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Post by g8rfan on Mar 15, 2024 16:22:41 GMT -5
.. and puts a cherry on top for assistant coaching salaries. We need some more assistant coaches so that’s nice.
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Post by Mojave Gator on Mar 15, 2024 19:35:13 GMT -5
Which he will use to hire a third offensive line coach (we don't have a coach for centers yet), and a Supreme Executive Defensive Head Coach. We need an overseer for the overseer who oversees the DC.
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Post by tapsgator on Mar 15, 2024 20:11:36 GMT -5
Starkville Scottie going down swinging. This is a pre-emptive excuse for his bestie from the bayou. “We’ve got a bigger budget now for the recruiting system, we’ve adjusted and we’re overhauling our systems and getting them in place.”
Also, if we’re pushing revenue into the recruiting budget (whatever that means at this point like can we not afford first class tickets to go watch kids play? It can’t mean NIL) and increasing staff budget (which I though was amongst the highest in the country already to pay for CWTs “army” of assistants) piled on top of a 400+ million dollar renovation, isn’t that gonna possibly affect NIL dollars? I mean how many kids want to go to a losing coach for not very much money? But I’m sure it will be the Bull gators fault because the fanbase just laps this shit up
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 15, 2024 20:15:16 GMT -5
.. and puts a cherry on top for assistant coaching salaries. We need some more assistant coaches so that’s nice. The sad reality is we do need some assistant coaches, but he’ll never hire one. We’re working on a 1:1 analyst to player model. |
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Post by tapsgator on Mar 28, 2024 10:46:47 GMT -5
Okay found the time to actually look it up because I kept hearing about how now that he has this super duper budget and assistant salary pool things are going to be different. I'm assuming most Gator boosters are UF graduates. UF is a good school. How is the fanbase falling for this crap? Love is blind I guess? I do too much research on this stuff, but I mean cmon, just read the article that you're citing in your fanboy sessions where you "call out" anybody who is remotely objective as "not a real fan." It's right there. This isn't/wasn't a future act, it was what happened over the last fiscal year. www.gainesville.com/story/sports/college/2024/03/15/florida-gators-athletics-2022-23-ncaa-financial-report-recruiting-spending-florida-football/72884438007/#:~:text=UF%20athletics%20boosts%20recruiting%20spending,to%20%242%2C966%2C896%20the%20year%20before. "The Gators made a significant investment in recruiting for all sports in 2022-23, spending $4,563,927, compared to $2,966,896 the year before. The biggest beneficiary was football, which increased its recruiting spending by 78 percent, from $1,641,320 to $2,892,538." The title of these articles and the company line generally are (probably intentionally) inaccurate and misleading to say the least. I know that there seems to be a grammatical/syntax problem in Gainesville and certainly with Napier but using an "s" instead of a "d" here is kind of important, and if writers had any semblance of journalistic integrity they wouldn't do this, at least if they took 6th grade English. UF increaseD the recruiting and assistant salary budgets from 2022-23.meaning we have seen the entirety of the "benefits" of the increased spending. A worse record on the field, a lower ranked recruiting class, our 2 best players leaving via the portal, and less qualified assistants, but adding a kicking specialist, a guy who was part of the Jimbo purge at Texas A&M to be our GM, a first time strength coach who was an intern 12 months ago, a DB coach from the staff purge in San Diego, some guys from the Sun Belt, and the fired Auburn DC. At this point I'm really tempted to say that since I'm in the minority, the majority kind of deserves what they're getting. They keep going to the fertilizer store and wondering why they're coming home with bullshit. |
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 28, 2024 12:43:20 GMT -5
So where is the money going? Presumably, if we lost our beloved Fitz and promoted his intern, we should have saved some money somewhere along the way. Same with our approach at nearly every other coaching hire we have made. So are we paying top dollar for shit coaches or are we giving large NIL deals to undeserving candidates? Or both? It just seems we are mismanaged from every conceivable angle. We can’t coach, we can’t recruit, we can’t assemble a staff. How does one look at
this program and seriously consider us a program on the rise?
