This topic showed up on Canes sites. There was debate whether to further boycott the Dolphins, or ignore it. The most respected and sensible posters said let it go but it should be a wake up that so many insisted otherwise, that it enraged them. Keep leaking 1% here and there won't help.
The Canes/Gators rivalry is very simple: Once you run away from a fight, the other guy owns you for the remainder of time. That's true at the 10 year reunion, in middle age, and at the nursing home. It's like a 100-0 victory every season. Congratulations.
Gator fans can try to forget or change the details, and rationalize that their subsequent success justified the decision, but bottom line is Canes fans have zero respect for the University of Florida or anything associated with it. Your championships might as well be Tootsie Rolls.
BTW, it's comical ignorance to dismiss anybody's success as ancient history. Before you know it, it's 2030 and your most recent title is 2008. At that point it still seems fresh and magnificent to you, but punks from another schools are laughing at you for clutching old clippings.
Florida's athletic department schemed to run away from the Canes long before it happened, and prior to the SEC's changed schedule. This is the definitive article, published in Sports Illustrated in 1982. The Gator athletic director Bill Carr didn't try to pretend that they were determined to change their schedule due to any reason other than poor results, never winning the conference title. Notice that Schnellenberger was already barking at any suggestion that the annual rivalry should be called off:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1125902/
"Before this year's game, Schnellenberger said, "It's inconceivable in a series like this, that's gone 44 years with a one-year interruption for a major war, that suddenly there's a scheduling problem."
At which Pell snapped, "Howard has never discussed it with me, and I don't like anybody telling anybody else what I think 'cause I'm quite capable of doing that myself." After that retort, Pell deferred all questions on scheduling to Athletic Director Bill Garr, who said, "We traditionally have played six conference games plus two intrastate rivals, and in 48 years we've never won an SEC title. Now, we're doing something wrong, am I right?"