stephenPE;n231156 said:
Law likes to discount many sports as not worthy. When I see that big gator pitcher bearing down on the Michigan catcher I doubt law or I would have fielded that throw from center. As for the gymnastic girls what they do is badassss and amazing. I guess my background in sports allows me to see the real value and beauty of most of them.
Coach, I pitched but above all things, I loved playing catcher. I loved blocking the plate and loved blocking the wild pitches in the dirt. I'm smiling just thinking about it. Probably couldn't squat for two innings now. I watch baseball, just not college. I don't like the minor leagues of the minor leagues aspects of it.
It's not that I don't appreciate the other sports. Obviously, it's great to win NCs in basketball and football and win all sports trophy in the same year. However, winning in tiddlywinks gives me no solace when we are consistently in the bottom of the SEC in football.
The University of Florida is about football period. The budget is produced by football period. We are the flagship in the richest state talent wise. Frankly it should be easy for an AD to land excellent coaches, if he weren't constantly trying to hire third tier coaches from the little league conferences and find that (cheap) diamond in the rough then forcing them to make do with a fraction of the coaching staff money that other premier staffs get, we wouldn't be in this position.
There is no excuse. The money Fooley wasted on paying Chimp, paying CSU's buyout, and hiring Mac, he could have paid the salary of any coach anywhere, including Saban or coaches capable of beating Saban. (I'm not saying we should have tried to hire Saban, that is silly, but the point is we could hire a Championship Coach instead of something from the seconds bin yet again.) Buying two KIas instead of one Lexus isn't a smart move, no matter what Fooley tells himself.
There is no excuse for the delapidated facilities with forty year old drop ceilings and the penny pinching coaches when we are ROLLING in money and would have even more if we didn't put a product on the field on par with Kintucky (in football). I know some of you don't care about facilities but you have to understand, this is the BLING generation. That stuff does matter to them. Fooley owns it.
The next point that needs to be emphasized is Fooley's assertion that "the pressure is off." Bullshiit. Not exercising institutional control is how we ended up with gang banger thugs and a serial murderer under Creyer and the disaster of the Dawg that followed. Frankly, Creyer's thugs embarrass me way more than Galen Hall paying some kid $50 to avoid going to jail for child support debts.
The pressure has never been higher and if Fooley doesn't know how to oversee a football program he DAMN sure better be hiring some counselors with subject matter expertise who CAN help him ensure we don't self destruct yet again. How hard is it?
Fooley: Chimp, this is Jeremy. I noticed we just recruited two offensive linemen and seven DBs. You know Creyer only landed two OL last year two, right?
Chimp: Well, you see, eye control, midline, controlled the ball, time of possession, 3 man surface, disguise coverage, that's on me.
Fooley; What is your plan to get that fixed? A dozen jucos and a big OL class in 2012, I hope?
Chimp: Well, midline, eagle front, weak blitz, disguise coverage, eye control, controlled the ball, time of possession, that's on me.
Fooley thinking: I'd better get on the phone to Charley Strong agents and others if this isn't fixed in the spring. And tear up that extension I was working on. Both of them.
Honestly, it was not hard to see the disaster coming. You had to close your eyes and squint them tight in order to not see it.
That worked out well.
