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re: What is Jeremy Foley’s legacy in Florida football? (Long)
Posted on 9/12/18 at 4:05 pm to LSU Jax
Posted on 9/12/18 at 4:05 pm to LSU Jax
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Sure, overall UF athletics excelled while he was there. But what is his legacy with regard to the UF football program?
Foley’s non-football hires were pretty good for the most part. However, football pays the bills and is by far the most important, visible sport on any campus. Foley’s football hires were underwhelming. UF President Machen gets the credit for the Urbz hire as that was his boy at Utah. Florida fans have never forgiven Foley for telling Spurrier that he’d have to interview just like everyone else in 2005 when Spurrier wanted the job after Zook was fired.
Foley is also responsible for the current state of UF’s sports facilities. He said that UF wouldn’t get into a facilities arms race when Bama, AU, aTm, and others started upgrading their stadiums; he took the position that UF recruited itself and didn’t need to match others’ spending to maintain excellence.
Well, he was wrong about that and his legacy is a bit tarnished.
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Posted on 9/12/18 at 4:11 pm to Sid E Walker
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Florida fans have never forgiven Foley for telling Spurrier that he’d have to interview just like everyone else in 2005 when Spurrier wanted the job after Zook was fired.
That rumor had nothing to do with Foley, that was about Bernie Machen.
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Foley is also responsible for the current state of UF’s sports facilities. He said that UF wouldn’t get into a facilities arms race when Bama, AU, aTm, and others started upgrading their stadiums; he took the position that UF recruited itself and didn’t need to match others’ spending to maintain excellence.
Foley deserves some blame, but he was also put on a leash by the administration and the Board of Directors during the recession to avoid negative publicity while the school was facing major budget cuts.
Posted on 9/12/18 at 4:20 pm to Sid E Walker
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Foley is also responsible for the current state of UF’s sports facilities. He said that UF wouldn’t get into a facilities arms race when Bama, AU, aTm, and others started upgrading their stadiums;
Besides a National Championship, Nick Saban was a driving force in upgrading all of our sports facilities.
What he did for student athletes was remarkable.
Guess what.
If you want to compete, you’re gonna have to compete.
Sid....I know I’m preaching to the choir with you.
I can only imagine what Bama’s facilities looked like before Saban and what they look like now.
Not only about weight rooms.
This post was edited on 9/12/18 at 4:24 pm
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