Rumor: Mullen was on vacation on NSD

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You’re out of your gourd. UAA gave $24.77m to UF and the UF Foundation in budget year 2016 but the figure hasn’t been anywhere close since. Debt service for one has helped ensure that.
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One of the reasons for the football facilities delay, and which got a lot of mention here, was a shortfall in funding. How discombobulated would it be for the UAA to complain of it while appropriating over 30% of its entire annual budget to non-sports related functions?

Law’s just being hyperbolic out of frustration.
 

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One of the reasons for the football facilities delay, and which got a lot of mention here, was the shortfall in funding. How discombobulated would it be for the UAA to complain of a shortfall while it was appropriating over 30% of its entire annual budget to non-sports related functions?

Law’s just being hyperbolic out of frustration.
He said he can't do math, leave him alone
 

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One of the reasons for the football facilities delay, and which got a lot of mention here, was a shortfall in funding. How discombobulated would it be for the UAA to complain of it while appropriating over 30% of its entire annual budget to non-sports related functions?

Law’s just being hyperbolic out of frustration.
Not my fault theyve been slowly killing their own income over a decade while almost every other SEC team is increasing sharply.

#Winning the Fooley way.
 

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You’re out of your gourd. UAA gave $24.77m to UF and the UF Foundation in budget year 2016 but the figure hasn’t been anywhere close since. Debt service for one has helped ensure that.
Maybe, but they did every year for DECADES.

Fooley ran the cash cow into the ground though. All while bragging that he was saving money.
 
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One of the reasons for the football facilities delay, and which got a lot of mention here, was a shortfall in funding.
As long as they keep hiring shytty coaches, handcuffing the staff with totally inadequate support staff, and having two piles of dirt to show recruits for our football facility (promised in 2015 to be 1 yr away), it is going to continue to plummet.

Can you imagine another CEO destroying his company this thoroughly and not being run out in a rail?

Have easy access to the budget through the years?
 

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what reputable source has said this? I’ve read that what you just typed is not the case. Dan’s DC of his own choice is making nearly 2 million dollars per year. He’s choosing to employ Knox, Hevesy, Gonzo, Grantham, and had English on his staff for 3 seasons.

Dan shouldn’t be blaming anyone. It’s known that he doesn’t like to recruit. That’s our main issue.

No one has to say anything. It’s in plain sight. To be clear, this doesn’t absolve Mullen from his role in things. The Grantham aspect is a perfect example of his own mistakes, for which I’ve said he’ll have to answer. But it’s not opinion that Alabama, uga and Clemson(among others) are operating completely differently than we are. As Law and ‘78 said, we are still talking of building something that we promised in 2015. Some of those places are building an entirely new one for a second time. Clemson has a lazy river for their athletes. We have shared volleyball courts. They have what look like 4* hotel dorms. Ours look like you expect to see Fastow or Martha Stewart in the background. These are just basic facts. Even a great recruiter like Fisher got tired of the resistance of the nole admin, which at least made sense given their busted suitcase finances. But we don’t have that problem and haven’t for decades. It may seem like nothing to us, but it is to these recruits who we’re relying on to get us to the next level.

In addition, from a staffing standpoint, yes we have some very average guys. But as I said, Mullen himself was a fallback. So why would his staff also not carry some of those characteristics? Charlie Strong—a career DC with 2 NC rings— is an analyst in Tuscaloosa. An analyst.

Ask yourself why a guy like Frost didn’t jump the moment we called. This isn’t Texas or Penn State where he’d have to move entirely either way. We were less than two hours away. The easiest excuse in the world would be to say my family has made Fl home. Recruiting footprint, style and caliber of players to run his system, etc. Its obvious to me that more than just the Nebraska draw, he clearly saw concerns at UF. Same with Kelly. A decade earlier, two decades earlier, that doesn’t happen. The problem is we simply never adapted and arrogantly ran our same failed business model because “this worked before”.

Again, could the right staff make it work, yes. I think Mullen and Co have actually done a little better than expected, in multiple areas. But as t-Gator alluded to, it’s somewhat a chicken/egg situation. But even when we were running cfb, and the Alabama of that 4 year span, we still never capitalized at the highest level and mad the most of it. So again, while I don’t think DM has zero hand in this, he, the last guy, and the next guy will have their hands tied.
 

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All of college athletics will be changing with the idea that individuals can monitorize their image etc. and the idea you can transfer whenever you desire.

Minor sports might be eliminated as we have seen in many cases they don't pay their way so if major sports need more money it has to come from somewhere. We also might see declines in alumni contributions since the system is so radically changing. Sort of how the NFL changed with free agency but without the increase in funds.

Just saying!!
 

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In that particular situation, the middle and forefingers separated to create a V for victory sign is a more convincing signal. The thumbs up is seen as an ambiguous gesture of confidence.

I’d be concerned for sure.
 

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In that particular situation, the middle and forefingers separated to create a V for victory sign is a more convincing signal..
He did that offscreen as well.

However he clarified that was a V for vacation, which Dan is taking. As far as we know it is just another paid vacation, of which dan has took 12 or so last year.

Perhaps he plans on doing the same this year.
 

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He did that offscreen as well.

However he clarified that was a V for vacation, which Dan is taking. As far as we know it is just another paid vacation, of which dan has took 12 or so last year.

Perhaps he plans on doing the same this year.

One for every game coached?
 

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