The definitive Jeremy Foley life story

[YLGator]

He completely and repeatedly screwed up the only thing that matters. Everything else is irrelevant.

 

[ChiefGator]

He completely and repeatedly screwed up the only thing that matters. Everything else is irrelevant.

Thanks for admitting you only care about football. I wonder if you have a degree from UF on your wall.

 

[78]

This.

Send his yankee ass back north.

You're a yankee. Where should we send your ass?

 

[YLGator]

Thanks for admitting you only care about football. I wonder if you have a degree from UF on your wall.

What matters and what one cares about are not always the same. I’ve made no secret about where football is in my pecking order. It’s the King. It also pays for everything. That’s why it should be what matters most to the AD as well. As to what’s on my wall, your right, I don’t have A degree from UF on my wall, I have two degrees from UF on my wall. Not sure why that’s relevant to the discussion though.

 

[ChiefGator]

What matters and what one cares about are not always the same. I’ve made no secret about where football is in my pecking order. It’s the King. It also pays for everything. That’s why it should be what matters most to the AD as well. As to what’s on my wall, your right, I don’t have A degree from UF on my wall, I have two degrees from UF on my wall. Not sure why that’s relevant to the discussion though.

It is relevant because I believe that graduates value academics more than say football. Now my opinion is that every student athlete is part of my Gator family, those great say softball players just as important as any football player.

And sure mistakes were made, but there were some constraints as well. Many who we wanted to be our HBC declined the offer so we got something less than we wanted. Happens all the time.

Congrats on having two degrees, that is what really matters.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

You're a yankee. Where should we send your ass?

 

[Swamp Donkey]

It is relevant because I believe that graduates value academics more than say football. .

That Horsetoothed Retard failing as an AD did nothing to advance academics.

The academic side of the house consider tens of millions of dollars as rounding errors. They deal in billions of assets and incomes and have 1.5 billion just sitting in investments.

The fact that Fooley had top 2- top 10 revenue for three decades and he chose to put 40% into admin just makes him a greedy Slumlord. The academic side wouldn't have noticed a 50 million dollar football facility even if they had paid it with university money instead of UAA.

The fact that fact that you couldnt destroy an athletic program more thoroughly if it was your overt goal I guess was happenstance. However, if he had suceeeded more you could have seen the athletic department in the red and academics having to pay for all the nonrevenue sports, instead of football paying the freight.

Your excuses are as lame as your sarcasm.

 

[T REX]

Should be called the rise and fall of Jeremy Foley. He did well through 09. Then fell off a cliff. He rose to the highest mountain the preceded to fall off said mountain.

I won't ignore the good he did but the final chapters were blood baths and the destruction of the football program.

He stayed on long past his prime and ended up to more harm than good.

He'll be looked back on in ok terms by many but to me he failed to keep up basic facilities. Lots of good...lots of bad.

Someone should have taken his keys away after Meyer. Time for new blood then. They let grandpa keep driving and he ended up killing some pedestrians.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Should be called the rise and fall of Jeremy Foley. He did well through 09...

He should have been fired in December of 01.

 

[YLGator]

It is relevant because I believe that graduates value academics more than say football. Now my opinion is that every student athlete is part of my Gator family, those great say softball players just as important as any football player.

And sure mistakes were made, but there were some constraints as well. Many who we wanted to be our HBC declined the offer so we got something less than we wanted. Happens all the time.

Congrats on having two degrees, that is what really matters.

I think your entire academic argument is a complete Red Herring. The UAA is self funding. Has nothing to do with academics. The simple fact is that football players are more important than any other scholarship athlete at UF. You don't have to like it, but its a fact. Fans can consider all scholarship athletes as equals, and I think that's commendable, but those charged with running the UAA can't take that position because it just isn't true. There is no way to excuse Zook, Mushchamp and Mac. That is a triumvirate of incompetence that will never be equaled in my or my grandchildren's lifetimes.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

I think your entire academic argument is a complete Red Herring. The UAA is self funding. Has nothing to do with academics.

It is nearly a Byrdlike misdirection and load of crap.

 

[AugustaGator]

He’s paid entirely too much and has created too big of an empire that needs to be cut.

 

[Theologator]

I offer no mulligan for Zook.

OK I feel better and better now.

FIFY

 

[78]

He should have been fired in December of 01.

Would Spurrier have stayed?

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Would Spurrier have stayed?

Of course not but we wouldnt have had three shyt hires.

 

[78]

Of course not but we wouldnt have had three shyt hires.

I thought you were being sympathetic to SOS. You were just being Nostradamus.

 

[neteng]

Frack Fooley. Dude F'd up the football program all the while taking credit for other people's work. I know for a fact he wasn't in charge of the Meyer hire. He got in some trouble for it because he wasn't prepared for to hire anyone. He gave SOS a lot of grief too.

 

[MJMGator]

I’m confused. Foley gets the blame for NOT rehiring SOS, but the same folks say he had nothing to do with the hiring of Meyer.
Which is it you miserable m’fers?

 

[SeabeeGator]

I’m confused. Foley gets the blame for NOT rehiring SOS, but the same folks say he had nothing to do with the hiring of Meyer.
Which is it you miserable m’fers?

Both. Screwed up bringing SOS back then was saved by Machen who convinced his former coach to come to Florida.

 

[neteng]

I’m confused. Foley gets the blame for NOT rehiring SOS, but the same folks say he had nothing to do with the hiring of Meyer.
Which is it you miserable m’fers?

Who said anything about rehiring SOS? During SOS's last few years at UF, Foley didn't give the same support to SOS that he was giving to other programs. Now I don't know nor do I profess to know if this was a reason for SOS to leave but I am sure it didn't help. I assume SOS was leaving at some point anyways to try out the pros again. But ... Foley was caught with his pants down when SOS did leave and he had no list or contingency plans ready. He took SOS for granted and got caught up in the easy build of all the other sports programs while neglecting the football program.

As for the hiring of Meyer, t is a fact ... he had very little to do with the hiring of Meyer other than being a courier and messenger ... fact. There was a back and forth negotiating that Foley had no authority to engage in ... he had to run it up the flag pole.