(SOC) Soccer in hands of young leaders

Can you share who has left via the portal thus far? I did note in a team picture taken after the recent Georgia Southern scrimmage there were 19-20 players which would be 2 or 3 less than currently listed on their spring roster. I know they have 7 freshmen signees coming in during the Fall. Perhaps with the ongoing mess at FSU a few of those ladies may want to transfer to a much better in state academic institution

 

Quite the turnover. The 1st 6 names you list must be fairly recent as they are still listed on the Spring roster. With plenty of available playing time and a brand new team facility you would think should attract a few impact players out of the portal. I mean how hard a sale is it to bring in top players to UF? The next few months will be telling.

 

where did you find this information, I am trying to get more interest going with the soccer program along with Lacrosse and information like this spikes interest in sports

 

WTH is going on? Just as the title to this thread alludes apparently the program for the foreseeable future will be in the hands of young leaders.

Florida Parting Ways with Tony Amato - Florida Gators

 

From 247 Sports

 

Stricklin keeps proving he may not be the right fit at UF.

 

I thank him for bringing UF into the 21st century facilities wise and he seemingly is a first rate fund raiser but his track record at coaching hires is less than stellar thus far with 3 of his first 4 hires already let go. Hopefully the Napier and Golden hires change the narrative. To me there was something completely off with Amato's time at UF. I gave him a pass in the Fall as UF had basically hit rock bottom personnel wise under Becky and it was a transition year. However, when there was no subsequent movement to bring in badly needed talent via the portal; a corresponding large number of current players on the team entering the transfer portal; the fact there was an assistant coach on his staff re-tweeting a significant amount of political stuff while utilizing their UF associated account; and finally a recent bizarre video release showing Amato addressing what appeared to be less than half of the team before a tour of their new locker room. The whole segment just seemed awkward to me with few of the assembled players even bothering to make eye contact with Amato while he spoke. Scott cannot afford to miss on this hire and he better be prepared to spend what it takes to bring in a proven coach that is well vetted.

Quite a bit of more info with what was going on inside the program this past year. Holy cow if even half of what is claimed actually happened:
Florida soccer coach leaving after complaints by players over comments about eating habits, bodies - WUFT News

 

Well, Krikorian is available, eh? Though my head explodes at the thought of paying a million dollar buyout for a soccer coach *and* whatever astronomical Krikorian would demand..

 

most of the facilities were in the works before he got here. He has done very little to better UF. He has done much more to weaken it.

 

Scott Stricklin is failing UF's female student-athletes.

 

Yes, he is a good ole Southern boy. Where is he getting his information from for some of these hires? Boy, he seems to pick losers. Hopefully Napier and Golden can buck the trend. The new President might want to hire his/her own AD.

 

0-2 with Newbauer and Amato.

Seems Striklin is a poor judge of character. He may be a visionary and fundraiser but a college athletic program is about the people first and foremost.0

 

Well to be fair he gave Nesty the women, and that seems to be going well. But his two outside hires for the women have been unmitigated disasters. And given that he made the same mistake twice, we now have to start worrying about a lawsuit I would suspect.
I think his clear problem in his hiring decisions is that he didn’t put nearly enough priority on personality. If I want to go glass half full, he may already realize it, given the personalities of Napier and Golden.

 

Time will tell how much Stricklin has "weaken"(ed) UF and it will be greatly dependent on how Napier, Golden, Finley and the future soccer coach (better be a homerun hire) fare a couple of years down the road. As for facilities, Stricklin by any measure has done more than "a little" to improve UF in that department. True, Foley had already set into motion the O'Connell Center renovation, Farrior Hall Student Center, softball stadium upgrade and only after being called out by both Muschamp and McElwain for his original plans for an indoor practice field bubble / 70 yard practice field finally approved plans for our current IPF. If it was up to Foley we would still be playing in a dressed up McKethan Stadium (think applying lipstick to a pig), a ridiculously small football ops center shoehorned in the current Track throws and maintenance area and likely no upgrade to the Dizney complex so that the soccer team had offices, dressing room and attendant ops facilities collocated with where they play and practice. What a concept. I will not speculate on other now planned UAA facility upgrades because Foley may have done something similar but given his past track record it would likely have been done on the cheap and completed in a less than aggressive time frame. This is not meant as a complete defense of Stricklin who in my book really needs a few wins in the coach acquisition part of his job or he will be gone soon enough.

 

Foley had the new baseball stadium in the works before he left. In fact he had all the non-revenue sports accounted for before he was gone because he knew where the focus would be by the next guy,
So basically it’s the football center, against a bad football hire, a cataclysmic WBB hire, an apparently disastrous soccer hire, and from the time he got here…
Sports that are better:
MTN (Foley hire)
Maybe WBB (only because of the absolute poop show that preceded it

Flat sports:
Women’s golf
Track (mouse is awesome then and now).
Gymnastics
Swimming(great recruiting classes on the horizon to be fair. But results the last few years are fairly flat). And Nesty was hired by Foley.

worse:
Football (bad hire)
Basketball
Baseball
Softball
Volleyball
Lacrosse (not by a lot)
Women’s tennis (coach should have been let go years ago)
Men’s golf (though it may be on an upswing, we will see but Deacon is lucky to have a job)
Soccer where he let BB stay too long and then absolutely crapped the bed with her replacement.


he hasn’t made a single successful outside hire yet in any sport. he’s 0-3.
we lost the combined all sports sec trophy last year for the first time in forever.
We took terrible national press for the Cam debacle and now this mess will almost certainly be framed with that backdrop.

So I am at a loss as to what folks think he has done to make much of anything better. Great, he built a student center. Doesn’t matter if there’s no clear idea of what constitutes success or how to get there within the UAA.

I am beyond ready to move on from him. He isn’t the guy.