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AtlAtty said:
It only works because LSU is a public university so they only spend the tax payers money. So basically the people in Louisiana get screwed over by this consistent incompetence. And apparently they think college football is a good way to waste their tax dollars.
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that’s not even close to true. no top-tier coach is paid entirely with state funds. they might have a nominal small salary, but most of the salary is paid through revenue generated by the athletic department via operations revenue and boosters/development. they’re still state employees and will be the highest paid state employees but not via taxes.
 
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dookie blaylock said:
that’s not even close to true. no top-tier coach is paid entirely with state funds. most of the salary is paid through revenue generated by the athletic department.
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The university receives a tremendous amount of taxpayer money. And if even one cent of that taxpayer money goes to buying out coaches, then the tax payers are being screwed over. It is poor management of tax payer money.
 
dookie blaylock said:
that’s not even close to true. no top-tier coach is paid entirely with state funds. they might have a nominal small salary, but most of the salary is paid through revenue generated by the athletic department via operations revenue and boosters/development. they’re still state employees and will be the highest paid state employees but not via taxes.
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They stole funds from the children’s hospital too.

Edit: ALLEGEDLY

Edit 2: I was kidding with the allegedly, the booster went to prison for it.

Enjoy!

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LSU booster gets 33 months in prison for embezzlement

John Paul Funes was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to embezzling more than $500,000 from a hospital foundation and giving some to parents of two former LSU players.
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More intel on why Land didn’t go to UF…Will post board reaction screenshots in follow-up posts….

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Why Lane Kiffin left Ole Miss for LSU: Inside the decision

A fiery airport scene capped the end of Kiffin's Ole Miss era -- the product of weeks of secret meetings, shifting loyalties and a blue-blood offer he couldn't walk away from.
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Zbrod95 said:
lol he was never going there. They should have been all over Golesh. A ton of recruiting ties plus the top of that USF roster would be moving into dorms today. They let him go to Auburn though lol.

Nobody ever said Gainesville was filled with brainiacs though. Right @TheOriginalCane
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Agreed.

It's so weird, outside of the AD Stricklin and that one big booster (Gary Condron), I can't think of any Gator sportswriter, pundit, website owner, booster, former coach/player, or fan who was advocating for Jon "Tulane Train" Sumrall...
 
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caneingville said:
@RVACane here’s the coach info you wanted.


Riley: GC didn’t like him, called him “a mess,” and so it didn’t extend past an initial discussion. Riley was apparently very interested, to the point where he was actively pursuing (I saw someone said he called UF twice!!), but UF wasn’t interested.

Fisch: was interested, but was turned off because they waited so long to contact him (after the Lane train ended), and their effort was half-assed anyway

Dillingham: no mutual interest

Lea: signed extension w/Vandy and UF wasn’t interested anyway

Drinkwitz, Franklin: neither were seriously considered

Hartline: some boosters liked him, but it doesn’t look like UF ever seriously considered him or even talked to him

Golesh: don’t see that they talked to him

Sumrall: talked to him in the beginning, seems they just quickly came back to him once they realized Lane embarrassed them. Kinda feel bad for the guy.


Also, Turnkey took the work they prepared for UF and sold it to another school (looks like it may have been LSU, but unconfirmed) after they fired UF as a client. They were embarrassed by UF’s actions, UF violated their contract, and Turnkey wanted to be able to still claim 100% success rate, which they couldn’t do if UF was still listed as a client. Pretty funny.


All I have left to say is that as a UF b-school alumna, I am incredibly embarrassed. The more I learn, the more flabbergasted I am. And I expect more to come out over the next few days because they are mad and are digging.

And Mario better use this all as leverage in recruiting.
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Now that its over I can share a little bit - Gators reached out to Drinkwitz to gauge interest. I was approached by Drinkwitz and his proposed GM to be in this role and head the Personnel dept at UF as he was attempting to see what a staff could look like. I worked with them in the past before a fallout that I won't discuss here.

