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wnycanesfan said:
I believe there is also no offset so they don't even save money if someone decided to hire him as an assistant coach.
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Correct as I recall as well that there’s no offset language meaning that Billy can take another coaching job and the amount his new employer pays him does not reduce what the gator pays him.
 
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TpaBayFlyFisher said:
Is anyone hearing that the gators are paying guys to make an early commitment simply to try and create some energy and drive fund (nil) raising? How in the world can they be hurting for cash?
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I heard that last cycle. That’s why this OL announcing tomorrow leaning gator but no one else pushing yet smacks of the same thing as last year. They’re doing the same thing, paying for momentum or pushing for early commitments- neither will work out well for them.
 
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RVACane said:
I heard that last cycle. That’s why this OL announcing tomorrow leaning gator but no one else pushing yet smacks of the same thing as last year. They’re doing the same thing, paying for momentum or pushing for early commitments- neither will work out well for them.
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They thought they could spend money on early commits to build some momentum but they were counting on having a good year on the field to maintain that momentum. Once they flopped on the field, their class fell apart like a cheap suit.
 
Alex Del Piero said:
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It's stunning, actually.

Since I was a little kid growing up in Central Florida, all I ever heard was that Florida is the flagship state school in the best conference and everyone wants to be a Gator...

Now it's "if we don't overpay for every recruit, nobody will want to come to Flagship University in Titletown".

It's pathetic. They have zero pride. Everything they've ever told you about their program is a lie. They got lucky with ONE coaching search (Spurrier was a Gator alum, that's like pretending that hiring Mario was some genius move that nobody could have foreseen).

Just think about that. "We just don't have enough money to attract talent and win". That's a direct quote. Flagship University, with all the wealthy alums and decades of taking all the taxpayer funding at the expense of the directional schools like UCF and USF, and they are broke. Decades of being the "men's college" while F$U could only admit women. Empty pockets. Decades of being the only program in the state that was in a conference. BROKE.

"We don't have enough money".

And all the attributes they could sell, if only they had a recruiting guru for a coach. One of the best state schools (academically) in the country. Recent national championships. Hall-of-Fame alums (both of them). But, NOPE, without overpaying, there's no way to get talented players to go to Flagship University in Titletown.

Sad...
 
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