I think so. Football and basketball (to a lesser extent) fund the rest of the program as well as the academic institution. The best available hire needed to be made.

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Follow up question if no: If Foley wouldn't have been caught in the livingroom of McElwain by the press do yall think he would have backed out when he learned the buy-out? Like if it was all in secret.

I don't think so but it's a surprise that the hire wasn't discreet. UFAA and Foley are generally conservative and secretive. But that 7mil must have given him the sweats. He's a great money manager so a figure like that

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-I got a feeling that McElwain didn't even know he was locked in with such a huge buyout. Am I correct in your opinion?

You would think when signing a contract he would've known, right? I think he might have miscalculated the negotiation of the buyout regarding the 'dream job' clause in his contract.

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What is it about UF that makes it such an unstable place for coaches in your opinion?

I don't think that's fair. Spurrier went to the NFL. Meyer had a bunch of issues at Gainesville that made him want to leave. Some of those issues are things he had a direct hand in. Muschamp and Zook would have stayed, but they weren't any good.

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Does it make yall nevious to have such a loose cannon (in such a weak conference) going off in your state? Do yall have some plan, via investigative reporting or some political power play, to bring them back to a level playing field?

No, but I'll say that a lot of the paranoid FSU fans think UF controls the politics and media of the state and is responsible for the leak of info about their PD and university. I don't know if their program is as dirty as everyone makes it out to be but I can't say I hate it as a UF fan.

Problem is, the state of our offense has been pretty poor during Muschamp's era. This fanbase is used to high powered offenses. The recruiting class is pretty sparse ATM but if the current coaching staff can develop players better than previous years, that will be A-OK.