Top reasons to not fire Scott Stricklin just because the football team is not winning championships

[Escambia94]

It is hard to believe this post needs to be written, but with losses mounting if it good to have this information on hand for those heated debates over Thanksgiving dinner or Sunday morning Twitter debates.

Scott Stricklin is considered the #2 athletic director in the country. He is a CEO who oversees a $190M business (#8 in the nation) with Billy Napier as an SVP running an $85M business unit (#14 in the nation). Win or lose, Gator investors flow in up to $768M per year in donations (#4 in the nation).

The Internet likes to highlight Stricklin’s mishandling of abuse by Cam Newbauer, but there has been no formal charges on this issue and no complaints have arisen since Newbauer was fired.

All this talk of firing Stricklin, Napier, the special teams coach, or the janitor all needs to stop. This is stupid.

 

[Escambia94]

Athletic programs with largest donor base:

1. Oregon $969M ($500M Phil Knight)
2. Texas A&M $849M ($120M Centennial Campaign)
3. Texas $766M
4. Florida $763M ($22.5M Gary Condron, $12.6M Hugh Hathcock)
5. Georgia $716M

 

[DRU2012]

It is hard to believe this post needs to be written, but with losses mounting if it good to have this information on hand for those heated debates over Thanksgiving dinner or Sunday morning Twitter debates.

Scott Stricklin is considered the #2 athletic director in the country. He is a CEO who oversees a $190M business (#8 in the nation) with Billy Napier as an SVP running an $85M business unit (#14 in the nation). Win or lose, Gator investors flow in up to $768M per year in donations (#4 in the nation).

The Internet likes to highlight Stricklin’s mishandling of abuse by Cam Newbauer, but there has been no formal charges on this issue and no complaints have arisen since Newbauer was fired.

All this talk of firing Stricklin, Napier, the special teams coach, or the janitor all needs to stop. This is stupid.

Yes--and I wouldn't have thought this needed discussing outside the most troll-ridden sites EITHER...but I TOO have noticed the sudden surge in appearances of this specific sentiment in some previously comparatively reasonably-toned sites that up til now were devoid of such ignorance and idiocy.
However, for the moment at least, given the actual "built-in relative immunity" of Strickland's positional support, AND the (albeit temporary) nature of Billy's current unfireability (for the moment rendered purposefully financially forbidding) allows HIM to mostly ignore such caterwalling--and us right along WITH him...So let us for the moment indulge ourselves in our ability to (thankfully) IGNORE THESE FOOLS.

 

[Leakfan12]

I do agree, football is a major sport but it's one of 17 programs unless you count dancing and cheerleading teams as well. The Baseball were CWS runners-up. Unsure about the other programs, how are you doing?

 

[DRU2012]

Well, here's the danger:
Bad news now starting to break against us in terms of our once-building recruiting haul:
We lost TWO important 4-star defensive commits over the weekend...commit LB Mack flipped to Texas, and once-solid commit Edge rusher Waller flipped to AUBURN, was there fir a visit while WE were losing to LSU.
There are apparently several other wavering commits from the defensive side--and this was a class necessarily focused on improving our Defense, as unfortunately this last game has hammered home all the harder.
Not only can we NOT afford to lose any MORE on Defense (which to hear the panic in the voices of fear-mongering click-bait like that weird guy from Gatirs Online, is not just "possible" but "more and more likely), but it probably DOES mean that we WILL need to both at the very least both shore UP our ties to the rest of the current collection of recruits AND redouble efforts to pick up a couple more 4- and 5-stars, now more than EVER.
In addition, it becomes all the more inescapable that we make real headway in adding some experienced upgrades from the transfer portal this time.
Only the prospect of holding onto what was projected as a historic haul in recruiting, then proceeding to even IMPROVE on it may now have slipped away, and perhaps the BEST we can do from HERE is to do enough "plugging and mending" to keep ourselves in nearly as much promise and stature overall.
Our one clear and bright, shining "ray of HOPE" is now threatened--so protecting, even IMPROVING it somehow from here becomes a new and necessary challenge: One requiring us to redouble our efforts in this regard!
Fortunately, if there is one area in which our Coach and staff have shown themselves relentlessly adept at mastering, repeatedly thriving and converting successfully at it is this.
OUR future is tied to THEIR future, and that future is tied to them now successfully redoubling their efforts--and THOSE "efforts" to now yield RESULTS..."results" in the form of 2 or 3 more additional surprises!