You mean in the 70s?$50,000 a year makes you part of the top 5 percenters in Hogtown.
That would have been 2%s in the 70s. 50k right now Alachua county is upper 15% at least.You mean in the 70s?
Damn, you're doin pretty good thenThat would have been 2%s in the 70s. 50k right now Alachua county is upper 15% at least.
Actually, Im kicken azzzz where I live in my small town..........When I retire they can hire two new teachersDamn, you're doin pretty good then
You're kidding, right? The average teacher in Alachua makes that. The average UF employee, twice that. The average county employee is right about 50 also.That would have been 2%s in the 70s. 50k right now Alachua county is upper 15% at least.
It's a pretty stress-free lifestyle. Wake up at 9, condense a few mundane thoughts into 10 sentences over coffee, quick proof, file, be on the course by 1 and the 19th hole by 5:15. Rinse and repeat.
$50,000 a year makes you part of the top 5 percenters in Hogtown.
You're kidding, right? The average teacher in Alachua makes that. The average UF employee, twice that. The average county employee is right about 50 also.
Did you know the old band director that wrote the fishing column. WTF was his name. I even have his book autographed. His house was across the canal in Suwannee from ours and we talked fish'n quite often. Nice old guy.$10 to do the weekly fishing report (with Rob Oglesby looking over my shoulder)
Richard Bowles. Sweetheart of a man. I have no idea how he put up with me. I knew more about giving a C-section than fishing.Did you know the old band director that wrote the fishing column. WTF was his name. I even have his book autographed. His house was across the canal in Suwannee from ours and we talked fish'n quite often. Nice old guy.
Tom had me ride with him in his BMW 535i for the '87 FSU game. Another guy was to go and didn't make it in time to the downtown Tribune building, so we left without him. McEwen demanded punctuality. We hightailed it up to G'ville and parked on the lawn just beyond the north end zone. As we made our way toward the stadium, we stopped what seemed like a dozen times to greet well wishers, some of them obvious notorious types. John Reaves was one. Sandy D'Alemberte was another. Everyone knew McEwen and everyone respected him. He was the sports editor for a major Florida metropolitan newspaper, but on this day he seemed more like Gator royalty. I think he enjoyed being the latter more.
We lost the game, lost it badly. I did a sidebar on Emmitt Smith, filed my story and we headed home. We stopped for gas at the Archer interchange and McEwen picked up a six pack and handed me the keys. I looked at him as if to say, you want me to drive your Beemer? Yep. The moment I got on I-75, he popped open a beer and handed me one. Now it made sense why he wanted me to drive. What the hell, I thought.
We talked and talked and talked the whole way home, about a lot of stuff, and killed the six pack. I remember really needing to stop for a pee break around Hernando County. I held it until we got to Tampa and then killed a swatch of shrubs lining the Tribune building.
That was a memorable day.
The only thing worse than the lists that Pat Dooley passes off as sports columns is his radio show.
I got in the car this morning to go get ink and turned on the radio. On the way to Office Depot I had the privilege of listening to Dooley explain that he learned to play Nothing Compares on the guitar. Then I went into the store. On the way back Dooley talked about his daughter making him listen to some song that samples Hotel California.
Not one word about sports or anything even closely related to sports. It's just two hours of Dooley talking about Dooley and complaining about random minor inconveniences.
It's hard to imagine him actually thinking people want to listen to him talk about himself for 2 hours.
The Sun was pretty loosey goosey in terms of sports content back in the day. Froscher was executive sports editor, which meant he was technically in charge of the day to day and assigning stories. In practice, Freddie Roush, who laid out the section, was really the guy in charge day to day. I'm not totally sure how much veto power Hairston, as editor, had over Roush, but my guess is not enough if the story was compelling, although I could be wrong. Rob Oglesby, the Sun's managing editor back then, had a lot of respect for Freddie's workaholic ways and how he kept the department together. Freddie wasn't afraid to pull punches. I liked that about him.
Where I'm going with this is, when it came to the University of Florida, the Sun had the obvious tactical advantage of being there. Where it was disadvantaged was resources. It didn't have the manpower of, say, the St. Pete Times, which was almost singularly responsible for breaking open the Pell cheating scandal in 1983. The Times didn't just assign sports people to the story; it put news types on it, too. The Times literally overwhelmed UF with its coverage, and pissed off a lot of people in the process. I was working for them back then in their Clearwater bureau and feeling a bit conflicted. It felt almost like overkill. In hindsight, I know the Times did the right thing.
The Sun? It just sort of sat back and let the Times do all the work, much to its detriment. The Sun could have made a name for itself. It chose a backseat.
There you have to wonder how much Hairston owning and operating his Gator tabloid had to do with the Sun's decision to be passive on the Pell scandal. Maybe not much, but you still have to wonder. Ultimately, that conflict of interest, which was glaring, got Hairston fired, and Dooley had a lot to do with it.
So there you go, Pat Dooley's lasting legacy. The guy who got Jack Hairston fired.
Based on info in the previous posts and the fact that JH was the senior sports guy, I'd say Jack got Jack fired.
I thought the Journal from Broward had the first story on it and something to do with a kicker that was offered "inducements" to come to UF. That said I contend that and always will that Fla did nothing but what was standard procedure in Tuscaloosa. Knoxville, Athens, Baton Rouge and Auburn. That those were basically closed societies and kept it quiet. I know that Pell was followed from Clemson for his work there but he was a Bear disciple and knew what it took to win. The penalties Fla got pizzz me to this day as harsh as they were and those mofos from the others schools just kept rolling along doing the same gdam stuff...............but I guess in the end SOS made up for all that crap.It didn't have the manpower of, say, the St. Pete Times, which was almost singularly responsible for breaking open the Pell cheating scandal in 1983. The Times didn't just assign sports people to the story; it put news types on it, too. The Times literally overwhelmed UF with its coverage, and pissed off a lot of people in the process. I was working for them back then in their Clearwater bureau and feeling a bit conflicted. It felt almost like overkill. In hindsight, I know the Times did the right thing.
The Sun? It just sort of sat back and let the Times do all the work, much to its detriment. The Sun could have made a name for itself. It chose a backseat.
There you have to wonder how much Hairston owning and operating his Gator tabloid had to do with the Sun's decision to be passive on the Pell scandal. Maybe not much, but you still have to wonder. Ultimately, that conflict of interest, which was glaring, got Hairston fired, and Dooley had a lot to do with it.