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They're trying stem the massive exodus of NFL hopefuls every December. It'll make it a little harder to leave your teammates if they're like, "Dayum, homie, ya'll gonna leave us like dat when we gots a shot at the Natty Tight? Dayum, *****."
Your consistency is admirable if nothing else.
First you proclai. that there's no possible way for a top 30 academic school to be a national champion caliber football team, although we could win through the 90s as number 34.
But then you pull the "maybe we can recruit better" because recruits would rather lose a playoff game than lose a bowl game
No
This was the year “that defense” gave up 40 points to Louisville in the Sugar Bowl.
I agree that sounds like an absurd viewpoint. However, I think it's just another excuse to complain. There's gotta be a better approach that feeds both academics AND athletics...Let me get this straight...
Faux is being criticized for raising the university to elite academic status because that distracts from football.
They can’t possibly see the correlation to football success and alumni giving to the university or the fact that UF is among the very few programs that don’t cost the university a dime and regularly contributes millions.
I agree that sounds like an absurd viewpoint. However, I think it's just another excuse to complain. There's gotta be a better approach that feeds both academics AND athletics...
One being maybe setting entry requirements that are more consistent with the other SEC schools. That was a friction point when SOS was the HBC, too. We now have an academic center for athletes. Use it to it's full potential.
Another is to recognize we have to stop diverting excessive funds from football to the non-revenue sports to the detriment of the golden goose.
Scott Carter is an uninformed A**hole
Steve O'Connell hired Doug dickey. Execution did not meet stated expectations.The goal at UF in football should be to win the national championship. The whole drive to be number one in academics is based on false premises. It's a sham. It's mainly based on rankings by one over-the-hill magazine namely U.S, News which used to be widely know as U.S. News and World Report. Criteria are used in the rankings such as how many books are in your library, what percentage of alumni donate to the alumni fund etc. They will probably, if they haven't already done so, try to incorporate some type of diversity measurement into their false equation. We have a situation now where U.S. News tell you how good your school is in academics and university administrators try to manipulate the rankings by gaming the system.
Sure, UF is a very good academic school, but what does it mean it you are ranked 7th or 8th or 9th in national public universities? What separates number one from number 8 or 10 or even 15 in academics? If you rank universities in academics it should be in quartiles or tiers. A first tier school ranking would be definitely better than a fourth tier. Even that becomes problematic when say comparing a low first tier school to an upper second tier school but if you are going to have any kind of rankings you've got to draw a line somewhere.
If you are going to field teams in sports you should try to be the best you can be given your resources. UF has all the resources to be the best in football and it shouldn't be something they are ashamed of. At UF we should compete with the Bama's and the Clemson's and try to beat them at their own game.
When Stephen C. O'Connell, a Gator alum, was President of UF back in the late 1960s and early 1970s he had a phrase he used to declare his goal for UF: "First in the South; second to none in the nation." He meant that in academics, all sports, and football. There's no way any school can say they are really number one in academics. I've know Ivy League grads who were no better than grads of SEC public universities in their jobs. There is a way for a school to say they are number one in football and that it to win it on the field.
Steve O'Connell hired Doug dickey. Execution did not meet stated expectations.
Dickey and Dan Dullen share so much DNA.Steve O'Connell hired Doug dickey. Execution did not meet stated expectations.
That's the point of view of you and a lot of other people. Fuchs doesn't give a Fuchs. It's not the view of him and his fellow egghead cronies who have a similar vision for UF.It’s not like Bama, OSU and Clemson are knuckle-draggers. We fall into a group with great academic state schools like Texas & Michigan that expect to compete on that highest tier but aren’t because we haven’t found that fit.
It’s a false correlation. The opposite is true. A great football program raises your profile with massive unpaid media, attracts students and boosts financial resources. UF has shot up the last 40 years because of 2 things: Bright Futures and football. I’d tag it back to Pell building the booster program, but the electricity we felt when SOS arrived - that we still feel - charged the whole system.
barelyWe are BARELY Top 30 and they are shooting for Top 20.
lol yes it does not get more "barely Top 30" than a four-way tie for #30, with NYU, Tufts Univ. and UC Santa Barbara.barely
I saw dickey's offense after Wes Chandler graduated. DM is putting an exponentially better product on the field. No championships, but at least it's more entertaining.Dickey and Dan Dullen share so much DNA.
You sure you don't mean Trask and Johnson put a better product on the field? I think we have to wait and see how much better true Mullen Ball is. I'm not expecting it to look much like the last 2 years.I saw dickey's offense after Wes Chandler graduated. DM is putting an exponentially better product on the field. No championships, but at least it's more entertaining.