UF's Football Facilities - Finally begins (on lacrosse)

[SeabeeGator]

They blew up the stadium and IMMEDIATELY started breaking ground on the football facility.

jk

Did they decide to keep the Mac as a practice field instead?

 

[5-Star Finger]

Did they decide to keep the Mac as a practice field instead?

Fake news. They announced the field was being renovated for use by the women's intramural lawn dart teams.

 

[JDW]

I heard it was the new Quidditch pitch now

 

[G8trwood]

We are a tier 1 research university, not wasting stinking money on football.....

lawn darts are a physics experiment and thus qualify

 

[5-Star Finger]

I heard it was the new Quidditch pitch now

Dual-purpose. The LARPers have it Tuesdays and Thursdays and Saturday mornings. Women's lawn darts have it Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Saturday evenings and Sundays are reserved for Foley and Stricklin to have camp outs under the lights and count all the money they've made while this all went down.

 

[BMF]

@Swamp Donkey : media already making excuses for when the administration delays groundbreaking:

 

[Swamp Donkey]

@Swamp Donkey : media already making excuses for when the administration delays groundbreaking:

He said "about to launch"

 

[Mr2Bits]

@Swamp Donkey : media already making excuses for when the administration delays groundbreaking:

Dude is a hack.....the fact that he's trying to draw parallels is laughable.

 

[5-Star Finger]

He said "about to launch"

The best that will happen.

The worst that will happen.

What is likely to happen.

 

[Alagator]

Meanwhile, no ground has been broken on our new facilities....but, over at our main rivals campus:

I fn HATE georgia....

 

[Swamp Donkey]

I fn HATE georgia....

it really isn't Kirby's fault that we have garbage athletic department.

we can build shtt in Gainesville too! as far as I know it's not against the law.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Is this Ugly's third major building project since Shart arrived?

it's obvious that McGarity learned very well that the way to be a competent athletic director is to do the EXACT OPPOSITE of what his old boss Fooley did.

We let the only competent person on Fooley's team get away.

 

[G8trwood]

Given the face mask and reopening policy UF is sending around, to an include progressive discipline for not wearing one. They are Probably too scared to have a construction meeting to talk about maybe sort of doing something... ymmv

 

[gatormandan]

Geeze, some of you are in such a hurry...

 

[FireFoley]

it really isn't Kirby's fault that we have garbage athletic department.

we can build shtt in Gainesville too! as far as I know it's not against the law.

No you really can't. If you have ever lived there, you will learn that laws exist that makes absolutely no sense. It is the single reason why I moved.

 

[SeabeeGator]

Is this Ugly's third major building project since Shart arrived?

it's obvious that McGarity learned very well that the way to be a competent athletic director is to do the EXACT OPPOSITE of what his old boss Fooley did.

We let the only competent person on Fooley's team get away.

Or maybe another group of invested individuals actually makes the decisions.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Or maybe another group of invested individuals actually makes the decisions.

Dude, for thirty years we have paid more money to UAA than anyone than probably Texas. if we are number two then we're definitely top five. even as Fooley has tried to kill the program we've remained top 10.

Even SEC schools have to have fundraising drive just to get to the the level that we have every single year.

Please stop acting like lack of financial support is why Fooley left us w Sunbelt facilities.

 

[SeabeeGator]

Dude, for thirty years we have paid more money to UAA than anyone than probably Texas. if we are number two then we're definitely top five. even as Fooley has tried to kill the program we've remained top 10.

Even SEC schools have to have fundraising drive just to get to the the level that we have every single year.

Please stop acting like lack of financial support is why Fooley left us w Sunbelt facilities.

That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that people who open their pocketbooks have expectations for how that money is spent. If it’s not spent the way they intended it to be spent, they either stop opening the pocketbook or demand change. Those things are not happening. It’s not a difficult concept.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that people who open their pocketbooks have expectations for how that money is spent. If it’s not spent the way they intended it to be spent, they either stop opening the pocketbook or demand change. Those things are not happening. It’s not a difficult concept.

You think they REALLY want to spend top 3 money and get nothing in return.

 

[Thick&ThinG8r]

No you really can't. If you have ever lived there, you will learn that laws exist that makes absolutely no sense. It is the single reason why I moved.

It hasn't gotten any better. Wawa just came to town but in order to build on the westside they are required to build a station on the eastside. Desantis opened restaurants to 50% capacity but not Gainesville, nope 1 patron for every 50 square ft. of dining area. Some are not even bothering to open.