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You are correct about the retread trend, but my guess is he's done with the NFL.
The way he is acting, he may be done with college soon enough as well...
You are correct about the retread trend, but my guess is he's done with the NFL.
It is so different now than 20-30 years ago. Unless you're Texas A&M with every multi-millionaire booster clamoring for a tax deduction, or in this case UCLA getting the deal of the century with a product sponsor, you run a real risk of falling so far behind that not even tradition can defend it.
Don't want UF to quit focusing on academics, but the two aren't mutually exclusive.The sad thing is UCLA is in many ways a lot like us. It has been awhile but USC v UCLA used to be a huge game with national title consequences most years.
They too decided not get in an arms race w USC and others to "focus on academics" (as if the two are exclusive).
Once you fall behind, you may never catch up, and its very expensive to do so.
Yuge. Pretty soon they'll all exist as individual LLCs and the private equity firms will be buying them up.I know I read it somewhere – but I think starting this year that those big contributions to schools are no longer tax-deductible.
I think you’re going to actually start seeing salaries drop because donations are going to take a serious drop.
UCLA isn't even ranked for 2019. I went over 247 and Rivals thinking it must be a mistake. Nowhere.
WTF. I realize he's been out of college coaching, but he's Chip Frigging Kelly. Why aren't they calling him begging to play?
No one in Cali gives a shyt about any sort of football.That's what I was talking about. Since he arrived, all of their 2019 commits have decommitted after meeting with him and his staff. 3 of them were quality recruits he wouldn't have purposely run off. I've tried keeping up with the story, but UCLA fans don't give a shyte. Their boards are talking about every other sport but football. It seems they don't care.
Donations are no longer a significant source of income. It is all tv money and product endorsement money.I know I read it somewhere – but I think starting this year that those big contributions to schools are no longer tax-deductible.
I think you’re going to actually start seeing salaries drop because donations are going to take a serious drop.
Not accurate. I'll go find the link. A&M got something like 75m last season.Donations are no longer a significant source of income. It is all tv money and product endorsement money.
That's also why no one cares what the Bull Gators want anymore in a football team or course.
No one in Cali gives a shyt about any sort of football.
Ftr, I also have the same theory on Kiffin. I think he stays at Fau as the big man on campus, and holds out for the Dolphins either at the end of this coming season, or two years later when they fire the next guy.
They apparently don't. I'm not kidding when I say I've found more stories about their softball team than I have their football. If UF had zero commits right now, gator nation would be calling for Mullen's head.
Florida had 58.1m in contributions in 2015, accounting for 39% of all revenue.
Still searching for more updated stats.
Kelly was too SCARED and too lazy to come here.
Did that duck ever drive a truck? Or is it a blue duck?Duck?
I'm not gonna lie. I wanted Kelly in spite of all the perceived drawbacks. If he quit UCLA tomorrow and announced his love for UF, I'd want him again. His offenses got more vertical out of horizontal than any I can think of.
In retrospect, though, it was a bad year to be a risk-averse buyer. It was Kelly, Frost and then the field. Where we apparently have much disagreement over is which member of the field we should have offered.
I think Stricklin made a good call.
Did that duck ever drive a truck? Or is it a blue duck?