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You can grumble all you want, but some of these coaches have built up some tenure and you can't fire a third of them for a down year when you have won multiple national titles.

Sure, you're not going to fire Roland. But Burleigh should have been shown the door a while ago. You don't get to keep your job forever because you won a national title over 20 years ago. No excuse for allowing the program to sink where it did. And yes, you can make changes in WBB and men's golf because they are the right things to do. UF didn't build the program it did by accepting mediocre results, a lot of decent coaches were fired along the way in pursuit of something better.

Again, I don't think Stricklin is about to lose his job nor should he. But if (maybe when at this point) UF is out of the top 10 for the first time ever in the Directors Cup. When we drop the All Sports Trophy again, its going to raise eyebrows. That's the nature of the business. Stricklin took over a monster of an athletic program and its not performing at the same level.

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Posted by bigDgator

Dallas, TX

Member since Oct 2008

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Posted on 5/18/21 at 4:21 pm to bgator85

I will accept the raising of eyebrows at this point. I am not happy either, but I think we need to get the department back to making money before we start spending it. So we are in agreement there.

And I will defend Burleigh even though you are right, we waited too long, but she dominated the league. She started the program and did pretty well.

Along with her natty, she has 14 SEC Championships, Tenn is 2nd with 3. She also has 11 SEC tourney championships, Tenn is 2nd with 4. Hard to force a coach out at 50 years old with that resume.

But I agree overall it is not a trend you want to see continue. Maybe if Foley didn't let the facilities fall behind Stricklin could focus more on hiring and firing coaches?