fuse this season, while Kyle Trask, Kyle Pitts and Co. have rekindled the Gators’ reputation for scoring points in bunches.
“This is what Mullen was brought to Gainesville for,” Doering said. “Not only winning, but winning with offense, winning it with points, winning with throwing it around the yard. For Gator fans, it’s been like walking through a desert since 2009.
Doering set records during Steve Spurrier’s groundbreaking Fun ‘n’ Gun era in the 1990s, played professionally while Rex Grossman made his 2001 Heisman push and entered retirement around the time Tim Tebow and Percy Harvin spearheaded a national champion-winning attack in 2008.