T REX;n158928 said:What's up with Vandy's guy?
Captain Sasquatch;n159059 said:Jesus, Mary, and Joseph some of you are obsessed.
t-gator;n160115 said:Foley has made some huge mistakes . He was a good ad 8 years ago but he's behind the times. And he made a terrible hire that was questionable from the get go and then fired him a year too late. It was a huge risk that but a big dent in the university's money maker. The hireing of mcelwain didn't go all that smoothly either. He's had a good run but I think it could possibly be time for a change. The college football landscape is changing and it's an arm race. Why wouldn't we try to be in front of it? These tv contracts make you bullet proof financially. I guess the ipf is a good start but I hear we're way behind in dorms , dinning halls and other facilities.
Then how do you explain the Mississippi schools having better facilities? They don't have shoe billionaires in their booster club. It's pretty well documented that Foley is behind in the arms race. It's not unreasonable to say it. My only worry is, if he's fired how will that affect our relationship with the big money guy's. He's been around a long time how comfortable would they be dealing with someone else?divits;n160121 said:There are only a dozen or so Div-1 athletic departments that make money. It's not like there is a bottomless barrel of cash to pull from. I see some people on here acting like we are playing with Monopoly money and should pay 8-10 million a year for a coach, have the Ritz-Carlton run our athletic housing and have a staff of 30 topless massueses on staff to take care of our already pampered 18 and 19 year old football players.
While Florida is a well to do program, there are no oil billionaires or shoe company billionaires with more money than sense ready to fund the whims of the fan base. Eventually there is going to have to be a ceiling on what is reasonable to spend on a game played by college kids.
t-gator;n160163 said:Then how do you explain the Mississippi schools having better facilities? They don't have shoe billionaires in their booster club. It's pretty well documented that Foley is behind in the arms race. It's not unreasonable to say it. My only worry is, if he's fired how will that affect our relationship with the big money guy's. He's been around a long time how comfortable would they be dealing with someone else?
That bag of cash was actually paid to get him to come back for one more year giving Foley time to seat a new coach.divits;n160003 said:Actually, considering the facts that he's worked for UF for almost 40 years, has been the AD for the last 23 years, as AD has had one of the most successful athletic programs in the last 25 years and is in charge of an athletic program that takes in around $150 million a year, I would say his pay is not unreasonable.
Can't be said for what he paid Muschamp and the $1million goodbye package to Meyer, however.
Unit-gator;n160163 said:Then how do you explain the Mississippi schools having better facilities? They don't have shoe billionaires in their booster club. It's pretty well documented that Foley is behind in the arms race. It's not unreasonable to say it. My only worry is, if he's fired how will that affect our relationship with the big money guy's. He's been around a long time how comfortable would they be dealing with someone else?