and their O/U for this year is 5.5. If you had told me this in 1995, I wouldn’t have believed it was possible.
It's not often you get worse in year 2, but somehow Billy has that going for them. Billy turning us down b/c we wouldn't pay him what he wanted sure was embarrassing at the time...outside the sexual scandal & Idaho alt-right racism, the outcome would've been the same. but probably another year and a bigger buyout
When Jeremy Foley fired the Gators' coaches in three sports (baseball, men's tennis and gymnastics) in rapid fire order in 2002, he famously quipped to the AP: "I'm a big believer in the saying that if something needs to be done eventually, it needs to be done immediately." It's about time ole Foley looked in the mirror.
The next recruiting class looks extremely good for Napier, but they need at least 8 wins to hold it together.
I’m an idiot. I have repeatedly mixed up Foley and Stricklin in my mind and I can't fully explain why my brain replaces one with the other. My bad.
I'll be honest it's not really Stricklin's fault, he's never been at a school that has been a football powerhouse prior to Florida. He doesn't really know what it's supposed to look like. It was just a bad hire by the Florida admin. I'm sure Ben Sasse will have it sorted soon enough.
The question about Florida when Napier came in was whether or not Florida would get serious about investing into football like Georgia did when Kirby came in. I still think we have mixed answers to that question in some respects.
Andy Staples did a thorough dive into UF Football in the athletic a few days ago. Florida was late on getting serious about facilities and now they are late in NIL. that being said im sure they’ll hire Lane next year and he will be spurrier 2
Lane sticking around Ole Miss this long still floors me to some degree. Obviously getting $9M a year at a middle of the road SEC school is a solid gig. I've always been under the impression that Lane wants the UF job. But UF doesn't want Lane.
Recruiting doesn't seem like it should be hard for the Gators. "There's 3 recent NCs and here's some Heismans. You want a helmet or not."
This has been our m.o. since Spurrier was here. For as responsible as Foley was in building up the brand in the 90s, he's equally at fault for how football fell apart in the 2010s. Despite that, it sounds like the ship has be righted on those 2 fronts and now it's all about being patient on the talent acquisition side of things. No one expects to see any proof of concept that it's working until the 2024 season. Unless Sasse intervenes, I don't see Napier being on anything resembling a hot seat until year 4 at the earliest. And if that winds up being the case, we'll probably be AD shopping as well.
A piece of shit program that only the gargantuan Steve Spurrier could briefly drag from 100 years of mediocrity to program records. And you thought I was describing South Carolina!
Kids being recruited now were toddlers the last time UF was nationally relevant. They know Tebow as the guy with the dumb haircut on SEC Nation.
Which as everyone knows by now turned out to be a joke. Miss State did not make the playoff, or even the SEC title game. Dak and Mullen were a less successful version of Cam/Chizik and Stricklin still hired him at Florida.
That’s my point, Stricklin didn’t know what top tier football looks like. He was fooled by one mid season run that had more to do with a special player than a coach.
That’s not at all the point. It’s college football. Everyone is a player away from competing and a coach away from competing consistently. Some programs have inherent advantages that make both easier. Most still underachieve. This notion that a coach/AD “doesn’t know what it’s supposed to look like” is fucking asinine. For success to require that someone fits experience a “football powerhouse,” then everyone would have to start at Alabama. Hell, your own AD came from Millsaps!
I think Florida's problem to me is that their boosters don't seem to be on board or they're at least very disorganized. You need a captain and that can be an AD or a coach.
Both of these things are no longer the case. But that disorganization was an issue in the first year of NIL definitely has us playing catch up. If only John Morgan cared as much about football as he does about TV, radio, and billboard ads.
I get you really wanted to make that point about Millsaps. Josh worked in football equipment at LSU under Saban, was then Director of Football ops at UL-M and Georgia. Then moved to admin side went to Millsaps to get AD experience then came back to Georgia with that experience to work his way up to AD. He is familiar with the inner workings of how a football department is run. Stricklin was an SID, if you don't think they have different perspectives in how football is run I'm not sure what to tell you.
Stricklin may not have the juice. That’s certainly possible. But, the suggestion that he can’t because he wasn’t previously around a “football powerhouse” is stupid.
It's not that he can't it's that he doesn't know how. And it's not his fault, based on his experiences where would he have learned how to run a football program? Of course he could learn and get better at it, everyone has that aptitude. What do you think Stricklin's role should be within Florida football?
Not knowing how is not the same as not being able to execute. There are infinite external factors contributing to the latter, even if one knows how. There are as many examples of overperformers at lesser programs as there are guys who were around “football powerhouses.” And, for many of those who were, the programs weren’t “powerhouses” until they were.
Well the Rashada thing looks really bad and doesn't seem like you've got your poop in a group. Maybe that's changed but that happened very recently
Perineal - relating to or around the "grundular" region, or a nerve or muscle on the outside of the leg. Perennial - occuring without interruption, constant, perpetual ...I guess both definitions applied...