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FIRE the AD and clean house at the UAA!!!

Discussion in 'RayGator's Swamp Gas' started by twodaparty, Aug 31, 2024.

  1. Gatorrick22

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    Meyer was a Manchin hire... not that other guy...
     
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  2. SewaneeGator

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    That's often asserted here. Even if I accepted your premise, which I don't, what does it matter? Foley was responsible for 3 football hires over his tenure, regardless of who influenced that hire and how much. No hire is done in a vacuum and every one of them is subject to all sorts of influences, subtle and overt. Ultimately, the AD is where that buck publicly stops; good, bad, or indifferent. It's simply part of what you take on with that job.
     
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  3. Gatorrick22

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    He was great at other sports coaching hires, no one is doubting that, but he sucked at football... Is he still giving his advice in football?

    We need a separate FOOTBALL ONLY AD... to go along with the all sports AD. I've said since this forever. We need a football AD that keeps the players together in between head coaching hires, and we need one to guide the new coaches and advise them that if he wants a head coach to get an OC... or to fire a DC, then head coach had better heed that advice.

    Mullen could have saved his job if we had a football only AD to oversee his coaching and got a good quality DC, and Napier would have made sure to get an OC before this season started if we had that added football only AD to go along with the all sports AD. Those two huge mistakes have cost the Gators in ways that we can't even quantify.
     
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  4. tigator2019

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    In my head--- UF
    How many employees at UAA?
    are you going to fire Ms Hass?
    do you know what she does?

    Let’s take your clean house at your word. 150 empty desks.?

    in the business world, you would be following chapter 11 the next day

    by the way, I’m still waiting on the names of a potential replacement for the current athletic Director

    PS Ozzie hasn’t been in the front office for six years
     
  5. SewaneeGator

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    Ok. I still don't see how that connects to your question concerning my three week old post, but I have no problem with your proposal of a second, football-only AD. Normally, I'm not one to support extra bureaucracy as a positive solution, but especially with the massive changes to the sport over the last few years, the "GM" model may have real merit. I don't know if it's really the right way to go or not, but it's definitely a worthwhile conversation to have. Of course finding the right guy for that job would become an issue as well.
     
  6. Gatorrick22

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    Finding the right person to run the football program would definitely be hard to find, because you are trusting all things related to that sport to one person above the head coach. I prefer not to call him a GM... reminds me of the NFL too much.
     
  7. SewaneeGator

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    I haven't raised the issue of "cleaning house," and have posted multiple times that being the AD is an enormously complex job and Stricklin has much to show for his success leading that complicated department. But your continued responses about wanting specific replacement names feels an awful lot like asking if someone knows what a midline is.

    Few if any here had heard of Scott Stricklin prior to his hire. That doesn't mean he wasn't well known in athletics department circles. And someone here not knowing common industry insider information doesn't preclude that information from being common within that industry. So is there a problem in suggesting that in all the university athletic departments around the country there may be very qualified replacement candidates that people in the business are well acquainted with, even if the posters on Swamp Gas aren't?

    I get pushing back on hyperbole and knee jerk criticisms with realism and clarity. But just because Muschamp knew far more about football than everyone else here didn't mean he wasn't doing a bad enough job for even the less qualified to notice and question.
     
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  8. SewaneeGator

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    I fear it would just be one more logical step toward the NFL that college football has been making for years now.
     
  9. Gatorrick22

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    I hope not, but more teams are considering hiring a football only AD/GM to run their football teams.
     
  10. tigator2019

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    In my head--- UF
    SG I was not replying to you

    Posting in reference to Thread title
     
  11. paidinfull

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    Buh, buh, buh, muh podcast told me so.
     
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    What other schools are considering this?
     
  13. workemsillyg8rs

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    Stricklin could probably run a McDonalds but definately not a Chick-fil-A! :D
     
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  14. SewaneeGator

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    Yes, I was unclear, I'm sorry. I didn't take your rejoinders personally. But in the interest of general discussion, thought I'd raise a question about your responses and what they imply or lead to. I too want decisions to be thoughtful and careful, and I know unintended consequences are real and significant things. There's lots of middle ground between "burn it all to the ground" and "but what about Carol who makes copies and is a single mother and also the only one who knows the copier codes." And maybe with all of the surrounding turmoil it's even easier than normal to talk past one another.
     
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    I still find it interesting that Scott hasn’t said a word publicly about the football program since boasting about Billy in this interview on the Friday before the Miami.

     
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    He knows what's up, he's not an idiot. He's probably just hoping Napier pulls a rabbit out of his ass.
     
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  17. savgator1956

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    Where is Ben Hill Griffin when we need him?
     
  18. 62gator

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    I think he got stampeded by the Bulls and is just hoping he can somehow hang on to his UF gig now.
     
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  19. Crusher

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    He was stupid to appear there. He should have just said no to all personal media requests and that he was just too busy preparing for the season to grant interviews.
     
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    He's right here :( RIP:
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