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Brains said:
I hope Billy lawyers up to the hilt on that buyout.

It's an interesting time for them there gator. First, they have an unexpectedly short notice resignation by their university President.

Then, they have an AD who has already made multiple false-start hires (and fires) of head ball corches.

You think that AD wants to make another hiring decision? You think he wants to have to fire ANOTHER one of his hires (Napier)?

There's a power vacuum at the highest level, and an AD who is looking for every and any avenue to the lockbox for the self-preservation life jacket.

The buyout is enormous. The promises to the next coach will have to be through the ******* roof.

Oh, and the governor hates UF.

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Hope they try firing him for cause due to the Rashada situation and he goes scorched earth uncovering the bodies.
 
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TheOriginalCane said:
OK, so here's the deal.

For years and years, the UF Athletic Department made money, until the last few years of Foley. They made so much money that they would "donate" some of it to UF. It was all very cheesey "look at us, see how good the Athletic Department is"...

Only problem is that they were not keeping up with facilities. The football stadium sucks and they are about to pour a TON of money into that project (last major upgrades were the North Stadium stands, built in the 90s. They juuuuust finished an upgrade to the football HQ building. The O'Connell Center (basketball) is straight garbage.

And then suddenly, you have the NIL Era and the NCAA settlement, plus the payouts and buyouts for a succession of football coaches. The AD got lucky to hire a good men's basketball coach.

ON PAPER, Florida should have unlimited resources. They are a huge state school and have had decades worth of "the most successful alums" (well, because F$U was a girl's school and UCF was a tech school, etc.).

But, somewhat surprisingly (gasp!), the UF alums seem to want some return on investment (I am actually directly quoting the UF alum who funded their football IPF). ****, even John "For the People" Morgan is rethinking HIS contributions. And we all know that Hugh "Gene Simmons from KISS" Hathnock pledged his $14M for Jaden Rashada and then reneged two weeks later.

So even the Florida alums with money...are not DONATING the money. At least not currently

Even more delicious, with no university president, there is nobody there who can say "**** it, for the short term, here's $50M in repayment for the years worth of money the Athletic Department donated to UF, now go out and overpay a coach and some Portal players".

It's a perfect storm of cheap, broke-*** suckiness. And I love it.
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TRick72 said:
Exactly no P4 head coach is going to leave their current job for that disaster, much less from a team that is already humming. Only one would be one that is near end of contract and hasn’t received an extension which means they probably suck too.

Their only candidates will be G5 HC which I doubt they will go after again or P4 coordinator trying to take the next step in their career.
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Manny?
 
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TheOriginalCane said:
I mean this with all sincerity.

I think the only two Gator fans I empathize with today are you and my niece.

Every other Gator fan can eat a big fat ****. Eazy E can eat a big fat ****. Tim Dog can eat a big fat ****. Uncle Luke can eat a big fat ****.
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Here’s a part no one on UF’s side has talked about yet….Napier was NOT going to play Lagway yesterday. That’s indefensible. Injury forced his hand. It’s Trask/Franks all over again
 
6th Ring is Near said:
Oh do tell please
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TheOriginalCane

Thread 'Tales from Hogtown - Fear & Loathing in Alachua County'

I thought I would take this space to tell a few stories from the wonderful weekend in Hogtown...and please feel free to share your own stories...

And y'all probably know the extent to which I have stolen the use of the ellipsis (...) from Hunter S. Thompson...that and the Pyramid Lead and the Symbiotic Trapezoid Quote...so let's talk about the Death of the Gator Dream, shall we...

Even though UM only gave me 2 of my 6 requested tickets (and they were next to the UM tunnel, but I needed AT LEAST four), I found myself perusing TicketBastard for four together...which I found at great cost...
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flagator86 said:
Here’s a part no one on UF’s side has talked about yet….Napier was NOT going to play Lagway yesterday. That’s indefensible. Injury forced his hand. It’s Trask/Franks all over again
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Yeah, right before we intercepted Mertz, I had the feeling Lagway would not see any gametime action. Slingblade didn't even play Mertz on short yardage situations where he might have made a difference. I believe at that point, y'all were 0-fer on third downs.
 
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