re: "I had to ask a booster to fix our plumbing"

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Top 10 in revenue every year. Do we have top 10 facilities? No, we might not be top 10 in the SEC.

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So?

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I love Foley as an AD. I think he was the best AD in the SEC and probably the nation. However, UF is behind most of our competition.

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Best athletic program in the nation. Where, EXACTLY, is UF behind in terms of things that have tangible, real effects on athletic or academic performance?
Where, EXACTLY, is UF behind in providing athletes that want to be pro athletes the tools to succeed in that endeavor?

Please, someone tell me how the fricking Eleiko barbells and plates and lifting platforms used at Bama or Oregon or Auburn are tangibly, qualitatively, quantitatively different than what's in UF's weight room, in a way that can be demonstrated to impact performance.
Of all the Nike schools, is there shittier Nike stuff at UF compared to Bama or others?
Is the cold water tub and ice packs at Bama somehow colder or more effective?

Let me save everyone some effort here - the difference is in coaching. Compare that retard Dillman to Cochran at Bama. Cochran is better, by a lot. There's a reason that when Muschamp got fired, Dillman went over to be assistant high-fiver and sideline yeller at Bama, rather than getting snatched up as another head s&c guy.

Let me also clue some people into a few things here - the primary site to search for biomedical literature is PubMed. Search on that site for articles related to muscle hypertrophy, exercise metabolism, and similar topics. After all this time, science still does not have precise mechanisms mapped out for muscle hypertrophy or how to specifically target one's 40 time etc. There are principles involved but to this day, they cannot provide rigorous, scientifically validated protocols that can identify optimum, or best ways to do stuff. This is especially the case when trying to develop individual level protocols.

In fact, simple empirical results from old bastards at places like West Side Barbell are still producing the world's strongest people and the world's best programs - virtually all of it is low tech and none of it requires constant infusions of money to make shite pretty. The truly ground breaking platforms or machines that have been created in the past 20 years or so could be purchased with less than $50,000.

There is no evidence at all that attaching some 'xp40 biofeedback enhancer computer diagnostic wobulator' to a power rack does anything at all to aid performance or progress.

We have arrived at a point where sufficient equipment is on hand at every major program in America. The next breakthroughs are going to be in material science to aid player safety, such as helmet design.

We are likely a long ways off from anything revolutionary in performance enhancement, for various reasons that would take too long to discuss here.

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Jack Jackson (who posts on TD and SECr) said a lot of our facilities that he toured during his sons recruitment were the same as when he played here.

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Again, I would ask, so what?


I'm not against improvements or spending money. But there are serious issues at UF with regard to available land and so forth. What UF needs is a comprehensive plan, not an incremental approach. Maybe that's what Foley and Strickland have in mind. But it seems the fans want this never ending incremental approach just to look pretty with no regard for need v want, substance v appearance, form v function.

Lastly, as I said before, NCAA statistics will show you that the bulk of program funding still comes from the fans. This exponential growth model in CFB is propped up on fan money, not just TV money. Neither is infinite and the first to go will be fan money. When that bubble bursts, it's going to be a disaster and we'll all be very happy Foley was so tight.