I think everyone wanted him gone, but the buyout and the two SEC East titles would have kept him around for a fourth year. And with the recruiting class he had, he would have probably put together a good enough season to stay around even longer, though I doubt it would have come to anything particularly meaningful. Then again, if this season stayed at the 3 or 4 wins it looks like, maybe even that wouldn't have saved him year 4 unless he did really well.

Whether he lied about the death threats or not (and it seems he did based on all the evidence), he definitely obstructed efforts to look into it. That's why Stricklin and the UAA moved so fast as soon as Mac gave everyone an out on that buyout.

What none of us really knew was just how toxic things had become behind the scenes until he left. When that came out, it was clear why the moment Florida had an out they took it. It's rumored that Foley knew by the end of the first year that he blew the hire and that might have been why he retired when he did. But without the death threats fiasco, they couldn't have dumped him for cause, and I think that gets him one more year even though no one in the fan base or the UAA wanted it apparently.

He did us a favor really. My worst case scenario is that he would have stayed another year, won 9 or 10 games somehow with that piss poor offense, and then gotten a fifth year all while he was apparently poisoning the relationship between football and athletics in general. And the offense would have been piss poor because he wasn't budging on Nuss.

I defended him up until the death threats, but after we got more of the story, I was completely wrong about the guy. Good riddance.