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Stepdaddy Pete has done great his first couple games. Very impressive.

Having some friends over and making hibachi on the Blackstone.

Unfortunately I just found out my wife threw away my hibachi chef's hat, so I can't fully culturally appropriate the chef's from Benihana. I will be flipping many shrimp tails at her with my spatula.

Didn't you like the Sumrall hire like 2 weeks ago?

UF fans know from experience how to spot bad head coaches and bad quarterbacks. There's a reason that none of us are too mad about DJ entering the portal.

100% agree.

It wouldn't be fair to Sumrall and Faulkner to force him on them in year one. They need to be able to go get their own guy to build around. It didn't work well for Bama last year with Milroe. You can't hold a coaching staff hostage like that.

It's also not fair to DJ to not promise him the starting job when he is looking to go pro next year when there are a ton of other schools that will promise him the job.

He has the tools to be great. Hopefully he does it in the Big12 somewhere that he doesn't have to face us :lol:

Stricklin gave a pretty good explanation on his interview with Andy Staples. Starts at about 22 min in.

Stricklin said the GM would act as a high level executive who would handle everything outside coaching and be a partner to the head coach with things like roster construction. So things like NIL, recruiting, transfer portal and team travel. Neither report to one another, both report to the AD. I totally agree with him in that there is no way a coach can handle the responsibilities of modern college football coaching on his own, so having more of an NFL model would be really helpful to the coach.

Stricklin with Andy Staples

You definitely could be right, but Ohio State and Michigan have been historically better than us at academics, and they still have their nerds donating. UNC and Duke are similar, but donate a ton to basketball. I think we just need to be good enough to get those nerds invested in the team. :lol:

Spurrier is the winningest coach at two different programs. I don’t know how many other coaches have pulled that off.

And the SEC may have not been the monster it was in the 2000’s, but the Florida schools were all playing at a very high level, especially Florida State. That made it significantly harder to recruit as well.

:doublebird: :bow:

Honestly, wouldn't help as much as you think because I am terrible at the short ones too.

Just bought this one. Seems like the best option that isn't $600. If I like it and think a LAB or better brand will make a difference, I may end up splurging. I have heard good things about the Cleveland's overall too, so at $200 had to take a chance.

Cleveland HB SOFT 2 11C Broom Putter

We definitely need to purge the UAA. We have a terrible fundraising apparatus. Gary needs to become "a" booster. He does not need to be "the" booster.

I have been posting about this on other sites, but you guys are going to have to hear me rant too.

I went to undergrad at Washington and Lee University. There is 1,600 students there. They have fundraising down to a science. Alumni get phone calls and emails all the time. They let us know what initiatives are going on at the school, what are money would be used on, and how much they would appreciate us helping the school achieve those goals. We have a 5 year reunion cycle, so most classes keep engaged and stay connected. Even if we aren't donating at that time, they do a great job of getting our opinion and making us feel heard. You can tell they care about the University and its mission.

I have two graduate degrees from UF and am a season ticket holder. I get no phone calls except when its my chance to renew. They never communicate opportunities to get involved. They don't ask for money (other than spam emails) much less make me feel valued and like my opinion matters. To be honest, they don't care one bit about me and it doesn't seem like they care about the school.

Obviously athletics is not a good way to compare the schools, but we can look at endowments to see how they are at fundraising overall. W&L, with 1,600 students, has a $2 billion dollar endowment. UF, with over 60,000 students, has an endowment of $2.4 billion dollars. A school with less than 3% of the of students has an endowment that is only 15% less in size. It's mind blowing.

I am about to make the move. Over the last 20 rounds I am averaging 37 putts. It is well known that putting is my biggest weakness and it kills me in match play. I need to do something before I quit altogether.