Drinkwitz had commitment from a high-level DC (Big 10), some solid position coaches (Sun Belt OC and DC coming as position coach), a GM/Director of Personnel from another good P5 (Big 12), a few guys in personnel/NIL space - They wanted to revamp the personnel and management space of their program. Shifting responsibility off of Stricklin associated with football. They made it clear Drinkwitz was option 1b - they wanted Kiffin. They didn't clearly say that but the timelines aligned to that being their focus and everything moving after that was cleared up.

Dragged on a little bit and the search firm became quiet. I was in the process of making some changes to my firm to shift some work to a partner if this position was a possibility for me. I was conflicted on working for UF but it's been in the back of my mind getting back into it and this opportunity came out of nowhere. They ended up pushing UF for an answer when the news started coming out about Lane being down to LSU and Ole Miss and UF was out of it and Missouri's season was effectively over.

They had to go around the search firm because of the situation with UF and firing them as a client (I and others I was working with didn't know this at the time) and some agents went directly to UF saying they need to know something now or they're going to bow out as they can't drag it on much longer (Drinkwitz getting heat to sign his Mizzou extension) - UF advised that they had come to an agreement for their own GM and it would be out of the coaches control to bring that person in. I was communicating with the GM that would be coming in in Drinkwitz' plan and he was obviously offended by it and said thanks but no thanks even if you take the job. All died down and Drinkwitz effectively pulled his name out of consideration because of the **** show going on behind the scenes.

He had asked for some guarantees for NIL and staff and they weren't able to provide a guarantee for anything. They kept saying NIL "up to" $25M per year but there was serious doubt regarding the availability and the actual commitment of those funds. Allegedly, Kiffin's camp uncovered some similar concerns when they really started evaluating it as a landing spot.
 
F-MarioCristobal said:
Now that its over I can share a little bit - Gators reached out to Drinkwitz to gauge interest. I was approached by Drinkwitz and his proposed GM to be in this role and head the Personnel dept at UF as he was attempting to see what a staff could look like. I worked with them in the past before a fallout that I won't discuss here.

Drinkwitz had commitment from a high-level DC (Big 10), some solid position coaches (Sun Belt OC and DC coming as position coach), a GM/Director of Personnel from another good P5 (Big 12), a few guys in personnel/NIL space - They wanted to revamp the personnel and management space of their program. Shifting responsibility off of Stricklin associated with football. They made it clear Drinkwitz was option 1b - they wanted Kiffin. They didn't clearly say that but the timelines aligned to that being their focus and everything moving after that was cleared up.

Dragged on a little bit and the search firm became quiet. I was in the process of making some changes to my firm to shift some work to a partner if this position was a possibility for me. I was conflicted on working for UF but it's been in the back of my mind getting back into it and this opportunity came out of nowhere. They ended up pushing UF for an answer when the news started coming out about Lane being down to LSU and Ole Miss and UF was out of it and Missouri's season was effectively over.

They had to go around the search firm because of the situation with UF and firing them as a client (I and others I was working with didn't know this at the time) and some agents went directly to UF saying they need to know something now or they're going to bow out as they can't drag it on much longer (Drinkwitz getting heat to sign his Mizzou extension) - UF advised that they had come to an agreement for their own GM and it would be out of the coaches control to bring that person in. I was communicating with the GM that would be coming in in Drinkwitz' plan and he was obviously offended by it and said thanks but no thanks even if you take the job. All died down and Drinkwitz effectively pulled his name out of consideration because of the **** show going on behind the scenes.

He had asked for some guarantees for NIL and staff and they weren't able to provide a guarantee for anything. They kept saying NIL "up to" $25M per year but there was serious doubt regarding the availability and the actual commitment of those funds. Allegedly, Kiffin's camp uncovered some similar concerns when they really started evaluating it as a landing spot.
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Thanks for the info.
Heard anything about PSU?
They seem to have been all over the place and the betting odds are saying Sitake and Heupel. Surprised they didn't go all out for Matt Campbell.
 
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