and since you gave it to me, I’m racking my brain remembering all those Marquette championships in all those sports. Or were his best days at Portland leading the Pirates to the promised land?
Foley is a boss
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and since you gave it to me, I’m racking my brain remembering all those Marquette championships in all those sports. Or were his best days at Portland leading the Pirates to the promised land?
Any of the 24 ADs ahead of UF on the list in this article:
Updated: College football's 25 best facilities in 2020
We are 25th!@#$%$#@@$%WTF
Yes we have some championships, but again, I believe they were won despite our deficiencies at AD.
Wrong Larry Williams.
I’ve criticized Foley for the lack of forward-thinking on facilities. Far as I can tell, Stricklin is busting his ass to fix that.
I appreciate the AD list regarding facilities, but I like the AD list on “championships in multiple sports” better.
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The Akron Larry Williams?
Yes. The guy is incredible.
Being an AD is the SEC is not overly difficult if the person has a strong background in a college AD's office. The SEC plays the fewest sports of all the major conferences. Even the ACC fields more teams (see men's soccer, men's lacrosse, woman's field hockey, and a few other sports). The P12 and B10 have nearly a dozen more sports than the SEC fields (including what I listed, plus: wrestling, men's & woman's ice hockey, men's volleyball, water polo, and others). So, being an SEC AD - having to manage 16 or so sports is a joke compared to what an AD in the B10 or P12 has to deal with - imagine having to manage 10 additional sports, including scheduling, hiring/firing coaches, negotiating contracts, travel, additional support staff, facilities, etc. So - which AD out there? I'd say start at Stanford (who routinely wins the All-Sports trophy) and go from there. Then, as Law mentioned: find one who has a background in building first class facilities.
Perhaps so. Maybe he’ll be good enough to work his way up from page 3 on the google search someday. You’ve got Foley, for whom we need a calculator and two sheets of paper to list all the titles he won, and you’ve got Stricklin who’s off to a solid start in chasing him down, in addition to resurrecting UF facilities, but the only name you guys can toss back at me is Akron’s finest, Larry Williams? No, not THAT Larry Williams, but page three Larry Williams?
Forget those SEC and National titles at Florida in every sport worth watching, won by those stiffs Foley and Stricklin, let’s go get the Akron Zips guy, from the vaunted Mid-American conference, where his teams won multiple division titles in Axe-throwing and Skeet-shooting.
I’m certain the Stanford guy is awesome and has one helluva resume’.
All I’m saying is, if you’re gonna hate Foley for life, and have no use for Stricklin, you gotta come back with more than “whoever is good at facilities,” or “the Stanford guy has to be really good” or “Google search guy from Akron” as replacements.
I had no idea there was a faction out here who have already passed negative judgment on Stricklin and are ready to go after the Akron or Stanford guy. I think Stricklin is doing really good and I think his best is yet to come.
Look, Stricklin has proven that you don't need to be "Foley" (aka "the greatest AD ever") to win at Florida. You'd have to be partial or full retard to not win at Florida (in the non-revenue) sports. Hell, the AD at UCF (Mike White's brother) has led them to an undefeated season in football (something UF has never done in 100+ years) and they are the highest revenue producing Group of Five school in the country. Is that a good job by an AD? UCLA has more national titles in all-sports than any other college in the country - obviously that's from hard work, but like UF, it's a school that can easily attract talent in those minor sports. Part of being a good/great AD is managing the whole thing. Foley dropped the ball big time on facilities and was arrogant AF while doing it.
I was a president of a Gator Club for three years - one of the things I learned attending meetings at the Alumni Association was that they referred to the AD's office as "The Firm" (like from the movie). The arrogance coming out of the UFAA is unbelievable. Now? Empty seats, 12 years removed from our last football title (SEC and NC), facilities ranking on par with Vanderbilt. It's embarrassing. And yet, there are still people who suck Foley's ass like he walks on water. I don't get it. And to come here and say "Well then, who would do a better job?!?!" There's a laundry list! Stricklin was one of the finalist for the UF AD's job, there were other options. I'm sure each of the finalists would have had us in a similar spot as Stricklin. And if one of them had any balls, our stand-alone facility would be done by now.
It probably has to do with the fact that Florida had only won nine national championships, in five sports, prior to Foley taking over the program. Under his leadership, UF won 27 national titles in 10 different sports, and more SEC titles than you can count. Slice and dice that as you wish, but the results are beyond outstanding. The most common retort to this is “anybody can win at Florida!” Trouble is, they didn’t, before Foley. Maybe he turned into an arrogant ******* during his tenure, I’ll trust your word on that, I didn’t personally know the man.
Now, I’m with you on the facilities. He was hard-headed and short-sighted, big time. That lack of forward-thinking rightly stains his legacy.
Am I wrong or misinformed on the idea that Stricklin is fully and completely addressing the facilities issues? New baseball field, new locker room, new stand-alone football complex, stadium upgrades, all that. Is that no good?
Lets not forget about the population and athletes that shifted in the state of Florida as Foley was coming into being AD. Foley hit when the iron was getting hot when it comes to athletics especially in the high school level was changing. I don't think Foley was horrible, but to say there aren't 100 other AD's that would have enjoyed the resources that were set up before he arrived, the change in ecosystem that happened in the late 80s/early 90s, and the marketing for UF that changed with Spurrier as head coach you are kidding yourself.
So Foley sucks, but he’s reallllllly lucky? Lucked into Meyer and lucked into 27 national titles because of the changing ecosystem. That’s believable I suppose, but so is the idea that he did a pretty damn good job.
Did I say he sucks no, maybe if you didn't have Foley's balls on your chin you might have read it as it was written... So lets try this, back up so his pubs are not in your nostrils and like you always do give his dong a light kiss and thank him for allowing you to swallow his seed. Then re-read.
Because I appreciate his 27 national titles that means his balls are on my chin?
And if you want me to read your entire post, make it shorter and more interesting.
Man has this board missed me. Some of y’all have gone astray.
ZERO.
We arent even 25th. they're just giving us extra credit for having a large stadium that used to be full, and a bunch of brainless alumni is that keep giving to the athletic department despite the fact that they steal the money for themselves and waste the rest.
No one gives a fvkk about badminton or table tennis or any of that other shyt.
there's only one sport that fills the coffers. there's only one sport that anyone even remembers.
This is all that matters, period.
Tell that to Ox, he’s eye-balling the hell out of the Akron AD.
But seriously, I pretty much agree on your point about football being THE sport. However, those basketball and baseball titles sure were pretty damn satisfying.
