How does he pick such great Coaches. Yes he made 1 bad mistake with Muschump but I think Muschump tricked everyone of us.
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Takes a damn special person to bring UF football to these lows. Not sure how he does it
Best AD in the nation. Hand down!
UNLESS football is involved.
Who should we hire as our AD, Michi, please tell me who you would offer/hire, that has a better resume than Foley?
How does he pick such great Coaches. Yes he made 1 bad mistake with Muschump but I think Muschump tricked everyone of us.
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Billy Donovan was a real gem. There can be no doubt about that.
I don't blame him for Zook
As for the coaches in the minor sports....and yes they are MINOR sports...its not very hard to get good ones. You offer them Florida's outstanding recruiting base and throw more money at those programs and of course you can get the best coaches. If you're a good say, Golf coach where would you rather be - Oklahoma State or UF? That's no comparison. It doesn't take some super genius AD to pull that off.
The AD makes his name on his football and to a much lesser extent, men's basketball hires. Those are the sports that everybody wants to win, the sports that everybody pours resources into and the sports that make money because they are the ones the fans care about.
I heard this a few days ago. Several others such as Matt Hayes and plenty of other podcasters have said the same thing. The Foley supporters' response has been endless denial....as though these former players and several others in the media with Gator ties who have seen UF's facilities and those of our competitors were just making it all up. smh.
Death-Troll speaking out of both sides of his mouth. These two post made 10 minutes apart:
From this thread:
From the facilities thread:
Gator Gray stupidly not grasping that I was talking about the money losing sport's facilities in one post and Football and Men's basketball facilities in the other post.
Indeed that has been one of Foley's big failings....throwing money at sports few care about like women's lacrosse on which he lavished $20 million for a brand new facility after starting up this program while at the same time allowing the football and men's basketball facilities to fall behind.
I guess its too much to ask the Foley fanboys to actually pay attention.
Gator Gray stupidly not grasping that I was talking about the money losing sport's facilities in one post and Football and Men's basketball facilities in the other post.
Indeed that has been one of Foley's big failings....throwing money at sports few care about like women's lacrosse on which he lavished $20 million for a brand new facility after starting up this program while at the same time allowing the football and men's basketball facilities to fall behind.
I guess its too much to ask the Foley fanboys to actually pay attention.
Except the Foley naysayers include baseball & softball in their "programs with lacking facilities". Hardly money-making sports...and both having success. But keep hating "your school". <eyeroll>
Death Troll: 14 Posts, all of them negative toward the University in some way. Every Single One. You are a troll and not a very good one.
Gator Gray, tells another stupid lie about me because I had the temerity to point out that Foley let facilities fall behind in Football and men's basketball....and we just can't ever mention that Foley could ever do anything wrong now can we?
Deathroll is more than likely a troll but it's ok. Foley isn't perfect but what AD is and what AD is better? He's still the best AD in the country.
just nevermind the 17,000 + posts I have on the main board......
As for best AD in the country? I really have my doubts about that. He's made some bad hires in football and allowed facilities in the sports which pay for everything else to fall behind our competitors. I give him credit for Billy Donovan but not Urban Meyer as that was Bernie Machen's doing.
What does the number of posts on the mainboard have to do with this board? Ask Bernie Machen who reeled in Urban Meyer and fought off ND for him.
But you can't disprove it so saying it's a myth is your opinion, just like me saying it isn't is mine.Spurrier didn't leave UF because of lack of support from Foley. That is still one of the biggest myths in UF football history.
what I can tell you is that Foley and Spurrier are still pretty good friends. They still talk fairly often.But you can't disprove it so saying it's a myth is your opinion, just like me saying it isn't is mine.
I've also posted more on this board in the past....I dunno why the post counter was reset.
As for the substance.....its funny because I remember a lot of people being PO'd at Machen for bringing in his guy over Spurrier. Oh but NOW that it worked out so well, now it was suddenly Foley's doing. Machen gets the blame and Foley gets the credit. I see how that works.
You can't think it was some kind of coincidence that the coach at Machen's former school who worked for him when he was there just happened to be the front running candidate and eventual hire OVER Spurrier who was in the job market and wanted the job.
Not me. I've never once said that. Sure Machen had the prior relationship with Meyer, but it was Foley that sealed the deal for Meyer to come to UF. Foley was the guy selling UF to Meyer. It was Foley on the plane making the deal with Meyer. It was Foley that fought off Notre Dame. Machen and Meyer themselves came out and said Foley handled all of that. Foley is the best AD in the biz. Your more than welcome to rattle off a bunch of ADs that are better if you would like.
So being that the job was to coash at UF had nothing to do with why Meyer chose to come?Not me. I've never once said that. Sure Machen had the prior relationship with Meyer, but it was Foley that sealed the deal for Meyer to come to UF. Foley was the guy selling UF to Meyer. It was Foley on the plane making the deal with Meyer. It was Foley that fought off Notre Dame. Machen and Meyer themselves came out and said Foley handled all of that. Foley is the best AD in the biz. Your more than welcome to rattle off a bunch of ADs that are better if you would like.
I don't doubt that at all.what I can tell you is that Foley and Spurrier are still pretty good friends. They still talk fairly often.
How can you give Foley a pass on Zook when Spurrier quit at the last minute because of Foley?