Swimming coach Gregg Troy retiring

[BMF]

One of only 9 coaches in UF history to lead a program for 20 years or longer (interesting Jeremy Foley quote):

Troy Rescued UF Swimming
He inherited a mess in 1998 and began the reconstruction of the Gators immediately.

http://floridagators.com/news/2018/4/25/chris-harry-gregg-troy-rescued-uf-swimming.aspx

"I became athletic director in '92, and sometime the next year I tried to make Gregg Troy my very first hire. I played the negotiating game and lost. He turned me down," former AD Jeremy Foley recalled. "To be honest, I didn't know what I was doing. The next time I went calling on him, Gregg had incredible leverage on me."

 

[MidwestChomp]

Thanks for posting BMF. Coach Troy has been an incredible representative of UF and ambassador for swimming. He has coached some great swimmers and Olympians. He is a class act and will be very difficult to replace. Best wishes to him.

 

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"To be honest, I didn't know what I was doing."

I'm pretty sure Foley said that about Mac, too.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

"To be honest, I didn't know what I was doing."

I'm pretty sure Foley said that about Mac, too.

If he ever gets a statue somewhere in the bowels of the swamp, in a dark corner of a room with block walls and near some broken toilets, that should be the inscription.