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Post by tapsgator on Mar 28, 2024 21:25:38 GMT -5
Well you got your special teams analysis department, you've got your head coach of the defense, you've got your nutritionist, you've got your GM type guy, you've got your special analyst in charge of head coaching projects, you've got two offensive line coaches, and then you've got 2 offensive coordinators who don't call plays or anything but they're co-coordinators. As far as the recruiting budget I don't even know what differences explain nearly doubling the budget for worse results but it's par for the course.
As far as NIL, the rumor was that they lost the 4 of the top 6 commits because of NIL money, and it's pretty well known that McCray required a mad scramble to outbid Auburn. Lagway there's lots of smoke about why it took so long to get his LOI and 11th hour negotiations. Get ready for part 2 this Summer given that we gave away his closest connection on the staff to Texas A&M. Although after a year of watching Graham Mertz "mentor" him, we may very well not be at the table at all.
Lest we forget the NIL that gave us Rashada has been scrapped in favor of one that has at least one builder on the board and our AD is asking for 700+ million from boosters so that we can reduce capacity and make the luxury seating more luxurious. No conflicts of interest there whatsoever.
At this point, if you have any respect for the intelligence of either Napier or Stricklin, you have to believe they are intentionally misallocating funds for their own good over the success of the program. If you have the capacity to run the program successfully and put a passable product on the field, and have been this wrong this consistently and continue to do the same damn thing over and over again, you aren't trying.
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 29, 2024 11:57:47 GMT -5
Well you got your special teams analysis department, you've got your head coach of the defense, you've got your nutritionist, you've got your GM type guy, you've got your special analyst in charge of head coaching projects, you've got two offensive line coaches, and then you've got 2 offensive coordinators who don't call plays or anything but they're co-coordinators. As far as the recruiting budget I don't even know what differences explain nearly doubling the budget for worse results but it's par for the course. As far as NIL, the rumor was that they lost the 4 of the top 6 commits because of NIL money, and it's pretty well known that McCray required a mad scramble to outbid Auburn. Lagway there's lots of smoke about why it took so long to get his LOI and 11th hour negotiations. Get ready for part 2 this Summer given that we gave away his closest connection on the staff to Texas A&M. Although after a year of watching Graham Mertz "mentor" him, we may very well not be at the table at all. Lest we forget the NIL that gave us Rashada has been scrapped in favor of one that has at least one builder on the board and our AD is asking for 700+ million from boosters so that we can reduce capacity and make the luxury seating more luxurious. No conflicts of interest there whatsoever. At this point, if you have any respect for the intelligence of either Napier or Stricklin, you have to believe they are intentionally misallocating funds for their own good over the success of the program. If you have the capacity to run the program successfully and put a passable product on the field, and have been this wrong this consistently and continue to do the same damn thing over and over again, you aren't trying. They must be doing this on purpose, right? I mean, I could go pull two random hillbillies out of a Shell station dining area at 6:30am on a Wednesday in Anywhere, Southeast USA, drop them in Gainesville that evening, and they could probably go win a game and pick up a recruit between then and Monday morning of the next week. And they would do it for free. So why do people get so bent out of shape when more is expected from the two guys who get paid millions of dollars? |
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Post by g8rfan on Mar 29, 2024 12:01:07 GMT -5
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 29, 2024 12:37:27 GMT -5
This is just embarrassing. Can't wait to read the follow-up article on his future visits to other schools. |
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Post by Mojave Gator on Mar 30, 2024 13:33:56 GMT -5
What exactly would a high school kid know about NFL practices?
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Post by g8rfan on Mar 30, 2024 14:10:43 GMT -5
What exactly would a high school kid know about NFL practices? Yeah that was my favorite part too. |
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Post by wahhappen on Mar 30, 2024 16:01:09 GMT -5
What exactly would a high school kid know about NFL practices? I think it was the first practice he has ever attended outside of high school. Our best bet at landing him is to hope he doesn’t attend any more between now and the fall of 2025. |
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Post by gatordoll on Mar 31, 2024 11:07:47 GMT -5
Do NFL practices result in a ton of injuries? Cause that's what we got right now.
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