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It sounds like all ADs are doing anymore is trying to find a way to sell commercial rights for a one-time cash injection. The problem is, it is a public institution. So they're trying to find ways to privatize it to make this happen.

At first it will be some domestic companies, like "Monster Energy Big 12." They don't want to spook anyone too soon. But, the end result they want is that we end up with the Qatar Airways LSU Tigers playing the Gazprom Florida Gators, etc.

It's not just sportswashing. A whole raft of new corruption will come with it. Appreciate what we still have while we have it.

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I'm not making any predictions, but Lebby, Drinkwitz and Beamer are probably the only potential candidates.

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I think Sark is in play. He could win a national championship or finally get himself canned. He's got himself a real schedule to deal with this time around. The loss to Florida last year was inexplicable.

Some of these names on this list aren't even that terrible. As a Florida fan, Napier has gotta be on the list. He ran that same bullshite offense the whole time. Somehow it confused the offense, and was predictable to the defense and everyone sitting on a couch watching the game. Every offseason reporters would assume he is going to change something on offense and ask him what he's going to do differently. His convoluted answer could always be summarized as: Nothing. They'd ask him who the new offensive coordinator would be and he would string it along and the answer would always be: William Napier. For some reason people assume anyone that talks slowly is a good guy. He wasn't a good guy, he was an egomaniac. I really believe Dabo firing him at Clemson just broke his brain.

Muschamp was questionable as well. The one good year he had was smoke and mirrors to anyone with eyes. They beat Louisiana Lafayette with a punt block with two seconds on the game clock. He insisted on recruiting Derrick Henry out of Yulee as a linebacker. He only recruited two OL for two consecutive classes and then freaked out and picked up like six the next class including two stars. How do you forget to recruit OL? He had some of the best defenses I've ever seen, but head coaches need to concern themselves with offense and special teams as well.

All the other failed Florida head coaches don't really make the list. They were flawed, but not the worst.

STD transfer generally requires sex, and people at UF these days are way too nerdy for much of that. This is just more goofy bullshite forwarded around on social media.

Somehow Florida is on a 18 or 19 home game sellout streak during the worst coaching tenure since World War One. That has to count for something.

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The Director’s Cup is what it is. But in a perfect world it would be weighted. It won’t be, but there is no way the average fan considers women’s rowing or tennis to be as important as football or basketball. But the directors cup doe

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I agree. The fact it wasn’t weighted is why Florida AD Foley decided to autocastrate the athletic department to plow the football money into nearly meaningless sports. Trying for the cup is a vanity project no one cared about except him and half a dozen other athletic directors around the country. But, those are his peers. Killing football is a small price to pay if you only value the cup.

John Ruiz has been their biggest donor as the CEO of LifeWallet/MSP Recovery. His company had a 32.6 billion dollar enterprise value. The market cap is currently half a million dollars and has been delisted from Nasdaq. The share price is 0.0360 as I type this. With all the reverse splits, in 2021 the share price was over 50,000 dollars. So that's a 99.9999% reduction in share price. I don't know how he isn't in jail. But, the other SEC investigated him and nothing came of it.

As everything crashed and burned around him, he kept paying for athletes using his company. So, there's the blueprint for you guys. Just create a 32.6b EV company, spend all the company's money paying athletes, and let the shareholders get railed as it crashes and burns. Then, walk away seemingly without penalty.

I don’t know how to quantify and rate things like this. In 4 seasons I don’t believe Napier ever won a road game against a team with more than 4 wins on the year. But, he definitely upset some much better teams at home. So I’d say the stadium has effectively “won” some games they shouldn’t have.

Wisconsin has everyone down here beat and it isn't even close.

It required some luck last year, and it will require some luck this year. But it is at least possible and that is about as much as can be hoped for.

College football can get more eyes while still rotting away the foundation. It's like a catapult hurling a stone. After launch the stone keeps getting higher, but theres no longer an upward force being applied to it. These players are using facilities that guys 20 years ago effectively paid for. No one is giving anything to the future anymore. We're in the reverse mortgage era of college football.

This point in the sport reminds me of baseball during the home run record chasing steroid era. It is a spectacle, to be sure. But, it's also the death throes unless something changes for the better.