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Chip Kelly going to UCLA would have been the equivalent of Urban Meyer choosing Vanderbilt over us.
 
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Pfft. There’s gotta be another multimillion shoe/apparel deal in the works. UCLA is above all this mundane budgetary stuff.
 
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Hate to say it because I loved the guy, but the days of having a football icon like Ray Graves running the show are gone in the new era of high-stakes finance.

A couple wrong financial decisions and you’re effed.
 
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Have a non-football guy like Jeremy Fooley and youre effed.
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Granted, he doesn’t know Jack shyt about football. Probably lots of other examples out there nowadays. Byrne at Bama is an admin guy, too.

Like they say in my field, now where your influence should begin and know where it should end. Foley’s biggest downfall was not understanding that and arrogantly thinking he could make those decisions, then doubling down by being cheap at the worst possible time.

Know the people who understand the task better than you and turn to them when necessary. Inevitably, we all know what that means.

Ask GCMB.
 
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MJMGator said:
It was a done deal.
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It was a done deal with an 8m buyout. UCLA chipped off a sliver of the 280m Under Amour deal and sent it Western Union to Stricklin, who pocketed most of it and gave the rest to the baseball team.

True story.
 
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Like they say in my field, now where your influence should begin and know where it should end. Foley’s biggest downfall was not understanding that and arrogantly thinking he could make those decisions, then doubling down by being cheap at the worst possible time.
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This continues to bother me: are we sure Foley did not? I am not convinced the boosters want a high flying football program. They certainly have not gone public with any pressure and do not seem to be overly concerned with lack of football facility development. Do you think Foley went rogue of the boosters when he said that we were not getting into an arms race? If you follow the money - or lack thereof - it seems more logical that our boosters did not want to get into a donations/arm race and Foley just delivered that message.

I would postulate that Foley’s biggest issue was an inability to motivate the boosters with a football vision.
 
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Maybe the majority of football "people" think highly of Chip and about 99% of this board were waiting in line to suck him off had he made it to town. I was one of the few and loud voices who wanted no part of him and do not think he would have won 10ish at UF. I understand your thought about 10ish, etc., but I view it this way. He did it at Oregon and he did it with the much better players than 9 or 10 of his annual opponents. Hi complete lack of game management skills are exactly why he sucked ballz in the NFL. Where every team is exactly the same talent wise, you can't go 3 and out 4 or 5 straight possessions, take 12 seconds off the clock, and put your defense back on the field. It turned into a mutiny. Had he made it to UF, the college version of the NFL and played 7 or 8 like opponents every year, the same BS that swallowed him up in the NFL would have happened in the SEC.
 
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