- Jun 13, 2014
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Here, Truth is speaking the "truth." I'm Secy/Webmaster of the Savannah Gator Club. Although one of our members, Paul Ewaldsen, played what was then known as Split End with Spurrier back in the 60s, and knows him quite well, we had no "pull" in getting SOS to be our guest speaker for our annual banquet. But we DID get Spurrier (and Zook, FWIW) assistant coaches to be our guest speakers (Dixon came several times). The last coach we had as a guest speaker was brand-new OC Dan Mullen in 2005 (no, I'm not supporting him for HC, I'm using him to make a point).
Shortly after that, we got word from UAA that unless you were a "big" in-state club, or Atlanta GC (they're so big, they might as well be in-state), NO HC, and no assistant coaches to out-of-state GCs. Meyer would only go to the "big" in-state clubs & Atlanta, and the assistants would only go to in-state clubs (despite that Savannah is a heck of a lot closer to UF than, say, Sarasota). Why? Because Meyer's kids were young and he didn't want to travel. Most of the assistants had young kids and didn't want to travel. HC and AC speaking engagements were significantly curtailed in the Meyer regime, and it has stayed that way.
So what's my point? Even though Kelly is divorced (according to his Wikipedia page) and probably doesn't have teen-age kids living with him (did he remarry? Wikipedia says no), it sounds like he wouldn't want to go out and glad-hand the Gator Clubs any more than Meyer, Muschamp, of Mac did. Is that bad? No. If he's the guy, yes, he will have to make some appearances, and I'm sure he'll know that's a requirement.
But if he never comes to Savannah to schmooze with us, or schmooze with GCs all over FL, I don't give a rip. Just as long as (1) he wins (2) he does with an entertaining offense, and (3) he does it on the up-and-up with no NCAA violations.
where did you come from?
