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He has moved back to the Sarasota (I think) area to be near to family, and has been around the UF program a lot more since then.

Spurrier is definitely the favorite, but Meyer is well liked. Spurrier is an alumnus, and played at UF winning the 1st Heisman in school history, and is the all time winningest coach.

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Yeah, he is in Sarasota. See him quite a bit actually around town. It's great to see him so invested with the program again, his passion for Florida is stronger than a lot of people realize. The dude loves UF.

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They should be in Nashville, Atlanta, or Houston/Dallas. Tampa is not our footprint.

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How is Tampa not?

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Some of these names on this list aren't even that terrible. As a Florida fan, Napier has gotta be on the list.

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

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Napier is a no-brainer here. It should be almost impossible for a coach to perform that badly at a place like Florida. We've had our fair share of hires that didn't work out, but Napier took ineptitude to a whole different level.

They're already getting all kinds of legal action from the HS Class of 2022.

The HS classes before them all got 5 years because of COVID. 2023 and beyond get to use this new rule.

Why not just allow the 2022 group as well? It just makes too much sense, so they go and make it harder on themselves.

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Especially with the money they spend.

$379,284,528 Texas
$320,661,665 Ohio State
$288,186,290 Tennessee
$269,554,079 Michigan
$254,643,919 Penn State
$254,538,960 Oklahoma
$240,263,345 Georgia
$234,739,406 Alabama
$228,350,501 Texas A&M
$223,429,203 LSU
$212,743,888 Nebraska
$208,187,039 Florida State
$203,847,233 Auburn
$203,259,302 South Carolina
$200,999,975 Florida
$197,684,981 Clemson
$192,550,821 Kentucky
$191,001,201 Missouri
$188,988,863 Arkansas
$187,967,260 North Carolina
$183,768,038 Ole Miss
$182,702,378 Oregon
$178,288,091 Michigan State
$173,020,646 Indiana
$168,826,109 Mississippi State

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No doubt they spend a lot of money like most of the high profile athletic departments, but these figures always have to be taken with a grain of salt. For whatever reason some schools use these disclosures as dick measuring contests.

When you actually look at a lot of the schools at the top of this, they are including things like facility projects to jack up these figures.

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Originally they were gonna cut 12k. They are saying this is what it costs to bring the whole stadium to code and not lose capacity. I call hogwash.

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I don't. It has been understood for years, if not decades, about how much work was going to be needed one day. Study after study has shown that we'd need massive investment just on deferred maintenance, this pre-dates Stricklin. The UF engineering department has done all kinds of analysis on the structure. It was just a matter of time, and if not building new, have to do all the work to make sure this thing can last another hundred years.

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Maybe I'm out of touch with new stadium construction but $1.5B seems like it would buy you a whole new one

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It was thrown around. At some point the stadium either needed a massive renovation or build new. The appetite wasn't there to build, so they went this route.

Personally, I am just happy it looks like The Swamp still. In so many of these things they start ripping into the stands to build lounges and big club areas. There's no cutting capacity. Fans are still right next to the field. It is far better than I was anticipating, so that is at least a win for me.

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I read the article you linked to and the math still isn't mathing for me. What kind of "overhaul" costs $1.45B? Why not just build a new stadium at that point?

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There was talk about building new but ultimately they didn't want to abandon the location.

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UF fans have complained since the Donovan days that Duke is scared to play us in Hogtown, which I think it ridiculous, but fans are fans. It didn't help to quiet Gator fans when UF was matched up with Duke last year in this challenge and Duke was given the home game. UF ended up losing by a point.

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Yeah, think its mostly people still sour of Duke getting out of return trip to Gainesville in the past. Should be an incredible matchup and a ridiculously hard ticket to come by.

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How does one prove or quantify this?

So silly.

Support your team and let all the haters foff.

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I don't even really understand why people use this as an insult. To be popular enough to draw a huge amount of fan interest outside of the diehards means you've been pretty damn successful. Also doesn't hurt the revenue flow.

Give me winning programs in high populations states and you will likely have the closest answer.